Drinking Pouches and Flasks of Water - The Fluids of Life

[Nameless Keeper]

A ggod day to you all. I`ve read in the forums that one is able to refill water from sinks into flasks or water pouches/ what I`ve not read is how one is able to do so. Which option does one pick From my perspective, it seems impossible.

[gulegule]

My understanding is if you have a empty pouch in your hand, there should be an option on the sink to 'dispense liquid'. I personally don't bother with that and just use the normal inventory shifting to move water into the flask or pouch.

[Nameless Keeper]

I see. In my character's home the are two sinks and from them I can drink and use the mirror. Is there some rule or specific way a sink must be installed in order to be able to dispense liquid, or to allow access to said inventory?

Edit: I drank quite often from the lower sink and the option vanished, remaining in the upper sink; how come? Is there a limited supply of water? Does it restock each day?

[gulegule]

Ah, so there are two kinds of sinks. 'Station Sinks' which slowly refill water over time, but cannot be uninstalled, and plain 'Sinks' you can find on ships which will have a random but fixed amount of water and not refill but can be uninstalled and moved around. I think the sink in the starter cabin is a third unique kind of sink that has the look in mirror option, but I don't really hang around the starter wing after character creation.

[Sorvete]

Originally posted by Nameless Keeper:

I see. In my character's home the are two sinks and from them I can drink and use the mirror. Is there some rule or specific way a sink must be installed in order to be able to dispense liquid, or to allow access to said inventory?

Edit: I drank quite often from the lower sink and the option vanished, remaining in the upper sink; how come? Is there a limited supply of water? Does it restock each day?

Station sinks do refill slowly over time. It's a good source of water (if you have the hacking skill, you can use sinks in other "private" quarters around the station).

I have two sinks on my ship and a 8 liters jug. Whenever my sinks are low on water, I grab my 8 liter bottle, and visit every sink available in the station, grabbing every drop of water and filling my 8 liters bottle and then restock my sinks on the ship.

Using the "dispense water" is an option, but I prefer to open the sink inventory and with the bottle in my hands, transfer the water like you would transfer items on a backpack, for example. It's faster.

[Nameless Keeper]

Originally posted by Sorvete:

Originally posted by Nameless Keeper:

I see. In my character's home the are two sinks and from them I can drink and use the mirror. Is there some rule or specific way a sink must be installed in order to be able to dispense liquid, or to allow access to said inventory?

Edit: I drank quite often from the lower sink and the option vanished, remaining in the upper sink; how come? Is there a limited supply of water? Does it restock each day?

Station sinks do refill slowly over time. It's a good source of water (if you have the hacking skill, you can use sinks in other "private" quarters around the station).

I have two sinks on my ship and a 8 liters jug. Whenever my sinks are low on water, I grab my 8 liter bottle, and visit every sink available in the station, grabbing every drop of water and filling my 8 liters bottle and then restock my sinks on the ship.

Using the "dispense water" is an option, but I prefer to open the sink inventory and with the bottle in my hands, transfer the water like you would transfer items on a backpack, for example. It's faster.

Boy, oh boy. Thanks a ton! I had no idea, this game just keeps on getting better (almost makes me feel like a criminal with monopoly on production of moonshine back in the day).

[Nameless Keeper]

By the way, I can confirm one of the 'home sinks' has the 'inventory' and 'dispense water' options (even without available water) while the other doesn't. I also managed to grab a ship sink with the option, but, as stated, this one doesn't seem to refill even while waiting in the station.

[Walach]

Too bad the coffee doesn't refill… :(

Also, you can buy water flasks on the cheap by trading with Bartenders. Something like 4000+ Credits for a full 8L flask if I remember the numbers correctly.

If you want an easier time, if I remember correctly, again, is to just make a zone over the sinks and sell the water in them from said zone from any shop in the area.

Thought I'd say you'd probably have more water after a few derelicts to never be in need to bother with neither having no water nor no money to buy said water.

[Shenji]

I never drank water from derelicts because of Neo Scavenger but I guess it's okay in Ostranauts. Hope one day devs can bring back the contaminate water.

[gulegule]

Nothing in space to give you giardia :)

Eventually I'm sure there will be a creepy-pasta water ailment.