Water for Winter

[Helios]

Build campfire near lake and clanpeople can drink.

[TechRabbit]

Excellent tip

[Dedmoin]

This didn't work for me.
I built a open cooking fireplace next to water and it doesn't melt the ice on the lake.
It says the temperature is +10° (effective +3,5°) but it is still ice.

I don't know why they cannot just break the ice.
Or take some ice or snow and smelt it for water.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2868268432
For some reasons the spots for drinking are not frozen anymore, even far away of the campfire. (They don't have the snowflake symbol).
But the sports for washing are stil frozen.

[dissent]

Originally posted by Dedmoin:

I don't know why they cannot just break the ice.
Or take some ice or snow and smelt it for water.

That's exactly what they do. It would be impossible to survive winter without a well if they didn't.

I''m not sure why anybody would not have a well by winter. If people want to tackle it as a challenge, that is one thing. But not being able to build one by winter is just odd. I have mine up on day 5 of summer already. I could build seven or eight wells by winter if necessary. I'm not seeing what is difficult about it.

[Helios]

Originally posted by Dedmoin:

This didn't work for me.
I built a open cooking fireplace next to water and it doesn't melt the ice on the lake.
It says the temperature is +10° (effective +3,5°) but it is still ice.

I don't know why they cannot just break the ice.
Or take some ice or snow and smelt it for water.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2868268432
For some reasons the spots for drinking are not frozen anymore, even far away of the campfire. (They don't have the snowflake symbol).
But the sports for washing are stil frozen.

To be clear they fill urns with frozen water at that spot without the campfire they dont do that.

[Rane]

Originally posted by Helios:

To be clear they fill urns with frozen water at that spot without the campfire they dont do that.

Intended game behavior is that, when there is no well, in the Winter the Folk will take an empty Jug, go to the frozen drinking spot, fill the Jug with ice to make an Ice Jug, which then can be melted in a fire (ie a Stone Fireplace or a Kitchen) to become a Water Jug. It is not required to have a fire next to the frozen drinking spot in order for Folk to be able to fill Jug>Ice Jug.
If you are finding that your Folk will not fill Jug>Ice Jug without a campfire, and this behavior happens consistently, you may have found a bug and should send the file to Blorf.

[Helios]

Originally posted by Rane:

Originally posted by Helios:

To be clear they fill urns with frozen water at that spot without the campfire they dont do that.

Intended game behavior is that, when there is no well, in the Winter the Folk will take an empty Jug, go to the frozen drinking spot, fill the Jug with ice to make an Ice Jug, which then can be melted in a fire (ie a Stone Fireplace or a Kitchen) to become a Water Jug. It is not required to have a fire next to the frozen drinking spot in order for Folk to be able to fill Jug>Ice Jug.
If you are finding that your Folk will not fill Jug>Ice Jug without a campfire, and this behavior happens consistently, you may have found a bug and should send the file to Blorf.

I did this for my second game because my first clan died from thirst in first game because they would not fill the jugs at the frozen spot.

[Grace1957]

Is your gathering skill high enough?Gatherers fill the jugs.

[Dedmoin]

In the beginning of the winter people and pets also didn't have water until I noiced all jars were filles with ice and I had to order some of them to melt at the campfire/kitchen