While browsing references on salt industry, I founded an interesting system, a combination of two pumps. The first one, a piston pump, injects water into the underground salt layer, and the second (a shadoof-like one located on another building) brings back the water, now salted by its journey.
The most interesting part is that the piston pump is really similar to the dwemer machines, like the furn_dwrv_beltdrive00 or the furn_dwrv_steam_00.
So, we can imagine an example of cooperation between Dwemer and Chimer in Resdayn, or a clever/inconscious exploitation made by the Dres. A little dwemer complex (like Nchardahrk) inject water into the ground, which spout some kilometers away in a large muddy and salty pool. The Dres, some millenia after Resdayn, build a mill to utilize this salt, aware (or not) of the importance of the dwemer ruin.
If the ruins don't need new assets, the salt mill might need some (like a shadoof-noria system or an Archimedes' screw). Fortunately, it's a way more primitive building than a Dwemer base.
As for the energy, we have the wind, and we have the slaves.
If you want, I can upload some sketches and images of this system (and make some models).
Hope you like the idea.
2018-08-13 09:52
51 min 23 sec ago
https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/asset/dres-machinery Way ahead of you there Svar.
Getting proper concepts or assets for this would be awesome.
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2019-10-16 19:08
2 months 2 weeks ago
Thanks, I didn't see this topic!
I know of a modder who made a water wheel for his mod years ago, I could ask him (truly great mod by the way, you need to play it). I tried too, but his asset is way better than mine.
As for the rest, I think I can make some screws and elevators.
Edit: Orann agreed.
Some old galery
2015-08-10 20:50
2 weeks 4 days ago
Hm. Unfortunately there are two issues with the machine you mentioned: the first (minor one) is the thevDwemer were never active in Deshaan, so Dres wouldn't really have gotten ideas from them. But I think this kind of machinery is within their abilities, or at worst they might have bargained for the knowledge from a group like the sload.
The other issue is that salinating their water is the opposite of what Dres would want to do; the surface of Deshaan is already heavily salinated, so really they would want to purify the water. Given the circumstances, though, it's possible the pumps would have that result in Deshaan.