PC How many dew collectors do you have?
- Thread starter ElCabong
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pApA^LeGBa
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I have 4, don´t take any water with me when looting after day 2. Rather deal with screamers and get XP than loosing one inventory slot.
ElCabong
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I'm starting a new game with just one dew collector and being very diligent about harvesting the water and looting water from pois. I've had the fireplace going with boiling water and making glue for 7 minutes, the forge for 3 minutes, and I was making lots of lock picks in the workbench and I didn't get a screamer. Scratching my head over that. I sure as hell got them generating this much heat in the past.
Kattla
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I'm curious about your dew collector setup. - Thank you for not putting collector in plural. By doing so, i guess the post was meant for me , since the other ones had more then one.
How many do you have - 1. See above.
and what are you using them for? - Collecting glass bottles containing dirty water.
Are you collecting dew for personal use or for a specific project? - I collect the dew for personal use.
I'd love to hear more about your experience. - From experience i've learned that boiling the dirty water/dew will make the water inside the bottles less likely to cause dysentery. I also learned that i can then mix those clean(er) water filled glass jar with various other ingredients to make food that i can eat an survive upon. Most of the time the glass jar will disappear, and the food appears in nice pots. I have not been succesfull at extracting those pots, but they seem edible, so i guess it's a actual recycleable form of glass/ceramics.
And that was my post number 777.
And edit number 2.
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RipClaw
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I currently have four. They are primarily there for my glue production. I prefer to have everything in stock.
RipClaw
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Yes, and in two ways. Firstly, I have a horde base connected to my crafting base and secondly, I firmly believe that the optimal amount of storage boxes is n+1Does that make you a horder?
Maharin
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Yes, and in two ways. Firstly, I have a horde base connected to my crafting base and secondly, I firmly believe that the optimal amount of storage boxes is n+1
Whored Horde hoarder.
8. All fully stocked, and stopped harvesting them 2 weeks ago, after making enough glue and tape to last a year. about 1k of each, and uhm, repair kits is not a problem either..
Never had any problems with screamers, but I also know how they work.
if you are looking to spawn them, you need to trigger the heatmap. you can do that every 21 minutes or so. heat goes to 25% and a dice is rolled on wether you get screamers or not. Either you get them, or you dont. Then it starts a cooldown timer, where you can produce as much heat as you like, but it wont work, since the cooldown period is when the heatmap goes towards 0%, and while doing that, it does not accumulate. For more precise info, go search youtube about it
Never had any problems with screamers, but I also know how they work.
if you are looking to spawn them, you need to trigger the heatmap. you can do that every 21 minutes or so. heat goes to 25% and a dice is rolled on wether you get screamers or not. Either you get them, or you dont. Then it starts a cooldown timer, where you can produce as much heat as you like, but it wont work, since the cooldown period is when the heatmap goes towards 0%, and while doing that, it does not accumulate. For more precise info, go search youtube about it
This is a good time, you know for sure that no one will come at this time and you can do all your business.
LittleRedSonja
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Usually NONE as soon as I am able to craft a sink from my mod "plumbed in water solutions" 
But if you ask in a vanilla un-moded single player game, I usually stay at 2 fully upgraded, and I have never found myself short on water. That might be because I always loot and keep murky water I found when exploring or doing quests. If you are one of those persons that goes directly after the final loot and ignore everything else then I guess you might need more? But for me, 2 is the most I have ever need.
But if you ask in a vanilla un-moded single player game, I usually stay at 2 fully upgraded, and I have never found myself short on water. That might be because I always loot and keep murky water I found when exploring or doing quests. If you are one of those persons that goes directly after the final loot and ignore everything else then I guess you might need more? But for me, 2 is the most I have ever need.
slicksister
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I'd prefer a steel canteen. No way to truly sterilize plastic. And who knows the zombie apocalypse didn't start with consumption of all those plastic nanoparticles?
Rotor
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FileMachete
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Only 1 so far. This is my first 7dtd game since Alpha 20 (and only on day 7), so dew collectors are new to me.
Got really lucky on day 2 and found the helmet filter mod so have been able to use all looted/dew-collected bottles for glue & an occasional tea.
Expecting to add more collectors as I usually do a fair bit of crafting and will need lots of glue.
Fwiw, I'm trying vanilla, and have made it to first horde, but man... haven't really played vanilla in a long time, and now I'm remembering why, heh.
Can't say I'm a fan of the dew collectors mechanic as the be-all end-all. Much preferred the early Alphas use of fillable & boilable tin cans. Glass jars were always a stretch to realism for me, and likewise, now, the lack of reasonable access to use lake/river/ditch water for cooking/crafting grates on me brain.
I'd like to see something like; 1) make a bucket 2) fill the bucket at water source 3a) boil the bucket, or 3b) pour the bucket into a filter setup where clean water drips into another bucket, so no heat generated. Boiling for early game, filtering for later game; maybe a 1w x 2tall block crafting station where you craft it w 1 filter, then can add more for higher flow rates.
While I do like the dew collector mechanic, in general (and if it & looting weren't the only ways to get cook/craft water), I can't figure out the reasoning for the output to be murky water. By that I mean isn't murky water now only used as input to boil into clean water? As I recall (could be wrong) main use for murky water used to be to make glue. So that recipe was reviewed & changed, and whatever else used murky water as an input, other than clean water of course. So why keep murky water around? Guess its for the time/chore/heat of boiling? Maybe to slow down glue production? Though the scarcity of water in general seems effective for that bit.
Sorry, just noodling while stuck on a call
Got really lucky on day 2 and found the helmet filter mod so have been able to use all looted/dew-collected bottles for glue & an occasional tea.
Expecting to add more collectors as I usually do a fair bit of crafting and will need lots of glue.
Fwiw, I'm trying vanilla, and have made it to first horde, but man... haven't really played vanilla in a long time, and now I'm remembering why, heh.
Can't say I'm a fan of the dew collectors mechanic as the be-all end-all. Much preferred the early Alphas use of fillable & boilable tin cans. Glass jars were always a stretch to realism for me, and likewise, now, the lack of reasonable access to use lake/river/ditch water for cooking/crafting grates on me brain.
I'd like to see something like; 1) make a bucket 2) fill the bucket at water source 3a) boil the bucket, or 3b) pour the bucket into a filter setup where clean water drips into another bucket, so no heat generated. Boiling for early game, filtering for later game; maybe a 1w x 2tall block crafting station where you craft it w 1 filter, then can add more for higher flow rates.
While I do like the dew collector mechanic, in general (and if it & looting weren't the only ways to get cook/craft water), I can't figure out the reasoning for the output to be murky water. By that I mean isn't murky water now only used as input to boil into clean water? As I recall (could be wrong) main use for murky water used to be to make glue. So that recipe was reviewed & changed, and whatever else used murky water as an input, other than clean water of course. So why keep murky water around? Guess its for the time/chore/heat of boiling? Maybe to slow down glue production? Though the scarcity of water in general seems effective for that bit.
Sorry, just noodling while stuck on a call
Javabean867
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I usually jeep a stack of purified water and a good food on all my trips to loot. I never know when I'll be going on a long looting spree.
AidenwithAnAxe
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1, but that's because I have plenty of water.
4 collectors, it keeps me well in stock for glue and fluids. The screamers are terrific for a little XP boost here and there. I must add though that they are placed at a distance from my base that targets are an easy shot with a 2x scope (for when I just want the water and not the fight).