Saltcraft

Important requirement: The mod requires Terrablender version 3.0.0.169 or higher to function.

Update 1.4: Staff of the Desert and Salt Ruins!

Advancements

The mod offers 14 unique achievements to help players master all its features:

• Worth Its Weight in Gold - obtain regular salt
• Extra Salty - get pink salt
• Flat as a Table - visit the Salt Flats
• Stay Hydrated - craft a salt water bottle
• Crunchy - obtain a rock salt block
• Tasty Upgrade - prepare salted food
• Yearly Rations - make food with pink salt
• Birds of a Feather - collect flamingo and chicken feathers
• Under the Ancient Sea! - find a rock salt fossil
• I Knew It Was a Bad Idea - experience thirst
• Was It Even There? - defeat a Mirage
• Industrial Age - obtain an oil bucket
• Not Good for Flowers - create an oil can
• Royal Elixir - prepare a pink salt water bottle

Salt and Pink Salt

Regular salt is found in oceans, rivers, swamps, and Salt Flats at heights between 20 and 60 blocks in clusters of 12 units. It can be consumed for the thirst effect or added to potatoes to increase nutritional value, and can also turn poisonous potatoes into regular ones. Salt combined with water creates salt water bottles that can be drunk or turned into potions.

Pink salt is much rarer - found high in mountains at heights of 130-256 blocks in groups of 3 units. It provides thirst and regeneration effects and is used to create corresponding potions.

Both types of salt can transform various blocks: wet sponge into regular sponge, snow into air, ice into water, and remove moss from stone blocks.

Thirst

The thirst effect appears as a special bar that gradually decreases. It can be restored by consuming apples, melons, beetroot, and berries (5 units) or carrots (3 units). Complete depletion of the bar leads to damage and death from dehydration. The thirst effect also damages slimes and undead mobs.

Blocks

Various construction blocks can be created from salt:

• Salt blocks (subject to gravity)
• Clumped salt and its derivatives
• Rock salt and all its variants
• Rock salt bricks of different types
• Rock salt pillars

Salt blocks gradually transform adjacent blocks in the same way as individual salt crystals.

Oil

Fish cannot survive in oil and sink. Oil has a viscosity of 7 and density of 13, distinguishing it from water. It serves as fuel with a burn time of 10000 (half that of lava). Oil is rarely found in veins of up to 15 blocks in the Overworld and around salt domes - massive underground deposits up to 80 blocks high.

Oil is used to fill cans, which speed up minecarts by 1.5 times and temporarily strengthen iron golems.

Salt Flats

These are vast flat territories at height 65 blocks with ground made of clumped salt. Caves beneath them have floors of clumped salt and ceilings of rock salt. This is a hot biome without precipitation, where salt ruins are rarely found at depth -27 blocks. Skeletons spawn here at night, so be careful.

Flamingos inhabit salt lakes. Beneath the flats lies a thick layer of rock salt with fossils for collection.

Salt Ruins

A rare structure consisting of 5 additional buildings and a central part. Many skeletons inhabit this area. To summon the Salt Mage, you need to light all pedestals on the tall spires and low columns, then shoot at the central pedestal.

Entities

Jellyfish

Appear only through trading with wandering traders. They can be carried in buckets and deal poison damage on contact. Drop 1-3 units of salt upon death. Flee from turtles, which attack them. Come in red, orange, blue, cyan, purple, and pink colors.

Flamingos

Inhabit salt lakes in Salt Flats. Drop 1-3 flamingo feathers for creating pink dye upon death. Breed using fish. There is a rare albino variant that gives a white feather. Flamingos can stand on one leg.

Crystids

Appear only when summoned by the Salt Mage. Have limited lifespan, 15 health, and deal 3 bite damage. Move as fast as a player sprinting. Have a 1/5 chance to inflict thirst level 2.

Salt Mage

A boss-level illager with 150 health, summoned in salt ruins. Main attack is summoning crystids with levitation. At half health, creates walls of salt bricks for protection and healing. Drops a Salt Tome for maximum enhancement of an enchanted book upon death.

Mirage

Appears in the desert when the thirst bar is less than half full. Has 80 health, immunity to everything except weapons, very fast and has greater attack range. Stands still staring at the player, becomes invisible when approached. Upon eye contact, teleports the player toward itself and attacks. Upon death, gives an achievement and drops a sand block with Eye of the Desert for creating the Staff of the Desert.

Enjoy the game!