No Man’s Skyhas a universe full of things to explore, almost all of which has still never been seen by another human being, ever. Its ever-expanding (andever-updated) universe remains fresh, but you’re going to need to craft, build, and explore to keep yourself at your best.

One of the resources you’re going to have to find regularly in No Man’s Sky is salt. Salt, on its own, is used for quite a few different crafting recipes and can be refined into something else entirely. It’s also used as an ingredient to refine into a plethora of other resources, making it a staple ingredient.

Salt in the player’s inventory in No Man’s Sky.

How To Get Salt

Luckily,salt is a fairly easy ingredient to obtain, and on a planet where salt is present, you’re likely able to get quite a bit of it.

Water Planets

Planets that have quite a bit of water on them generally also have quite a bit of salt on them, too. It’s easy to tell whether a planet has large concentrations of salt available on it from space; from your spaceship, scan the planet, and it’s going to display the most abundant resources available.

Not all planets with water have water present across the entire globe. It can be helpful tolocate a large body of water from space and descend into the atmosphere from there, rather than land on the planet and look for water from inside the atmosphere. Depending on how far away from water you land, this can take a lot longer.

Salt in the Catalogue and Guide of No Man’s Sky.

Head underwaterand start scanning the minerals around. Many of them are going to include salt in one way or another, either as a primary or secondary resource fromgathering the mineral.Use your mining laser to obtain the salt and whatever else the mineral provides.

1x Chlorine

Salt available for purchase from the Galactic Trade Terminal in No Man’s Sky.

Salt

1x Di-Hydrogen + 1x Oxygen

Chlorine, oxygen, and di-hydrogen are all other resources that you can find while exploring the universe. Inchlorine’s case, it’s also the refined version of salt, but if you’ve accidentally refined too much salt into chlorine, it’s a mistake that you can reverse.

Using the analysis visor in No Man’s Sky.

Buying Salt From Galactic Trade Terminals

Salt can alsooccasionally be purchased from Galactic Trade Terminals, located in Space Stations. This will not always be the case, and it is going to vary station by station, as will the price of the salt, if it is available.

Salt’s availability in the Galactic Trade Terminaldoes not correlate to salt being present in the system.

A cluster of technology inside of a player-built base in No Man’s Sky.

Gathering Salt With Mineral Extractors

Mineral Extractors can also be used to gather salt, and at a regular rate without requiring constant maintenance. They will need power to operate, and will need to be used on adeep-level mineral deposit of salt, which can be found by using anAnalysis Visorusing theSurveyingupgrade.

What Is Salt Used For?

The raw form of salt is used for quite a few different things; primarily, it’sused in a refiner to create more consistently useful resources, like glass.

40x Salt+ 40x Cyto-Phosphate + 40x Carbon

A Hydrothermal Fuel Cell in No Man’s Sky.

x120 Magnetised Ferrite +x30 Salt+ x2 Crystal Sulphide

Cooking Recipes That Use Salt

There are also quite afew different cooking recipes that require salt, each requiring the use of aNutrient Processor.

x1 Salt+ x1 Cream + x1 Processed Sugar

A Nutrient Processor in No Man’s Sky.

x1 Cactus Flesh +x1 Salt+ x1 Fire Water

Refining Recipes That Use Salt

Finally, there are a lot ofrefining recipes that require salt, all madeusing a refiner. This is where the bulk of your salt needs are likely going to come from, as you’ll need a lot of these processed materials in order to craft a multitude of things to progress.

x2 Salt

A Refiner making salt in chlorine in No Man’s Sky.

x2 Salt+ x2 Oxygen

x100 Radon + x20 Carbon +x10 Salt

x100 Radon + x10 Condensed Carbon +x10 Salt

x50 Cyto-Phosphate +x50 Salt

x1 Salt+ x1 Nitrogen

x100 Nitrogen + x20 Carbon +x10 Salt

x100 Nitrogen + x10 Condensed Carbon +x10 Salt

x2 Solanium +x1 Salt

x100 Sulphurine + x20 Carbon +x10 Salt

x100 Sulphurine + x10 Condensed Carbon +x10 Salt