Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-30638886-20170418201942

As a disclaimer, I have no idea if this has been suggested before, but this is what I've come up with all on my own, though it may not be original.

Water serves extremely little purpose in the way of nutrition in the mod. In real life you need it very often unless you want to die from dehydration. Now, I'm not saying make it mandatory that players drink water or die by some function, lest someone get antsy about that. Water should, when drunk from mugs, goblets, cups, horns and skins give 2 points of saturation back, but no food. Buckets would give 4 points as they are much larger. One could only be able to get 6 or 8 points of saturation from this source at a time. If one drank more water than the 3-4 cup limit, they would receive nausea for a short time, or more depending on the 'overdose,' so to speak. The limit would be reset once regular food has been consumed. Another way to do this would be to have the same limit, but there would be a 'meter' that would deplete at 1 point per minute, thus after 2 minutes one could drink a cup of water. This would eliminate the need for eating in between. A third way to do this, is to incorporate both. If food was given a 'dryness' value it, when consumed, would decrease the amount of built up water by X amount, allowing one to eat and drink more water. Something that could be used to simulate the dangers of drinking water straight from a natural source could be made by having every 1 in 5 or 10 drinks from a water source would give poison and nausea for a period of time. This could be altered for swamps, where 1 in 2 or 5 drinks would be bad. For Mordor, the wither effect could even be added to give the sense of extremely bad water.

My reasoning for this suggestion and its parts are a) now water can be used for its intended purpose: nutrition, b) people won't need food right away and so often if they can replenish saturation to some extent, c) one can survive on almost nothing but water for a decent amount of time in reality, d) water is sometimes filled with nasty bacteria when taken from the wrong place, e) if one drinks too much water too rapidly they will get nauseous and occasionally sick.

Thanks for reading, kudos and constructive criticism welcome.  