59 minutes ago, Lamblaska said:Maybe we would be able to build dew collectors without water filters, but in this case those would gather water slower, and gathered water is murky water instead of clean.
yes why not.
Maybe give the dew collector three slots for additional tools, just like bellows, anvil, crucible for the forge.
without any tools it would just collect murky water at a slow rate. ( mix of condensed moisture, rain and bird poop 🙂 )
As a "1st tier" tool you could have craftable filters, made of plant fiber, coal and sand (which would be somewhat realistic "ingrediences" in fact).
Then it would produce clean water, but very slow (filtering takes time).
But you could fill all three slots with additional filters to speed things up.
The filters you can only buy right now, they could serve as "high tier" filters which work pretty fast.
...hmmm, or you could make it that coal, sand and plant fiber work as kind of a "fuel" for the dew collector,
that is consumed over time (well, filters would wear down/clog up and stop working eventually, right?)
Yes, this I like even better! Make the water filter craftable with a rather high amount of coal, sand, fiber, polymer,
and make it a "comsumable" that "burns out" over time, so you have to regularly craft new ones.