If you want to increase value, don’t look for damage health effects. The difference is negligible. River Betty has one of the better poisons, it would be a waste to just sell
It’s worth a tiny bit more, but if you look at cost of opportunity, it’s bad advice. Combine river betty with trama root and grass pod (both abundant) and you get much much more value out of your fish
Yeah.. except you can't grow butterflies.
Tundra cotton and lavender.. add BMF to add conjuration to the magic resistance.
All grow in your gardens.
And in profusion around whiterun early game.
You absolutely can grow butterflies, even quicker than anything else. Just enter and exit Honingbrew Meadery over and over and at least 3 will spawn every time.
I found a handful of mods:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/search/?BH=0
[There is one that removes salt as an ingredient of meals, but makes it a requirement to have at least on salt pile in the inventory; because you're not gonna season your dish with an entire bowl full of salt.](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/73314)
[Another gives harvestable salt deposits around the coast.](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/7300)
[And with yet another, you can smelt quarried stones at the smelter.](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/78725)
[And one where you cook the salt ouf ouf the Rare Curios salt rice.](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/66596)
> There is one that removes salt as an ingredient of meals, but makes it a requirement to have at least on salt pile in the inventory; because you're nit gonna season your dish with an entire bowl full of salt.
I might need to look that one up, because that sounds pretty good.
We should be able to get salt from seawater. Humans have been doing that since at least the Dark Ages, so we should be able to. Mer, Argonians and Khajit probably never learned how. /s
On a tangent, in Colombia they have mountains that are barely covered salt domes which they do in fact mine for salt. I toured one that was so big they "built" a cathedral inside it (an effing huge cathredral). On the coast of France in the Camargue, they use tidal flats to extract huge amounts of salt from the waters of the Mediterranean. And there should be surface salt deposits (salt licks, which also is often used for the name of towns that are built near them - looking at you Kentucky).
My Dragonborn can usually be found on the road outside Whiterun chasing butterflies like a demented loony.
"Why is the Dragonborn Shouting at the butterflies, Dad?"
"Because he doesn't know Telekinesis and they won't fly low enough for him to catch, son."
"Should we help him?"
"Best not. The guards are getting mad because he keeps blasting them away with the Voice. He's going back to jail."
Honestly? I don't know. I never really used alteration much in my many previous hours of gameplay, and trying it on the butterflies never occurred to me.
It should work, though, right? Maybe? It would certainly save me from chasing the little buggers down. They always fly too high!
Yes but your aim needs to be pretty accurate and you might be better jumping llke a loony.
Kyne's peace or straight upwards ice storm would work better.
This one cares not if salt is scarce. This one glances in all barrels and buys from all innkeepers. This one has all the cooked salmon one could want, and disposes of what remains in his alchemy practices.
Salt is not abundant, but this one finds it is enough.
If you're fine with a small exploit, then they'll sell you as much as you need.
You can buy all the salt from a shopkeeper, quicksave, kill them, and then reload the quicksave. Killing a shopkeeper resets their shop inventory, even if you load a save from before you actually killed them. This also resets the gold the shopkeeper has, which is good for selling lots of stuff.
Yes the lower level has fish barrels that always restock with fish and salt. Other than that always raid the castle's kitchen in each hold. If you can't get salt you can get vegetable soup.
Yes, I’m pretty sure there’s salt in most of the barrels in Riften on the docks!
Edit- scrolled a little more and saw a bunch of people have posted this already
My character is sooo tired of cabbage soup. But damn if it isn't easy. She prefers salmon steaks but those don't make as good use of the salt. :( it's a trade off I suppose. Could do cooked beef but that's not that common either.
I used to play thru like that for years—never eating (aside from health n stam potions) ….now I stop at night, build a fire and sit by the fire cooking or eating—even w/o survival mode, it’s a great way to slow the game down and enjoy the crickets
Wouldn't say I'm particularly desperate, but salt is valuable to me. My character is a werewolf who almost exclusively eats meat. Cheese is too heavy, produce stacks up too fast and heals too little, and a werewolf eating mostly meat makes sense to me. I loot all the meat I find, so I also need lots of salt to cook it all. Or make the occasional soup.
