Salt Lick

Salt Lick
"Keep your livestock content."
Crafting
Recipe	×2 ×4
Tab
Tier
Properties
Durability	120 uses
Tool Required
Perk
Keeps Beefalo domestication from reducing over time.
Code
"saltlick"

“How many licks does it take to get to the center?”

–Wilson

“It's a big block of slobbery salt.”

–Willow

“Heh heh. Hair cow has funny tongue!”

–Wolfgang

“The beasts crave it...”

–Wendy

“FLESHLINGS RUB THEIR FILTHY TONGUE-STUMPS ON IT”

–WX-78

“A cube of sodium chloride to lure wild beasts.”

–Wickerbottom

“My mouth's dry just looking at it.”

–Woodie

“So salty.”

–Maxwell

“A cube of sodium to placate my domesticated bovine.”

–Wagstaff

“Minerals, not meat.”

–Wigfrid

“We really regret licking it. Blech.”

–Webber

“Salt makes everything taste better. Even salt.”

–Walani

“Too salty.”

–Warly

“Saltier than ol' Woodlegs.”

–Woodlegs

“'TIS BIG BLOCK O' SALT”

–Wilba

“Lick rock. For Shaggy Buddy”

–Wormwood

“Swell. It's a big lump of salt.”

–Wheeler

“Keeps livestock nice and docile.”

–Winona

“I've been told I don't make a lick of sense.”

–Wortox

“What you mean, "only for beefalo"?”

–Wurt

The Salt Lick is a Structure found in the Tools Tab. It requires 2 Boards and 4 Nitre to craft and an Alchemy Engine to prototype. When built, it attracts Beefalo and Koalefants from 30 tile radius. When near the Salt Lick these animals will take licks from it until it is depleted. While Beefalo keep licking it, their domestication level will not reduce over time.

Each Beefalo will take 8 licks per Day, while each Koalefant takes 16.

Downloadable Content

In the Reign of Giants DLC, the Salt Lick also attracts Volt Goat. Each Volt Goat takes 6 licks per day.

Don't Starve Together

In Don't Starve Together, the Salt Lick also attracts No-Eyed Deer. Each No-Eyed Deer takes ? licks per day.

Tips

• Volt Goats, No-Eyed Deer and Koalefants cannot be domesticated and they do not have obedience. Keeping them around a Salt Lick would only waste the uses of the structure with no benefits.
• The Beefalo can be "parked" close to a Salt Lick as they will stay in close proximity to it.
• Using one inside pre made Koalephant pen can speed up the capturing process by encouraging animal to walk in.

Trivia

• The Salt Lick was first introduced to Don't Starve Together. It was later added to Don't Starve in the Quality of Life update.
• Salt Licks are considered to be part of A New Reign, even though they were introduced before the official start of the beta branch.
• Salt licks are real-life tools used particularly in zoos to give the ungulates all the minerals they normally obtain from mineral swamps.

Gallery

The stages of a Salt Lick.

A burnt Salt Lick.

Maxwell next to a destroyed Salt Lick.

• DS
• RoG
• SW
• Ham
• DST