No rain

[Zyenu]

So I like every one else got pretty pissed off when the rain would come for 15 seconds just to put out my camp fire, now however its been maybe 4 days and not a drop. Is it like a seasonal thing or just a glitch?

[Decaymoss]

I think it's completely random. I like the idea since it makes the water collector/filter more useful so you cannot completely rely on the rain for clean water.

[[D] Gunnar]

Hello, with me it is not raining since day 19 at all, am now at day 30 :-(
Think it is a mistake.

[guevara2]

Originally posted by DChief Laird PerN:

Hello, with me it is not raining since day 19 at all, am now at day 30 :-(
Think it is a mistake.

No - it is not a mistake. Decaymoss realise it very well. After a while it stops raining and force you to explore and discover other blueprints. Otherwise you can boil your water at a fire.

[[D] Gunnar]

I build the Water-filter and Collector in both versions, so I won't die dryed out. Since every think is prepared for collecting water, it would be good if it would rain once again. I wonder that it didn't rain for 11 days in a Rain- forest. Til now I explored 41 km despite the extrem Water-Defizit. This problem not having enough Water kills the fun while playing this game, too because everything only circles around the crafting of a water reservoir. When a few coconuts are filled with water, a lot of time went by.

[TheGamerXxX]

Right now there are "seasons" defined by months.

I believe its day 22 (just reading about it as I enjoy restarting), where it stops raining forcing you to not rely on coconut bowls actually exploring to find recipes.

Chances are this will be changed in actual release, but right now there is a "drought" after a certain time and you have to purify/boil water to stay alive.

It would be too easy if you could infinitely collect water from rain, I mean you could cover every square inch with water bowls and never run out, defeating the need for water all together.

[zer0sum71]

You can build more than one of each as well... it "ruins fun" for what... 20 minutes while you make 4-5 of them and then 10 more to make a ton of water to explore? Come on. If that's too daunting, why are you playing survival games? I don't like to be negative with people but that's just silly.

[Janky Nose Hair Guy]

If ever been to the tropics but have not lived there the experience of a sudden out of the blue rain can really piss you off. Nothing like getting a BBQ going on the grill, just putting on the marinated veggies and two perfectly marinated pieces of fish then... POUR! WTF! SERIOUSLY?!?!?! then it goes away.

Found out why nobody used the BBQ grill that didn't have a cover over it.

Also got to experience a week of non-stop rain. Rained so much I got to experience different types of rain. Misty rain, light rain with heavy drops, rain that dropped by the bucket, steady rain, on off on rain, windy rain, armor piercing rain (How the heck can rain hurt?), drizzle rain, sideways rain and pause just long enough to piss you off rain.

Personally I want the chance of a hardcore thunderstorm and drenching downpour. The kind you hear about in the Amazon where you don't want to be on the river.

I'd put this on the wishlist for rain settings. :)

[zer0sum71]

I found Nicaragua to be similar. It would not rain for days then it would rain till it flooded and then it would go through periods of daily light rain.

[zer0sum71]

I also found... while I ate three meals a day as some love to point out when I was at home... when I was there I certainly ate more and drank a lot more!

[[D] Gunnar]

The fact is that it rains in a rainforest.
If the developer does not want you to drink water as easily starting on day X, it's the wrong way to turn off the rain.
It would be more useful to integrate an item into the game which allows the player to set up about 10 coconut shells to collect rain from day X and possibly also from size X of the camp.
But then you should also limit such an item to 1 per stock!