Ok wtf how do i store water?!

[Vrinn]

so every water tank i seem to find only stores dirty water. wtf am i doing wrong or does this game legit only let you store dirty water?

[Sairi (Jen)]

Only dirty water, since you only need clean water for drinking. Plants don't need clean water

[Alcator]

You bottle drinking water. You don't need much of it.

[beiter.micheal]

i only use the filtering bottle for my water drinking in the game

[Mayor]

Would be nice to have some sort of auto filtering system and storage for clean water rather than having to store in bottles

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Mayor:

Would be nice to have some sort of auto filtering system and storage for clean water rather than having to store in bottles

The filtration system can be used as storage, just leave the clean water in there until you need it. You can make more than one filter, right? That's your storage.

[Scipo0419]

Cooking pots store 20 clean water and that water can be used for Cooking (obviously) or refilling bottles.

I keep 3 cooking pots topped off with 3 Filtered Bottles (so I get 6 cooked food before I need to top off the water in the pot.)

I also have 2 water filters that I keep full for the one large bottle I carry around with me.

Basically, I don't actually store the clean water in cooking pots because it's unnecessary, but it can be done.

[Fenris]

If you are at a Garden Tower, you are very likely to have everything you need to research and unlock the large bottle at hand. Researching and building the knife also lets you get through vines and a lock to scan the small water tank. The initial 'gold' bars of plastic you can loot is a major progression step for both here.

Large bottles let you store 20 units of fluid each. Small water tank is something like 100 units or more. Make one small water tank on your ship, and 2+ large water bottles, and you can load up on dirty water from a Garden Tower well. At that point, it crosses the threshold from being something you never have enough of, to something that you only need to make periodic garden tower stocks to resupply in bulk. Late game with gardening, distilling, and the advanced water condenser can make you almost self-sufficient on the airship.

All that said, its quite possible this will get changed around a bit with the announced intention to rework the progression before 1.0.