Boiling water for salt

[PlankGJE 10]

So since we Are surrounded by salt water allow us to boil it down for salt, also add clams or oysters as food source that can be dug up. Net fishing from the boats would be great too. 

[Volt 0]

u know u can dig for water right?

 

[PlankGJE 10]

Yes for fresh water but my comment was for salt, allow us to boil salt water to make salt. 

[GunnyTheGrey 27]

Don't worry plank, he'll read a post before responding to it one day.
As for OP: +1, good idea. Make it a slow rate and it won't be OP, will be helpful early on.

[Tom Bombadier 12]

Hell some kind of water distillery would be super awesome. Throw one on your ship to boil the water and capture the steam. Salt and drinkable water in one that you could throw on a ship for those long drought filled travels.

[Dizzviz 0]

it should be noted that unpurified sea salt contains many other things than just salt. calcium as well as other organic compounds and organisms. mostly harmless but if you are sourcing your sea salt from contaminated waters you also get those contaminants in your finished product.

considering the technological age the game is based in most people are likely dumping all of their raw sewage and other waste right into the ocean. meaning that any water collected from within a claim is likely contaminated with all sorts of gross things. to add a touch of realism the water should have to be taken from outside a claim, or take a second purification step. ether would help limit the use of the salt to make blasting powder.

[Tom Bombadier 12]

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it should be noted that unpurified sea salt contains many other things than just salt. calcium as well as other organic compounds and organisms. mostly harmless but if you are sourcing your sea salt from contaminated waters you also get those contaminants in your finished product.

I'm not too keen on the science of it, but doesn't distilling the water prevent that? Just capturing the boiled off steam to run it to the side and condense it back to water?

[robbosham 0]

1 hour ago, Tom Bombadier said:

I'm not too keen on the science of it, but doesn't distilling the water prevent that? Just capturing the boiled off steam to run it to the side and condense it back to water?

science would have available back then for distilling clean water, i'd imagine it'd have to be very heavy to avoid it being on ships, additionally it'd have to use a lot of metal to craft. I can see this being a mod on unofficial.

[Cyrus Bloodwood 3]

19 hours ago, Dizzviz said:

it should be noted that unpurified sea salt contains many other things than just salt. calcium as well as other organic compounds and organisms. mostly harmless but if you are sourcing your sea salt from contaminated waters you also get those contaminants in your finished product.

considering the technological age the game is based in most people are likely dumping all of their raw sewage and other waste right into the ocean. meaning that any water collected from within a claim is likely contaminated with all sorts of gross things. to add a touch of realism the water should have to be taken from outside a claim, or take a second purification step. ether would help limit the use of the salt to make blasting powder.

Harvesting salt from the sea would not contain sewage at all.  It would just be minerals, primarily salt.  YOu could boil the sea water till all water evaporates, then harvest salt.

Also, considering the time period the game is in, the oceans aren't polluted at all.  They can handle sewage from the low population of that time.  The polluted waters were rivers and lakes getting too much sewage because they're near the big cities of that day.