Stranded Deep - Coconut Drinks Dehydrating Me?

[doctxrkyle]

Hey,
I'm an early player in this game. I just got it yesterday, so obviously I don't really have much experience and knowledge in it. I've been living a while on this one loot-filled island. I've been surviving mostly on cooked crabs and coconut milk.
For a while, I've noticed that sometimes when I drink coconut milk, it would bring my drink bar up, but then bring it back down even more like it's dehydrating me. This has really been bad for me, because I'm almost always a the risk of dehydration, and I can't get myself hydrated easily.
Please explain to me how this concept works, or if it's maybe just a glitch.
Thanks,
Kyle

[I-o-IPositive7]

Not a bug. It is a feature :D Drinking too much coconut gives you diarrhoea just like in real life (oh no that's the coconut oil which causes it in IRL, the water actually prevents it)

[darkthought1]

Which is why you can die of dehydration drinking coconut milk, but not coconut water

[porfora]

It's a solution doctxrkyle is looking for. I have played this before but not for a while, the "improvements" all seemed like backward steps, I too am having difficulty getting water, A still and an empty coconut was all that was needed before, that now does not work. In the early stages you are not in a position to graft a flask, so how do you get water, or is this another backward step?

[Omen3608]

It is also mendatory to read update news when signing into to an early access game. Game mechanics tend to change... a lot... during development.

If you prefer a finished game, early access is to be avoided!

[southofpegasus]

Originally posted by porfora:

It's a solution doctxrkyle is looking for. I have played this before but not for a while, the "improvements" all seemed like backward steps, I too am having difficulty getting water, A still and an empty coconut was all that was needed before, that now does not work. In the early stages you are not in a position to graft a flask, so how do you get water, or is this another backward step?

Crafting a coconut flask is simple and easily doable right at the start. All you need is a stone tool to harvest some fibrous leaves to make lashing and then a coconut. The biggest issue is with the tutorial. The order should be to craft a stone tool so that a solar still and coconut flask can be crafted as water is the number one priority in such a scenario. Food and fire should be next then shelter last. And the start point should always be near an island with the necessary resources. I started new several times and didn't notice the issue with a lack of resources on the tiny islands because at start I instinctively went for a bigger island despite being closer to the tiny one. Hopefully they will put in a proper tutorial once the game is closer to release. And maybe add some excitement to the start by having the raft surrounded by sharks thumping it like they like to do at times and the first message saying something like, "Sharks! Get to an island now!"