Potable Water
About
Potable Water is the Water that is used in crafting recipes and Gardening. If you are looking for info about the Water Terrain type see Bodies of Water.
Potable Water is obtained by selecting a Vessel, most commonly a Bucket, from your inventory and right-clicking on The Shallows, a Well, or another Vessel already filled with Potable Water. (Do not left-click otherwise you will lose the Bucket!)
Crafting
For recipes which require Water, a Vessel filled with at least that much Potable Water must be in your inventory.
Combination Recipes:
- Milk of Lime: Left-click Lime on Any Vessel filled with Potable Water.
- Tanning Fluid: Left-click Brain on Any Vessel filled with Potable Water.
Cooking
Potable Water is used to Boil several items and in the making of Any Tea. To Boil an item place Fuel and Light your Fireplace. Fill your Clay Pot or Copper Pot with Potable Water and then place over your lit Fireplace. Click your Pot, select Open and put in the items you wish to Boil. When your item is done Boiling, its icon will change.
Cleaning
Both Tokens and Milkweed Jute can be cleaned using Potable Water. Select any Vessel filled with at least 1 liter of Potable Water from your inventory and right-clicking on the Rusty Coin or Charred Milkweed Fibre you want Cleaned. This will consume the 1 liter of Potable Water.
A Bar of Bubbly Soap can be washed by selecting a Vessel of Potable Water in your inventory can selected and right-clicked it on the Bar of Bubbly Soap. This will produce a Cloud of Lather. This can be done 4 times before the Bar of Bubbly Soap is fully consumed. Each time you do this there is a chance to receive a Rainbow Soap Bubble instead. Keep in mind that a Bar of Bubbly Soap can no longer be sold at the Vendor Stalls if you have used it to make any Cloud of Lather.
Gardening
To Plant any item in a Gardening Pot both Humus and Potable Water is required. To Water a Gardening Pot select any Vessel filled with at least 1 liter Potable Water from your inventory and left-click on the Gardening Pot you want Watered. This will consume the 1 liter of Potable Water.
To speed up Gardening when using many Gardening Pots a Barrel which holds 100 liters, Big Barrel which holds 500 liters, or Water Tower which holds 20,000 liters, can be filled with Potable Water and stored nearby.
Drinking
When poured into a Barkcup or Flask and equipped in the left hand, Potable Water can be sipped to recovers 1% of your max Phlegm. Each Sip will add 10 to the Quaffed & Quenched debuff.