Drinking water is a general codex entry in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
The drinking water is an non-alcoholic food item in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, classified as a beverage.
- For the A Woman's Lot quest item, see water.
Description[]
Drinking water in a skin.
Codex entry[]
Sufficient supplies of drinking water constituted a crucial matter for the medieval town. The townspeople often solved the issue by excavating wells in the grounds of their houses or even in the cellar. Apart from these, there were also public wells. The same usually applied in castles, where a well was often dug out to collect water from a nearby source, such as a stream. Well-building was very costly and not possible everywhere. Castle wells could reach enormous depths, in extreme cases even more than 100m deep. It proved more effective to build a cistern - a tank that resembled a well but did not have its own water source. They usually collected rainwater, which was filtered, and would be emptied once a year.
As well as obtaining fresh water, drainage was necessary. The building of simple sewers or drains is attested by instructions from aldermen regulating that these sewers be dug and maintained, follow the shortest route, and be covered from above. Especially in towns, open ditches along roads served as drains. Such a system of sewage disposal was a nuisance to the populace, a source of unpleasant smells, and spread infectious diseases and epidemics. Hence the originally open ditches were progressively covered over, eventually replaced by brick sewers, which diverted rainwater from the streets and roofs to the nearest watercourse or pond. The regularly recurring epidemics spread around Europe later demanded a more radical solution.
Notes[]
Potions can be applied to many food items, including Drinking water.
- A single potion can be used to spike (or poison) a stack of 5 Drinking water without diluting the effects, providing a 5-for-1 deal.
- You can apply any beneficial potion, such as Aqua Vitalis, Lazarus potion, Marigold Decoction, Nighthawk potion, and so on.
- Poisoned Drinking water (with a Poison, or a Bane potion) can also be used to poison food pots with the same impact as directly applying poison.
- Applying potions to Drinking water filters out the alcohol, allowing players to benefit from the potion's effects without becoming Drunk.
- This is especially useful before tough battles, where using multiple potions might lead to unintended drunkenness.
- Spiking Drinking water filters out the nourishment value of potions, enabling players to use multiple potions without Overeating.
- If a potion is marked as stolen, the drinking water it is applied to will not retain the stolen tag, making it safer to use or carry.
- The value of spiked drinking water remains 0.1 groschen, so this method cannot be exploited for profit.
- Poisoned drinking water cannot be applied to weapons such as swords or arrows.
