Melting snow?

[Mister Shan]

I am at the very begining and I need water. I get that you need to melt snow and purify the water with the tablets but I can't for the life of me find anyway to do that. I see a plastic and metal container. Why can't I just fill that up with the snow?

[IFIYGD]

Make a fire, campfire, stove, fireplace.

Once it is lit, add fuel to increase the burn time, and at the top, there are 3 icons. The first (to the left) is for adding more fuel to the fire, the mioddle one is for cooking food, the last (to the right) is for melting snow and boiling water to purify it. (You don;t need to use tablet if you boil the water after melting the snow).

You don't need to find a pan, or containers to put the water into. The game "magically" provides them for you.

[zcapp96]

I was exactly the same on my first run and died of thirst! Kept thinking 'there must be some way to get snow into these pans!'

[IFIYGD]

Lol! I think dying of thirst while trying to figure it out is fairly common. It seems a bit unintuitive, but it is basciially the first indictation that you need to check everything out, explore all of the menu's and the UI, and test things, and die testing thing, then start again, test new things, die testing them, etc. Frustrating at first. But, if you stick it out, you may find yourslef chuckling about it a few hundred play hours down the line. ;)

[zcapp96]

Indeed! I even found a bottle of water, took it to the fishing Hut in ML, broke the ice and tried to refill it from the hole! When I eventually took a drink from it I was horrified when the bottle disappeared!

[Mister Shan]

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Lol! I think dying of thirst while trying to figure it out is fairly common. It seems a bit unintuitive, but it is basciially the first indictation that you need to check everything out, explore all of the menu's and the UI, and test things, and die testing thing, then start again, test new things, die testing them, etc. Frustrating at first. But, if you stick it out, you may find yourslef chuckling about it a few hundred play hours down the line. ;)

Sure, but I think it takes away from the sorta puzzle logic of trying to find the right combo of items thats make sense in a sorta "realistic" way. In a game that makes you wait like a minute just to light a fire sure picked a weird place to streamline things. Buried within menus rather than the enviorment. ha.

Is there any survival games out there that is a total sandbox with multiple ways to use objects and the enviorment to solve a problem?

[IFIYGD]

I honestly don't know if there are.

I d know that the magical pot for boiling water, and the magically appearing and disappearing plastic bottles for water, and the jerry cans and small tins for lamp oil... lots of people have commented on it, lots have requested that they be made more realistic, and many of us have just grown to accept it as pat of the suspension of disbelief needed to play a video game.

Honestly? I would enjoy needing to find a canteen or usable empty plasitc bottles for water, and only being able to make, store and carry as much as I have cntainers to hold. IU would enjoy being able to empty thse tiny tins of lamp oil intoa larger jerry can, that I must first find, to unclutter my inventory. I would love being able to reuse an empty soup or Pinnacle Peaches can as a container to make water or reheat coffee or teas. Lots of little things that could be added to make the game more "realistic", some I would like, some I would probably hate the way they may affect my prefered playstyle.

Honestly, right now, with over 2100 hours in game between Steam & XBox One, I am more interesnted in seeing Wintermute completed, so I can play straight through, Ep 1 to 5, without months and months of waiting between Episodes. It is getting frustrating, even for a huge fangirl like me. I would prefer they get the game finished completely- build the house, get the roof on, make it solid- then add the gingerbread, flower gardens and interior decorating afterward.

[WESTG4M3R4L1F3]

melting the snow in ur bobette

[SBlack]

You don't need tablets to purify the water. It's either tablets OR boiling the water after you melted it.
You can use the tablets without a fire, but in practice you always have a fire when making water. There is some unpurified water you can collect in metal pans, but it's extremely rare

[{O|G} Erik the Red]

I do have to wonder though how much that would potentially alter people's playstyles that they've grown acustomed too. Right now, once can boil and bottle water like there is no tomorrow, able to stockpile it like they run a factory and own a warehouse.

But what if the amount of water you could have and carry or contain at one time was limited?

Thirst is the second most important need when it comes to condition loss, but its the first and easiest to satisfy for the rest of the game. After you learn how to boil water, its hardly ever a problem again.

[Yeoman]

Originally posted by IFIYGD:

Honestly? I would enjoy needing to find a canteen or usable empty plasitc bottles for water, and only being able to make, store and carry as much as I have cntainers to hold. IU would enjoy being able to empty thse tiny tins of lamp oil intoa larger jerry can, that I must first find, to unclutter my inventory. I would love being able to reuse an empty soup or Pinnacle Peaches can as a container to make water or reheat coffee or teas. Lots of little things that could be added to make the game more "realistic", some I would like, some I would probably hate the way they may affect my prefered playstyle.

+1

[IFIYGD]

Lol! +1 even with all of my dyslexia showing... thanks for ignoring the major typos. xD

[zcapp96]

I would love water-skins to be a craftable item.

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by zcapp96:

I would love water-skins to be a craftable item.

+1 water skins would be an awesome addition. What animal skin would you use, or would you want a new critter to be added to the game (a Canadian critter, of course...)?
(And maybe make a thread in the Wish List subforum, with the details, where Hinterland will see it instead of missing it here...)

[Mandala]

JUST MELT THE SNOW LOOOL 4Head

[Hardbash]

yeah took me a minute to figure out how to melt the snow, I spent part of the day looking for a coffee mug or something that may have been salvagable. Thankfully I found out what to do before any death occured.