Enable salt crystals to kill Slurtles/Snurtles and drop complete shells

[Mr.Oshiro]

Recently, developers have been working on a series of cave updates, and I would like to take this opportunity to see more interesting interactions.

As is well known, if you sprinkle salt on slugs, they will quickly melt (my method for dealing with pests that enter my kitchen). What if we could do the same in DST?
Place the salt crystal on the ground, and when the Slurtles/Snurtles crawls over,It will immediately die and begin to melt, and complete dissolution takes about three minutes. During this period, as long as it is not subjected to any other attacks(including earthquakes), a complete shell will fall off when the time is up. We can obtain it stably through this method.

Edited September 15, 2025 by Mr.Oshiro
Increase melting time

[Radicaljoe]

Maybe each crystal does like, 100 damage? 

[Milordo]

Ohohohoh. Ooohhhhh.

I remember this one. Yeah it could be fun! 

 

[landromat]

great idea

[SOS-Ouroboros-K]

good idea

[Dingle]

I really love the idea of salt crystals killing them and making their drops 100%.

[Auth]

fun interaction, I like this idea

[Bumber64]

IDK about guaranteeing the drop. The complete shells are somewhat powerful items.

For all we know, salting a slurtle could have the same result as torching them. (Slurtle steals salt from man, instantly regrets it.)

Edited September 16, 2025 by Bumber64

[Milordo]

1 hour ago, Bumber64 said:

IDK about guaranteeing the drop. The complete shells are somewhat powerful items.

For all we know, salting a slurtle could have the same result as torching them. (Slurtle steals salt from man, instantly regrets it.)

Higher chance then?

[HeatAndRun]

What genius idea

[HowlVoid]

I suggested this way back when salt was first introduced. Klei works rather slowly so if they have plans to implement this id imagine id be when they have some developer wiggle room.