A specific mining area and a fishing drop both sound nice. Maybe added as a rare trinket-type drop (like with the liontail nytha spines) to fishing, so it's not super common. I also don't have much use for most mining materials, so being able to get more use out of the function would be good. Seeing how underwhelming the recipes it's used in are (at least in a food-point-per-minute comparison), even before the rarer salt is added, it doesn't really justify it's rarity I think. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a case of it being valuable because it's rare, not because it's a particularly good item. As far as I can tell, it's just not worth it as it is unless you're filling out your cookbook or have high enough cooking the times doesn't really matter (though you have other recipes that are just as good as the ones with salt). I might be missing something, so just lmk if there's actually a really good use for it I don't know about.
Did some math on the recipes:
- Mushroom soup takes up 4 slots, takes three minutes, and requires salt (a rarish ingredient). It gives 40 food points. It gives twice the food points of Cooked meat/fish, for three times the time, four times the room, and requires salt.
- Potato soup takes up 5 slots, takes five minutes, and requires salt. It gives 60 food points. Three times the food points of basic meat/fish for five times the time, 5 times the room, and requires salt.
- Both fish and rice dishes take up 4 slots, take 5 minutes, require a previously cooked food item, give 60 food points, and require salt. Three times the food points of basic meat/fish for five times the time, four times the room, and require salt.
Even without the salt, you wouldn't really see me cooking these dishes even overnight - it's just not worth it (food point wise, at least). If they were actually really good dishes, I could see why salt was rarer. But the dishes salt can make just don't justify it's rarity. Unless they can be fed to Bigs and Tiny? But other dishes can as well. I'm going off a guide for ^ times as such btw, if the guide is wrong and the recipes are actually really good, I'd like to know.
