Trait for aquatic creatures to drink dirty water

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Reasoning: Especially aquatic creatures like Sarcosuchus are very reliant on the water ressource. It serves both as bait so that other animals come close enough, but aquatic creatures are also the ones mostly balanced around speed in water, being slow on land.
Due to the dirty water mechanic the creatures that rely the most on ambushes and water are forced to travel the most, which is very much counterintuitive.

Under consideration Creature Abilities Suggested by: Not bugs, features (21 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: yesterday • Comments: 10

Comments: 10

23 Oct, '21
drinzjc
IMO, it would be better to reduce the amount of hydration lost when sprinting, since that is your main loss of hydration as a semi aquatic; E.g: You're a sarco who swam from crook to cc, you'll be back down to roughly 80% if you "sprinted" back.
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18 Nov, '21
Nachta
It's quite annoying as a sarco to have to deal with a dirty lake, traveling to a new lake is very risky. I also prefer to be in the big lake as a sarco, because who doesn't want more habitat room? But you really can't afford to do that with dirty water because all the water in the area is usually dirty so as a sarco you're forced to inhabit some tiny pond somewhere, which then also gets dirty after a while because you're there. It's a whole mess. :(
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07 Dec, '21
False
I have to Agree. Ive brought this up before especially when Sarco's hunt in murky waters anyway to better conceal their presence in the water. would help. Aswell their are fish they could hunt as well since the catfish style fish you have in the game prefers murky water as well
03 Jan, '22
Alexei
I think the game should just add a replenish quest for all the water sources like they have at Tyrants Gorge, this way it would not only address this issue but would also give the aquatics something else to do. But making sure its not bugged like it sometimes is at TG where the replenish quest wont work and wont actually replenish the water.
03 Apr, '22
random anodonto
Sarcos and other crocs live in brackish waters. Even modern day crocs live in dirty muddy water. It gets annoying having to constantly go to a new lake as a sarco and the fact that the only fish in the game that gives good amount of food is the arapaima which is in barely any of the lakes in the game. If semi aquatics can drink dirty water it would have been a lot more helpful then to just go to another lake every ten minutes just to find out that theres no fish.
24 Jul, '22
CatSpit
A possible alternative: no thirst depletion while submerged for true semi-aquatics (sarco/sucho/spino).
04 Aug, '22
MrPinkAdventures
I understand what you're getting at but this mechanic seems redundant the point of having a depleting water supply is the survival aspect of the game. That way a Sarco can't just sit in a pond the entire game and never have to worry about leaving. As we all know fish respawn quickly and burrows are nearby every substantial size of water meaning you'd never have to move or travel once you get somewhere you want to be. This isn't only unrealistic but it sounds like you want a handicap or power increase for choosing a dinosaur that's more vulnerable or potentially weaker than others except in the water.
19 Aug, '22
CatSpit
Maybe an ability, then? I'm thinking of estivation in extant crocodilians; maybe drastically reduced depletion while lying down, or reduced depletion in exchange for the inability to sprint out of water? Or maybe an ability to let sarcos gain water from some food items (meat, large fish)? That way they'd be able to remain in dirty water longer, but not indefinitely.

All of this will be much less of an issue with the Gondwa map, I'd assume.
15 Feb, '23
Wolfblade316
Why can't all dinos drink it, they are dinosaurs; they eat rotten meat haha. Make it not as bad as salt water but that mechanic is kinda screwed up right now , sucks to run to a lake to drink only to find that you can't, then you have to server hop and pray that the next one has water.
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14 Jun, '23
Average doom eternal enjoyer
Modern day crocodiles inhabit brackish water and I'm still not sure why is sarcosuchus not able to even drink brackish water in PoT. It doesn't make sense at all for an animal to live in a certain biome it can't survive in. It would be like saying crabs live in open ocean but in the same time they can't live in open ocean be because they will drown. Obviously crabs wouldn't drown in open ocean the same way its obvious crocodiles live in murky swamps and rivers. so why can't sarcosuchus and other semi aquatics in the game drink the murky water.