How to Get Water in The Forest

The atlas names 63 surface sources "Polluted water source" and a further 20 "Water source" markers inside the endgame bunker, which are not labelled polluted. Open the water layer and take the nearest pin to your base.

A player guide separates three kinds: sea water and the streams that feed from it (undrinkable), ponds and lakes (fresh), and polluted water (drinkable, with a 20% chance of sickness and a small health loss) (Corrosion Hour). The files hold only the word "polluted".

The game's loading hint reads: find a pot to boil water. The Old Pot's text is "Use to boil water". The files store 40 seconds for the pot to finish on a fire and 3600 seconds before it burns; a player guide says to put it on a campfire for about 30 seconds (Corrosion Hour). The Old Pot guide lists all 5 pots with a map.

The Waterskin is 2 Deer Skin, 1 Rope. A rope is 7 Cloth, and the atlas places 37 deer zones for the skins. A player guide says it holds enough to fill your thirst twice and recommends filling it from boiled or collected water (Corrosion Hour).

The Water Collector costs 4 Stick, 1 Turtle Shell. The shell comes from a turtle: the water layers place 18 turtle spawners (turtle layer). The water file stores a rain fill of 0.01 per second and a dry-out of 0.5 per day (read as the collector's), so it wants open sky. A player guide says it holds one to five drinks (Corrosion Hour).

These items lower thirst when used. The files do not state the scale of thirst, so compare the numbers with each other, not with a bar.