# \[Suggestion\] Drinking straight from the pot
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944
**Category:** The Drawing Board
**Created:** [November 12, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944 "2013-11-12T16:58:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@MisterFox](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MisterFox)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/1 "2013-11-12T16:58:12Z")
When making a liquid, I’d like the option to be able to drink it straight out of the pot. Why should you have to pour soup into a bottle or gasoline into a waterskin to be able to drink it? I don’t mean turning the pots into containers, just a yes/no option of whether or not to just drink it instead of pouring it in a container.
There could be the penalty of the chance of burning your lips because you’re rubbing them all over the frying pan when trying to slurp it up.
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### Author:  [@Luissen](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Luissen)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/2 "2013-11-12T17:53:44Z")
I think it’s a good idea, along the same realm as being prompted with the option to drink water from ‘your hands’ when filling a container from a source.
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### Author:  [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/3 "2013-11-12T20:15:55Z")
“You burn your lips on the hot pot of water”
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### Author:  [@ShinQuickMan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ShinQuickMan)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/4 "2013-11-12T23:32:33Z")
Oof. That level of detail for the sake of screwing with players is something I’d expect in Nethack. What next?
“The scathing liquid damages your plastic bottle!”
“The plastic bottle is destroyed!”
“Clean water spills all over the ground.”
EDIT: I mean, if we really need to, just add an extra minute to consume the contents, to represent cooling down the pot and liquid to a safe temperature.
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### Author:  [@vultures](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vultures)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/5 "2013-11-12T23:47:27Z")
I had this brilliant idea ~~~ if you cook 0.25 lit at a time, it’s perfectly possible to store that liquid in your shoe. You can stick a knife in your boot if it’s on you already, so it’s not hard to imagine it being a container for water if it’s not on your foot. Moreso, my leather hiking boot can store more than a half-litre for sure, so instead of having a waterskin you just tie the shoelaces around your neck and carry that liquid around. If you had a straw you could sip soup while trampling zombies with your flatbed; wipe the things inside-out with your towel when you’re done, put them on and exit the vehicle.
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### Author:  [@Medicine](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Medicine)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/6 "2013-11-12T23:55:13Z")
> [@vultures](#):
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> I had this brilliant idea ~~~ if you cook 0.25 lit at a time, it’s perfectly possible to store that liquid in your shoe. You can stick a knife in your boot if it’s on you already, so it’s not hard to imagine it being a container for water if it’s not on your foot. Moreso, my leather hiking boot can store more than a half-litre for sure, so instead of having a waterskin you just tie the shoelaces around your neck and carry that liquid around. If you had a straw you could sip soup while trampling zombies with your flatbed; wipe the things inside-out with your towel when you’re done, put them on and exit the vehicle.
That’s fantastic. Bravo.
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### Author:  [@Rutilant](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rutilant)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/7 "2013-11-13T04:05:24Z")
> [@Medicine](#):
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> That’s fantastic. Bravo.
“Huh? Oh, that’s my soup boot.”
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### Author:  [@Hyena\_Grin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Hyena_Grin)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 6:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/8 "2013-11-13T06:07:39Z")
Honestly I’d rather just see it result in a pot of water. Let the pot hold 2 full bottles worth of water and let the player empty it into another container or drink from it.
You’d just need to change the recipe to allow for:
Water + Heat + Pot OR Pot 1/4 OR Pot 2/4 OR Pot 3/4 OR Pot 4/4
So you could use the same recipe four times using the same pot and get a full pot of water. Just may need to be some way to dissuade the player from using the pot as a container for water while moving around. Perhaps make the volume increase quite a bit more with each portion of water it holds, to represent the difficulty of carting around a pot of water without spilling it.
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### Author:  [@Inadequate](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Inadequate)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 6:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/9 "2013-11-13T06:10:47Z")
The current system doesn’t seem to allow for emptying liquids in a container that can’t be sealed, like tin cans or aluminum cans. On a related note I’ve always wondered about that, if that’s not an option why are they even showing up in that menu?
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### Author:  [@Hyena\_Grin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Hyena_Grin)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/10 "2013-11-13T06:17:08Z")
That’s just a control mechanism to prevent people from wandering around with nonsensical water vessels. Kinda hard to fight zombies without spilling stuff. Which is why I said some way to prevent people from walking around with the pot of water.
One option would be to have the recipe remove the pot from your inventory and put it on the ground. If you interact with it, it would ask you if you would like to empty the pot of water. You could then select a container for it, drink with your hands, or choose to empty it into the ground. But you would not be able to pick the pot up until it was empty.
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### Author:  [@Inadequate](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Inadequate)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 7:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/11 "2013-11-13T07:22:46Z")
It seems like it would just make the actual process of boiling water more tedious, considering how limited the occasions when you have a pot but no water containers are.
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### Author:  [@Rutilant](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rutilant)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 7:59am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/12 "2013-11-13T07:59:15Z")
I would literally kill [size=4pt]HUNDREDS OF ZOMBIES[/size] for re-craft to attempt to select the same containers and tools as the last time. So, if I say, “boil water, use hotplate, put it in y - steel jerrycan” it will do that until it can’t for whatever reason.
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### Author:  [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/13 "2013-11-13T14:02:00Z")
Off topic, but once I found some lightly damaged water (4).
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### Author:  [@Mattamue](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mattamue)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/14 "2013-11-14T02:07:26Z")
> [@Rutilant](#):
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> I would literally kill [size=4pt]HUNDREDS OF ZOMBIES[/size] for re-craft to attempt to select the same containers and tools as the last time. So, if I say, “boil water, use hotplate, put it in y - steel jerrycan” it will do that until it can’t for whatever reason.
There is an option for that 🙂 look in your help menu and the find all commands list, find the craft until possible entry and assign a key to it
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### Author:  [@Inadequate](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Inadequate)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/15 "2013-11-14T02:59:40Z")
You still have to press the button for the jerrycan a hundred times or so, and if all your containers get used up, you’re stuck dumping clean water on the ground over and over again until the fire burns out.
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### Author:  [@freezerbunny](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/freezerbunny)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/16 "2013-11-14T18:51:16Z")
Guys, my proposed solution which I may implement:
ALLOW unsealed containers to store liquids.
BUT if the unsealed container is put in your backpack, spill the contents.
Hence the player can only wield containers with liquids that are unsealed.
> You can't put that %s in your backpack without spilling it! Drop your %s and wield it instead?
Then we make the pot return a pot of water.
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### Author:  [@MisterFox](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MisterFox)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/suggestion-drinking-straight-from-the-pot/3944/17 "2013-11-14T19:30:20Z")
I like this
and lightly damaged water