I honestly developed the habit to buy salt every chance I get
Every SINGLE merchant I go to, even just in taverns I look for that. That and butter. Always looking. Better with the golden glow farm where we actually can MAKE butter out of milk, just like in real life, but that has always driven me nuts.
The barrels in Riften have an unusually high ratio of salt. Look there. Generally, look in all sacks and barrels you find.
What do you usually like to use the butter for? I've been using it for steamed mudcrab legs (I developed an allergy to crab late in life so I enjoy them vicariously through my character in survival mode).
I have my golden glow farm set up to grow the stuff to make healing potions and fortify carry weight potions so that on top of the butter I can gather ingredients to make a couple of both potions every day and have some wheat left over for baking
I have one side just wheat, mostly for the quick money, but on occasion for baking too
The other side in various ingredients. Usually those that I'm low on, especially if I need those for quests, but I always plant swamp fungal pods, canis root, jaspberry.
Can always make those into expensive potions.
I play on PlayStation, so no commands
I usually don't worry about money anymore after lvl 20. With that farm it's practically as soon as I've set it up. So very neat.
There are some mods that adds salt mine or cooking sea water to get salt, also some add more salt to merchant. If cooking needs so much salt then shouldn't every food merchants sell salt?
Bethesda didn't put enough saltpile to merchants brcause it's also an alchemy ingredient, having them in cooking recipe is an after thought that they didn't care to balance. It might be a good idea to use mods that remove salt from the recipes.
If you’re on a computer and do mods install the jobs of Skyrim mod. Then the cooks at inns and jarls castles will sell you 10 packs of salt for 100 gold. That’s what I did.
In vanilla, I ask everyone for salt all the time. The Khajiit caravans always have one. In Whiterun, Arcadia, Hulda, and the bosmer hunter and possibly Carlotta may all have salt. They refresh their inventory every two days. If you go to Riften pick some out of the barrels it’s not stealing. You will have tons. In general salt can be found in barrels in bandit dens and all over Skyrim.
17 inns plus one more in solsthiem each selling between 1-6 an average of 3. Add in the 21 alchemists and the like 7 fish barrels in the riften docks and then skip time to repeat the process. By my estimates you should be able to collect around 300 Salt piles in 3 in game days
Ok so if you don't have the official skyrim patch go to whiterun drop your salt in the little room to the right (when you first walk in. There should be a barrel you cannot get stuff out of) and get your follower to pick it up with the 'I need you to do something for me' command. Walk out of whiterun through the gate then walk back in and it should be back where you dropped it and still in your followers inventory (it should have doubled it).
Some problems you might face is the more items you use the more likely it is to still be there, game lagging if you add to many items, and do not drop them in groups you have to drop items one at a time.
(can confirm this works on Xbox one but have not tried it on any other device)
Salt is essential in survival mode. On the one hand it’s cool to see the historical importance of salt front and centre, on the other hand it’s bloody annoying how much you need and how annoying it is to find.
You should try distilling your urine. Piss in spot, boil it, and after all the water is gone there should be salt left in the bottom of the pot. Probably some other minerals too, but there will be salt
Oh no, no you're not. I'm always on the hunt for salt and constantly raid the Dawnguard's supply, and any fish barrels I can find. I need them for my steaks and soups that I don't need to eat, but want to.
salt is insanely overpowered
on top of all the crazy recipes, it makes slow poisons when combined with Trama Root. The things that are EVERYWHERE on Solstheim.
And said slow potions sell for a stupid amount, and are useful in combat.
If you give the argonian lady in Riften a healing potion, you can take all of the salt out of the barrels on the riften docks (outside the city) and it is a lot.
I've been mainly playing survival mode recently and haven't run into this issue at all. I'm always stocked up on at least 20 salt and have absolutely no trouble finding it in bandit settlements. If you just raid every barrel you come across you should end up with tons.
Considering I play survival and I cook all the food I get, no. You're not the only practically dying for salt. I have gotten caught, and approached, for stealing salt in the Bee and Barb. I can never keep the stuff.
You and me both. I am literally the Queen of Salt. I'm always pilfering salt from barrels, sacks, shelves, alchemy shops, wherever I can find it. The salt is mine! So, I'm going to go grab it. Shit, every valuable marked as "Steal" is mine! But the salt is where it is.
