The Hydration Solution

[Grandmaster_Sherm]

I've always had some beef with how hydration is handled in the game. At first it ran down too quickly for how hard it could be to hydrate the first few days, then was trivialized with how long you can go without drinking. Now I see that you can no longer craft a pot, and must rely on RNG to find a plastic bag and a pot, or drink piss and alcohol if you can find that.

I think the happy medium here, is to restore some of that hydration degradation to make it similar to hunger, and add a craftable "filter water bottle" that's crafted from charcoal, soil, and a plastic bottle, that has a durability of like 1-3 full chugs, and can be filled at a body of water. It's not perfect, but I think it's a little more reasonable that what it currently is.