The Salt
Modby mortuusars
Worth its weight in gold
Type
Mod
CurseForge Downloads
2,241,743
CurseForge ID
832006
Modrinth Downloads
210,069
Modrinth ID
CrDd9QcD
Last Updated
Jul 27, 2026
Description
### Salt adds a food salting mechanic, as well as several other features and blocks.
Description in text form
Description
- Food can now be salted to improve the taste and add nutrition.- Salting recipe is dynamic and controlled by "salt:can_be_salted" tag:
- Several mods, such as Farmer's Delight, are supported out of the box. - Nutrition value can be configured per food.
Rock Salt
- Rock Salt will generate underground (sililar to ores) in dripstone caves, ocean and beach biomes.- When harvested, Rock Salt Ore will drop Raw Rock Salt, which is crafted into Salt.
- Salt can be also obtained by growing Salt Crystals or by evaporating water in a cauldron.
Other features
Other features: - All Salt blocks are dissolvable in water.- Salt blocks will melt adjacent ice and snow blocks.
- Ice and snow can also be melted by sprinkling them with salt.
- The mod is highly configurable: - Tags are used for everything.
- All features can be turned off in a config.
--- #### List of supported mods for food salting: - Farmer's Delight - Miner's Delight - Delightful - Butchercraft - Quark - Aquaculture 2 - Croptopia - Nether Depths Upgrade Others can be added by a **datapack** or **KubeJS**.
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Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Forge
Neoforge
Game Versions
1.18.2
1.19.2
1.19.3
1.20.1
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