No Man's Sky: How To Get Salt

No Man's Sky has a universe full of things to explore, almost all of which has still never been seen by another human being, ever. Its ever-expanding (and ever-updated) universe remains fresh, but you're going to need to craft, build, and explore in order to keep yourself at your best.

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Farming in No Man's Sky needs fertilizer, and that means you're gonna need Faecium.

One of the resources you're going to have to find regularly in No Man's Sky is salt. Salt, on its own, is used for quite a few different crafting recipes and can be refined into something else entirely. It's also used as an ingredient to refine into a plethora of other resources, making it a staple ingredient.

How To Get Salt

Luckily, salt is a fairly easy ingredient to obtain, and on a planet where salt is present, you're likely able to get quite a bit of it.

Water Planets

Planets that have quite a bit of water on them generally also have quite a bit of salt on them, too. It's easy to tell whether a planet has large concentrations of salt available on it from space; from your spaceship, scan the planet, and it's going to display the most abundant resources available.

Not all planets with water have water present across the entire globe. It can be helpful to locate a large body of water from space and descend into the atmosphere from there, rather than land on the planet and look for water from inside the atmosphere. Depending on how far away from water you land, this can take a lot longer.

Head underwater and start scanning the minerals around. Many of them are going to include salt in one way or another, either as a primary or secondary resource from gathering the mineral. Use your mining laser to obtain the salt and whatever else the mineral provides.

How To Make Salt

Salt can also be created in a Refiner in two different ways.

Result

Ingredients

Salt

1x Chlorine

Salt

1x Di-Hydrogen + 1x Oxygen

Chlorine, oxygen, and di-hydrogen are all other resources that you can find while exploring the universe. In chlorine's case, it's also the refined version of salt, but if you've accidentally refined too much salt into chlorine, it's a mistake that you can reverse.

Buying Salt From Galactic Trade Terminals

Salt can also occasionally be purchased from Galactic Trade Terminals, located in Space Stations. This will not always be the case, and it is going to vary station by station, as will the price of the salt, if it is available.

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

Gathering Salt With Mineral Extractors

Mineral Extractors can also be used to gather salt, and at a regular rate without requiring constant maintenance. They will need power to operate, and will need to be used on a deep-level mineral deposit of salt, which can be found by using an Analysis Visor using the Surveying upgrade.

What Is Salt Used For?

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

Crafting Recipes That Use Salt

Here is every crafting recipe that requires salt.

Component

Ingredients

Hydraulic Wiring

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 Wiring + x60 Salt + x90 Silver

Exo-Skiff

x120 Magnetised Ferrite + x30 Salt + x2 Crystal Sulphide

Cooking Recipes That Use Salt

There are also quite a few different cooking recipes that require salt, each requiring the use of a Nutrient Processor.

Recipe

Ingredients

Crunchy Caramel

x1 Processed Sugar + x1 Salt

Salt 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

Refining Recipes That Use Salt

Finally, there are a lot of refining recipes that require salt, all made using a refiner. This is where the bulk of your salt needs are likely going to come from, as you'll need a lot of these processed materials in order to craft a multitude of things to progress.

Resource

Ingredients

Ammonia

x2 Fungal Mould + x1 Salt

Chlorine

x1 Kelp Sac + x1 Salt

x2 Salt

x2 Salt + x2 Oxygen

Dioxite

x2 Frost Crystal + 1x 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

Phosphorous

x2 Solanium + x1 Salt

Pyrite

x2 Cactus Flesh + x1 Salt

Thermic Condensate

x100 Sulphurine + x20 Carbon + x10 Salt

x100 Sulphurine + x10 Condensed Carbon + x10 Salt

Uranium

x2 Gamma Root + x1 Salt

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