Melting ice

[RockinRaider]

can this be a thing once you have buckets to melt ice and snow for water when you get the basic cooking?

[Stefan]

Ice and snow melt automatically underground, so you can just build a stone basin underground, build your snow/ ice and collect water with the buckets.

[stylez]

But it'd also be nice to not have to do it all manually. Once you have a campfire, there's no reason a dwarf can't just sit there melting the snow, the same way they craft anything else. 3 snow => 1 water, 1 ice => 1 water would be pretty fair.

Also if we were to be logical about it, there's no reason your dwarves can't be collecting water as soon as you have a few iron pots in your inventory.

[RockinRaider]

rusting pot :P

[stylez]

Originally posted by Tidus:

rusting pot :P

They cook stew in it, don't they? And they also create coal in the same pots where they cook their food. And you can store more water than you have buckets.

Obviously logic can only go so far in a game about dwarves crafting mythril gear and surviving increasing waves of undead and other monsters. But you should be able to collect water as soon as you have a pot.

Actually it'd be pretty cool if you could keep a reservoir of water in your base, rather than your inventory, and the dwarves would go collect the water when they need it. You get buckets loooooong before you get diving helmets, and the dwarf AI isn't very intelligent when it comes to diving w/o a helmet. It makes water collection tedious, at best.