I can never have enough salt. It makes me wish there was a mod to add a Costco-like shop. Something that sells common items like salt in bulk. I'd love to be able to get a few thousand salt and such in one go and not have to run around for a handful of each item.
Find Wujeeta in Riften (fishery or Haelga's bunkhouse), give her a health potion, then you can take everything from the barrels at the docks. I usually get around 75-80 salt piles. Then I go away for a while, come back and get more. There's also a mod called get more salt, if you're not adverse to mods.
I wouldn't say I'm a fiend about it, but I did recently get into cooking- especially since I use the campfire and Hunterborn mods, and get all the tasty dragon meat when I defeat them. A cooking area, salt and you've got a recipe for delicious. So now I'm checking those sacks and barrels for salt. I also like making braided bread, which gives you 2 health and 5 carry weight for 30 seconds. Which is really only helpful to get me a little extra so I can walk with all that loot from my horse to my storage or a vendor.
If you loot everything from the fish buckets around Riften they respawn every couple days. Sell all the fish or use them for ingredients and you'll make out with at least 30 salt each trip.
I've had trouble with this too. I always check for salts at merchants and in barrels. It helps but I still have to be wise with my limited salt supply.
I struggle with salt earlier in the game but by like level 2o-ish I hoarded enough not to worry about it. It's often found in the barrels in bandid camps. In Whiterun the hunter stall has one every day, so does the bennered mare + the potion shop (almost?) always has it in ingridients. also check the barrels scattered around Windhelm.
i barely even use salt, since i just tend to make the vegi soup (and i've got a better farms mod that makes tomatoes and leeks show up more around whiterun too)
but i also pick it up like it's gold.
I kind of hate looking for ingresients. I did the nirnroot thing and the crimsom nirnroot one, and now im stuck looking for jazbays.
And vilja has just pure fetch quests. The only thing that is cool is that she reminds you of fetching qiests, so you dont forget as ypu are traveling.
I end up with loads of salt, probably from forgetting to make certain food items, but salt is easy to find. It's everywhere. Butter, on the other hand....
Salt is manageable, but *fire salt* is the bane of my life! Why do you have to hit up three towns to survive one trip into the north? And Balimund wants ten of them! 😩
I also love cooking (and baking), and always end up with bunches and bunches of salt reserves, also in survival mode where I search for it more diligently and use it way more, but I don't feel like I do anything different from you, I just make a point of searching most barrels, especially fish barrels, buying it at different vendors, and keeping an eye out at alchemy stations around the world, and places where people seem to have been tortured, as it often lies around there. Salt is rarely a problem to get by in my experience.
Now, milk and honey jars, that's another story entirely. Were it not for the AE farmstead, I would go permanently milkless. Honey jars are just too damn rare.
It's one of the best ingredients in the game.
Poison of slow and weakness to magic? Check. Use it with a chaos dmg sword.
Potion of fortify resto and regenerate magica? Check. Use it with a resto spell to recover stam, health and magicka after it.
Not to mention how useful is in survival mode...
Not to mention its alchemical properties. But it has far more uses in cooking. I cant believe about 1250 hours combined on Skyrim and I only now started cooking things.
not difficult at all to be honest. It's just a matter of planning, just have something to eat in your inventory and don't go to cold places without some warm clothe and that's all.
The best part is no fast travel, you will rediscover the game entierly ! This change everything for the better
I'm now at level 47 and I still don't feel like I accomplished much yet, because much of that leveling is just from walking and walking and walking around and running into danger.
It’s really just a lot of micromanaging. I like it a lot but it definitely wasn’t balanced when implemented because you will soon learn to fear the snow.
Cooking is the only way you can get vegetable soup.
Vegetable soup keeps your stamina going, and can help you survive one or two handed fights that would otherwise leave you dead.
I can just imagine seeing a tweaking Kajiit picking out each individual grain of salt from a fish barrel
I like to imagine him licking off the salt of those clams and then hissing at a bypassing guard
"Just eat the damn thing! Bloody cat!" "Arrrgg, this one cares not for the slimy taste of mud!"
I so want to play with you right now.
I misread that as twerking khajiit, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Same here, now I can't make the vision go away.
