Simple water source: solar stills

Zixinus

I have a simple suggestions for a more constant source of water for the player: solar stills. They'd probably would only require a bit of silicone and maybe one bladder-fish.

For those unfamiliar with what I'm talking about, solar stills are simple devices used to turn seawater into drinkable water in an emergency. It's simple really: you make a tent-like structure with transparent walls that's inflated like a balloon. You put seawater at the bottom that gets heated up by sunlight. The water inside evaporates and turns back into liquid that flows down on the walls of the tent into a separate container. That water is pure.





It would float atop the water like the escape pod (maybe tie it to the escape pod?) and the player could simply use it to drink or swap containers for later use. Possibilities of changing them and making them advanced would go from there, such as allowing to chain several together, having more complex versions that would pump water in automatically and replenishing their supply automatically, having ones tied to a base, etc.

hhdropbaud

Wow, that exists! That's awesome! Would make less worry for having to find salt and coral to make bleach... to clean fresh water potentially filled maybe terrible bacteria.. Because I can't see how bleach makes seawater drinkable.

Duff_McDuggin

the current process of running the water through the fabricator is slow and inefficient, but does desalinate the water leaving only the necessity for bleach to handle the bacteria. The solar stills would be a nice addition for begining player. One or two silicone would do it as you said. That combined with the airsac water from the fabricator would give a more constant source as the airsacs get more scarce in the area from consumption.

Duff_McDuggin

@zixinus very nice pictorials by the way. I would like to see that same device in game.