I found salt in Vintage Story

You'll only understand the pain and drama of this if you've played Vintage Story, but: I found salt. Finally. After over one hundred hours of playtime in my save, I found a salt dome in a desert. This is what it looked like when I was wildly celebrating my great achievement: Vintage Story locks quite a lot of food-related gameplay - cheese, pickling, preserved meats, and the food security that comes with these things - behind salt. But in VS, the only way to acquire salt is to mine halite out of the ground. Halite spawns under strange conditions and cannot be detected using the game's ore-detection tools, because it's a rock, not an ore. Finding it is a source of great misery for many players. I spent much of my last 100 hours in this save over the last two years searching for halite specifically. This is because I want to be able to make cheese. Cheese is one of the most resource-intensive processes in the game, and it requires not only a domesticated dairy animal - something I…