Thirst - How do you drink water from a lake?

[Retroburn]

How do you drink water from a lake?

[Neroxit]

There are some places around the lake where a mouth symbol pops up, there you can drink

[☢ Fox-1 ☢]

at the lake/sea you're not able to drink for now....
Fill in a pan on the pond...or build a catch water with the turtle shell and catch rain ;)...

[Retroburn]

Originally posted by OTEA Fox-1 ☢:

at the lake/sea you're not able to drink for now....
Fill in a pan on the pond...or build a catch water with the turtle shell and catch rain ;)...

So what Neroxify said has been taking out for the moment?

And how do you make a pan? I've been reduced to a newbie ever since Ieft this game to play the Sunless Sea, Subnautica, and Clockwork Empires.

[Neroxit]

Originally posted by Retroburn:

Originally posted by OTEA Fox-1 ☢:

at the lake/sea you're not able to drink for now....
Fill in a pan on the pond...or build a catch water with the turtle shell and catch rain ;)...

So what Neroxify said has been taking out for the moment?

And how do you make a pan? I've been reduced to a newbie ever since Ieft this game to play the Sunless Sea, Subnautica, and Clockwork Empires. :golem:

You can drink directly from ponds, like I said. That however is polluted water and gives you damage. As of right now, close to no damage at all. I guess in future updates they'll introduce diseases, and drinking polluted water will make you sick.

To get clean water, you can either kill a turtle and create rain collectors, or boil water at a fire. To boil water at a fire, you'll need a pot that you can find around some survivor tents, fill that pot with polluted water from a pond, then boil that water at a fire (by equipping the pot and pressind C, just like cooking food).

You can also craft a water skin by combining 2 deer skin. Water on the go.

[MaxL.E.]

Originally posted by Neroxify:

There are some places around the lake where a mouth symbol pops up, there you can drink

I have this symbol very often the first time i visit a lake at the right place, but it doesn't come up the second time, but i'm still able to drink with "e", i have the same issue with the water collectors. I'm able to drink at lakes with 0.16b.

[nXane]

Originally posted by MaxL.E.:

Originally posted by Neroxify:

There are some places around the lake where a mouth symbol pops up, there you can drink

I have this symbol very often the first time i visit a lake at the right place, but it doesn't come up the second time, but i'm still able to drink with "e", i have the same issue with the water collectors. I'm able to drink at lakes with 0.16b.

It does not pop up right away , stick around a few seconds , press E directly looking at the water then turn around a bit , it will appear again.

[Retroburn]

Originally posted by Neroxify:

Originally posted by Retroburn:

So what Neroxify said has been taking out for the moment?

And how do you make a pan? I've been reduced to a newbie ever since Ieft this game to play the Sunless Sea, Subnautica, and Clockwork Empires.

You can drink directly from ponds, like I said. That however is polluted water and gives you damage. As of right now, close to no damage at all. I guess in future updates they'll introduce diseases, and drinking polluted water will make you sick.

To get clean water, you can either kill a turtle and create rain collectors, or boil water at a fire. To boil water at a fire, you'll need a pot that you can find around some survivor tents, fill that pot with polluted water from a pond, then boil that water at a fire (by equipping the pot and pressind C, just like cooking food).

You can also craft a water skin by combining 2 deer skin. Water on the go.

Thanks!

[Wig Bang]

Originally posted by nXane:

Originally posted by MaxL.E.:

I have this symbol very often the first time i visit a lake at the right place, but it doesn't come up the second time, but i'm still able to drink with "e", i have the same issue with the water collectors. I'm able to drink at lakes with 0.16b.

It does not pop up right away , stick around a few seconds , press E directly looking at the water then turn around a bit , it will appear again.

that sounds.. very finicky and horrible.

[RequiemsRose]

Originally posted by Wig Bang:

Originally posted by nXane:

It does not pop up right away , stick around a few seconds , press E directly looking at the water then turn around a bit , it will appear again.

that sounds.. very finicky and horrible.

This thread was originally from 2015. Admittedly the drink icon can still be finicky, but it used to be even worse (or sometimes just get permanently stuck on your screen, always fun). Though surprisingly the advice here does still apply when it does give you trouble. repositioning does usually help if you are having issues. Though nowadays it's more likely that you have multiple nearby interacts interrupting each other (like over near goose lake you can have berries, the water, and mushrooms all fighting for your interact button depending on where you stand. It's even possible to end up adding an animal skinning to that with the abundance of deer in the area to).

Since the thread is revived though:
-if you are struggling to collect from ponds/lakes, try and find an old pot. They can be found at various campsites and even a few villages roughly between the areas of goose lake and the yacht/sailboat. Not only will the old pot fix that multiple interact buttons competing issue since the pot cant directly interact with most of that list, water collected in the old pot can be boiled as well so you dont risk the usual illness from drinking from the ponds directly. Bear in mind not all water sources can be collected from either. Usually only the smaller sources, so places like the ocean (i mean, that should be obvious) or the larger river/lakes won't actually let you collect water. Smaller ponds and lakes are usually where you go. Bonus that you can hold the pot in your hands while its raining and after a few seconds you will actually fill it with clean rain water as well. Extra bonus that the old pot can also be used to make stews, which can also use spoiled meats without making the player ill. TL;DR: get the old pot, seriously.

