Drinking water bug?

It's an intentional change in A21, see their release notes here: https://7daystodie.com/a21-official-release-notes/

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To enhance the survival experience, water collection has been rebalanced by removing empty jars and cans.

 

Well, I wasn’t expecting that. It would be nice if we had a cap limit on how much bottles you get back and have them degrade over time from usage. Not just entirely disappear after using them.