How close to water?

[Traevis]

I invited my first NPC to live in my village. He is thirsty, but we live literally next to the large river. Why is he still thirsty? Do I need to build the well or put water in his house?

[🎮AliveSince1961🎮]

The npc's are little snobs and like to have you to bring them water. Use a waterskin or a bucket filled with water and put it in his house chest. Later when you have the food storage, place the water in it. As soon you have the well unlock assign a worker and let them take care of the water from there.

[molly_zero]

I think NPCs should fetch their own water. Including the ones working in the kitchen. Player should just have to ensure enough buckets are available. And get their own water.

[Zalzany]

Meanwhile in real life "oh ok so where is the water supply of this town you invited me to live at" Point at dirty river "um so you got buckets or something at least" Stare them down like they are ingratful jerks "so you want me to drink dirty water with my hands..." Nods yes "umm I don't think this is gonna work out for me."

But player in game "just drink from the filthy river you ♥♥♥♥, piss, and bathe in what is worst that could happen, god no I am not giving you a bucket buy your own lazy SOB! freaking free loaders all I ask is you work for free, wait wait no you pay me for things while working for me for free, eat food that your fellow slave I mean vilagers gathered, and now I got provide you with a well and some one has to fetch it for you, god all I ask is you do that one job from sun up to sundown then drink water I bathed in 2 minutes ago how hard is this? Let me own every thing you make and gather sell it at my leisure or do what ever I want with it, and you guys got be all like "oh we want clean well water, and place to bathe proper, and better food and clothes!""

[LeBurns]

I agree it does seem odd, but once you get a well and a dozen buckets it's not something you have to think about.

I actually recruited a girl who had straight '1' in all her skills. Kind of felt sorry for her really. I put her on bucket duty. But then I still felt kind of sorry for her as there really wasn't much for her to do (not that she could do much anyway), so I married her. Figured she's be better off barefoot and pregnant. Wasn't a bad idea but while she was caring for the child I did have to fill buckets a few times.

[JCH]

Originally posted by 🎮AliveSince1961🎮:

The npc's are little snobs

Mines just drink San Pellegrino

[Actual Malice]

Originally posted by LeBurns:

I actually recruited a girl who had straight '1' in all her skills. Kind of felt sorry for her really. I put her on bucket duty. But then I still felt kind of sorry for her as there really wasn't much for her to do (not that she could do much anyway), so I married her. Figured she's be better off barefoot and pregnant. Wasn't a bad idea but while she was caring for the child I did have to fill buckets a few times.

Rofl.

Yeah, reminds me of my Ildefonsa, who was left over after I paired all the more skilled inhabitants. My heir ended up worse skillwise than many of my inhabitants' kids.

It seems to be fairly common advice to assign somebody to the well and forget about them. But so often, as in always, they ended up with "No Resources," because they had filled all the buckets and waterskins in less than a day. It certainly works to assign and forget, but it does seem as if that person is underutilized.

Plus, if you want that person to improve their skill (the well takes Farming, go figure; Survival would seem to make more sense and the villagers need all the help they can get improving the Survival skill), it's not going to happen on the well (see prior paragraph).

I had more than 30 waterskins -- many bandit camps and some overturned carts seem to have one. Whenever I happened to notice a growing list of empty waterskins in my Resource Shed, I would take them myself down to my EPA-approved river (I don't know what river you live next to, Zalzany, the Cuyahoga? ) and take a few minutes to fill them myself, or assign somebody for a day if I didn't want to bother (particularly in winter, when farming chores are few). It didn't even seem all that often, maybe once every three or four seasons. Just remember that the filled waterskin goes back into the Food Shed, not the Resource Shed.