Filling water need for first new occupant

[pyremind]

My new worker (woodsman) has a water need, but I lack a bucket or anything to fill and give him. Will he drop dead soon? Also... a river is like, right there...

[The REAL chris]

He won't drink from the river. You have to supply him with water, either a bucket or water-skin in the food store of house box... If not he will leave your village. He also needs firewood/sticks and food.

[larrysteele]

Good news: he won't drop dead. The bad news, despite being near water, you have to supply all his water needs, otherwise he will leave.

There are a couple of approaches you can take.

I always build the woodcutter and workshop before bringing anyone in. I make a bunch of planks at the woodcutter and then create a few buckets at the workshop. The second approach is to craft a gazillion stone knives and trade them for coin and use that coin to buy a few buckets of water from one of the vendors.

Until you have a food storage building, you'll need to have buckets in all your occupied houses. Once you've got your food storage building, your NPCs will go there for food and water.

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

There are also, at lest in Oxbow, several buckets to be found around the map in ruined buildings (I only found one waterskin though)

[Sanquin]

This is why I tend to first build a basic setup (woodcutter, workshop, hunting cabin, well, storage, food storage + houses) and put some basic stuff in storages (some meat + water buckets, and some tools) before I go around to multiple villages to recruit a bunch of villagers all at once.

[Skywalker]

You can buy a wooden bucket at Piastovia. Filled with 10/10 water, one bucket should last very long.

[Lailantie]

If you did the short Oxbow tutorial quest in the sickhouse, you found a bucket in the chest that was prepared for you.

[Willow Rivers]

If it is summer then you can also collect berries and that will supply water for thirst as a temp solution until you can get water up and running.

[CaBux]

If you can't find, buy or make a bucket ... it's a priority 'steal' for me - can't function without at least one bucket. Must admit, I have found loads in Oxbow from the beginning - usually in camps or ruins, so not had to steal one yet this play-through

[Banisha]

I asked myself exactly the same question 24 hours ago. The knowledge menu does not provide an answer to this and I had to search the forum for a long time to find out. Get ready for what's to come...\0/
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