Gathering Snow Effort Increase

[random calliope]

Gathering snow to melt is more automated now than gathering logs used to be.

I would like to see a large pot in some buildings that the player must take outside to gather snow if they want to melt snow on a stove. 20 liters of snow would melt down to 1/10th of the volume of the snow, or 2 liters maximum per trip outside. Unless the player has found and brought pots with them. The trip outdoors to gather snow would take 5 to 10 minutes per pot. That is valuable time while a fire is burning, so they would want to gather snow before lighting the fire.

Outdoors an empty food can could melt half a liter at a time with no gathering time penalty because the player could simply fill the can from snow on the ground as it melts. Until the player finds a pot they would have to collect snow in empty cans to take indoors to melt.

If the player does choose to walk through the woods carrying one of these large pots on their back it should rattle and make sneaking impossible.

Varied pot sizes in-world, with the smaller ones common and the largest ones rare, could add yet another constant survival quest.

Or something like that.

[Aduron]

Cool idea! I myself have always thought that if it's above freezing inside a house, I could fill the bathtub with snow and come back in a couple of days to harvest all the sweet sweet non-potable water. I have no idea whether this would work in real life, though.

[Gaboris]

+1

After the new foraging mechanics this shouldn't be much of a problem for players to get used to.

[danicusrex]

+1 I like both the main idea and the "fill a bathtub" idea.

[random calliope]

I like the bathtub idea too. It would put more value on the lesser used houses. In CH the house on Jackrabbit Island is almost as good for a base as the gas station, of you don't mind building fires outside on the porch. The bathtub would tip those scales and we would have to travel way over to the gas station to craft items. More danger. I never get from Jackrabbit Island to the Gas Station without something happening in between.

[DarkUncleBoh]

I also had the idea that you give players the ability to fill a pot with snow, and put it inside a freezer or fridge container... which would do two things:

1) The snow would slowly melt into non-potable water (give the pot its own mini "container" interface to be able to remove the water and add more snow if you want)

2) As long as snow remains in the pot, the fridge or freezer that it is in get a "bonus" in the form of any food products it contains will degrade more slowly.

[danicusrex]

I also had the idea that you give players the ability to fill a pot with snow, and put it inside a freezer or fridge container... which would do two things:

1) The snow would slowly melt into non-potable water (give the pot its own mini "container" interface to be able to remove the water and add more snow if you want)

2) As long as snow remains in the pot, the fridge or freezer that it is in get a "bonus" in the form of any food products it contains will degrade more slowly.

AN Icebox! Yeah, I like that idea too.

[saxel]

The houses are unrealistically warm most of the time, the snow in the bathtub should not melt in reality given the fact that the outside temperatures are always below freezing.

[jumpingbean77]

Yes what is it with the endless supply of water bottles?

I totally concur to the idea of snow gathering to be able to melt snow.

It would also be a nice touch to be able to gather water directly from the fishing huts fishing hole, that would also dramatically increase the value of "going fishing".

[wolfstriked]

Personally,I like the way water gathering has been implemented but if a bucket was added that you needed to go outside and get a few fills of snow before boiling at a fire,I think that would be great also.