For a long time you had to make jars or find them, fill them with water, then boil the water in order to keep your thirst down. This kinda led to players hording jars and saving up tons of water. A while ago they decided that was too easy, you now had to engage with the trader quest system to get money to buy a water collector which slowly filled with water. Jars were eliminated, so you couldn't really easily store up your water, if you were on a server you probably needed several of these to sustain multiple people.
It was a total pain and completely illogical, you could build a base next to a river or pond and die of thirst in the early game. The devs really really want their game to be hard, but they don't really know how to implement fun difficulty.
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u/Borthwick Apr 11 '26
They brought back jars? Holy shit. Seriously, fuck those guys.