Why build a water collecter/purify etc?

[YupYup]

Basicly what the title says :)

Its a bit of work to build them and wasting "daytime" and right now i don't see the "need" for them.
Placing a coconut shell on the ground has the same effect and never decays either.

Am i missing something about those items "need"?

[gexlou]

I think someone said the collecter builds up even when its not raining but i havent tested that out. And the purifyer you dont need rain at all.
That being said it rains alot and if you are getting enogh water from that then i wouldnt bother building one as its would waste time
I would like to see a due collecter tho

[DeadTomLives]

Originally posted by YupYup:

Basicly what the title says :)

Its a bit of work to build them and wasting "daytime" and right now i don't see the "need" for them.
Placing a coconut shell on the ground has the same effect and never decays either.

Am i missing something about those items "need"?

I built one mostly to see how it worked and it seems to gather rain water much faster -- about 1 Hydration a second or even a little faster than that -- than the coconut shells do. For filling up the coconut bidons or the 'modern' bidon you can find out in the jungle it's basically a requirement if you don't want to line up 10 coconut shells on the ground.

The purifier is nice for quickly getting clean water if it's not raining -- say you went off into the wilderness and ran through all your water and it just didn't rain today and you come home and oops all your containers are still dry you can pick up your cook pot or fill a bidon and dump it into a coconut shell or the cook pot through the purifier. It works pretty well and I've had to do that twice now and I consider myself pretty well established in my save right now.

One time I got bitten by a snake as I returned to camp and was simply too low on energy to relight my fire (this was before I'd finished the structure over my campfire so the rain wouldn't put it out) and I needed hydration to keep my health potential (called Condition) up high enough to survive the poison duration. The purifier literally saved my life, in that situation.

It's not going to come up all the time or anything but they come in handy in certain situations or for people who want a more immersive base rather than a 'perfect play' sort of base.

For instance, I have a water collector (I might even have two actually) just because it looks more realistic to me than to have a ton of coconut shells laying on the ground specifically to collect rain water but I'm not necessarily getting a ton more functionality out of it.

I expect that over the course of development water that is simply left out to the open air will become (Unsafe) and then (Dirty) over time, necessitating boiling or use of the purifier.

[GuardianAngelzTV]

Water collector, collects water consistently, even when it's not raining, it's a handy thing to have.

[MunkyX]

Originally posted by GuardianAngelzTTV:

Water collector, collects water consistently, even when it's not raining, it's a handy thing to have.

even when its not raining? sure bout that?

[oi__io]

Originally posted by MunkyX:

Originally posted by GuardianAngelzTTV:

Water collector, collects water consistently, even when it's not raining, it's a handy thing to have.

even when its not raining? sure bout that?

Water collector does exactly what it says: collect water. And yes, even when there is no rain. It traps water vapor from air and funnel it down to the coconut that was placed under it. I think you will still need to place it outdoors (not in caves) for it to work.

In my current game it hasn't rained for several days now. I have to depend on water collector to provide hydration for me for a couple of days. It collect water relatively fast but one water collector will not be enough if goes for days without rain. Eventually I have to relocate to my other base at the waterfall.

[GuardianAngelzTV]

Originally posted by MunkyX:

Originally posted by GuardianAngelzTTV:

Water collector, collects water consistently, even when it's not raining, it's a handy thing to have.

even when its not raining? sure bout that?

about 100% sure :P

[Hugo Barracuda]

Am I silly?

I built and filled my water filter with water, but I can't figure out how to collect it back from the filter?

There is a circle at the bottom of the filter, but the coconut bidon wont go there...

[gexlou]

Use coconut bowl and then you can collect with the bidon from that when its done

[Hugo Barracuda]

Originally posted by gexlou:

Use coconut bowl and then you can collect with the bidon from that when its done

Ahhh so simple. thanks

[gexlou]

No problem :)

[MunkyX]

Originally posted by Zunlite:

It rains waay too much in my save, thirst is never a problem for me because I also put out any and every coconut I use out to collect rainwater.

too much? in my save since ive got fever, its raining all day long. been raining for 6 days staright now and my fever wont heal. ive got plenty amarasia herbs too. im at day 23 now, not sure if i want to continue or not...sigh

[Decaymoss]

Originally posted by MunkyX:

Originally posted by Zunlite:

It rains waay too much in my save, thirst is never a problem for me because I also put out any and every coconut I use out to collect rainwater.

too much? in my save since ive got fever, its raining all day long. been raining for 6 days staright now and my fever wont heal. ive got plenty amarasia herbs too. im at day 23 now, not sure if i want to continue or not...sigh

Not sure if fever is related to how "WET" you are since I never get that "bug". Try to build a bed inside cave and see if sleeping helps to cure it.

[MunkyX]

Originally posted by Decaymoss:

Originally posted by MunkyX:

too much? in my save since ive got fever, its raining all day long. been raining for 6 days staright now and my fever wont heal. ive got plenty amarasia herbs too. im at day 23 now, not sure if i want to continue or not...sigh

Not sure if fever is related to how "WET" you are since I never get that "bug". Try to build a bed inside cave and see if sleeping helps to cure it.

prob now is my stamina drained too quickly due to fever and i am no where near to any cave, i cant travel more than 30m from my camp to hunt let alone to find a cave, my stamina goes out like a pipe water flow lol.

but, 6 days raining non stop?? i know this is possible in amazon jungle but in this game? bug maybe?

[Pronoun Paladin ☯]

I wonder if you could use a tortoise shell instead of a coconut. You'd get an extra 20 hydration from that

[Data-7]

Watch out, expecially if your camp is not near the water, in dry season you’ll need a collector/purifie or better more than one. You con also boil the water but need to waste much more time than build a collector