# Clean water from dehydryser

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/clean-water-from-dehydryser/13042>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [November 29, 2016, 9:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/clean-water-from-dehydryser/13042 "2016-11-29T09:38:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![vivat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vivat/32/98_2.png) [@vivat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vivat)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 9:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/clean-water-from-dehydryser/13042/1 "2016-11-29T09:38:14Z")

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Hi!  
what if clean water can be spawn as side-product in receipts like dryed meat.  
there is some products which can be crafted not only one way.  
maybe other way can spawn water, if in receipts we include cup - for condensing water.  
for example dryed meat - is need food dehydrotiser(25), but with cup - it give us also and clean water, with dryed meat of course.

is to pity to drop off of so needed component - i mean clean water.

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**Author:** ![Kadian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kadian/32/214_2.png) [@Kadian](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Kadian)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/clean-water-from-dehydryser/13042/2 "2016-11-29T22:54:51Z")

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Water isn’t that…you know, rare. Even a survivor in early game is easily able to find water and clean it with little effort, and mid- to end-game survivor tend to have a large supply of (clean) water and other drinks.

Also, from my experience, a dehydrator usually works in a way where the moisture from the food just gets released through air vents into the surrounding air. There simply isn’t a a place where the moisture gets condensed back to water, why would there? There isn’t a reason for pre-cataclysm dehydrators to have a feature like that.  
You would need to build your own, improved Dehydrator, for example where the air vents lead into a hose or pipe of some kind, which is long enough for the air to cool off and the water to condense, and THEN you could put a container of some kind beneath the hose/pipe to catch the water. That’s a lot of work for a bit of water you could easily grab from a nearby river, pond or even from the rain.

Another thing would be a problem with portions. the minimum for liquids is 250ml ; this is 1 portion of liquid.  
Meat has around 60% of liquid in it - you need 2 chunks of meat for dehydration, so you’re using around a pound of meat or around .48kg of meat, so this isn’t a problem - that could result in around 1 portion of water.  
The issue shows up when you’re trying to dehydrate vegetables or fruits. There you have massive differences in the amount of, well, matter you’re dehydrating, to name 2 extremes:  
You have to use 2 pumpkins to dehydrate them - 1 pumpkin is 1.32 lbs/0.60 kg in weight, so you’re talking about 2,6 lbs or 1,2kg of matter, which should give you AT LEAST 2, if not 3 portions of water.  
Another example would be grapes, where you need 4 grapes with 0.66 lbs/0.30 kg each ; that’s be also 2,6lbs or 1,2kg. Grapes are around 80% water, so we’re talking around 4 portions of water here.

Do you see the problem yet? In order to have a byproduct of water which fits the ingredients we would need to either overhaul the recipe itself, which is adjusted to the amount of fruit/veggies you get from farming (I think?), or we would have to split the recipe into dozens of little recipes, which will clutter the recipe menu even more.

If a contributor has an idea how you can implement it, I’d have no problems with it, but it seems to be not worth the hassle, at least in my opinion.

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**Author:** ![vivat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vivat/32/98_2.png) [@vivat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vivat)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/clean-water-from-dehydryser/13042/3 "2016-11-30T16:46:42Z")

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thanks for your opinion.

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**Author:** ![pisskop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/pisskop/32/1327_2.png) [@pisskop](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pisskop)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/clean-water-from-dehydryser/13042/4 "2016-11-30T17:02:20Z")

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I dont even bother cleaning water late game.

I just keep it in a tank, and make tea and coffee out of it. Or simply drink it raw and take some vitamins. Water taken from a tank can never have parasites or be poisoned

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**Author:** ![ApatheticExcuse](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/apatheticexcuse/32/433_2.png) [@ApatheticExcuse](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ApatheticExcuse)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/clean-water-from-dehydryser/13042/5 "2016-11-30T19:16:28Z")

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The other issue here is that a dehydrator doesn’t generally have any kind of filter on it. While it won’t result in the same kind of gross water you can get from a dehumidifier, it’s pretty unlikely you’d get sterilized, clean water from one.

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**Author:** ![lordmatiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@lordmatiz](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/lordmatiz)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/clean-water-from-dehydryser/13042/6 "2016-12-03T16:41:23Z")

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> [@vivat](#):
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> for example dryed meat - is need food dehydrotiser(25), but with cup - it give us also and clean water, with dryed meat of course.

I guess you’ve never seen food dehydrator, right? It is a big hair dryer where you put food in it and wait to dry by evaporation. It doesn’t “suck water out of it”.

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**Author:** ![Coolthulhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/coolthulhu/32/2446_2.png) [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/clean-water-from-dehydryser/13042/7 "2016-12-03T18:44:51Z")

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Clean water is incredibly common resource.  
There are some recipes where someone though adding clean water byproduct is a good idea. It wasn’t - it only means you have to handle that byproduct, which at this moment is nearly free.

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**Author:** ![mugling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@mugling](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/mugling)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/clean-water-from-dehydryser/13042/8 "2016-12-03T18:49:02Z")

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I previously proposed this and we came to the conclusion it would just lead to menu spam

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**Author:** ![vivat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vivat/32/98_2.png) [@vivat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vivat)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/clean-water-from-dehydryser/13042/9 "2016-12-05T13:35:10Z")

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oops but thanks for opinions aboot the topic