-Berries, sodas, and even booze can provide hydration as well (though booze is better saved for crafting, it can keep you from dying at least). These can at least hold you over until you can kill a turtle and set up a water collector with it's shell. Though if playing a vegan game (kill no animals) you will just plain have to live on those sodas and berries. The previously mentioned old pot will be your only option for water collection otherwise, everything else relies on animal deaths like turtle or deer (the water skin). Good news, soda is a common loot inside caves, and cave loot will respawn every time you revisit that cave so if you find even one soda crate in a cave you technically have infinite drinks. You just have to go back sometimes to restock.

-if you must drink directly from ponds, keep an eye out for aloe plants as well. Any time you drink from dirty water sources like that you risk getting sick. Its easy to overlook that you even are sick but it does hinder your stats a bit until you fix it and that does make you slightly more likely to die. If you are sick or infected, you can cure it immediately by eating an aloe. Sickness can also be cured over time with rest and decent food, but infection must be cured by the player (infection you don't get from water though). You can check if you are sick by opening your survival book to the stats page (This was technically a screenshot displaying how you can also see your armor's specific effects, rabbit fur boots specifically for this shot, on the same page, but if you are infected or sick that will show in that "Conditions" portion on the bottom left of that page).
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2841796765

[kevinshow]

like you said, the thread is old, but I can add an update to it. I have been drinking polluted water (when in emergency situation) and even filled my water skin with polluted water, thinking that it was clean water (because I got the mouth icon, thinking the game would only give me that if it was drinkable water ... after all, even on a tropical island, there is sometimes fresh running water).

at the moment, there still doesn't seem to be any significant adverse effects from it. like you said, you can get sick or infected but sometimes it's not even noticeable for many days until you look at your health status. perhaps if the hud started showing some signs , then you'd notice you were ill.

meaning that we can definitely keep working on turtle shells and sodas and berries to give us good water satisfaction, but don't be afraid to drink polluted water if you really need to. and yes, i've found a lot of soda as well, so you can almost count that as something you can drink every 1/2 day or every 1 day, and you'll probably come upon some more before your 10 sodas are done.

i remember in another survival game, drinking bad water gives you the runs, but then the game uses that (feces) as a fertilizer for the plants, so it wasn't necessarily just about making the player sick. we could get benefits from getting sick too! hehe

[Apocalypse]

On hard polluted water damages you pretty badly tho, on normal barely indeed

[Jinxed]

Can you craft multiple water skins and carry multiple in your inventory? If so, How many? Can you only fill up the water skin with clean water (from pan/turtle shell) or can it be dirty and boiled in the pan. (I'm assuming boiling water skin directly on fire is a no go).

[RequiemsRose]

Originally posted by Jinxed:

Can you craft multiple water skins and carry multiple in your inventory? If so, How many? Can you only fill up the water skin with clean water (from pan/turtle shell) or can it be dirty and boiled in the pan. (I'm assuming boiling water skin directly on fire is a no go).

You can only carry one water skin at a time. You can fill it with dirty or clean water but it's usually best to go with clean because, as stupid as it sounds, you are somehow just not capable of figuring out how to pour the water skin into the old pot to boil it if needed. You can also carry the old pot though, and you can carry it with water already in it (despite it apparently just sitting in your backpack as you run around) so if you end up filling both up it can be a bit like carrying two water skins. I personally like keeping my water skin clean, but i don't really care if the water in my pot is clean or dirty since i can always boil it unlike the water skin (though i also dont actually carry it full of water most of the time, i usually just grab water as i need or do the previously mentioned hold it out in the rain trick).

[Jinxed]

Originally posted by RequiemsRose:

Originally posted by Jinxed:

Can you craft multiple water skins and carry multiple in your inventory? If so, How many? Can you only fill up the water skin with clean water (from pan/turtle shell) or can it be dirty and boiled in the pan. (I'm assuming boiling water skin directly on fire is a no go).

You can only carry one water skin at a time. You can fill it with dirty or clean water but it's usually best to go with clean because, as stupid as it sounds, you are somehow just not capable of figuring out how to pour the water skin into the old pot to boil it if needed. You can also carry the old pot though, and you can carry it with water already in it (despite it apparently just sitting in your backpack as you run around) so if you end up filling both up it can be a bit like carrying two water skins. I personally like keeping my water skin clean, but i don't really care if the water in my pot is clean or dirty since i can always boil it unlike the water skin (though i also dont actually carry it full of water most of the time, i usually just grab water as i need or do the previously mentioned hold it out in the rain trick).

Thank you for the info!