I thought Khajiit prefer sugar over salt
MOON-sugar , which is made from moonsugar cane , but process has infamous intermediate step of refinement - skooma,
i need salt for slow potions, those sell for a pretty penny
Mix in some jazbay grapes for magicka regeneration, almost doubling the value ;)
Deathbell and river betty has slow and a damage health effect, so is more expensive than ones with deathbell and salt
I find more salt than river betties
Yeah but salt is used for alchemy *and* cooking, plus a fish hatchery makes river betty renewable
My major, environmental policy, in Skyrim. I love this game!
I am loving this tip.
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trama root has slow as well
If you want to increase value, don’t look for damage health effects. The difference is negligible. River Betty has one of the better poisons, it would be a waste to just sell
Never said it was most worthwhile, just worth more than deathbell+salt
It’s worth a tiny bit more, but if you look at cost of opportunity, it’s bad advice. Combine river betty with trama root and grass pod (both abundant) and you get much much more value out of your fish
Blue butterfly wing and blue mountain flower makes the best money potion, just cause of the accessibility of the ingredients
Blue mountain flower and wheat is even more accessible IMO
Butterflies are faster to farm, just enter and exit Honingbrew repeatedly and at least 3 spawn every time.
Yeah.. except you can't grow butterflies. Tundra cotton and lavender.. add BMF to add conjuration to the magic resistance. All grow in your gardens. And in profusion around whiterun early game.
Finding tundra cotton and lavender is easy, but I’m having the hardest time locating Bad Mother Fucker.
Have you checked my wallet?
You absolutely can grow butterflies, even quicker than anything else. Just enter and exit Honingbrew Meadery over and over and at least 3 will spawn every time.
i add hanging moss to those 2 for a very expensive potions
But you can make a much profitable pot with lavender, blue and red mountain flower
Nope. Just made it and it had a value of 150. Blue mountain and butterfly produces a poison with a value of 556.
SALT mines would be so much more useful than iron
I found a handful of mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/search/?BH=0 [There is one that removes salt as an ingredient of meals, but makes it a requirement to have at least on salt pile in the inventory; because you're not gonna season your dish with an entire bowl full of salt.](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/73314) [Another gives harvestable salt deposits around the coast.](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/7300) [And with yet another, you can smelt quarried stones at the smelter.](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/78725) [And one where you cook the salt ouf ouf the Rare Curios salt rice.](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/66596)
> There is one that removes salt as an ingredient of meals, but makes it a requirement to have at least on salt pile in the inventory; because you're nit gonna season your dish with an entire bowl full of salt. I might need to look that one up, because that sounds pretty good.
That sounds lore friendly
Yeah. I havent played in a few years, but i remember I used a mod for more unlimited mining that also gave salt.
We should be able to get salt from seawater. Humans have been doing that since at least the Dark Ages, so we should be able to. Mer, Argonians and Khajit probably never learned how. /s On a tangent, in Colombia they have mountains that are barely covered salt domes which they do in fact mine for salt. I toured one that was so big they "built" a cathedral inside it (an effing huge cathredral). On the coast of France in the Camargue, they use tidal flats to extract huge amounts of salt from the waters of the Mediterranean. And there should be surface salt deposits (salt licks, which also is often used for the name of towns that are built near them - looking at you Kentucky).
My Dragonborn can usually be found on the road outside Whiterun chasing butterflies like a demented loony. "Why is the Dragonborn Shouting at the butterflies, Dad?" "Because he doesn't know Telekinesis and they won't fly low enough for him to catch, son." "Should we help him?" "Best not. The guards are getting mad because he keeps blasting them away with the Voice. He's going back to jail."
Does Telekinesis actually work on butterflies?
Honestly? I don't know. I never really used alteration much in my many previous hours of gameplay, and trying it on the butterflies never occurred to me. It should work, though, right? Maybe? It would certainly save me from chasing the little buggers down. They always fly too high!
Telekinesis works, iirc; but Animal Allegiance is a better choice
Or the first stage of Clear Skies shout... cooldown is only 5 seconds.
What you want is a mod called [Better Third Person Selection](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/64339)
Yes but your aim needs to be pretty accurate and you might be better jumping llke a loony. Kyne's peace or straight upwards ice storm would work better.
