Safe food and water

Make drinking water safe

Reported defaults give 25 hydration per 250 mL. Clean water is safe; rainwater has a 10% sickness chance and river/lake water 40%.

1. Gather water in a supported bottle or canteen. A clean-water bottle holds 500 mL; a canteen holds one litre of one water type. An empty glass bottle filled at a lake becomes dirty water.
2. Boil it at a stove or use a working water purifier. A purifier’s filter supports 100 litres and the device draws 5 energy/s.
3. A powered furniture kettle can boil a dirty/rain-water bottle or canteen through a 30-real-second action.
4. Check the resulting water type before drinking; a full vessel alone does not indicate clean contents.

After mains shutdown, each toilet has one five-litre untreated tank. Mains refills it while available. Outdoor wooden rain-barrel furniture can collect up to 100 L by default with a simple open-sky check. These are water sources, not purification.

Keep food usable

Food starts ageing when first picked up. At 75% shelf life it is stale; at 100% it is spoiled, providing half calories with a 40% food-poisoning chance. Matching kind and freshness determine stacking.

Working refrigerators slow ageing to one quarter, freezers to one twentieth. Their draws are 5 and 8 energy/s. Losing power removes the preservation benefit; build independent supply before relying on a fridge after regional shutdown.

Cook raw meat/fish at a stove. Raw meat/fish have a reported 25% risk. Cans keep longer but need a knife to open; the empty can is scrap. Vanilla foods also receive nutrition and shelf-life behavior.

When eating does not help

Food poisoning doubles water loss for 12 survival hours. Oral rehydration suppresses the extra loss for four hours. Corpse sickness separately reduces solid-food nutrition and can block solids entirely; liquids and soups remain available.

Preservation buildings and pump-only lasting water are future proposals. This release’s natural-water bottle/canteen route remains dirty. Bucket/cauldron and infinite-source changes in the backlog are not established mechanics.