Making salt and molten salt

1. Boil salt#

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Put the pan on a heat source, fill it with a bucket of water, and wait. Over lava it boils in 5 s, over a magma block in 10 s, over a lit campfire in 15 s. Take the block out and it's ready for the next bucket.

To run it hands-free, pipe water in (an Aquifer beside it works) and pull the salt out from the side with a pipe, since the heat source sits below. A row of pans over a lava pool makes salt steadily with no power at all.

2. Melt it#

A Vortex Separator melts salt in its normal item mode, taking a little lava from its lava tank:

#100 mB

6,000 FE

1,000 mB

#25 mB

1,500 FE

250 mB

Put the Separator beside the Brine Accretor with auto-output on, and the molten salt flows straight into the Accretor's tank.

3. How much you need#

An elemental crystal (Hydric, Galvanic or Pyric) drinks 1,000 mB, one salt block. An Iron Crystal needs 8 blocks' worth, and a Netherite Crystal 64, so for the bigger crystals a few pans pay for themselves.

Pitfalls#

• Flowing lava doesn't heat a pan, and neither does an unlit campfire.
• A pan takes no more water until you take its salt out.
• Molten salt only travels by pipe or straight from machine to machine; there's no bucket of it.

Related#

• Growing crystals
• Salt Pan