Salt Pile is plain cooking salt, and you’ll find it everywhere food is stored. It’s one of the most-used ingredients in Skyrim’s kitchens, a crafting material at the Atronach Forge, and in alchemy it gives Fortify Restoration and Regenerate Magicka, with Slow and Weakness to Magic for poisons.
Alchemy effects
The effects are listed in the order you discover them by eating the ingredient or using it in a potion. Two ingredients make a potion when they share at least one effect.
- Weakness to Magic – a poison effect that makes the target more vulnerable to magic. Also on: Creep Cluster, Dwarven Oil, Jazbay Grapes, Rock Warbler Egg, Scaly Pholiota, Taproot, Torchbug Thorax.
- Fortify Restoration – makes your Restoration spells stronger for a while. Also on: Abecean Longfin, Cyrodilic Spadetail, Small Antlers, Small Pearl.
- Slow – a poison effect that makes the target move at reduced speed for a few seconds. Also on: Deathbell, Large Antlers, River Betty.
- Regenerate Magicka – makes your Magicka regenerate faster for a while. Also on: Dwarven Oil, Fire Salts, Garlic, Jazbay Grapes, Moon Sugar, Taproot.
Tips and trivia
Cooking: Beef Stew, Venison Stew, Tomato Soup, Cooked Beef, Salmon Steak, Mammoth Steak and many more need salt – plus breads and sweet rolls with Hearthfire. At the Atronach Forge, a salt pile plus a soul gem and a ruby, sapphire or amethyst makes Fire Salts, Frost Salts or Void Salts.
Values from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm): base value 2 gold, weight 0.2.