One side effect of the water thing... cooking. Want to boil an egg or meat, or make cornbread? All early game staples, which are virtually pointless now since just being able to hydrate yourself with gallons of water per day will use all of your water reserves. Cooking has essentially be nerfed...
Here's one idea - everything inside your LCB area gets damaged by either a percentage or a flat value to represent time passing. The more often you die before repairing it, the more likely it is to break and crumble with the next respawn. Say if every block takes 100 damage and you don't repair...
I posted this in my Steam review of the game - the devs treat the updates as though this is an MMORPG. Their updates rarely add to the game, but instead remove and replace features. This makes it virtually impossible to pick and choose what you like and how you want to play the game, since it...