Hard to create Water for Super Computer

[Cattrina]

Hi, I have a problem:

I am on the desolate/cold asteroid (Badlands) on the beta branch and my base is surrounded with salt water. I cannot research for Water Sieve, because it needs not salted water for research. My only option at this time is to make my criers to cry...which actually should be salt water.

And then they died *sigh*

[SharraShimada]

Do you have the option to cook polluted water? If so, boil it, remove the dirt, and steam should condense to clean water.

[The 2C3D]

5 hours ago, SharraShimada said:

Do you have the option to cook polluted water? If so, boil it, remove the dirt, and steam should condense to clean water.

Without a super computer? The problem is they can’t do research. The problem isn’t that water is unobtainable, it’s that getting it requires you to use the thing you needed it for. It’s like the “which came first, the chicken or the egg” problem, exempts that the answer is neither, because you don’t have either, so you’ll die on this obscure space rock instead.

[Yannick Vachon]

Is there some ice / snow you could dig and then melt for water?

[Cattrina]

13 hours ago, Yannick Vachon said:

Is there some ice / snow you could dig and then melt for water?

No, but luckily I just got some from the pod. I just wanted to put this out here so the devs can see this, in hopes the live alpha has this covered, there needs to be a method for gaining enough water to do research in order to unlock either the sieve or the desalitizer...something else than making my criers cry

I am so early in the game, is day 12 and I cannot dig any further without a superduperhard dig specialist

 

it's a cold biome, no heat source, cannot boil anything yet