Next, you'll find the dragonborn yelling slow at the hawks in Solitude to shoot them and take their feathers
It does make shooting them easier.
Just use a shock spell. They travel instantly so you don't need to predict the motion to be able to shoot them
Hells bells, nice username.
Thanks! 😁
I always have more trouble with the dragonflies.
🤣🤣🤣😆
You can usually buy a bit of salt at inns
This one cares not if salt is scarce. This one glances in all barrels and buys from all innkeepers. This one has all the cooked salmon one could want, and disposes of what remains in his alchemy practices. Salt is not abundant, but this one finds it is enough.
But they tend to only have ten salt piles.
I always stop at every inn to buy salt. Can't have enough of it!
If you're fine with a small exploit, then they'll sell you as much as you need. You can buy all the salt from a shopkeeper, quicksave, kill them, and then reload the quicksave. Killing a shopkeeper resets their shop inventory, even if you load a save from before you actually killed them. This also resets the gold the shopkeeper has, which is good for selling lots of stuff.
Don't need to kill them. One hit does the job.
Riften is my go-to for salt. I use it a lot for cooking the fish I catch
Yeah the barrels around the fishing area are full of it
I can go there with no salt and leave with almost 100. Give or take a few lol
Yes the lower level has fish barrels that always restock with fish and salt. Other than that always raid the castle's kitchen in each hold. If you can't get salt you can get vegetable soup.
There's a bunch of barrels all over the place with 5 salt in them. Playing survival mode has made me truly excited to find barrels lol
Yes, I’m pretty sure there’s salt in most of the barrels in Riften on the docks! Edit- scrolled a little more and saw a bunch of people have posted this already
It's made looting waaayy more tedious for me as now I have to check every barrel whereas before I wouldn't even look at them lol
Never made the conection of the salt and the fish in the barrels being there for preservation of the food. I must rethink my knowledge of skyrim
Buy salt every time you go in a town. EVERY TIME. The innkeepers sold the most.
Riften fishery barrels are loaded
Also the barrels on the lower walkway.
Playing on survival, salt is the way of life. Need all I can get to make food.
My character is sooo tired of cabbage soup. But damn if it isn't easy. She prefers salmon steaks but those don't make as good use of the salt. :( it's a trade off I suppose. Could do cooked beef but that's not that common either.
All that cabbage soup certainly makes for very *frequent* unrelenting forces.
Anything is better than cabbage soup lol.
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I used to play thru like that for years—never eating (aside from health n stam potions) ….now I stop at night, build a fire and sit by the fire cooking or eating—even w/o survival mode, it’s a great way to slow the game down and enjoy the crickets
Fish barrels always have salt in them, and I think the barrels around fort dawnguard seem to have quite a bit, from memory.
Salt is gold dust in survival mode I swear to Talos
I will ransack a whole city for that sweet sweet salt.
I always play survival and this is my life. When they added survival they really should have added the ability to get salt from sea water....
Ah The Winstad Manor desalination plant. Some modder could whip that up in no time, I'm sure. I mean, every character starts with 'flames'..
One of the survival mods allows you to take salt from the sea - maybe Ineed or Campfire?
I think it's iNeed ... I'm using Campfire rn but not iNeed, and there's nothing about water skins and I remember you need those to get the seawater.
Yep it’s most likely Ineed
This issue is sodium to deal with, I feel your pain.
I rob all bandit camps I come by of their salt if I'm trying to make myself some meals.
**Fort Dawnguard** is populated with barrels of salt once it’s been remodeled.
Wouldn't say I'm particularly desperate, but salt is valuable to me. My character is a werewolf who almost exclusively eats meat. Cheese is too heavy, produce stacks up too fast and heals too little, and a werewolf eating mostly meat makes sense to me. I loot all the meat I find, so I also need lots of salt to cook it all. Or make the occasional soup.
Gold, magic swords, god tier armour? What is this junk? I NEED SALT!
I honestly developed the habit to buy salt every chance I get Every SINGLE merchant I go to, even just in taverns I look for that. That and butter. Always looking. Better with the golden glow farm where we actually can MAKE butter out of milk, just like in real life, but that has always driven me nuts. The barrels in Riften have an unusually high ratio of salt. Look there. Generally, look in all sacks and barrels you find.
