Water and Hydration
The hydration system adds a thirst bar above the hunger bar. It is on by default and can be switched off on Configuration. When it is off, drinks still work as food, they just don't restore thirst.
You start with full hydration (100). Every minute you lose one point, so a full bar lasts a long time, but not forever. In summer, with Season System, you get thirsty faster.
- Full hydration: hunger drains a little slower.
- Below 30: hunger drains faster.
- Below 10: hunger drains much faster.
Soups, broths, juices, teas, coffee and other drinks restore hydration on top of hunger. The amount of every item is on Foods. Warm drinks give extra hydration in winter when Season System is installed.
Not all water is safe. Untreated water is a normal water bottle, a canteen filled at a river, or drinking straight from water by hand. It quenches thirst, but there's a 30 % chance to get Nausea and Hunger for a few seconds.
Clean water never makes you sick and restores more:
| Source | How |
|---|---|
| Boiled water | Glass bottle in a cooking pot with water and heat |
| Rain collector | Fills during rain, see below |
| Sink | Always clean |
A bottle of clean water restores 35 hydration.
Sneak and right-click water with an empty hand to take a sip. It gives only a little hydration (5) and counts as untreated water, so it's an emergency option.
The canteen holds 5 sips of 20 hydration each, so one full canteen refills the whole bar.
- Filled at a river or lake: untreated water.
- Used on a hot cooking pot with water, a rain collector or a sink: clean water.
Crafted from string on top and leather on the left, right and bottom.
The rain collector is made from planks in a U shape with a bucket in the middle. Place it under open sky and it fills while it rains. The water is clean.
- Fill glass bottles and canteens directly from it.
- Empty a full collector with a bucket.
- Place it next to a sink and the sink draws its water from it.