infection from pristine canteen

[Havnoname]

is anyone else getting infected from drinking well water out of a pristine canteen? only started happening after .58 update

[Fett]

Never had that tbh. And i only drink water from the gutter!

[olebama]

I have not had it happen. Did you empty the canteen when you found it?

[TITANpwn]

Taking water from a natural water source without purifying it might be the cause of your infection.

[HAFFL]

I have known people to fill canteens from infected source and leave them for people to find, and even fill them with gas, alcohol tincture, etc.

I get 1 water bottle. Empty it, fill it from a pump, and use it entire game unless/until character wipe. Other than that, I only drink canned soda.

Same for food...unless I kill an animal, I only eat canned food. No powdered milk, cereal or rice. People have been know to spray those with disinfectant and poison them...

Not that I would ever do any of the above, lol...just know of guys who do that stuff, and on a daily basis.

[Havnoname]

i emptied the cantine and filled it at a well, imediatly drank and got infected

[UPP]

yes !

[HAFFL]

Originally posted by havnoname2:

i emptied the cantine and filled it at a well, imediatly drank and got infected

Wells can't infect you. Only ponds and streams. Had to be something else you did...

[soshootso]

"pristine" is the state of the bottle, not the water.

ditch the water and refill it at a reliable water source, such as a water well.

[Havnoname]

I emptied the cantine, refilled it at a pump well, and drank it and imediatly got the status "sick" and "my wounds itch." after healing up, i tried again and got the same result

[MG ♪]

Originally posted by havnoname2:

I emptied the cantine, refilled it at a pump well, and drank it and imediatly got the status "sick" and "my wounds itch." after healing up, i tried again and got the same result

Seems like infection is just buggy. I've never gotten sick from water and I have used every different type of source. I got sick from eating cooked meat, but my friend did not - same methods of cooking, different animal though. However, I also got an infection just from driving. I was shot at a few times while driving but never got a bleeding status or even heard my character grunt, to signify he'd been hit. Maybe 5-10 minutes of driving time after the shots, I got out and had itchy wounds, which quickly turned into infected wounds.

I think infection is just buggy, or they mean to program it in such a way that it's random, i.e. only some animals are infected, only some water sources on a server are infected, etc. There's really no way to know for sure unless the developers release something to address this or someone applies the scientific method - which would take far too long as there are countless variables to consider.

Just get used to losing characters. Alpha.

[Wiitendo]

Cholera,


If you are injured, in pain, bleeding and low health there is a bug that can cause this when drinking water (Mainly ponds) but rarely bottles or well.. it can be uncurable at times so always try to carry purification tabs.



G Luck!

[GobboKirk]

Originally posted by havnoname2:

I emptied the cantine, refilled it at a pump well, and drank it and imediatly got the status "sick" and "my wounds itch." after healing up, i tried again and got the same result

If it had been used for gas before that could explain it.
Or a bug.

[Pharaun]

I`ve seen someone on reddit writing about a similar situation in 0.58 exp. Guy got cholera and his friends who helped him get well also got it via using things he was using beforehand.

[xMarekSvk]

Yesterday i saw somebody suicude. I take his canteen, filled it with water from the pump in svetlojark and later when i drink, i receive chemical infection(itchy wounds). My friend visit me, to cure me. When he come to my camp to cure me, he give me his PET bottle with water etc. Sickness go away... But next day i drink from another canteen and i become again sick. When he drink from that PET bottle he receive infection too. Each time, when he drink from bottle which i had in my hands, he receive infection... so infection spread. We burned all cantens, cooking pots and pet bottles to stop spreading infection..

[Diogenes]

Originally posted by havnoname2:

is anyone else getting infected from drinking well water out of a pristine canteen? only started happening after .58 update

Are you sure that you didn't fill it from a pond, and forgot?

As far as I was aware, you couldn't get Cholera from a Canteen filled at a Water Pump.