Changes: Salt Pits

Revision as of 20:43, 9 June 2020

“	The Salt Pits of Hoxxes was once the location of a huge underground lake. It dried up billions of years ago and left huge crystallized deposits of red salt. Red salt - though worthless - tastes really good on glyphid omelettes.
	— Ingame description

The Salt Pits are one of the biomes of Hoxxes IV. They consist of caverns filled with lots of large (although worthless) red crystals. The ground is also filled with small spiky red crystals which are simply crushed once stepped on. They have lots of big, open chambers, connected by tunnels. There's also white crystals which produce bright light, unless destroyed. The rock making up the caves is durable, meaning it takes two hits for it to give way.

Hazards

The biome-specific hazard for the Salt Pits are Unstable Crystals, which are located on the ceiling. They can fall down on an enemy or ally which greatly damages them, however they will not fall unless dislodged by weaponry or explosions.

There's also Unstable Platforms, which when stood on for too long will break apart and any unfortunate dwarf will fall right through.

Enemies

Most enemies can be encountered in the Radioactive Exclusion Zone, including Spitball Infectors, Cave Leeches and Glyphid Dreadnoughts.

Q'ronar Younglings are unique to this biome.

Biome Features

The Salt Pits are entirely devoid of all vegetation due to the salt composed caverns.

Item	Type	Description
Functional
Glowing Salt Crystal	Supportive	White crystals emitting bright light which greatly helps with navigation.
Unstable Crystal/White Crystal	Hazardous/Supportive	Large white crystals jutting out of the ceiling which can fall down if damaged or an exploder detonates near it. Once the crystal falls its name changes to "White Crystal" from "Unstable Crystal".
Unstable Platform	Hazardous/Supportive	Jagged platform which can temporarily hold a dwarf before shattering.
Rocks
Red Crystals	Neutral	Large amount of tiny red crystals which break when running through them.
Red Salt Crystal	Neutral	Big red salt crystal which can be destroyed easily.
Salt Crystal	Neutral	Salt crystal formations.
Stalactite	Neutral	Harmless red rock formations hanging from the ceiling.

Ores

As with every biome, some of the Ores which can be found in the Salt Pits are determined by the mission type, such as Morkite or Aquarq. The crafting materials found in the Salt Pits are Enor Pearl and Bismor, with Enor Pearl being abundant and Bismor being scarce.

Trivia

According to the Deep Dive terminal, the phrase "Leave no dwarf behind" originated from this region.

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 {{quote|The Salt Pits of Hoxxes was once the location of a huge underground lake. It dried up billions of years ago and left huge crystallized deposits of red salt. Red salt - though worthless - tastes really good on glyphid omelettes.|Ingame description||}}
-The '''Salt Pits''' are one of the biomes of [[Hoxxes|Hoxxes IV]], located in the center of the planet. They consist of caverns filled with lots of large (although worthless) red crystals. The ground is also filled with small spiky red crystals which are simply crushed once stepped on.
+The '''Salt Pits''' are one of the biomes of [[Hoxxes|Hoxxes IV]]. They consist of caverns filled with lots of large (although worthless) red crystals. The ground is also filled with small spiky red crystals which are simply crushed once stepped on.
-They have lots of big, open chambers, connected by tunnels. There's also white crystals which produce bright light, unless destroyed.
+They have lots of big, open chambers, connected by tunnels. There's also white crystals which produce bright light, unless destroyed. The rock making up the caves is durable, meaning it takes two hits for it to give way.
 ==== Hazards ====
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 ==== Enemies ====
-Any enemies can be encountered in the Salt Pits, including [[Spitball Infector]]s, [[Cave Leech]]es and [[Glyphid Dreadnought]]s.
+Most [[creatures|enemies]] can be encountered in the Radioactive Exclusion Zone, including [[Spitball Infector]]s, [[Cave Leech]]es and [[Glyphid Dreadnought]]s.
-[[Q'ronar Youngling]]s can be found in this region.
+[[Q'ronar Youngling]]s are unique to this biome.
 ==== Biome Features ====