Single drams of salt freeze into whole walls of rock salt, obliterating whatever is on top

[John Snail]

First, I used Freezing Ray (5) on a pack of fork-horned gnus in the salt dunes that were attacked by dawngliders earlier. On death, they turned into rock salt and awarded no experience. The named one didn’t change my named reputation and if it dropped anything, it was deleted.

Then, I went to the croc lair as part of the starting village quest, and I was turning watervine into rock salt. Only when I followed the salt river did I realise what was happening: salt freezes into rock salt. This is reasonable for huge pools of it, but even a single dram turns into an entire wall, and apparently obliterates whatever is on top.

I think this can be bandage-fixed by changing or removing SaltPuddle's FreezeObject, but it wouldn’t completely resolve things not dying properly and just being completely deleted, which I think should also be dealt with.