Does no one remember the humidifier and dehumidifiers, back in the days before everyone had central air conditioning? I'm talking about the late 1960's to early 1970's. I'll explain why this matters later in the post.
So the folks that kept on and on about wanting empty bottles have successfully lobbied and goten them put back into the game, (which I personally see as a step backwards), and now folks are talking bad about the dew collectors.
Neither of these are good things. And now the dew collectors are being pushed back to later in the tech tree, just so the folks that cried:
"...We want empty bottles, we want empty bottles..."
Can have their cherished 'water scarcity', for the first few days, inflicted on the rest of us, and at the cost of the dew collectors being pushed back, so those empty bottles can have an impact, for the first day or two?
To me, this is just a waste of time, as water was not broken, but hey, if TFP want to redesign water ingame, how about this...
Take the amalgamation of what we now know as "Dew Collectors", and break them down into their constituent elements, the
Rain Catcher, and the
Water Condenser.
The rain catcher is mainly like what we see in game now. They will have to figure out the rainfall/water gained if they are going down this road.
The water condenser is a different animal entirely. Remember the mention of the dehumidifiers, that used to be in many a home back in the day? It's basically a refrigerator, designed to cool a condenser surface, and hot, moist air hits cooled surface, and presto, murky water out of thin air. These things have been around as long (or longer) than I have.
If we are looking at a re-working of water in the game, then can we get the electrically operated dehumidifiers as a craftable object?
The advantages of a dehumidifier over a rain catcher are that, as long as you have high humidity and high temperatures, a water condenser can literally pull that moisture out of thin air. Don't make the mistake of limiting these to the commonplace 'water bottles' so prevalent in today's society, as they can easily make use of any water tight container, of any size.
For a bit of reference, check out what a military version can do:
, your water problems are gone for good. Not to mention you don't even have to find it, you can purchase it. I've somtimes found that thing on day 1 or 2.
