Salts And Soaps
Salts and Soaps is a deep rework and expansion focusing on new resources, industries, and environmental mechanics which bring a more flavorful touch to your game. Included in this mod is the previous mod Of Swamps and Sugar which has been upgraded and expanded, effectively making the other obsolete.
Discover and exploit new map resources such as Whales, Seals, Ironwood, Rocksalt, and elusive Swamp Beavers. Salt can be found and mined in desert biomes as well, adding more strategic options to desert expansion. A host of new trade goods including Pitch, Ash, Honey, and Wax support intricate supply chains and new economic decisions.
Rivers have been given new life and are prethawed for Ice Age starts, encouraging early and more historic settlements. They offer nearby fish-rich lakes, improved fertility, and higher chances of lush terrain or gold-bearing hills making riverlands more attractive and valuable than ever.
Further introduced is Ash Farming, a method of cultivating scrubland through ash fertilization, opening up previously undesirable regions to agriculture.
On the industrial side, three major production chains for Tallow, Candles, and Soap transform raw goods into vital resources, offering rare bonuses like unrest suppression for candles, showing its effect on security at night. From basic utility to refined luxury, your economy can now scale more dynamically than ever before.
As a special highlight, the Bee Farm is an endgame upgrade where sugar fuels scalable wax and honey production from nearby farmland, serving as a de facto alternative farm town for the endgame and gives a usage to sugar late into the game.
Salts and Soaps is the first of my mods which pioneers the global layer land address system and a major milestone with the first save and reload compatible improvement scripts, enabling dynamic behavior like beekeeping and pollution which all persist and can evolve even across play sessions. This system replaces the broken and unuseable active cards for mods.
May your midden-filled nightmares return to where they belong, your dreams as Salts and Soaps offers new ways to ensure sanitation for your people and sanity for your city-planning.
