Bleach...

[Legiondorf]

Not to rage out or anything, but it could be a little more intuitive as to how to not die of thirst being a complete noob. I shouldn't have to go to a wiki. Sigh. Otherwise great game intro.

[Amanoob105]

There's also the, not as good but easier at the start, option to catch bladder fish.

[Cougarific]

(AussieG should have watched my tutorial vids - BESTEST ON THE YOUTOOBS! DON'T MISS OUT!)

But going forward, dedicate some time to actually studying the Fabricator recipies (pull them up on your PDA Blueprints tab if you don't want to stand in front of the Fabricator).

The Water recipes are in there right from the start.

[Soloquendi]

Amazing how people today don't know the most common things. Like how bleach/chlorine is the most commonly used water purifying agent in the world. It's used
in your tap water.

[Cougarific]

The wiki sent you to the Creepvine Forest for salt?

Salt is literally everywhere - in every biome - the Creepvine Forest is one of the harder biomes to find it in due to all the green grass ground cover. Same for the Red Grass biome.

Salt is easiest to find in biomes with little grass cover like the Dunes, Sparse Reef or over near the Aurora.

But identifying it is the hard part - once you learn how to recognize it more easily you'll see it all over the place.

[DePhoegon]

Also... salt is almost a 'zero issue' .. one machine will cure both your water & salt problem with zero effort.. admittedly you have to find it below 300m, but I wouldn't worry about it.

i would say more, but likely possible spoilers.

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by WillOfStone:

Amazing how people today don't know the most common things. Like how bleach/chlorine is the most commonly used water purifying agent in the world. It's used
in your tap water.

It's because most people see "Bleach" and think, either: good for whitening clothes (or accidentally on purpose destroying your sister's favorite pair of 501s back in the 80s); or bad to mix with ammonia, as it can kill you. These same people also probably didn't take/slept through basic chemistry in high school.

Regardless, just because something was commonly known even twenty years ago, does not mean it's universally known now. Laziness and apathy tend to breed ignorance of past knowledge. Hell, I know kids who are amazed that we used to have to lick stamps. Or send letters with licked stamps affixed to the envelopes through the mail.

[Soloquendi]

Originally posted by darkdisciple1313:

Originally posted by WillOfStone:

Amazing how people today don't know the most common things. Like how bleach/chlorine is the most commonly used water purifying agent in the world. It's used
in your tap water.

It's because most people see "Bleach" and think, either: good for whitening clothes (or accidentally on purpose destroying your sister's favorite pair of 501s back in the 80s); or bad to mix with ammonia, as it can kill you. These same people also probably didn't take/slept through basic chemistry in high school.

Regardless, just because something was commonly known even twenty years ago, does not mean it's universally known now. Laziness and apathy tend to breed ignorance of past knowledge. Hell, I know kids who are amazed that we used to have to lick stamps. Or send letters with licked stamps affixed to the envelopes through the mail.

I used to think that the Internet would be the greatest leap forward for knowledge since the printing press, but sadly most people don't read. Every piece of information available at our fingertips, but no one uses it. If it isn't on Youtube, it doesn't exist. Idiocracy has come true.

At least this game taught at least one person one thing about the world. Maybe that's the future of education. Embed learning inside games.

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by WillOfStone:

Originally posted by darkdisciple1313:

It's because most people see "Bleach" and think, either: good for whitening clothes (or accidentally on purpose destroying your sister's favorite pair of 501s back in the 80s); or bad to mix with ammonia, as it can kill you. These same people also probably didn't take/slept through basic chemistry in high school.

Regardless, just because something was commonly known even twenty years ago, does not mean it's universally known now. Laziness and apathy tend to breed ignorance of past knowledge. Hell, I know kids who are amazed that we used to have to lick stamps. Or send letters with licked stamps affixed to the envelopes through the mail.

I used to think that the Internet would be the greatest leap forward for knowledge since the printing press, but sadly most people don't read. Every piece of information available at our fingertips, but no one uses it. If it isn't on Youtube, it doesn't exist. Idiocracy has come true.

At least this game taught at least one person one thing about the world. Maybe that's the future of education. Embed learning inside games.

Shhhhhhhhh! Say that too loudly, and people will stop playing games as well. I'm only half-joking.

Back in the late 90s when all this world wide web zhit started, it actually was used mostly for education and higher levels of conversation and research. Sometime around 2005-6, though, just about the time the technology really started to take off, all of that got shoved aside. Now the internet is used pretty much for three things: gaming, looking up photos and vids of people engaging in physical activity NSFW; and never-ending rounds of kvetching about everything via social media.

But that's always been the problem with technology. The easier life gets, the lazier and dumber most people get. There are always exceptions, of course, but they will be forever outnumbered.

P.S. What I find most ironic is that what is shown in a five-minute video generally only takes me about 90 seconds to read in an article describing the same thing. Folks think vids save time, when the opposite is usually true, even for those with an average reading speed.