Saltern — Salt Pond Harvest
Rake the rainbow salt ponds
Only for iPhone
$2.99 · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
New in 1.3: every raked crust banks bittern liquor, and the stone still-house burns it — Epsom, Gypsum, or Lye. Fleur de sel blooms on calm rose ponds. Skim it quick.
Salt isn't mined here. It's farmed.
Saltern is a dense incremental game about running a solar salt works, one pond at a time. Flood a dry bed with seawater and the sun starts taking the water back: the brine climbs through six visible colors — sea blue, jade, chartreuse, apricot, rose, white crust — as it concentrates. The salt mass never changes. What changes is what it's worth: skim a jade pond for quick cash, or hold your nerve to the crust and rake it for five times the price.
The master move is the pump. Consolidate two half-evaporated ponds into one crystallizer, re-flood the freed bed, and suddenly you're not tending puddles — you're running a pipeline, feeders in front and crystallizers behind, exactly how real salterns have worked for two thousand years.
• Nine ponds, six visible brine stages — your whole works readable in one glance
• Harvest timing is the economy: jade skims ×0.5, apricot ×1.4, rose ×2.2, whole crust ×5
• Pump brine between ponds to build feeder/crystallizer pipelines and keep every bed busy
• Shallow brine evaporates faster — deep beds hold more, thin layers finish sooner
• The mistral: a dry wind that triples the sun while it blows
• Squalls: a warned rain that thins every open brine — rake ahead of it, shed it with rain sheds and tarred canvas, then farm the hard sun that follows
• The harbor posts standing orders — deliver salt at the asked stage or better for premium pay, and crust orders pay fleur mid-season
• The still-house: every raked crust drains bittern liquor, and the stone still burns it through one draw at a time — Epsom for steady salt, Gypsum for cheaper works, Lye for a hotter sun
• Fleur blooms: on a calm afternoon a rose pond films over with fleur de sel — skim it before it sinks, mid-season, without harvesting the pond
• The Almanac: 30 lifetime marks of the works, each one a permanent perk once earned
• Sign a season charter — Rose, Deep, or Wind — one build-around pick, good until Season's End
• The morning tide: a daily gift whose streak pauses on a missed day, never resets
• Ten works upgrades and eighteen permanent fleur improvements
• Season's End: sell the works for fleur de sel — each petal makes every future harvest 10% dearer
• A quiet synthesized shoreline — pads, wash, and wind chimes — that mixes with your own music
• The sun keeps working while you're away (up to 14 h)
• No account, no internet, nothing collected — the whole works lives on your phone
The beds are dry and the tide is in. Open the gate.
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• The still-house: raking a crust now drains bittern liquor into a capped stock, and a permanent stone still burns it through one draw at a time — Epsom (steady salt), Gypsum (cheaper works), or Lye (a hotter sun). The still survives Season's End.
• Fleur blooms: on calm afternoons a rose pond films over with fleur de sel — skim it in the window for fleur without harvesting the pond.
• Two new works (Bittern Channels, Copper Retorts), four new fleur improvements, and five new Almanac marks — 30 in all.
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Information
- Seller
- Jordan Wegner
- Size
- 988.2 KB
- Category
- Simulation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jordan Wegner
