The stone pot is stupid. You can’t make a water boiling utensil out of three rocks. NO
I understand that the game is unfairly hard if you can’t boil water early on, but that is no excuse for silliness.
The following suggestion should be easy to implement, requiring only the basic modding tools to change items, no code should be needed:
- Remove the stone pot from the game.
- Allow water to be boiled in tin cans
- Allow a leather pot to be crafted*
The remaining additions are optional but would add a lot of depth:
- Allow water to be boiled in a plastic bottle, destroying the bottle**
- Increase the time the boiling recipe takes by about 10 time its current value, restrict the recipe to using bottles and tins
- Create a new boiling recipe that uses the pots, make this recipe take the same length of time, but process 5 units of water at a time
Even more optional (because I think it might require code changes)
7. Make any water boiling utensil a container. Make boiling recipes require filling the container (for example a pot). Then the pot of water is used in the recipe, changing it from a pot of water to a pot of clean water.***
- (Thanks elauminx) Implement collection of clay and making pottery, firing in hot enough fire. This suggestion is probably the most intensive to implement. Perhaps there should be a separate thread for it. Pottery could add a lot to many parts of the game.
*Water can be boiled in just about anything watertight. I have boiled water in a paper cup before irl. As long as the material is thin enough the water keeps it at a maximum of 100 degrees. Paper burns at around 270 so there is no risk to the cup.
**A standard soft drink bottle warps, shrinks and weakens considerably at 100 degrees. I have filled one with boiling water before and it was ruined, but it did not leak. As noted above however the water will keep the bottle cool until the boiling point is reached. I have not attempted this but I think with a lot of care a plastic bottle could be used to boil water, but would be rendered unusable by the process and have a good chance of spillage.
***The reason for this change is that I can get a pot and still die of thirst because I have no water containers. I should be able to fill a pot with water. I should be able to drink from a pot. Yes the official reason is because it can’t seal and so it can’t be transported in a backpack. Perhaps it would be possible to set up a system where containers without lids could be filled with water but it would all spill if the container was not either in the player’s hands, or on the ground. This could be applied to jars and empty cans too.
