How to ingest salt and what it's used for in No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky has a universe full of things to explore, almost all of which have still never been seen by another human, ever. Its ever-expanding (and ever-updating) universe stays fresh, but you'll need to craft, build and explore to stay at your best.

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One of the resources you will need to find regularly in No Man's Sky is salt. Salt, alone, is used for quite a few different crafting recipes and can be refined into something completely different. It is also used as an ingredient to refine into a plethora of other resources, making it a base ingredient.

How to get salt

Salt in the player's inventory in No Man's Sky.

Fortunately, salt is a fairly easy ingredient to obtainand on a planet where salt exists, you can probably get a lot of it.

Water planets

Planets that have quite a lot of water on them generally also have a lot of salt on themalso. It is easy to tell if a planet has large concentrations of salt available on it from space; from your spaceship, scan the planet, and it will show the most abundant resources available.

Not all planets with water have water all over the globe. It may be helpful to locate a large body of water from space and descend into the atmosphere from thererather than landing on the planet and searching for water from within the atmosphere. Depending on how far from the water you land, this can take much longer.

Go underwater and start scanning the minerals around. Many of them will include salt in one way or another, either as a primary or secondary resource from collecting the mineral. Use your mining laser to get the salt and whatever else the mineral provides.

How to make salt

Salt in the catalog and guide to No Man's Sky.

Salt can also be is created in a refiner in two different ways.

Results

Ingredients

Salt

1 x Claw

Salt

1x Di-hydrogen + 1x oxygen

Chlorine, oxygen, and dihydrogen are all other resources that you can find as you explore the universe. IN chlorine case, it is also the refined version of saltbut if you've accidentally refined too much salt into chlorine, that's a mistake you can reverse.

Buys salt from Galactic Trade Terminals

Salt can be purchased from the Galactic Trade Terminal in No Man's Sky.

Salt can too sometimes purchased from Galactic Trade Terminalslocated in space stations. This will not always be the case, and will vary station by station, as will the price of the salt, if available.

Salt's availability in the Galactic Trade Terminal does not correlate with salt being in the system.

Using the analysis visor in No Man's Sky.

Mineral extractors can also be used to collect saltand at a regular rate without requiring constant maintenance. They will need power to work and will need to be used on a deep mineral deposit of saltwhich can be found by using a Analysis visor with the help of Investigative upgrade.

What is salt used for?

A cluster of technology inside a player-built base in No Man's Sky.

The raw form of salt is used for quite a few different things; primarily it is used in a refiner to create more consistently useful resourceslike glass.

Artisan recipes that use salt

A hydrothermal fuel cell in No Man's Sky.

Here are all the craft recipes that call for salt.

Component

Ingredients

Hydraulic line

x2 carbon nanotubes + x20 Salt + x40 di-hydrogen

Hydrothermal fuel cell

40x salt + 40x Cyto-phosphate + 40x carbon

Automated trap

x50 Salt + x3 metal plating + x1 ion battery

Nautilon chamber

x5 Metal Plating + x4 Crystal Sulphide + x100 Salt

Lost Angler's Rig

x2 Hydraulic cable + x60 Salt + x90 Silver

Exo-Skiff

x120 magnetized ferrite + x30 Salt + x2 Crystal Sulfide

Cooking recipes that use salt

A nutritionist in No Man's Sky.

There is also a whole some different cooking recipes that call for salteach requiring the use of one Nutrient Processor.

Recipe

Ingredients

Crunchy Caramel

x1 processed sugar + x1 salt

Salty custard

x1 salt + x1 cream + x1 processed sugar

Salty Cruncher

x1 Sugar Dough + x1 salt

Salty juice

x1 Cactus Flesh + x1 salt + x1 Fire Water

Refine recipes that use salt

A refiner making salt into chlorine in No Man's Sky.

Finally, there are many refining recipes that call for salt, all done with the help of a refiner. This is where the bulk of your salt needs will likely come from, as you will need a lot of these processed materials to create a variety of items to evolve.

Resource

Ingredients

Ammonia

x2 Mushroom Mold + x1 salt

Chlorine

x1 Kelp Sac + x1 salt

x2 salt

x2 salt + x2 oxygen

Dioxide

x2 Frost Crystal + 1 x salt

Enriched carbon

x100 Radon + x20 Carbon + x10 Salt

x100 Radon + x10 Condensed Carbon + x10 Salt

Glass

x50 Cyto-phosphate + x50 Salt

Kelp Sac

x1 salt + x1 Nitrogen

Nitrogen salt

x100 nitrogen + x20 carbon + x10 Salt

x100 nitrogen + x10 condensed carbon + x10 Salt

Paraffinium

x2 Star Bulb + x1 salt

Phosphorus

x2 Solanium + x1 salt

Pyrite

x2 Cactus Flesh + x1 salt

Thermal condensate

x100 sulfur + x20 carbon + x10 Salt

x100 Sulfur + x10 Condensed Carbon + x10 Salt

Uranium

x2 Gamma Root + x1 salt

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