enhance water, and human waste

[Bandw2]

can you use enhance water on your own "waste" to significantly lower the amount of water one needs to carry with you?

i swear my player's sometimes, but can it be done?

[HorrorshowJack]

Bandw2 wrote:

can you use enhance water on your own "waste" to significantly lower the amount of water one needs to carry with you?

i swear my player's sometimes, but can it be done?

Urine is basically just contaminated water, so it would work for the spell. People actually drink it on a daily basis as a homeopathic medicine thing already. Might be a pretty dark ale though.

It should also work on sweat and drool if you collect enough.

However, since the spell turns it into alcohol you'd actually get more dehydrated by drinking the result than the original urine. Purify water would work for the purpose, but I don't know how much of a reduction you'd get in carrying requirements.

[HorrorshowJack]

HorrorshowJack wrote:

Bandw2 wrote:

can you use enhance water on your own "waste" to significantly lower the amount of water one needs to carry with you?

i swear my player's sometimes, but can it be done?

Urine is basically just contaminated water, so it would work for the spell. People actually drink it on a daily basis as a homeopathic medicine thing already. Might be a pretty dark ale though.

It should also work on sweat and drool if you collect enough.

However, since the spell turns it into alcohol you'd actually get more dehydrated by drinking the result than the original urine. Purify water would work for the purpose, but I don't know how much of a reduction you'd get in carrying requirements.

Purify Food & Drink I mean.

[Gauss]

Zero level spell: Create Water.

[Bandw2]

HorrorshowJack wrote:

Bandw2 wrote:

can you use enhance water on your own "waste" to significantly lower the amount of water one needs to carry with you?

i swear my player's sometimes, but can it be done?

Urine is basically just contaminated water, so it would work for the spell. People actually drink it on a daily basis as a homeopathic medicine thing already. Might be a pretty dark ale though.

It should also work on sweat and drool if you collect enough.

However, since the spell turns it into alcohol you'd actually get more dehydrated by drinking the result than the original urine. Purify water would work for the purpose, but I don't know how much of a reduction you'd get in carrying requirements.

the dehydration thing is actually false or at least the mainstay of most pre-modern civilizations was some alcoholic beverage since it was more sanitary than normal water usually. alcohol doesn't just zap you of water and is actually mostly water anyway.

[Bandw2]

Gauss wrote:

Zero level spell: Create Water.

was too boring for them.

[HorrorshowJack]

Bandw2 wrote:

HorrorshowJack wrote:

Bandw2 wrote:

can you use enhance water on your own "waste" to significantly lower the amount of water one needs to carry with you?

i swear my player's sometimes, but can it be done?

Urine is basically just contaminated water, so it would work for the spell. People actually drink it on a daily basis as a homeopathic medicine thing already. Might be a pretty dark ale though.

It should also work on sweat and drool if you collect enough.

However, since the spell turns it into alcohol you'd actually get more dehydrated by drinking the result than the original urine. Purify water would work for the purpose, but I don't know how much of a reduction you'd get in carrying requirements.

the dehydration thing is actually false or at least the mainstay of most pre-modern civilizations was some alcoholic beverage since it was more sanitary than normal water usually. alcohol doesn't just zap you of water and is actually mostly water anyway.

Yeah I don't think that it zaps water from the body. However, drinking a lot of yummy intoxicants will lead to a hangover. Which is basically just dehydration.

Russians still drink kvass all day, which also has alcohol. However, it's less than 1% alcohol. The types pre-modern civs used for continual consumption were usually, to the best of my knowledge very low alcohol content. I agree they were less unsanitary than drinking water in many places.

The two types mentioned in the spell are much higher alcohol contents. Unless they're talking about small beer, ale is normally 4-7%. Wine varies a lot, but I think it's rarely lower than that. They could be talking about the low alcohol sanitary type, but the spell doesn't explicitly say that. It seems counterintuitive since there is already nearly unlimited magic to purify water in the first place.

[BadBird]

Bandw2 wrote:

the dehydration thing is actually false or at least the mainstay of most pre-modern civilizations was some alcoholic beverage since it was more sanitary than normal water usually. alcohol doesn't just zap you of water and is actually mostly water anyway.

It's a question of ratios. Alcohol is dehydrating, the water it's in is hydrating. Weak beer you're probably good (but it's still not as good as pure water), but don't fill your canteen with vodka and go off into the desert. Fun fact: nearly all of the suffering of a hangover is caused by dehydration. Pound a lot of water when you get drunk, and you'll feel a lot better the next morning...