Can we get a hotfix to lower the price of salt?

[Jamers]

I need to buy salt at 22g per pile, and those are friend prices. I need 2 salt in order to preserve a piece of meat, so I'm paying 44g just to preserve a piece of food that isn't worth that much to begin with?

I understand that we need to balance realism with the game's somewhat demanding mechanics, but this seems a bit silly. Is salt such a rare commodity in this world, imported from the land of the Elves or something? Preserving food with salt is a thoughtful inclusion, but it feels like it might as well not even be in the game as is, for how uneconomical it is.

[Lava]

Originally posted by Jamers:

I need to buy salt at 22g per pile, and those are friend prices.

your friend is a ♥♥♥♥ considering you can get salt for usually 18 at the close harbor tavern (brynn docks). Probably more places you can buy cheap salt but I've forgotten. Maybe take a trip to denbrie?

Originally posted by Jamers:

I understand that we need to balance realism with the game's somewhat demanding mechanics, but this seems a bit silly. Is salt such a rare commodity in this world, imported from the land of the Elves or something? Preserving food with salt is a thoughtful inclusion, but it feels like it might as well not even be in the game as is, for how uneconomical it is.

Considering that you can preserve meat forever with a handful of salt, yes it is quite expensive if you're comparing salt to food prices like stews. However I imagine part of the reason why it's expensive (and rare) is because the only place the produces it got destroyed twice.

[Kazouie]

Have to agree with OP.
Even if you get salt for 18g, that's 108g to salt three fatty meat which is a slightly better than sausage nutrition but takes up three times the space.
then you also consume food while hunting and have wear an tear on your gear...
The only salt worth using is what you can pick up for free.
It's sad but better just stock up on sausage and ham at a butcher.
If the recipe was 1 salt pile to preserve a meat it would still not be overpowered but worth doing.

[brown29knight]

Often it is cheaper to buy the salted meat. The dwarf trader at Brynn docks sells salted meats, and the close harbor tavern sells salted fish. There may be others.

Sausage and smoked ham can also be used in cooking, and work for 3 or 4 meals each.

(I really like the close harbor tavern for the salted red fish, 19 coin for 1 fish, the red fish gives bonuses to cooking, and they usually have 3-4 at a time. There are 2 different graphics, so look closely. Makes easy herb roasted fish with lentils and thyme.)

[Maa22]

Steal :]

[Kazouie]

Originally posted by Maa22:

Steal :]

silly me, i forgot that the secret ingredient is crime :)

[brown29knight]

Originally posted by Maa22:

Steal :]

Personally I hate being harassed randomly by guards, even when I have nothing stolen on me.

But if you never steal, they never bug you. So I don't steal. Less annoying that way.

[goplayingbertoo]

yeah i agree with brown knight, it's easier to just buy the finished salted product, i think alda after you get 100% might be cheaper? i dont remember, only reason i like salting is the -3% fatigue from fatty meat, otherwise as brown knight said ham and sausage are just as good.
i think the dwarf in the docks one of the 3 rotating merchants sells salt and salted products.
would be nice later to be able to make your own salt, maybe from alchemy tree, you take a flask boil it or whatever you do and you get small piles of it after a bit. i would assume it's time consuming so might not turn a profit but should slow down cost for player. maybe.... it might just always be 20 gold ish even later, not a big deal but it is harder to eat meat dishes during the beginning unless you use them within what like 4 days, 2 days uncooked, 2 days roasted meat then after you make the dish maybe another 2 days, if you hunt too much meat, you just got to let some go to waste.

[Ellavina]

Sadly it's never worth it to use salt.

Maybe if we could break down the salt commodity we buy from Denbrie, we'd have enough salt to last an entire playthrough.

Alda is probably the best and most consistent place to get cheap salt. Otherwise you should just buy pre-salted meat as others have said.

[brown29knight]

honestly, a better use of the free salt is often in cooking to double spoil times. 4 days (6 on meat skewers) is usually enough to consume everything you have on you. If you have more meat than that, sell the rest.

Lots of camps have 2-3 pieces of salted meat in their chests too, so that's easy free supplies.

[Critical]

I've always thought salt was quite over priced. If they knocked down the price by maybe 20-30% it'd be more reasonable.