Desalination pellet

desalination pellet

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$ 25.00 Commerce Value 0 lbs. Weight
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	Desalination Pellet
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Infobox data from game version 2.0.206.57

desalination pellet

A chalky white pellet with the letters "HH" inscribed in tiny script.

Perfect

When a desalination pellet is applied to a container of liquid, or dropped into a pool of liquid on the ground, it removes up to 200 drams of salt, leaving behind the remaining liquid.

ichor merchants and Hortensa always stock several desalination pellets; they also rarely appear in generalist merchants' inventories.

Special Liquid Interactions

Certain liquids change into other liquids under the effect of a desalination pellet.

• brain brine turns into algae.
• slime turns into gel.
• sunslag turns into lava.
• warm static turns into any other pure liquid completely. This includes rare ones like neutron flux. However, it is most likely to turn into salt, with a chance of 16.7% compared to 3.3% chance for any other pure liquid.

Tips

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

• As desalination pellets have no weight, they can be carried as a means of cleaning widely-available salty water for trade or consumption as an alternative to carrying freshwater or precious metals.
• The enterprising player can use a single desalination pellet to turn 1000 drams of brackish water (which typically generates with 20% salt content) into 800 drams of fresh water. This is best achieved by throwing the pellet into an undisturbed pool from an adjacent space, as standing in newly-desalinated water tends to contaminate it with salt from the ground.
• Generally the only one of the special conversions that will be useful to the player is turning slime into gel, for curing Ironshank or fungal infections.

References

This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.206.19.