# "Warning: You're about to dump out all of your water by mistake!"

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/warning-youre-about-to-dump-out-all-of-your-water-by-mistake/23990>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [June 20, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/warning-youre-about-to-dump-out-all-of-your-water-by-mistake/23990 "2020-06-20T23:08:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![kwahn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kwahn/32/8700_2.png) [@kwahn](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kwahn)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/warning-youre-about-to-dump-out-all-of-your-water-by-mistake/23990/1 "2020-06-20T23:08:56Z")

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Ever since nested containers were added to the game, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone to put a bunch of stuff down, only to dump out multiple bottles of liquids by mistake.

It would be really nice if the game would stop and warn you if you’re about to pour a contained liquid onto the ground – or eliminate the ability to ‘Drop’ liquid objects entirely since I can’t think of any situation where I’d want to drop water onto the ground without the bottle… and if I ever DID, I have the ability to unload the bottle it’s in.

Alternatively, just move any items stored in a container to the bottom of the item screen, and raise the ‘Containers’ section above them. That way, when going down the list, the first thing people will see is the container and not the item stored inside the container.

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**Author:** ![Valase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valase/32/6972_2.png) [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/warning-youre-about-to-dump-out-all-of-your-water-by-mistake/23990/2 "2020-06-20T23:16:45Z")

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There’s a suggestion on github related to that:

> <https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/41388>
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> \# Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
> My one confusi…on/frustration with the new inventory overhaul has been the showing of items that are in containers. The most common use-case being canned foods or medicines. Effectively the item shows up twice in the inventory screen. Beans will show up under food, then "medium tin of beans" shows up under containers. This causes problems in cases where one wants to dump all food, but if you dump by category you will empty the contents of the containers, and not the containers themselves.
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> \# Describe the solution you'd like
> When a container has only one item, rather than show the container and contents separately in categories, show it once under the category of the contents. "Bottle of asprin" shows up under drugs, "Can of beans" only shows up under food.
> 
> \# Describe alternatives you've considered
> One other alternative to consider would be that when someone tries to dump an item, it drops the container as well. This would only occur if:
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> \- The item is the only contents in a container
> \- The container is not worn
> \- the contents of a container could be spilled
> 
> \# Additional context
> Add any other context (such as mock-ups, proof of concepts or screenshots) about the feature request here.

> [@kwahn](#):
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> […] or eliminate the ability to ‘Drop’ liquid objects entirely since I can’t think of any situation where I’d want to drop water onto the ground without the bottle…

I just used that yesterday to put out a fire in my house (well, not my house, it was in the game, and my character did it, and it wasn’t even his house, but a furniture shop, and he was naked - but that’s an other story).  
It was faster to just drop 1 water out of a bottle than to unload it into a smaller flask and unload it from there onto the ground/fire.

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**Author:** ![kwahn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kwahn/32/8700_2.png) [@kwahn](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kwahn)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/warning-youre-about-to-dump-out-all-of-your-water-by-mistake/23990/3 "2020-06-21T01:44:55Z")

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Which is fine, but a warning would be nice, since you can’t pick up water from the ground once you’ve dumped it. Right now, I feel like it’s too easy to accidentally dump items out of containers rather than just put the container down.