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r/projectzomboid•
rioreiser

Plumbing From Rain Collector To Sink No Longer Gives Drinkable Water?

Question

hey,

new player here. read that i can place a rain collector one floor above and one tile away from my sink and it gives drinkable (non-tainted) water. did it 2 days ago, it worked. then i died. now i tried it again and it does no longer work? how do i manually purify water? i tried to place water bottles inside my fireplace and lit it, but they stayed tainted. do i have to fill like 100 kettles or something? this seems very tedious. is there an easier way, outside of bringing 100 water dispensers to my base?

thanks!

Posted Jul 23, 2021, 10:43 PM UTC

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StruggleBasic•

oh come on thats bollocks sinks would have purifiers on them surely

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Nicator_Drinking away the sorrows•

Do they in real life? I've never heard of that. I've heard of actual commercial water distribution plants still delivering unclean water through the faucet even today and in America.

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StruggleBasic•

yeah they do. but tbf, i imagine the water would have zombie virus in it so boiling it would be the only way to get rid

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Antal_zAxe wielding maniac•

That's annoying, boiling water is kindof a chore.

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Libertyforzombies•

Is plumbed water now tainted?

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Hugo9CF•

Seems to be based on my game - but there's nothing in the patch notes that I can see, and I'd have thought there'd be more people talking about it.

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hairypigg•

Yeah I'm also a bit confused by this, plumbed up my nice new sink after the patch and was horrified to find it's now tainted. Can't see anything in the patch notes either, but you would kind of expect to wouldn't you?

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Libertyforzombies•

I thought they would fix it, but kinda hoped they wouldn't.

Boiling water isn't a fun part of the game, and plumbing was a good way around that.

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Libertyforzombies•

I'd be surprised if 10% of the community get to plumbing

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Libertyforzombies•

Yep

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Hugo9CF•

Rainwater is tainted, but if you plumb a sink into a rain barrel on the roof the sink would be clean water - by MAGIC! It seems this has now been removed.

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PippoValmont•

You'll need to boil the water, I recommend using a pot and just using it to fill a water dispenser, it'll last you a long time so you don't have to worry about it too often

Do remember to store some water for the winter however, if you manage to survive until it comes

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rioreiserOP•

i see, thanks!

to clarify, i place the pot inside my fireplace and then light the fire? any idea how long it takes, roughly? thanks again.

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PippoValmont•

I never used a fireplace for it, since I like to make my base in two story buildings that don't usually have space for it, but you got the right idea, just put some water into a recipient like a tray, pot or kettle, put it inside an oven of any kind and light it up. It's been sometime since I last played, so I don't really remember how long it takes, but I do remember however that I didn't read books while boiling water the same way I do with cooking, so I think it's safe to say that it would take 30 in game minutes at the very maximum

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rioreiserOP•

thanks again!

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AetherimpDrinking away the sorrows•

Fill cooking pot with rain/lake/river water -> place pot on stove / fire -> cook for about 30 in game minutes and it will change from tainted to normal water -> use cooking pot to fill whatever you want.

Whenever I find buckets or garden containers I just leave them outside of my base on the ground to fill with rain water.

Tainted water can be used on crops. Just don't drink it.

If you do drink it, forage for lemongrass and eat several pieces to stave off the sickness.

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PippoValmont•

U're welcome mate, hope you have fun :)

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LadieCharette•

I don't even understand why rain is undrinkable. Not realistic at all. That's why I was okay with the whole plumbing stuff.

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netvorr•

Ask CDC.

tldr: All sorts of nasty stuff floats in the air and rain will wash it into your rainwater collector. And further nasty stuff will collect and multiply in it as it sits out there in the open.

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LadieCharette•

I come from the country and we had a well that was often empty. Couple of times a year. We had a rain collecting system. Yes when the rain was still in the barrels, we'd boil it. But rain direct from the sky in clean recipients like Tupperwares we would drink right away. We never were sick because of this.

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kissykaede•

The CDC is full of shit, rural Kentucky rainwater would be perfectly safe for drinking.

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QuantumBubblegum•

Ikr. The only explanation I could come up with is that the garbage bags you collect water in are dirty, or maybe the air quality has an effect, but thats a stretch.

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Oldgeeker64•

I looked but could not find in the patch notes anywhere that indicated the rain barrel/sink filter system had been removed. Could someone direct me to the correct area where is is shown? I must have overlooked it.

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P-Spamchez•

Unless one of my mods changes this (I use Klean's Vanilla Plus list) which I highly doubt, as of 41.55 the water will come out purified from a plumbed sink to water collector barrel. I don't use the boxes so maybe that might have an effect though?

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