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Salt

With the Caves and Cliffs update coming soon, salt seems like a very fitting addition, almost like destiny. Not just because of a revamp of caves, but because of the addition of goats. In real life, goats love to lick salt. They sometimes travel more than ten miles to get a little taste of it! maybe goats would lead players to nearby salt veins, adding even more strategy to finding ores, sort of like copper. Honestly, I think salt would fit perfectly into the game, especially because of goats

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    good idea, but what would we use the salt for?

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    @steeldoge i don't know... it could be a building block, but i can't think of anything else. I'm sure Mojang would be able to find a use for it. I did find this online which would tie salt in with copper: "Copper is one of the least resistant metals to salt-related corrosion. Over time, copper pipes will turn bluish-green with exposure and eventually crumble away. Galvanized steel and cast iron are more resistant to saltwater corrosion, but exposure over time can still cause damage." Maybe if you add salt and copper together it makes corroded copper (the teal coloring) instantly. Also, salt melts ice in real life. Maybe in minecraft too?

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    It could also be used to do the following; It could be used to stop snow accumulation, decrease the freezing point of water in order to prevent freezing creating salt water in the process, and it could even be sprinkled on dirt blocks to stop plant growth including grass until the block is either dug up and put back down (equivalent to turning over the dirt) or washed to flush out the salt. An excellent way to ruin farmland, clear out snow, and maintain a supply of liquid water in a cold place such that it can't be used for farming. For this addition to make sense the following would probably be needed; The conversion of oceans in Minecraft to saltwater after salt is added and the addition of some method of desalination such as distillation or freezing it and melting out the more saline portions.