About Salt
From ModrinthWorth its weight in gold

Salt adds a food salting mechanic, as well as several other features and blocks.

Description in text form
Description
- Food can now be salted to improve the taste and add nutrition.
- Salting recipe is dynamic and controlled by "salt:can_be_salted" tag:
- Several mods, such as Farmer's Delight, are supported out of the box.
- Nutrition value can be configured per food.
Rock Salt
- Rock Salt will generate underground (sililar to ores) in dripstone caves, ocean and beach biomes.
- When harvested, Rock Salt Ore will drop Raw Rock Salt, which is crafted into Salt.
- Salt can be also obtained by growing Salt Crystals or by evaporating water in a cauldron.
Other features
Other features:
- All Salt blocks are dissolvable in water.
- Salt blocks will melt adjacent ice and snow blocks.
- Ice and snow can also be melted by sprinkling them with salt.
- The mod is highly configurable:
- Tags are used for everything.
- All features can be turned off in a config.
List of supported mods for food salting:
- Farmer's Delight
- Miner's Delight
- Delightful
- Butchercraft
- Quark
- Aquaculture 2
- Croptopia
- Nether Depths Upgrade
Others can be added by a datapack or KubeJS.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 4 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.20.1.
Loaders
Runs on Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Salt on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Forge, NeoForge
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.2.4.1, released 2024-07-21
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | 1.19.2 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | 1.20.1 |
| NeoForge | 1.20.1 | 1.20.1 |
From 5 recorded builds of Salt.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2.4.1 | 2024-07-21 | 1.19.2 | Forge |
| 1.2.6 | 2024-07-05 | 1.20.1 | Forge, NeoForge |
| 1.2.5 | 2024-06-19 | 1.20.1 | Forge, NeoForge |
| 1.2.4 | 2023-12-28 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
| 1.2.4 | 2023-12-28 | 1.19.2 | Forge |
Run Salt on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Salt as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- ForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.20.1 and 3 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓Authormortuusars, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseMITFree















