This mod is no longer needed!

Expanded Foods 1.6.8 onwards Includes these changes!

This mod will remain up for those playing on earlier versions of Expanded Foods and desire the changes.

Requires: Expanded Foods
A series of patches to modify/tweak how salt production works with Expanded Foods

By default the options for creating salt are: 
1. (Vanilla) Finding Halite Stones and crushing them
2. (Expanded Foods) Sealing 10L per portion of Salt Water in a barrel for 10 days to produce Dry Salt Crystals, grind for 1 salt portion each
3. (Expanded Foods) Boil 10L per portion of Salt Water to produce Damp Salt Crystals, let cure for 24 hours, then dry for 312, to become Dry Salt Crystals, grind for 1 salt portion each.
4. (Expanded Foods) Sealing 5L per portion of Brine Water to produce Dry Salt Crystals, grind for 1 salt portion each.

Now if you are like me, you may have a few questions.

1. Why does sealing Salt Water in a barrel for 10 days produce Dry Crystals?
2. Why does boiling Salt Water produce Damp Crystals?
3. For the cost of resources and time, why would you ever choose to boil?

Boiling costs more resources, both in terms of the vessels to boil in, fuel cost to keep a firepit lit long enough to boil the amount of water, then also takes longer in the end to dry/cure the crystals than if you had just sealed a barrel with the same quantity of water, just to end up with the same result at the same ratio as sealing.

So in order to "fix" or modify this to my personal tastes on the salt production pipeline these patches do the following:

1. The salt production processes are reversed, Boiling produces Dry Salt Crystals from the get-go, Sealing produces Damp Salt Crystals. Time times for curing/drying and boiling are untouched.
2. Damp Salt Crystals can now be Baked or Cooked in either a firepit, oven, or equivalency if you have mods that do that, to become Dry Salt Crystals. Speeding up the pipeline but not granting salt on demand like Boiling or using nearly as much fuel as boiling would.
3. Halite stones can be Mixed in barrels of Water to produce Salt Water, 25L Water per 1 Halite = 25L Salt Water. This increases the overall output of Halite slightly as Crushing would produce 2 portions of Salt per Halite, while Mixing allows 2 Halite to become 5 Salt Crystals if Mixed then Sealed or Boiled and proceesed accordingly, essentially making each Halite now worth 2.5 Salt if you are willing to wait longer/use more resources.

I do not touch Brine atm with the patch as it seemed a little redundant and the scope of this was producing salt in the first place and not turning smth back into it, and as Brine requires salt to be made it was left out.

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