# Boiling water should work like fermenting eggs or yeast

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**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Tags:** inventory\
**Created:** [September 10, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/boiling-water-should-work-like-fermenting-eggs-or-yeast/28996 "2023-09-10T19:03:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/boiling-water-should-work-like-fermenting-eggs-or-yeast/28996/1 "2023-09-10T19:03:34Z")

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Considering how crucial boiling water in the game is and how often you’ll be doing it, I feel like a huge quality of life improvement would be not having to spend time actually boiling the water. I think about 80% of the time I spend when my character is afflicted with a flu is boiling water, and by the time the water is done my character is too exhausted to do anything but sleep, instead of having been able to read a book while waiting for the body to recover.

Instead of sitting there watching your pot boil, I suggest we instead just use the code we already have with how eggs fermenting works with “type”: “delayed\_transform”

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**Author:** ![Cobweb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/cobweb/32/12079_2.png) [@Cobweb](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Cobweb)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/boiling-water-should-work-like-fermenting-eggs-or-yeast/28996/2 "2023-09-11T04:03:12Z")

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If you find a container that won’t burn, fill it with water and drop it in a fire, eventually you’ll have clean water (hot). No need to use the crafting menu.  
This works with anything from a tin can to a 200L steel drum. It really should be advertised more, it’s too bad you can make descriptions for the recipes so it could get mentioned there.

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**Author:** ![PALU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e56c9b/32.png) [@PALU](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/PALU)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 6:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/boiling-water-should-work-like-fermenting-eggs-or-yeast/28996/3 "2023-09-11T06:33:59Z")

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I certainly agree “passive” water boiling isn’t advertised. It took a couple of (real world) years before I saw someone point out that was possible. It made a drug addict start a lot easier when you weren’t forced to drink unsafe water and get associated diseases because you were too depressed to do any “crafting”.

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**Author:** ![Cobweb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/cobweb/32/12079_2.png) [@Cobweb](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Cobweb)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/boiling-water-should-work-like-fermenting-eggs-or-yeast/28996/4 "2023-09-11T17:10:32Z")

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I’m not sure it’s even documented in game. It’s been awhile since I looked through the in-game help though. I found out about it through hearsay as well.