A novel method of extracting water from metal involves crafting water guns, as they cost 125 metal fragments and are created half-loaded (at 500ml of a maximum capacity at 1 litre).

The water guns can have their contents transferred into a water tank, but their range of utility is potentially a bit more useful than that. A trivial use is that it can put out campfires and furnaces if you shoot them with water (but not flares), although a more useful application of the water gun is that it can extinguish fires spread by incendiary weapons.

One of the strengths of the water gun is that in a time of drought you can potentially craft some and fire the gun at your thirsty planter boxes to water them, and then list the empty guns for sale in a vending machine for 200 metal fragments each, which I’ve seen happen successfully, and then you use the fragments to produce more water guns.

The water gun is craftable for owners of the Sunburn Pack DLC which currently costs £9.99 (perhaps expensive in a game that’s nine years old and already costs £34.99). It’s not really download-able content if everyone had to download it anyway, so it’s more akin to a microtransaction. There is some concern that any advantage given by microtransactions would fall under the category of pay-to-win mechanics, although the extent of the advantage is questionable.

The resources spent on the water guns and a vending machine might be better put towards firearms.

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