Boiling water doesn't work

[gamerladyp]

Can we please just go back to drinking from streams and filling canteens without this stupid dirty water business. We have a game with longer days and little rain so this mechanic is now kinda broken for our existing game.

[Ryzilynt]

So you filled the pot with water then put it on the fire, yes? Then the lid clattered for a bit, then the lid popped of , yes? Then you drank it, yes?

Then what happened?

[Dex Luther]

Originally posted by gamerladyp:

Can we please just go back to drinking from streams and filling canteens without this stupid dirty water business. We have a game with longer days and little rain so this mechanic is now kinda broken for our existing game.

I stopped caring really. I drink from rivers and lakes all the time. The health hit is tiny, and I just heal back up from eating anyway.

[ULTRA]

How nice to hear that the sequel to the game where you can boil water in a pot and have the pot fall straight through the earth has broken water sterilization mechanics

[gamerladyp]

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

So you filled the pot with water then put it on the fire, yes? Then the lid clattered for a bit, then the lid popped of , yes? Then you drank it, yes?

Then what happened?

There was never a lid animation, just a pot of boiling water that never showed the "drink" symbol. Left it on the fire for almost 30 minutes bubbling. Picked it back up and it said it was full of dirty water. If they just HAVE to cave to the pressure on this, at least make the mechanic work and be easy to tell when it is clean.

[Maviba]

Originally posted by gamerladyp:

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

So you filled the pot with water then put it on the fire, yes? Then the lid clattered for a bit, then the lid popped of , yes? Then you drank it, yes?

Then what happened?

There was never a lid animation, just a pot of boiling water that never showed the "drink" symbol. Left it on the fire for almost 30 minutes bubbling. Picked it back up and it said it was full of dirty water. If they just HAVE to cave to the pressure on this, at least make the mechanic work and be easy to tell when it is clean.

You need to chose the receipt for clean water (via cogwheel) as well, otherwhise nothing will happen,
Then the pod lid will close and you will need to wait a bit. It opens again once the water is ready.
Make sure you've got a proper campfire. or the fire might not burn long enough.

[ZombieMaster]

i am not a fan of the dirty water addition now! they need to add the ability to toggle it on and off in the settings

[BasementMonster]

Do you not know how to boil water in the cooking pot?

If so find camps with one and pick it up. Go to water with cooking pot in hand. Get dirty water from the water source by looking strait down and by pressing the use button or E and bring the full pot to camp fire.


Lite the camp fire and place the cooking pot on it maybe add some meat or other recipes for food gain as well.

Use flask on pot for boiled water or stew in the flask and then tap the E or use button to pick up cooking pot with clean water or stew and there ya go.

[Rym [DMF]]

Or maybe Devs can simply implement water purification tablets for flask?

[gamerladyp]

Originally posted by Rym DMF:

Or maybe Devs can simply implement water purification tablets for flask?

That's what I thought too when filling my flask.

[gamerladyp]

Originally posted by BasementMonster:

Do you not know how to boil water in the cooking pot?

If so find camps with one and pick it up. Go to water with cooking pot in hand. Get dirty water from the water source by looking strait down and by pressing the use button or E and bring the full pot to camp fire.


Lite the camp fire and place the cooking pot on it maybe add some meat or other recipes for food gain as well.

Use flask on pot for boiled water or stew in the flask and then tap the E or use button to pick up cooking pot with clean water or stew and there ya go.

I have been playing since The Forest, so I know how the pots are supposed to work. I appreciate the step by step, but I guess I'll move this to the bug report forum since I've done it the way it works for some of you and it doesn't work for us. Again, probably because we have our day/night cycle set to support longer days.

[ConflicT Zv]

Originally posted by gamerladyp:

Originally posted by BasementMonster:

Do you not know how to boil water in the cooking pot?

If so find camps with one and pick it up. Go to water with cooking pot in hand. Get dirty water from the water source by looking strait down and by pressing the use button or E and bring the full pot to camp fire.


Lite the camp fire and place the cooking pot on it maybe add some meat or other recipes for food gain as well.

Use flask on pot for boiled water or stew in the flask and then tap the E or use button to pick up cooking pot with clean water or stew and there ya go.

I have been playing since The Forest, so I know how the pots are supposed to work. I appreciate the step by step, but I guess I'll move this to the bug report forum since I've done it the way it works for some of you and it doesn't work for us. Again, probably because we have our day/night cycle set to support longer days.

You have to hit the gear icon to start the boiling process. It's not a bug, it's user error.

[AshTray900]

Originally posted by gamerladyp:

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

So you filled the pot with water then put it on the fire, yes? Then the lid clattered for a bit, then the lid popped of , yes? Then you drank it, yes?

Then what happened?

There was never a lid animation, just a pot of boiling water that never showed the "drink" symbol. Left it on the fire for almost 30 minutes bubbling. Picked it back up and it said it was full of dirty water. If they just HAVE to cave to the pressure on this, at least make the mechanic work and be easy to tell when it is clean.

How do you even tell if the water is dirty, as of a day or two ago everything showed up green to drink, if I drank from a dirty pond or a fresh stream I gagged and putting the pot on water just sat there for me forever too, the lid did not show as placed on the pot.

Not sure but I would think all standing water is dirty and all stream water would be fresh? It sure doesn’t show any difference for me and boiling doesn’t help, I think the only time I didn’t gag was from a rain catcher and making tons of them is like nearly impossible due to hard shells being SO rare. Plus nothing let me know the water quality difference on it. The canteen is also pathetic, one full canteen just fills you up once.

[DRifter4445]

Originally posted by Maviba:

Originally posted by gamerladyp:

There was never a lid animation, just a pot of boiling water that never showed the "drink" symbol. Left it on the fire for almost 30 minutes bubbling. Picked it back up and it said it was full of dirty water. If they just HAVE to cave to the pressure on this, at least make the mechanic work and be easy to tell when it is clean.

You need to chose the receipt for clean water (via cogwheel) as well, otherwhise nothing will happen,
Then the pod lid will close and you will need to wait a bit. It opens again once the water is ready.
Make sure you've got a proper campfire. or the fire might not burn long enough.

Thank you so much! I always assumed that the cogwheel meant I was adding stuff to the pot, never knew there was a whole list of recipes.

[Catroast]

I don't think there's any reason for people to get snippy with the OP or others that are having issues. I have run into this problem and it's a real problem. When I'm using my controller, the options don't show to start the cooking process. I just happened to switch to mouse/keyboard to see if it did anything and VOILA! There were the options. There is a problem that exists, (possibly) if you are using a game controller, vs. keyboard and mouse. I don't know what other scenarios might create an issue with boiling water, but it should probably be looked at.

[jswarpaint]

Perhaps the biggest problem is there is no getting started manual that explains this .. years ago pre internet games had a nice thick manual that easily explained stuff because if they didn't they would go out of business .. nowadays they make a game and rely on the "community" to teach each other how to do stuff .... this frankly shows how the the game makers are encompassed with selfishness, stupidity, lack of concern and their overall desire to get awards for being a moron.

Imagine if you could install the game, start it, and not have to search the internet and forums to do all stuff - this would be an immersive game... instead you go in and out of reality .. in and out of the game back and forth to internet which is a buzz kill.

Regarding Sons of the Forest and Water as compared to The Forest .. its nice that now we can carry water in the pot around with us .. we can make a flask... and we do not have to kill two deer and get some rope to make an animal skin so we can carry water.

However, getting to this point in the game where in your sleep you can boil water etc. they have made it quite aggravating ... a game should be like a game not like we are back at work dealing with a lot of aggravation.