Make All Water Sources Able to Fill Canteens.

[Time Glitch 453]

Hey there!

One of the only annoying things so far about surviving out in the wilderness is the frequency I run across water sources I can't fill up on. I spend 10 minutes sneaking towards a pool surrounded by zombies...Oop, sorry, can't fill that here even though it's a huge pond!

I've only seen a few pools out in the wild where I can fill my canteen. Please expand this in 1.5.8! I prefer the solitary wilds when I have no buddies, and this is a huge issue for us lone wolfs.

Thank you =)

[J.T 0]

You can fill at any water source, be it the ocean, (stupidly) pond, lake or hand pump. If you are in a small source of water like a pond, you need to be swimming in order to fill your canteen.

[Time Glitch 453]

You can fill at any water source' date=' be it the ocean, (stupidly) pond, lake or hand pump. If you are in a small source of water like a pond, you need to be swimming in order to fill your canteen.

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But won't you lose your items if you swim?

[Shyoto 1]

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I think that's the point...

Like, two thirds of the ponds in the map are too shallow to swim in.

I can go prone and completely submerge myself in them, but it's technically too shallow to swim in, even though it's a 20x20m pool. Thus, I can't fill my canteen.

[wallace71 3]

Sodas > Water until this is implemented. I spend most of my time inland, so if I ever find a water bottle, I empty it and ditch it...they just aren't worth is in the current format

[Capital 5]

There are a few wells and ponds where it is impossible to fill your canteen. I think the filling scripts just need to be applied to them.

[Einherj 6]

There is no way to check if a position is in the water or not (excluding the sea). If I remember correctly the current script checks if the player is in the sea or playing the swimming animation.

The only way I could think of accomplishing a check for ponds would be to manually record the outlining coordinates of all inland water areas and to do a check with the player unit if he is inside any of those areas at the moment.

It can be done, but it's not gonna be pretty or efficient.

[savedbygrace 3]

Taking an hour to gather object ID's for all inland water sources is worth the trouble. I posted about this in another thread.

If you folks would do a search and keep these discussions together, half of these suggestions would probably be read by the Devs.