Salt is one of several materials in Subnautica 2 which you need to find to craft items on your Fabricator. Specifically, salt is primarily used to make some of the best cooked food items in the game currently.
Unfortunately, since it's such a valuable recipe item, you won't find it easily lying close to your base like you will with titanium or quartz and instead you'll have to go out of your way to track it down, preferably with some boosts to your oxygen capacity.
Where to find salt
Salt can be found in several locations in Subnautica 2, but one of the most reliable and abundant locations is what I have called The Coral Crab Graveyard. This cemetery is approx 530 meters south-south-east (165 degrees) from the lifepod you start the game in, and at a depth of about 70 meters.
One of the easiest ways to find this area is to swim in this direction and look for the tall, thin rock formations. Some of them are so high that you will even be able to see the tips of them above the surface of the water.
This area has a section that has increased temperatures you may not be able to resist yet, so you may have to cycle around the southern edge of it a bit to reach the other side where the salt is. However, the actual location of said salt does not have these increased temperatures.
Eventually, if you continue in this direction, you should spot some dead coral crabs with shells that have also died and turned white. There are several of them, so they should be easy enough to spot, even if you're on the surface, and they're all clustered on the edge of a descent.
On each of the dead coral crab shells you should find lots of salt minerals to collect. Each one has anywhere from five to ten of them, so be sure to deplete your inventory beforehand. Also, I would recommend bringing a beacon, if you have the recipe for them, so you can mark this spot.
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How to find salt
If you want to track salt on your own, one of the ways to do this is with the Scanner Stationwhich is a machine that you can build on your base. Scanner Station lets you choose a material, including salt, and shows you all the places where you can grow it. If you select one of the locations it shows you, it will put a tracker on your map that will lead you directly to it.
Recipes that use salt
As mentioned, salt is mainly used in food. The recipes that use it generally offer a better amount of restoration, and some of them also increase your health and water values, so it's definitely something you want to have on hand.
Salt is used in some recipes as an ingredient, but more often it is used to make Sugar of Saturnwhich is then used in several recipes. For that reason, recipes with Sugar of Saturn will be listed here as well, since salt is still required for them.
|
Product |
Recipe |
Restoration (each) |
|---|---|---|
|
Saturn's Sugar (x2) |
1x lead, 1x salt |
+10 Food |
|
Half Moon Jerky (x2) |
2x Halfmoon Fish, 1x Salt |
+40 Food |
|
Nutrient block |
1x Biofuel block, 1x Salt |
+40 Food |
|
Chrimoya Chutney (x2) |
2x Cherimoya Rotsac, 1x Sugar of Saturn |
+40 Food |
|
Coral stir |
3x Coral Chips, 1x Saturn Sugar |
+65 Food |
|
Pavlova |
1x Deepwing Egg Clump, 1x Sugar of Saturn, 1x Cherimoya Rotsac |
+80 Food, +70 Water, +10 Health |
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