DEVS: How long are we going to be drinking salt water?

[Crimson Avenger]

Is there a plan to have fresh water lakes and rivers to drink?
Right now we should all be dead from drinking sea water.

[Diedel]

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boiling water does not get rid of salt, it actually makes it saltier because the water evaporates but leaves behind the salts. only way to turn salt water into fresh water is to distil by capturing the condensated water.

this +1

Sad that people think you can just boil water in a bucket, and it magically turns into fresh water. I guess they learned that from Stranded Deep LOL. Creating a desalinization setup would be a great level 45-50+ blueprint i think. Maybe even make it a drop only blueprint.

Though you usually evaporate water by boiling it, so it is not totalyl wrong, jsut that you miss the important second part.

Rain tanks are in, the problem is that the capacity is far to small to be usefull, while you can drink out of them, you can't really refill waterskins, they are empty very fast.

[⭕⃤ BIPPO]

No thanks. Thirst currently makes half of your game time going to water to drink, it should be nerfed like x10 lol.

[Dragnelus]

its good hows ita now

[sebo]

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Though you usually evaporate water by boiling it, so it is not totalyl wrong, jsut that you miss the important second part.

Rain tanks are in, the problem is that the capacity is far to small to be usefull, while you can drink out of them, you can't really refill waterskins, they are empty very fast.

there are many ways to evaporate water without boiling, put a cup of water in your room for a week, and come back later and the glass is half empty with most of the minerals and salts left behind.

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Wouldn't make it fresh water, but it does help. Definitely not a perfect or permanent solution, but it would
a- boil out most of the bacteria and nasty bits floating around in there
b- evaporate a large portion of the salt. Not neough to make it a long term solution, but definitely a step up from dunking your face into the ocean and huffing it like we seem to do now
EDIT: Protip: Salt condenses in heat, so the top portion of water can be cupped out and be salt "free", as long as you do it fast right off the heat.. but an entire pot of water would only produce about 1 drinkable cup per boil. DEFINITELY NOT EFFICIENT

again, the last thing you want to drink boiled salt water.. if anything salt water is technically "cleaner" than fresh water as the salt kills a lot of parasites,bacteria,etc.. but you're better off not drinking any water or just not boiling it .. drinking boiled sea water will kill you fastest way, IRL anyway..

perhaps the game should have something like being able to boil water and you must craft or find some hoses to distill it..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00kKPOs_FA4

[Tanaalethan]

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perhaps the game should have something like being able to boil water and you must craft of find some hoses to distill it..

Honestly, you can do it yourself with a small fire, a stone pot, which I'm assuming is what they're using on the cooking fire, then placing something like a banana leaf over top.

The evaporated water will collect on the leaf like it does on a skillet lid when boiling rice. And since banana leaves are hydrophobic, it'll run down by gravity and can be collected in another container. You.. may want to reboil it however, the first few times, as you never know what's on said banana leaf.

Above example is a common classroom experiment done with burners, beakers, and paper plates to show students how evaporation and condensation work.