Dew Collectors Are Amazing

[Plagen]

Ya'll, if you don't have Dew Collectors, you're missing out. They are so much better than having to collect glass jars, remembering to refill them, and then boil them to get water.

Just place a few of them, go about your business and check them every so often. BAM! Purified Water. No need for the Murky Water at all, since it isn't used for anything other than making Purified Water.

Honestly, I have so much water saved up, I forget to check them regularly.

So get out there and do a few quests, save up some Dukes, and buy a Water Filter from the trader. You won't regret it. Especially if you're hurting for water.

[Pizzarugi]

I built 10 dew collectors and put them on the roof of my base. With the exception of screamers always spawning every few hours, making 30 water every day for free feels very good.

[fleatoad]

No, they are crap. They should be collecting rain water too and why are they making glass jars out of nothing?
The removing of reusable glass jars and replacing it with this crap was just a very lazy option.
I have no idea why people are fanboying such poor lazy designs.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

Originally posted by fleatoad:

No, they are crap. They should be collecting rain water too and why are they making glass jars out of nothing?
The removing of reusable glass jars and replacing it with this crap was just a very lazy option.
I have no idea why people are fanboying such poor lazy designs.

The glass jar is a representation of the fact that you collect water and store water.
Do you think the fuel canisters should also be refunded when you fuel you vehicle?

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by fleatoad:

No, they are crap. They should be collecting rain water too and why are they making glass jars out of nothing?

1. Dew collectors aren't rain collectors.
2. Game mechanics often don't mimic reality. Maybe you complain about being able to literally carry enough steel blocks to build a 1:1 scale model of the Titanic in your bag too? This argument is just silly.

[LtKillPuppy]

Dew Collectors are too underpowered. I'd still rather collect 100 murky water and boil it for an hour (which is several days of in-game time) than fiddle with collecting three jars from all these space-taking collectors.

At least boiling murky water is zero input from me, and you need duct tape in absolute massive quantities for making late-game equipment.

[cromwell2468]

dew collectors are their way of forcing you to use the trader, instead of being able to, i dunno, craft a filter in a sandbox game? There should be multiple paths to success, i.e. crafting vs commerce to give the players more agency IMHO. If they modify the dew collector recipe to use a helmet purifier or make the filter craft-able, then it would be much better, but the dew collector and its associated coercion leaves a bad taste in my mouth as it is.

[fleatoad]

Originally posted by SylenThunder:

Originally posted by fleatoad:

No, they are crap. They should be collecting rain water too and why are they making glass jars out of nothing?

1. Dew collectors aren't rain collectors.
2. Game mechanics often don't mimic reality. Maybe you complain about being able to literally carry enough steel blocks to build a 1:1 scale model of the Titanic in your bag too? This argument is just silly.

Dew collectors will still collect rain just poor design is why they don't.
Why can I not be against unlimited carrying capacity too? It would be a better change than making bottles disappear.

[Kara]

For starters it is not purified water, its clean basic water. It causes screamers STUPIDLY, as mentioned. if it did in fact make purified water, it would be worth it. They are so slow and take up so much space that I just do without, without the screamers and having to build a baby cage around them to stop other players from destroying/ stealing.

[JimmyIowa]

Yep, dew collectors are great for crafting beer and glue, and cooking stews. But really the only benefit is not having glass jars clutter my personal backpack on every container I loot in a POI. Which is admittedly nice, but I wonder if it was worth the amount of development time for the new water mechanics.

[gemdidit]

Originally posted by SylenThunder:

Originally posted by fleatoad:

No, they are crap. They should be collecting rain water too and why are they making glass jars out of nothing?

1. Dew collectors aren't rain collectors.
2. Game mechanics often don't mimic reality. Maybe you complain about being able to literally carry enough steel blocks to build a 1:1 scale model of the Titanic in your bag too? This argument is just silly.

But . . if you can do anything in game that you want wouldn't that same logic say that rain collectors and dew collectors could be the same thing. I mean to be fair the graphic looks more like a rain catcher.

[...👑 JOST AMMAN 👑...]

Originally posted by gemdidit:

Originally posted by SylenThunder:

1. Dew collectors aren't rain collectors.
2. Game mechanics often don't mimic reality. Maybe you complain about being able to literally carry enough steel blocks to build a 1:1 scale model of the Titanic in your bag too? This argument is just silly.

But . . if you can do anything in game that you want wouldn't that same logic say that rain collectors and dew collectors could be the same thing. I mean to be fair the graphic looks more like a rain catcher.

There's a technical explanation there, which is that the game can only track rain if you're there and the part of the map where the dew collector is, is loaded in memory (that's at least how one of the developers explained it to me, I'm not a developer).

On top of that, tracking rain, is much more CPU intensive than it sounds.

Imagine having to track the "collected rain" status for a big farm of 50 dew collectors! The current dew collector, instead, only checks for how much time has passed when you open it.

[cromwell2468]

rain water would probably need to be considered murky if we are turning the technicality/reality knob to 11. But yes, you can easily poke a small hole in a dew collector and it would work as a rain collector too. The choice is dependent upon local climate. It gets a bit too idealistic down this rabbit hole for me though, I'm fine with a black box that produces water at this level of gameplay and the current state of gaming having to balance entertaining vs mind numbing minutia.

[Nikki6]

please do.. please turn the technical/ reality back up some.. ill take a 6 out of 10 at this point.

[cromwell2468]

ok, I'll ask the devs to add a recipe for vulture crap tea :)

[Tax Evasion]

Im fine with them other that heat generation, even though i cant stack infinite water with jars and all that as easily anymore, its still incredibly easy to stockpile food and water either way