Melting snow

[Trigon (The Trash)]

Had an odd thought now that it can snow in zomboid, even though the time it snows during winter is a short one I thought it would be interesting to be able to gather snow up in containers to be melted into water later.

For example, say you have an empty cooking pot, walk up to some snow and right click to give a "Fill pot with snow" option, probably make it a timed action just like foraging, and once complete the player would have a pot of snow, after that they could put it on a heat source much like they were cooking soup and then once "cooking" was complete the player would be left with a pot of water.

As a correlation to this, rain catchers would probably be frozen over during the snow, though I think they already don't gather any water during the snow since there's no rain.

Thoughts?

[Mute Crow Druid]

I like this idea, though make it to where you need to purify it somehow or else you'll get sick. That adds just that little bit of extra realism to it.

[0 SH00B3RT 0]

I support this idea. Plus cooking the snow would turn it into purified water, because it's cooked water. Plus I see the process going as this:

>Forage for Snow.
>Put snow in pot/kettle/etc.
>Throw in fire/hang over fire.
>Leave it in there for 10 minutes
>Boiled water.

A very simple process and I support this idea.

[Trigon (The Trash)]

Thanks guys, and yes, basically how shady explained it, the cooking would basically be melting and boiling the snow. Though for safety in real life you need to boil water for thirty minutes to be absolutely certain that the bacteria is all killed from the process.

[Jaeger]

this is in another one of my fav super realism survival games i play the long dark. u melt snow and then purify it (boil) it

[Exhelune]

+1

I am trying 'Cold' conditions starting on 1st of December. For 2 months, it's snowing often and never raining.

So I have to collect water in the sinks in order to water a small covered garden.

It's an interesting challenge but, according to me, lack of water should be a consequence of dryness (not coldness)