Salt

[Raellus]

We tend to take salt for granted these days. In fact, a lot of people try to avoid it for health reasons. But in a world without reliable refrigeration, salt is worth its weight in gold. I imagine that salt would take on a renewed importance in the T2kU.

In researching various T2k sourcebook projects, I've come across underground salt mines in Poland (does the famous Wieliczka Salt Mine near Krakow get any references in canon?), Austria, and Romania (South Korea harvests sea salt).

These mines are mostly tourist/health destinations (the dry, salt-ionized air inside/near salt mines is thought to be good for respiratory ailments) these days, but I can see them being returned to operation during the Twilight War. Salting would become one of the most important ways to preserve food, especially ersatz military rations. And, underground salt mines could serve as ersatz bomb shelters as well.

What other resources that have lost their importance in the modern world would regain it in the T2kU?

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