I ported this to 1.4 here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949776907

Does this work for 1.4?

Haha @Argón, I got here eventually too. Not exactly what I had in mind but beggars can't be choosers. Thank you all for the great mods and sharing your works with others.

Hey! This is neat, I was actually being asked for this and it is good that someone made it already :D

can you make this work with salt meat 2.0?
2.0 now dont need VEC, it have his own salt

"The high tech option starts with a deep drill and ends with mega spiders"
This made me laugh so fucking much, def trying this mod out.

And I don't even need the salt. I just want magic ponds.

I'm getting this mod simply because the preemptive responses make me laugh. Magic Ponds? Yes. I want magic ponds.

cool and good

Updated.

Little bug with these I've just found:

They block windmills' wind. Which is patently absurd.

All you need to do to fix this is add <blockWind>false</blockWind> to the building's thingDef.

Hi ! just for you know I notice your keys.xml doesn't work, the phrase "Must be built on shallow ocean water" doesn't appear, it's EP.MustBeBuiltOnWater which appear if we try to put evaporation pond in the wrong place

great news !!

Good news everyone! Taranchuk updated the code now your salt doesn't spawn forbidden.

I agree with a few others: t'd be nice if the salt wasn't forbidden by default so as to lower micromanagment of just salt. not sure if that is easy to do, though it saves some work if you have a bigger colony :D

Sure.

Hi, can you juste add this in your about.xml please ?
<modDependencies>
<li>
<packageId>VanillaExpanded.VCookE</packageId>
<displayName>Vanilla Cooking Expanded</displayName>
<steamWorkshopUrl>https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2134308519</steamWorkshopUrl>
</li>
</modDependencies>
<loadAfter>
<li>VanillaExpanded.VCookE</li>
</loadAfter>

As ShrubNinja mentioned as well, it'd be nice if the salt wasn't forbidden by default so as to lower micromanagment of just salt

I just want to add that salt pans will still work in environments with no sun/light because water naturally evaporates. It will also work in cold environments because of a process called sublimation where ice directly evaporates into a gas (example: the mist that comes off an ice cube). It all just takes a lot longer without the sun as a heat source. You can also just boil down the sea water and get salt also.

It'd take more coding work than I'm prepared to pay for, maybe if someone else wants to chip in on the modding discord.

Is there a way to make it so the salt isn't forbidden when it appears?

And you know its hard to move on 1.3 with 421 mods

@OptimusPrimordia so maybe you know mod for fix this new animal system?

@Kotel It's time to move on.
@Marvl101 Probably but when paying a coder the goal is to hit that good enough point where the majority are happy. Adding more complexity means higher costs and more points of failure to please a shrinking additional audience.

Would it be possible to increase yield or lower time based on temperature?

Can you take it on 1.2?

Yes it is.

When the salt spawns in my game it is forbidden, is this expected behaviour?

Tfw can become the sultan of salt.

@Tia Same.

"it starts with a deep drill and ends with Mega Spiders."

I was on the fence but I'm installing this purely because that made me laugh.

great!

Wait, you can get salt from the Deep Drill?

love the pre-empt. ;) Always good to have a salt source that doesn't rob me of building material.