I Hate Warly Salt

[Radicaljoe]

Nothing special to add here, just needed to express my disdain for the way I believe klei really missed a cool opportunity for salt.

1: 25% health is nothing, like at allll. at MOST it's +15 health(not even going to consider mandrake soup so shuddup about it), less than 1 healing salve, and half of a honey poultice.

I understand it's supposed to be like "oh Warly gets less health from food, duh make food heal more!" but 25% is way too low

2: Salt spice was added AFTER salt crystals had a food related use

My main reason for hating salt spice is this right here. Salt crystals, when they were added, can be used to refresh raw ingredients. Now, give salt to a master chef and you'd expect he could refresh his own foods in case they went a little stale right? NO, now you get an extra 0.5 hp from those stale meatballs, enjoy the abundance of healing.

Anyway, I think klei should either make the salt heal waay more if they want to keep it as a healing spice, or (more prefferebly) make salt spice slow down spoilage and add spoilage time back to the food like actual salt does.

Guess you could say I'm...salty... about it.

[Edible Coal]

agree, although it did one thing right imo

which is it changes food stats, other spice does literally nothing to the original food, the only thing you should ever spice is powder cakes

[Captain_Rage]

13 minutes ago, Radicaljoe said:

Nothing special to add here, just needed to express my disdain for the way I believe klei really missed a cool opportunity for salt.

Dealing +75 damage against Snurtles.

[_mylilsunshine_]

15 minutes ago, Captain_Rage said:

Dealing +75 damage against Snurtles.

i like the way you think

 

[Creatorofswamps]

1 hour ago, Radicaljoe said:

Nothing special to add here, just needed to express my disdain for the way I believe klei really missed a cool opportunity for salt.

Back to the salt mines   

; )

 

 

 

 

*And seriously, yes , the salt seasonings would be worth a little improvement*

[GetNerfedOn]

i don't even use salt that much though eventually i'll get around to salting moqueca solely to satisfy my sanity's decline but christ it's out of the way just for that effect

To further salt our wounds, let's take a look at the salt spice compendium entry:

[Radicaljoe]

1 hour ago, GetNerfedOn said:

i don't even use salt that much though eventually i'll get around to salting moqueca solely to satisfy my sanity's decline but christ it's out of the way just for that effect

To further salt our wounds, let's take a look at the salt spice compendium entry:

hmm it says duration 4 minutes, is that applicable to other healing? Like can you eat a salty food and then heal using a poultice for like 35 health, or is compendium just being weird?

[Guihhza]

Honestly I think the +25% should be applied to every single stat and totally freshen the food

[GetNerfedOn]

7 hours ago, Radicaljoe said:

hmm it says duration 4 minutes, is that applicable to other healing? Like can you eat a salty food and then heal using a poultice for like 35 health, or is compendium just being weird?

Correction: this is the scrapbook entry, sorry

Anyways this is legitimate misinformation but this might be sign of future plans given that its been unchanged for so long

[DVGMedia]

11 hours ago, Edible Coal said:

agree, although it did one thing right imo

which is it changes food stats, other spice does literally nothing to the original food, the only thing you should ever spice is powder cakes

Chili spice does give a meal 15seconds of 40 degrees which is something different from its usual effect.

[Echsrick]

salt is supposed to be healthy, in a way, so i guess gettin extra healing from it does make sense...somewhat...but like, when realy you goin to make it? when you have too many salt from ocean treasures and have no use for them anymore besides randomly putting some salt onto a stack of meat?

[cybers2001]

13 hours ago, Guihhza said:

Honestly I think the +25% should be applied to every single stat and totally freshen the food

This might just be enough to make salt worth farming

[Cheggf]

Would you say that you are salty about the salt?

[GetNerfedOn]

https://youtu.be/3KquFZYi6L0?si=HlVkiJna7n_xUWUF

[readkey]

I always think the salt is for Warly himself because he cannot eat too many pierogis in a row. 

[Frosty_Mentos]

Salt is not that important to gameplay when there's healing weapons, salves and just the foods that do effective healing regardless of the buff. I prefer my salt to refresh ingredients than that flop of a stat buff lol

[Edible Coal]

37 minutes ago, readkey said:

I always think the salt is for Warly himself because he cannot eat too many pierogis in a row. 

eating a extra pierogi is still better than salting it.

theres literally no reason to ever use salt

[IAmAFurrz]

now salted food dehydrates you (game update will now introduce water meter, different from wetness meter). to really show new players to never use it

[readkey]

1 hour ago, Edible Coal said:

eating a extra pierogi is still better than salting it.

theres literally no reason to ever use salt

But you can eat a few salted pierogis in a boss fight to maximize the effect. 
 

Not saying it is good, but it is something. 

[Master_NiX]

honestly, since salt restores freshness to raw meat. Why not make Salt spice make dish stay fresh longer?

[DVGMedia]

4 hours ago, Edible Coal said:

eating a extra pierogi is still better than salting it.

theres literally no reason to ever use salt

It gives you basically 2 free repeats for stat foods before it goes below base healing that's what I think it's for. 

Which I say is nice because warly does get more efficiency from healing  thanks to garlic. Bisque is probably the easiest  and when salted  while under garlics effect will give effectively 112.5HP in one dish . Which I think is pretty crazy. Without salt it's  only 90 effective healing. 

 

Now with that  think salt totally should boost all a dishes stats by 25% instead of just hp

 

[Just_fil]

So how do you think this should be modified? Or what needs to be changed?

[YouKnowWho142]

Theoretically, if they wanted to keep the health gimmick of salt, they could possibly just make it a flat healing instead, like adding +15-20 hp to a dish or something

[JaxckLl]

On 3/14/2025 at 2:54 AM, Edible Coal said:

eating a extra pierogi is still better than salting it.

theres literally no reason to ever use salt

Salted Surf & Turf gives 75 HP, that's the one situation I can see it being legitimately excellent.

[WilsonHiggs]

On 3/14/2025 at 10:54 AM, Edible Coal said:

eating a extra pierogi is still better than salting it.

theres literally no reason to ever use salt

But you dont use salt on pierogies... You use them on the new tallbird egg dish, moqueca or surf and turf and only to dimish, in addition to garlic, warly's downside when you are in a boss killing session