The removal of butterfly drinking (and a suggested substitute)

[Peffern 94]

At the moment, the best way to replenish thirst is to stand in a block of water on the ground. However, this makes no sense as Steve is not a butterfly, and therefore does not drink through his feet. Water bottles can be brought into mines etc. to replenish thirst on the go, but bottles are a pain to create as they require glass.

I have two solutions. (and a half)

First the half: remove butterfly drinking. It doesn't make sense.

Now the first real solution: add a flask or canteen of some sort.

A relatively simple crafting recipe is all that I would use, just something easy.

My second solution is more of a comment. Until very recently (17th century or so) water was not the preferred drink of most people as it was dirty and unsanitary. Mostly people drank beer or wine because it was easy to make and clean. I presume that fermenting recipes for barrels will be added eventually, and just because, they should help with thirst problems.

[SunsetSpecter 18]

Whilst I do agree with this in some respects, I would like to point out that cavemen/stone age people were not farmers, thus did not produce the materials for making beer, mead, wine, so on.

'Butterfly Drinking' as you put it would be the basic absence of a proper crouch in Minecraft or otherwise player model animation for standing by the river/pond and bending over to scoop liquid into your block shaped head. Sure you could suggest that the water for 'drinking' should be two blocks thick, and this does not really change the initial 'not dying of thirst' mechanic whilst obliging this animation limitation.

I do, however, agree that there should be another form of drinking flask that is not made from glass, and the more historical of which would be a simple animal skin/hide bladder which could be easily crafted from the new crafting system being implemented I honestly don't see why bottles aren't removed entirely at this point and replaced with something else, as potions are no longer in the game.

As for brewing forms of grain based alcohol, by the gods yes please. Even if not for the historical fact that it was done because of plague and disease reasons, it should be added for another tech tree to climb in terms of brewing things, and proper bloody wine cellars!

[Peffern 94]

True, true. Maybe just have a hotkey that would drink if you were near water.

EDIT: Is my image not working?

[Omicron 62]

You might be interested in this little addon. Also, Dunk posted in that thread and said that he likes the idea enough to implement it himself (in a later build).

[Peffern 94]

Thank you. I'll be installing that.

[weylin 36]

Clay flasks and maybe drinking unboiled water has a chance to give you a sickness of some sort for several minutes?

Perhaps the biome you get the water from could have some implications.

For example, if you got water from a block within a swamp biome... yuck

[Menoch 335]

While waterbmay not have been the drink of choice before the 17th century, wasn't it still required in the brewing of beer?

That said, getting "beaver fever" from drinking water directly from a pond or stream would be a great feature. The sickness would result in slower than normal health regeneration and would decrease the effectiveness of food.

this would require sterilization of water via boiling, which could then he put in the liquid container for consumption ("water sac" mod).

Just an idea. Besides you don't start the game with beer or wine and brewing would take (i would think) quite a while taking into consideration you would still need to acquire/grow the proper ingredients. No?

[Krski 36]

You could just increase the number of water a water bottle can have , instead of creating two different items.

[Peffern 94]

You could just increase the number of water a water bottle can have , instead of creating two different items.

But glass is a pain in many places to make.

[Eleazzar 33]

But glass is a pain in many places to make.

It looks like glass will be easier/quicker than leather in 76.

[Menoch 335]

But glass is a pain in many places to make.

Well then make it in only one place!

Oooooohhh.. haaaay...

I happen to agree with you that it is a little out of place but only in the beginning of the game. Containers should be a tiered thing in my humble opinion.

I am very excited about the barrels though. It is amazing how little things like golden rod (which I hope we will he able to seed and grow) and barrels can aesthetically change the game so much.

I wondered all up in my tiny man brain today how cool a game would be if the procedurally generated terrain was affected by rainfall (ie: rainfall accumulation, mudslides, watertables, shifting terrain, etc...). It would make findingbthe ideal settlement location that much more important.