Actual ∞ puddles please.
That’s actually what I was hoping for, because we already have code for random water pool spawns in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, so why not put it to use and make salt water pools in swamps? You know, those little infinite water pools that sometimes appear by the roadside, etc. I mean, a specific biome that forms in the centre of swamps with these pools would be better, and you’d thus be forced to actually enter several swamp tiles to get your jerky on, but some form of ‘Collect salt water? y/n’ is better than none. Placing ‘salt water(5000)’ on the ground doesn’t make a lot of sense, imo, and I have no idea why you’d think anyone would do that in answer to this suggestion. Liquid items are pretty much only used for very small amounts of liquid, like the contents of a toilet cistern. Seriously, I’d assumed from the start that any kind of salt pool would use the existing system for scooping up water from rivers, only the end result would be ‘Steel jerrycan of salt water (100)’ instead of normal water.