While you try your best to survive in The Forest, things might not be so easy, especially in early games. You will find yourself quickly starving or feeling thirsty. There is water in the Forest, but it is generally impure and can make you sick if you are not careful. In this guide, we will see how to drink and collect clean water in The Forest.
How to Drink and Collect Clean Water in The Forest
You can start drinking water right away when you are in The Forest, but you should also collect some for harder times. Here we will see how to drink and collect clean water in The Forest.
How to Drink Water in The Forest
When you come across a water body like a lake or pond, you can directly drink from it by clicking on the lips icon that will come up when you approach the water body. You have to get close to the pond, lake, or river to get the icon to pop up. Once it does, just click on it to take a sip. The water here will be somewhat polluted and might decrease your health a bit, but if you are in a hurry you can do this method.
How to Collect and Boil Water in The Forest
You can also start filtering polluted water by using a pot to collect water, then boiling it. If you don’t have an Old Pot, you can find 5 of them in the area. The earliest and easiest Old Pot you can get is at the abandoned campsite, northwest of the yacht. It can be found somewhere near the coastline, and you can get one Old Pot here. Now, collect some water by heading over to the stream, lake, or pond with the pot, then clicking on the C button once the pot icon shows up to start collecting water. You need to build a basic fire or a fire pit, then place the pot on the fire to boil it and get clean drinking water. Press E to drink the clean water when the pot icon shows up again.
How to Collect Rainwater in The Forest
While filling your pot with water and boiling it is great for the short term, you would need something sturdier for the long term. You can create a rainwater harvester or water collector. You will need Sticks x4 and Turtle Shell x1. You can find sticks everywhere in the forest, and you can get a turtle shell by finding and killing turtles found on the beach. Under the Fish icon on the screen, you will find the blueprint to create the water collector.
How to Carry Water on you in The Forest
Once that is done, you don’t have to worry about collecting clean water anymore, as anytime it rains, the turtle shell will collect it. You can also carry your water with you by creating a Waterskin. You will need deer skins x2 and rope x1 to craft it. You can get deer skin by killing deer in the forest, and you can get a rope from the villagers’ huts.
That’s all there is to know about drinking and collecting water in The Forest. If you like this guide you can check out our other guides as well.