Why can't you use sea water for cooking?

[Oedipus's Stepdad]

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[Chris]

Because the way it is implement right now you cannot cook salt out of salt water yet. As soon as devs implement that sea water can be used to fill up pots and such but needs to be cooked before using it as fresh water you'll get what you seek for.

In any way I cannot really answer to the "why" of your question, just make up my mind and suggest to you to put your suggestion into the suggestions thread.

[Bunker]

this guy is just salty.
been drinkin' too much sea water eh?

[Noctoculus]

lol you can't boil salt out of water. Drinking sea water is no bueno, cooked or not

[Ataxio]

Originally posted by Noctoculus:

lol you can't boil salt out of water. Drinking sea water is no bueno, cooked or not

The reverse is possible via distillation. But yeah you can't boil off the salt.

[Chris]

Originally posted by Bunker:

this guy is just salty.
been drinkin' too much sea water eh?

Originally posted by Noctoculus:

lol you can't boil salt out of water. Drinking sea water is no bueno, cooked or not

Originally posted by Ataxio:

The reverse is possible via distillation. But yeah you can't boil off the salt.

You must be stupid right? OP got a point but obviously you are just stupid trolls lol

[Noctoculus]

Originally posted by Chris:

You must be stupid right? OP got a point but obviously you are just stupid trolls lol

Yeah I was just messing. Enjoy your sea water soup!

[Bunker]

would actually be a good usage for those wine bottles in game actually

https://youtu.be/R_-wFiFdwAE

You can also obtain water from trees vita transpiration but let's not get into that shall we?

https://youtu.be/9clgg5fwn2o

[Ataxio]

Umm. Distilling sea water into drinkable water is 100% a thing. Feel free to ask google how that's possible.

[Ryzilynt]

Originally posted by Ataxio:

Umm. Distilling sea water into drinkable water is 100% a thing. Feel free to ask google how that's possible.

Distilling yes, simply cooking the water will just make it more salty. You need to capture the steam.

[Bunker]

you know what's really odd?
how every survival video is a guy cooking a steak and drinking beer around a fire.

instead of showing you how to obtain materials and use them lol
sigh

[Ataxio]

It would be difficult to make a distiller from scratch but possible. Stranded Deep originally had a tarp suspended over a bucket on a campfire. In theory that would collect some steam then drip drinkable water into another bucket.

As for practicality idk if it would really work well. But is it possible? Of course. You can distill all sorts of things.

[Bunker]

the video above literally shows how to do it with sand fire and 2 glass bottels. all in game ^.^

cold bottle hot bottle

[Oedipus's Stepdad]

Cooking with sea water is literally better than cooking with just regular tap water; have some of you guys never had sea food before?

[AlphaWolf_AZ]

Originally posted by Bunker:

you know what's really odd?
how every survival video is a guy cooking a steak and drinking beer around a fire.

instead of showing you how to obtain materials and use them lol
sigh

I agree with you on the Beer and Steak, however, if they are real survivalists, how would they have a camera? And if they are lone survivors, who would film them?

But again, you're right. Real survivor videos are rare to find, but they are out there. If I remember that one guy who literally crafts everything, fishes, hunts with hand crafted arrows and cooks stuff on rocks.

Cheers!

[Sam]

Originally posted by AlphaWolf_AZ:

Originally posted by Bunker:

you know what's really odd?
how every survival video is a guy cooking a steak and drinking beer around a fire.

instead of showing you how to obtain materials and use them lol
sigh

I agree with you on the Beer and Steak, however, if they are real survivalists, how would they have a camera? And if they are lone survivors, who would film them?

But again, you're right. Real survivor videos are rare to find, but they are out there. If I remember that one guy who literally crafts everything, fishes, hunts with hand crafted arrows and cooks stuff on rocks.

Cheers!

Why would a real survivalist not be able to have a camera? Also, ever heard of a tripod?
If you ever saw a show called Survivorman you would know you can have a camera, be alone, and still be a real survivor.