Bang for Your Bucket: An Alternate Early-Game Water System

For those looking for a different, and perhaps more sensible start for water-gathering in 7D, this mod shifts early game water sustainment away from the dew collector and instead towards in-world water sources, such as rivers, ponds, culverts, etc. It should also (in theory) encourage exploration and a more active playstyle, and tie you less to the trader.

If you use a bucket to obtain water from water blocks, you now have the option to boil those full buckets of water at the campfire to get clean drinking water. You can get as much water as you can find, carry, and boil! More buckets = more water per trip. Due to limitations on campfire output, the recipe comes out as a bundle; open it to retrieve your bucket and three jars of potable water.

This is supported by several additional changes:

• Buckets have been made regularly available at both the traders and more common in loot, roughly as easy to obtain as cooking pots. Try your luck searching likely places like sinks, garages, janitor’s carts, fire trucks, and farms! There is also an alternate version which adds the recipes but only puts a few extra buckets in a small number of specific containers, and only very rarely.
• You can obtain water from snow as well, with a recipe for both buckets and cooking pots. For balance, the recipe is lossy, but putting points into Master Chef will reduce the recipe cost.

The Helmet Water Purifier mod is unchanged, as that item’s balance should remain unaffected by this modlet; as with vanilla, it makes it easy to stay hydrated, but provides no water for other purposes.

A Few Notes for Playtesters

• The bucket system should take work, but it should also be fairly forgiving and flexible in that you can choose how much time and effort you dedicate to getting water… unless you spawn in a desert of course! It might be mildly tedious early, but once you get multiple buckets things should ease up, since even one boiled bucket will give as much water as a dew collector would in a full day.
• As mentioned, buckets should be fairly common, so please let him know if they’re significantly harder to get than cooking pots.

Credits

Silver Magister for the original Bucket of Boiled Water mod (which this is based on), BFT2020 and Sphereii for extensive help with the xml.

Changelog

• v1.3
  • Verified mod still works in 1.1
  • Water filter purchase restrictions have been removed as filters are no longer required for dew collectors
  • Added optional variant edition with vastly reduced loot. Now only added to janitor carts, fire trucks, garage storage, and construction boxes, and with lower
• v1.2 – Fixed snow recipe Master Chef discount not working for jar recipe, lowered spawning of buckets somewhat.
• v1.1 – Corrected several errors, and added two snow-to-water recipes.

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The forum topic of the mod is here.

Credits: FramFramson