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Foxite

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Adventurer drinking stagnant water when dehydrated
« on: November 27, 2014, 10:46:32 am »
From my experience, an adventurer will never drink stagnant water regardless of how much they need it.

It might be a bug but that should definitely be changed. Just like when your character is starving, they will ignore the ethics for a while and butcher any dead creatures regardless of how much he liked them or their intelligence.
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Re: Adventurer drinking stagnant water when dehydrated
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2014, 11:57:35 am »
Quote from: latias1290 on November 27, 2014, 10:46:32 am
From my experience, an adventurer will never drink stagnant water regardless of how much they need it.

It might be a bug but that should definitely be changed. Just like when your character is starving, they will ignore the ethics for a while and butcher any dead creatures regardless of how much he liked them or their intelligence.

They will do that already.  They just have to be very thirsty and it does not refill their entire thirst needs. 
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Re: Adventurer drinking stagnant water when dehydrated
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2014, 02:49:34 pm »
Maybe they do it when they're dehydrated. But I think we should have it be possible also when you have purple thirst, so that you can get it when you need it before you REALLY do but you can't find any within range before dying.
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Re: Adventurer drinking stagnant water when dehydrated
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2014, 09:46:39 pm »
It's a poor feature in the first place to not allow you to drink stagnant water whenever you feel like it. Make it like real life: do it whenever you want, but you're going to probably get sick and vomit everywhere a little while later (and thus die anyway if you haven't made it to cleaner water in the meantime)
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