Gracefulmuse Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Perhaps I am missing something, but if you are no longer using the Food Musher or Water Cooler, is there a reason to disinfect germ filled water before use? I recently learned that using germ water in hydroponics do not transfer germs to the food, so there goes all my reasoning for disinfecting toilet water. Can anyone give me a good reason to keep using my disinfecting system? EDIT: sorry for any bad English, it is not my main language. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotuck Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 "To sterilize or not to sterilize" This is a topic that has been debated before with many players arguing for or against it. The main reason I sterilize is not for the water, but for the polluted dirt that drops from the water sieve. When dupes handle the polluted dirt they will transfer germs to anything else they touch so there is a risk of them transporting food. It is possible to prevent this by managing your dupes to always wash hands after they handle the dirt but there is always a risk. Also if you play the game with easy settings (strong immunity) then you won't have a problem anyways. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1157884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracefulmuse Posted February 21, 2019 Author Share Posted February 21, 2019 ah I see, I had not considered the dirt having germs. I normally play with weak immune systems, to make the germs a bigger issue (even on weak, germs are not really that big a deal unless you go wild in the swamp biome or something). I was asking about this because I was planning on trying a "miserable" immune system run. Thanks for your input! Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1157892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
avilmask Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 At highest difficulty it's better to not risk it and clean water (food poisoning is very easy to develop). At any other difficulty I found that washing hands should be good enough to keep your dupes safe. Just make sure that they don't skip it (klei, come on, make so dupes can't skip busy hand washers!). Also if you don't sterilize water, don't make food in a musher. And coffee. And cooler. Well, it supposed to be obvious. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1157893 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunazone Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 It's kind of hard to get food poisoning from it unless you're making mush bars, assuming you're on normal diffucultly Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1157902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulwind Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Or liceloaf, or using the espresso machine, or using a water cooler. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1157907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hacksaw12 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 I agree it's not very dangerous, but if your main source of germy water is a bathroom septic tank, it's ridiculously easy to disinfect it. Everyone uses an aquatuner to cool something, and most use PW to cool the aquatuner. Just dump the germy water there. I've forgotten the temp, but it's fairly low, I think around 140F the germs start dying. They're gone long before you need to send the PW to the sieve. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1157938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChickenMadness Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 On max difficulty immunity only goes down and doesn't go up on it's own without vitamin chews. So every germ is just a countdown until the dupes get sick lol. Much more fun way to play as you actually have to put some thought into that aspect of the game. On every other difficulty you don't have to worry about germs because you can just take the low immunity dupes out of high risk areas and swap them around with high immunity dupes. And they will heal on their own. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1157959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunazone Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 2 hours ago, Soulwind said: Or liceloaf, or using the espresso machine, or using a water cooler. I've never experienced the coffee or watercooler one, and I have both in my base taking in germ water Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1157960 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhailRaptor Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Wasn't it tested and the Espresso Machine DOES NOT transfer Food Poisoning? I know the Water Cooler DOES transfer. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1158025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharraShimada Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 3 minutes ago, PhailRaptor said: Wasn't it tested and the Espresso Machine DOES NOT transfer Food Poisoning? I know the Water Cooler DOES transfer. I certainly had food poisoning from drinking coffee at least once (not water cooler in the base, and food itself was impossible to get it from) 2 hours ago, Squeegee said: I've never experienced the coffee or watercooler one, and I have both in my base taking in germ water It depents. If your dupes are in perfect health, they can handel a sip of coffee or water with germs. But if you have a dupe with biohazardous trait, or dupes with general poor imune-system, they will get sick from it. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1158027 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xFADE Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 I do it to keep the food poisoning out of the air when sent through an electrolyzer. Though using hot source water works for that. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1158033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee1026 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 I seem to remember the food poisoning germs not doing anything in the air? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1158036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neotuck Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 15 minutes ago, lee1026 said: I seem to remember the food poisoning germs not doing anything in the air? True, dupes don't get infected by breathing food poison Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1158039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasza22 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Also iirc dupes will get germs on them when moving bottled germy water around. The super computer requires manual water input so it can spread food poisoning over your dupes as well. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1158041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technoincubus Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 No reason for normal difficulty Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/103131-is-there-a-reason-to-disinfect-water/#findComment-1158108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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