#salt and mineral

[honeycombhank]

Emmitt Says this is the right way to use a salt and mineral lick lol

[ink-ghoul]

now to my fave minecraft worldbuilding topic

what can you cook? what's edible? what's possible with enough imagination?

I'd like to start with things that are present in-game (vanilla), first, the foods and drinks (ingredients too), having a loaf of bread with a nice mushroom stew seasoned with dandelions for breakfast is an option taken straight from the game

now let's say that I take the apples, wheat, milk, sugar and eggs to make an apple pie, that isn't in the game, but it's something possible to craft

in an extend things like salt can exist because the presence of sea water, same as things like bacon (pigs), cheese (milk) and so on

what if I throw the existing leaves in hot water to make tea?

or since all the dyes have an organic source can I make a rainbow cake?

how you cook things must be important too I imagine, maybe steak cooked in the smoker tastes way better than cooked with a fire aspect sword

[chimerical-daydreams]

How does the king stay hydrated when they cry so much?! I'm genuinely concerned for his health at a certain point!

Bonnie the hydration hero saves the day once again!

[geologyin-blog]

Pink halite crystals from the dried-up bed of Searles Lake, Trona, California.

Credit: Omearthcrystals Dana & Adrienne

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

wait WHAT is this about table salt vs sea? I thought that was just a scam to get people to buy "fancy" salt 😂 tell me everything

Basically, table salt is processed to remove other minerals, so you're getting pure Sodium without the balance of those naturally-occurring minerals you need (especially Magnesium, which lowers blood pressure in the presence of Sodium). Table salt is also commonly coated in anti-caking agents, and fortified with iodine, which is not a mineral most Americans are deficient in anymore, but we can be at risk of overload.

Unrefined sea salt on the other hand, is simply dehydrated from sea water, and retains all its other minerals. Himalayan salt also has the same benefits.

[oldearthminerals]

Light Pink Halite Specimens from Searles Lake, California

[beastrambles]

"In every way possible, lab-grown specimens are exactly the same as specimens mined in mass quantities which cause significant environmental harm and numerous human rights violations,"

"-but we are labeling them as 'fake' so you feel bad about buying them, because they are cheaper and more environmentally friendly, and we want to make as much money as we can :)"

[theoldbone]

Halite (salt)

Wieliczka salt mine, Poland, photo by Grzegorz Bijak

Skeletal halite, Poland, Spirifer Minerals

Searles Lake, California, photo by Rob Lavinsky

Lubin, Poland, photo by Rob Lavinsky

Wieliczka salt mine, Poland, photo by Rob Lavinsky

Carlsbad potash district, New Mexico, USA, photo by Kelly Nash

PCA Mine, New Mexico, USA, photo by Michael C. Roarke

Saskatchewan, Canada, photo by Rob Lavinksy

[fhannehii]

My mineral collection ✨

I love all of them 😭

But I love agates 💖

especially Botswana agate and flower agate

[swainathan]

10/10 best wordplay in a pokemon name

Full print available here!

[shipping-all-ships]

My Supernatual headcanon I'll fight over is that angels can't taste but archangels can HOWEVER they can't taste flavor. They can tell you if the item was sweet, sour, salty, bitter, etc, but they don't have the taste receptors for anything else.

[wikipediapictures]

Salt mining

“Rock salt mine near Mt. Morris American Rock Salt Company, Llc., Hampton Corners Mine” - via Wikimedia Commons

[xidrielthebard]

everyones loved and hated gifts

love: mana is a universal love

bap- Flowers, Essence

corsac- Fungus, Flowers

luna- Fruit

mint- Bones, Plants, Slime

muttuk- Fish, Bone, Ore

quinn- Bug, Flesh, Slime

roxanne- Mineral, Gem

saff- Slime, Plant

s&p- Fish, Ores

xid- Bugs

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hate:

bap- Bones

corsac- Fish, Flesh

luna- Essence, Bugs (you get an achievement for giving her one)

mint- Fungus

muttuk- Plants

quinn- Fruit, Gem

roxanne- Flower, Fish

saff- Gem

s&p- Slime

xid- Mineral

[bigbighouse]

it’s so precious and strange to be getting to the point where i value my period and what it means and what it brings to me. the clarity and unearthing of things i normally cover up and pretend i don’t care about. feeling so vulnerable and paying careful attention instead of hating the fragility…being able to plan for it and see results from how well i’ve tried to care for my body during the last month. i didn’t need any pain medication at all! and i know it’s because of the love and care i put into my body all the weeks before. the sleep and stretching and eating protein and lots of good fat and listening when she talks. treating her as someone trying to communicate instead of something unstable and unpredictable trying to sabotage me at every turn. it’s just so good to know that i never thought i could change and then i changed. so much seems possible now

[iamthepulta]

i did it u_u

[triangle-strategy-notes]

Hello! I only recently got into Triangle Strategy and I’m really so impressed by how detailed the world of Norzelia is. However one possible mistake I found is in Rudolph’s final character story, he talks about the sea breeze! And Giovanna later also talks to Hughette about a sea of salt, with Hughette somehow understanding what that means. How is it that these characters know what the sea is, when it’s clear that Norzelia has no sea? Is there anything in the notes that could explain this?

Not as far as I know, unfortunately! Cordelia also uses the phrase "ocean of blood" in one of her character stories, and when the group reads Orlaea's journal, none of them seemed super confused by the word "sea" either, only the idea that it actually exists.

My headcanon is that they have some carryover language from way back before their ancestors migrated to Norzelia, and maybe have a vague idea of what a sea/ocean is but kind of consider it a fictional or metaphorical thing (like the way someone might call the sky "the heavens").

That said, especially with Rudolph's character story, I'm tempted to think it was just a straight-up mistake. "Sea breeze" is a pretty specific and vivid image that has a lot to do with the smell of salt, so it seems weird that that particular turn of phrase would have persisted as a historical language thing. But who knows!