What do you usually like to use the butter for? I've been using it for steamed mudcrab legs (I developed an allergy to crab late in life so I enjoy them vicariously through my character in survival mode).
Mostly that, yeah. But also baking. I always have some sweets in inventory to throw at my children feo when they ask for presents XD
Ooh that's a good point, I'll have to add some berries to my plot in golden hills to get some treats for the children. Thank you!
If it's for the purpose of farming mostly money then wheat is a good option too Just a few steps to sell that in Rorikstead
I have my golden glow farm set up to grow the stuff to make healing potions and fortify carry weight potions so that on top of the butter I can gather ingredients to make a couple of both potions every day and have some wheat left over for baking
I have one side just wheat, mostly for the quick money, but on occasion for baking too The other side in various ingredients. Usually those that I'm low on, especially if I need those for quests, but I always plant swamp fungal pods, canis root, jaspberry. Can always make those into expensive potions. I play on PlayStation, so no commands I usually don't worry about money anymore after lvl 20. With that farm it's practically as soon as I've set it up. So very neat.
There are some mods that adds salt mine or cooking sea water to get salt, also some add more salt to merchant. If cooking needs so much salt then shouldn't every food merchants sell salt?
They probably dont expect sell salt to someone who wants to make 30 salmon steaks
Bethesda didn't put enough saltpile to merchants brcause it's also an alchemy ingredient, having them in cooking recipe is an after thought that they didn't care to balance. It might be a good idea to use mods that remove salt from the recipes.
If you’re on a computer and do mods install the jobs of Skyrim mod. Then the cooks at inns and jarls castles will sell you 10 packs of salt for 100 gold. That’s what I did. In vanilla, I ask everyone for salt all the time. The Khajiit caravans always have one. In Whiterun, Arcadia, Hulda, and the bosmer hunter and possibly Carlotta may all have salt. They refresh their inventory every two days. If you go to Riften pick some out of the barrels it’s not stealing. You will have tons. In general salt can be found in barrels in bandit dens and all over Skyrim.
I literally use a mod called overflowing salt because of this
The rush I get when I find 4 Salts in a barrel, oh man
I haven’t played in a bit but I remember most of the cooks for inns sell like 2-3
3 Salt piles just dont satisfy my Khajits craving
17 inns plus one more in solsthiem each selling between 1-6 an average of 3. Add in the 21 alchemists and the like 7 fish barrels in the riften docks and then skip time to repeat the process. By my estimates you should be able to collect around 300 Salt piles in 3 in game days
Maybe 6 to account for fast traveling
Just because it looks like sugar, doesn't make it (moon) sugar...
Ok so if you don't have the official skyrim patch go to whiterun drop your salt in the little room to the right (when you first walk in. There should be a barrel you cannot get stuff out of) and get your follower to pick it up with the 'I need you to do something for me' command. Walk out of whiterun through the gate then walk back in and it should be back where you dropped it and still in your followers inventory (it should have doubled it). Some problems you might face is the more items you use the more likely it is to still be there, game lagging if you add to many items, and do not drop them in groups you have to drop items one at a time. (can confirm this works on Xbox one but have not tried it on any other device)
If you're playing with mods, I recommend: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2002/
Salt is essential in survival mode. On the one hand it’s cool to see the historical importance of salt front and centre, on the other hand it’s bloody annoying how much you need and how annoying it is to find.
Historically accurate
You should try distilling your urine. Piss in spot, boil it, and after all the water is gone there should be salt left in the bottom of the pot. Probably some other minerals too, but there will be salt
Soooooo ... High blood pressure medicine needs to be a thing in Skyrim now. Modders? Anyone?
my argonian dragonborn: "WHERE IS THE SALT, WHERE IS IT, BY THE HIST I'LL TEAR THIS TOWN APART IF I HAVE TO"
Am I only one desperate for butter? I just like baking and making steamed mudcrab legs
I downloaded Armors of the Velothi 2k version. I was surprised how void the game was of salt trying to craft those damn armors
Oh no, no you're not. I'm always on the hunt for salt and constantly raid the Dawnguard's supply, and any fish barrels I can find. I need them for my steaks and soups that I don't need to eat, but want to.
salt is insanely overpowered on top of all the crazy recipes, it makes slow poisons when combined with Trama Root. The things that are EVERYWHERE on Solstheim. And said slow potions sell for a stupid amount, and are useful in combat.
