# Allow us to use hot rocks to boil water

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/allow-us-to-use-hot-rocks-to-boil-water/23409>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [April 25, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/allow-us-to-use-hot-rocks-to-boil-water/23409 "2020-04-25T21:34:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![4R53N1C](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/4r53n1c/32/6819_2.png) [@4R53N1C](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/4R53N1C)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/allow-us-to-use-hot-rocks-to-boil-water/23409/1 "2020-04-25T21:34:37Z")

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If you don’t have a fireproof container to boil water, you should be able to heat up rocks in a fire then add them to the water to boil it. You can even boil water in a hat with this method, as evidenced by Les Stroud. It would definitely make early game survival a bit easier.

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**Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 3:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/allow-us-to-use-hot-rocks-to-boil-water/23409/2 "2020-04-26T03:46:47Z")

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your water would just fall off the rock since its a flat surface  
you’d need to find a rock in a nice bowl shape, which is like finding a needle in a hay stack.  
trying to build one out of two rocks would be tough too, and rocks require ALOT of time and heat to actually reach boiling point, not to mention extreme care to not get hot to explode in your face like frag grenades

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**Author:** ![anothersimulacrum](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/anothersimulacrum/32/10770_2.png) [@anothersimulacrum](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/anothersimulacrum)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/allow-us-to-use-hot-rocks-to-boil-water/23409/3 "2020-04-26T03:49:02Z")

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You don’t boil the water in the rocks, you heat the rocks in a fire, and then add them to a container of water, boiling the water as the rocks cool.

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**Author:** ![Bio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/bio/32/6690_2.png) [@Bio](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Bio)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/allow-us-to-use-hot-rocks-to-boil-water/23409/4 "2020-04-26T03:51:27Z")

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Basically just think of the rock as heating kit, not a container