End Game Drink is Boiled Water?

[Random Casualty]

There use to be reasons to make mineral water. You made jars, went out and collected water, boiled that water. Taking a few extra steps to make you need less water seems like a good idea.

Now I've got a device that just produces boiled water. I have to go through extra effort to gather materials to make any other drink and then I have to take an absurd amount of time making that drink. Or I could just drink twice as much boiled water.

It would be different if the drinks produced bonuses I care about. Do you care? Coffee was great when I was running out of stamina all the time. New mining set reduces stamina cost so much I don't use stamina while mining. End game Red Tea is meaningless because I'm stuffed so full of food that I'm selling it to the traders.

The complicated drinks should provide some minor buff that you care about. Like a slight xp gain for mineral water, and maybe some harvesting buff for blackstrap coffee. Or maybe they give a +1 bonus to skills, so Mineral Water gives you +1 Iron Gut and Blackstrap gives +1 Miner 69er.

[Dr. Rockso]

Yucca Smoothie FTW! No water involved.

[Philco7a]

Use to brew Learning Elixer but cans of dog food are now unobtainable. Day 58 and found enough to make just 1.

[Tahnval]

I often have a campfire solely for making coffee, because of the absurd amount of time it takes. But that's just roleplaying. Same reason for the farm I make (which includes coffee).

I agree that there's no ingame point in anything other than plain water.

[JimmyIowa]

Beer for fist and sledge players. But I agree that picking up a gun pretty much makes everything else shrink into insignificance. Maybe the problem isn't the drinks.

[HURTN4ASQUIRTN]

i only drink yuka

[Mithrandir]

Depends on what/how your play.

In COOP MP, if you don't want to need a ton of collectors, mineral water is awesome. It reduces water intake by over 60% and let you make that much glue, duct tape and repair kits with a set amount of collectors.

Also, even in solo, if you like to go for long many days trip in the wasteland or desert, a stack of mineral will cover your needs while a stack of water may not.

Ofc, someone not doing any of those may find simple water enough for his play style. As for me, I prefer red tea for solo short trip needs as not only they have better water stat but they also reduce the depletion rate of the food bar.

[Nimbull]

Meat Stews + water filter in helm + dirty water. I've yet to have any problems with food and water. Whole fridge full of water from the fully mod'd dew collectors which chug away constantly after unloading. Gonna make a whole field of them in a separate part of the map just for giggles.

[Zhorge]

Originally posted by Philco7a:

Use to brew Learning Elixer but cans of dog food are now unobtainable. Day 58 and found enough to make just 1.

I ate so much dog-food the first few weeks I almost turned into a Golden Retriever.... I still have ten cans and don't bother to save it as I just eat it (and cat food) when I find it for inventory management purposes.

[Zhorge]

Originally posted by Random Casualty:

There use to be reasons to make mineral water. You made jars, went out and collected water, boiled that water. Taking a few extra steps to make you need less water seems like a good idea.

Now I've got a device that just produces boiled water. I have to go through extra effort to gather materials to make any other drink and then I have to take an absurd amount of time making that drink. Or I could just drink twice as much boiled water.

It would be different if the drinks produced bonuses I care about. Do you care? Coffee was great when I was running out of stamina all the time. New mining set reduces stamina cost so much I don't use stamina while mining. End game Red Tea is meaningless because I'm stuffed so full of food that I'm selling it to the traders.

The complicated drinks should provide some minor buff that you care about. Like a slight xp gain for mineral water, and maybe some harvesting buff for blackstrap coffee. Or maybe they give a +1 bonus to skills, so Mineral Water gives you +1 Iron Gut and Blackstrap gives +1 Miner 69er.

Not at all. You get a 60 thirst reduction (3x that of water). You also get +20% on dysentery and 6 minutes of efficient digestion. That's quite beneficial when you're playing a big world and go on long trips away from your main base as you explore. I keep 10 food and 10 mineral water in my motorcycle (and truck and if I got around to building it, a gyrocopter) for that very reason.

[Nerevar]

catch is you stop playing or make a new run from scratch the moment you hit ENDGAME. why? game is OVER in 7 days case once you hit that point. there is no reason to continue and your base is lost upon next alpha.

[Lady MacBeth]

Originally posted by Random Casualty:

There use to be reasons to make mineral water. You made jars, went out and collected water, boiled that water. Taking a few extra steps to make you need less water seems like a good idea.

Now I've got a device that just produces boiled water. I have to go through extra effort to gather materials to make any other drink and then I have to take an absurd amount of time making that drink. Or I could just drink twice as much boiled water.

It would be different if the drinks produced bonuses I care about. Do you care? Coffee was great when I was running out of stamina all the time. New mining set reduces stamina cost so much I don't use stamina while mining. End game Red Tea is meaningless because I'm stuffed so full of food that I'm selling it to the traders.

The complicated drinks should provide some minor buff that you care about. Like a slight xp gain for mineral water, and maybe some harvesting buff for blackstrap coffee. Or maybe they give a +1 bonus to skills, so Mineral Water gives you +1 Iron Gut and Blackstrap gives +1 Miner 69er.

One point in Master Chef is a 40% reduction in cooking time. That one point alone is worth ti for that.

[Duneman]

Blackstrap Coffee does provide a bonus to mining once you find the magazine for it. I also keep Coffee around for horde night, to ensure the weapons never stop swinging.

You could also go the route of finding a water filter mod for your helmet and then grabbing a bucket to place water in a hollowed out tile for a source of infinite hydration.

[Orange Madness]

The real drink of champions is a puddle. Once you get a Water Purifier mod for any helmet armor piece, you win the game. Is it annoying to mash the interact button on a puddle with empty hand? Yes, but the payoff is limitless.

The only time I see myself actually using consumables for water is when I need to make up for all of the Steroids I have used or during a Bloodmoon: that's it!