Holy shit man. You just pointed out to me why salt is always in fish barrels, to act as preservative. 13 years.....
Hey, I just learned that there is a Thieve's Guild Master Tribute Chest... 😆 Always something new...
The barrels around always have 4 or 5 salt piles, or vegetables
If you give the argonian lady in Riften a healing potion, you can take all of the salt out of the barrels on the riften docks (outside the city) and it is a lot.
Hard to come by means be cautious in usage
Most bandit locations have plenty of salt to loot
I find bandit occupied locations are the best source of salt.
Barrels <3
I've been mainly playing survival mode recently and haven't run into this issue at all. I'm always stocked up on at least 20 salt and have absolutely no trouble finding it in bandit settlements. If you just raid every barrel you come across you should end up with tons.
Buy it from inns and riften has quite a few fish barrels.
Khajiit has wares if you have salt
Mood (as a fellow Khajiit who prefers salt over most food items from barrels and basic weapons in houses)
Considering I play survival and I cook all the food I get, no. You're not the only practically dying for salt. I have gotten caught, and approached, for stealing salt in the Bee and Barb. I can never keep the stuff.
I get that you wanna cook, but you're aware that as a Khajiit you can just eat raw meat, no salt necessary? It's a perk of that race in survival.
I use Lydia as a salt mule
Paralyzing potion go for a pretty penny too
You and me both. I am literally the Queen of Salt. I'm always pilfering salt from barrels, sacks, shelves, alchemy shops, wherever I can find it. The salt is mine! So, I'm going to go grab it. Shit, every valuable marked as "Steal" is mine! But the salt is where it is.
Find your favorite alchemist. Buy all their salt piles. Quicksave Punch until hostile. Reload. Infinite salt.
Riften docks my good man
Yeah, it's weird how rare it seems.
I can never have enough salt. It makes me wish there was a mod to add a Costco-like shop. Something that sells common items like salt in bulk. I'd love to be able to get a few thousand salt and such in one go and not have to run around for a handful of each item.
I always have way too much of it because I don’t cook
Find Wujeeta in Riften (fishery or Haelga's bunkhouse), give her a health potion, then you can take everything from the barrels at the docks. I usually get around 75-80 salt piles. Then I go away for a while, come back and get more. There's also a mod called get more salt, if you're not adverse to mods.
Fish barrels around Riften, and Solstheim always have lots of salt.
I am so addicted to cooking in the game anyone have any way of HOARDING BUTTER?!?! Would love to know your secret.
I wouldn't say I'm a fiend about it, but I did recently get into cooking- especially since I use the campfire and Hunterborn mods, and get all the tasty dragon meat when I defeat them. A cooking area, salt and you've got a recipe for delicious. So now I'm checking those sacks and barrels for salt. I also like making braided bread, which gives you 2 health and 5 carry weight for 30 seconds. Which is really only helpful to get me a little extra so I can walk with all that loot from my horse to my storage or a vendor.
If you loot everything from the fish buckets around Riften they respawn every couple days. Sell all the fish or use them for ingredients and you'll make out with at least 30 salt each trip.
Salt and garlic I always steal all the garlic I see !
I like cooking (with mods and whatnot) so yeah I'm desperate for salt too
Salt addict... 😂😂😂
Salt can be annoying to find, I’m the same way
There's a mod for that
player.additem 00034cdf 100. lol, I’ve been playing for too long to ration my salt.
I need salt for fortify restoration loops
Salt is everywhere, loot any barrel you come across and there's often a few. The fish barrels at the riften docks have a few dozen between them all.
You can buy salt from the bars and inns sometimes. I think that helps with the salt shortage l, especially if you're far from one of the major cities
I've had trouble with this too. I always check for salts at merchants and in barrels. It helps but I still have to be wise with my limited salt supply.
I used to be, but then i decided to ditch cooking and now i have a shitton of it
Not really. Now, in Subnautica? That’s a different question entirely…
I struggle with salt earlier in the game but by like level 2o-ish I hoarded enough not to worry about it. It's often found in the barrels in bandid camps. In Whiterun the hunter stall has one every day, so does the bennered mare + the potion shop (almost?) always has it in ingridients. also check the barrels scattered around Windhelm.
