Water, water, ..

[kfsone]

My save game has a villager who is about a minute from dying of dehydration. I have one bucket of clean water and a working well. But I can't seem to get this villager to drink any water, so she dies of thirst.

a) Do villagers not drink from wells/clean water?
b) Is there a way to *give* a villager something?

[Tiberiumkyle]

Villagers will drink from any water source, clean water is preferred as dirty water right from a lake or such is dirty and can cause illness.

No way to outright give villagers something, have to let them pick it up on their own.

[Rayvolution]

Originally posted by kfsone:

My save game has a villager who is about a minute from dying of dehydration. I have one bucket of clean water and a working well. But I can't seem to get this villager to drink any water, so she dies of thirst.

a) Do villagers not drink from wells/clean water?
b) Is there a way to *give* a villager something?

Best option is to drop them next to the well and cross your fingers. If they are genuinely dehydrating, they should immediately try to drink from the well once the panic of being dropped subsides.

Issue though is if other villagers are also dehydrated they may claim the work task to drink the water in the well, not allowing the one you noticed to get to it. (Once someone is tasked with drinking water, the game "reserves" that water for them.) Honestly, usually when you have one dehydrating villager, you have others.

[kfsone]

I wound up cheating a little - taking a snapshot of the save and trying a few different things (but once I was done trying, I went back to the original save where she died)

She was a lumberjack, in order to save her I had to load the save, unmark the trees she was about to try cutting, set the lumberjack count to 0, cancel the building of my second well. At this point she heads for her house, which is right next to the well (she walks past the well), couldn't alter that, but I managed to get a couple of buckets into the house before she arrived, and that *just* managed to save her, but only once out of 3 attempts hah.

[kfsone]

This is a day 3 Casas and it's been burning hot. There were 2 others thirsty but she was the only one dehydrating. I think it's because she was cutting trees far, far away from the lumber shack. However it was right next to the water purifier so, again, she was being stubborn :)