New salt craft items are awful BECAUSE...

[yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

Acquiring period.
Let's take a look at these four items with severe problems . They are all effective when they are in your inventory.

Unlock after returning cracked pearl (defeating pearl Crab King)

Unlock after Hermit Rehoming (defeating all 3 lunar mutated bosses)

Grit Duster only consumes durability when moving on ice turf without salt covered . Durability lasts for 3 minutes.

Grit Grinder can use 25 times. Each turf covered consumes 1 use. The salt covering effect only lasts for 1 minute (This is too ridiculous), which is not enough to cover even the smallest Frostjaw's island, let alone the winter Frostjaw's island or Crab King.

When you have multiple Grit items (either Duster or Grinder) in your inventory, only the one placed at the forefront of your inventory will be effective.

Duster is quite useful in 2 ice turf boss fights (Frostjaw and Crab King), but I can only unlock it after defeating CK. And Grinder is really useless.

 

Desiccant Pouch and Desiccant Sack provide a negative wetness growth rate. Roughly, Desiccant Pouch reduces wetness by 1 every 2 seconds, and Desiccant Sack reduces it by 1 every 1 second. While working, the item's name will have a "damp" prefix, and the item icon will have a dripping water visual effect. Their effect is limited; after absorbing a certain amount of wetness, they become ineffective. Their names will then have a "saturated" prefix, and the item will become wet. When you have multiple Dsiccant salts in your inventory, only one will be effective at a time. The first priority is that Desiccant Sack takes precedence. The second priority is its position in the inventory: the one further forward takes precedence.

These two could help you get rid of wetness quicklier. But you still need water proof equipment. And I can just use a torch to replace them. You know, a torch, can replace two endgame items...

You see, their functions are not useless (except Grit Grinder, a total inferior version of its material. It needs to be enhanced). But their acquiring period really destroys them.

So I suggest that just let us prototype Grit Duster and Desiccant Pouch at Science Machine. They are not any item's upgrade. They are clearly not as complicated as empty bottle that have to be crafted at the Combriner. 

Grit Grinder, I don't know, really. 

Desiccant Sack, make it a level 1 Combriner recipe. 

To be honest the suggestions above are not practical/ not enough. But I really can't figure out how. Like I said, it is the acquiring period, in another word, Pearl's arc, especially Hermit Rehoming that makes salt craft items so terrible. I guess I need to post a new thread to explain this. And my test is not accurate enough. Any correction and suggestion are welcome. I just hope Combriner and its crafts can be more useful.

Edited December 9, 2025 by yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[Cassielu]

They are obvious more suitable as rewards for the first voyage to got salt rather than Crab King and the lunar mutants trio. 

Now players only get them when  basically no longer need them.

[twitchgabo]

1 hour ago, Cassielu said:

They are obvious more suitable as rewards for the first voyage to got salt rather than Crab King and the lunar mutants trio. 

Now players only get them when  basically no longer need them.

100000% agree with you. There is no point of using these items since we already have to deal with the Bosses without the need of salt. Unless Klei is planning to create an Ice Biome/Ice Cave, then it could be useful. If this is not the case, it is a very underwhelming feature. I still have issues with the implementation of Ice Crystaleyezer though lol