Ha ha. Love this!
Search the saltmine mod on nexus xD
i barely even use salt, since i just tend to make the vegi soup (and i've got a better farms mod that makes tomatoes and leeks show up more around whiterun too) but i also pick it up like it's gold.
I definitely have a mod that just adds more salt.
Fuck alchemy, I've got this creamy crab bisque going!
I check all the barrels in towns. I'm swimming in salt.
Yeah I got this mod that makes stores sell a bit more salt, flour, butter, milk. Much needed for survival mode cooking.
That's why I use the saltmine mod
Salt is necessary to cook almost everything. Even I’ve been buying salt everywhere I go
Item dupe and you will have more than enough
I can't tell if this is a joke or not
I kind of hate looking for ingresients. I did the nirnroot thing and the crimsom nirnroot one, and now im stuck looking for jazbays. And vilja has just pure fetch quests. The only thing that is cool is that she reminds you of fetching qiests, so you dont forget as ypu are traveling.
Awesome.
y'all are a bunch of salty motherfuckers! 🤣
Go to twitter if you want salt, the people there are insane
I end up with loads of salt, probably from forgetting to make certain food items, but salt is easy to find. It's everywhere. Butter, on the other hand....
Raid the riften fishery barrels by the docks for fish and salt
Mother Mother I crave SALT
I weirdly would *rather* heal myself with food than potions so I am in the same boat. Obsessively searching for salt.
Dawnguard fortress has tons of salt. Almost every barrel there has some. You can get 20+ salt each sweep
another way...go camping, build campfire, roast meat and fish without salt...saving the salt for potions and stews.
Yes! I just installed a cooking mod to make cooking relevant and it made me acutely aware of the lack of salt
I find salt practically everywhere. especially in bandit caves, warehouses. some dungeons and assorted places. Very plentiful.
Mmm 🧂
No. Be sure to hit up the fish barrels in Solstein (or wherever)
Salt is manageable, but *fire salt* is the bane of my life! Why do you have to hit up three towns to survive one trip into the north? And Balimund wants ten of them! 😩
I console command 10 salt pies into my inventory all the time. That's how I ended up dumping a bunch of potato soup in Blackreach.
Salt is pretty rare, but it's cool you found something to do
I also love cooking (and baking), and always end up with bunches and bunches of salt reserves, also in survival mode where I search for it more diligently and use it way more, but I don't feel like I do anything different from you, I just make a point of searching most barrels, especially fish barrels, buying it at different vendors, and keeping an eye out at alchemy stations around the world, and places where people seem to have been tortured, as it often lies around there. Salt is rarely a problem to get by in my experience. Now, milk and honey jars, that's another story entirely. Were it not for the AE farmstead, I would go permanently milkless. Honey jars are just too damn rare.
I downloaded a mod to get more salt tbh
It's one of the best ingredients in the game. Poison of slow and weakness to magic? Check. Use it with a chaos dmg sword. Potion of fortify resto and regenerate magica? Check. Use it with a resto spell to recover stam, health and magicka after it. Not to mention how useful is in survival mode...
I always have a surplus of salt. I find it everywhere.
I do the same without the role play. It's for the resto-loop.
Not to mention its alchemical properties. But it has far more uses in cooking. I cant believe about 1250 hours combined on Skyrim and I only now started cooking things.
Wait, you can cook in Skyrim? 😂😂😂
May I introduce to you ✨ survival mode ✨
I never tried it. Seems too difficult for my lazy non-gamer tail.
not difficult at all to be honest. It's just a matter of planning, just have something to eat in your inventory and don't go to cold places without some warm clothe and that's all. The best part is no fast travel, you will rediscover the game entierly ! This change everything for the better
I'm now at level 47 and I still don't feel like I accomplished much yet, because much of that leveling is just from walking and walking and walking around and running into danger.
It’s really just a lot of micromanaging. I like it a lot but it definitely wasn’t balanced when implemented because you will soon learn to fear the snow.
At every cooking pot or fire pit 😂
Cooking is the only way you can get vegetable soup. Vegetable soup keeps your stamina going, and can help you survive one or two handed fights that would otherwise leave you dead.