WHY I CAN NOT FILL MY CUP WITH A DRINKABLE WATER?!?!?!?!?

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I build an water making thing,i dropped some wood here,i filled it with salty water,now i see the text that says sth like "fill the cup with drinkable water".I PRESS E FU***NG! And you know what?Nothing.The cup is emty.I tried it 100+ times,i reinstalled my game one time.I restarted the game few times.Theres nothing to do.I can not play your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, SO PLEASE HELP ME OKAY?

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Im russian and im really mad,so my english sux

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No idea.

Mine works fine.

Hold an empty cup.
E over salt water to fill the cup with salt water.
E over distiller to fill the blue cup with salt water.
Add wood for a fire.
When ready the water will move from the blue cup to the purple cup.
E over the distiller to fill your cup with fresh water.
LMB to drink the fresh water.

It's pretty much displayed on screen what to do so if you cannot then it may be a bug.

[CokedBadger]

You need to put in a Water Purifier to be able to make it drinkable , if you just fill up the cup from the sea and then drink it it will instead deplete your thirst faster

[Trigirl48]

They are using the basic purifier, they used it as directed & can't get the cup to fill with the fresh water they made.

[Archie]

maybe you have the water purifier to close to something else
// try moving it to a reasonably uncluttered spot.

[YouHaveNoPrivacy]

I had a similar problem. Built purifier, filled with salt water, used plank, SAW the fresh water sitting there, couldn't get it no matter what I tried.

I'm coming from having played the free version where this worked incredibly simply: you cooked the water in the cup, then picked up the cup and drank the fresh water. Reading the posts above, it now seems that the water stays in the purifier but you need to have your cup in your hand in order to collect it. That may be the OP's problem as well.

I will try this.

[YouHaveNoPrivacy]

Update: As I described, that turned out to be the issue for me. It's not very intuitive, and it doesn't tell you that you need to do it that way, but you have to have your (Empty) cup in your hand when you interact with the water purifier again, in order to take the water from the purifier.

[CokedBadger]

Originally posted by BunBuJin:

Update: As I described, that turned out to be the issue for me. It's not very intuitive, and it doesn't tell you that you need to do it that way, but you have to have your (Empty) cup in your hand when you interact with the water purifier again, in order to take the water from the purifier.

Well it's common sense to put water into an empty object if you want to hold it

[YouHaveNoPrivacy]

Originally posted by Plague Doctor:

Originally posted by BunBuJin:

Update: As I described, that turned out to be the issue for me. It's not very intuitive, and it doesn't tell you that you need to do it that way, but you have to have your (Empty) cup in your hand when you interact with the water purifier again, in order to take the water from the purifier.

Well it's common sense to put water into an empty object if you want to hold it

Acutally, it makes MORE sense to just pick the cup up off the purifier since you can clearly see one sitting there, full of fresh water-- and even more-so since THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE GAME, WHICH I STATED ABOVE I HAD BEEN PLAYING UP TO THIS POINT does it that way.