In A21 the jars and ability to make a murkly water is removed instead of this a water filters is added with a low-level water collector which produces water jars for a long time with not so good results. It's a poor for a late game playing, on 40 days I have 3000 bones, a lot of food... everything of this is stuck on having a water! A have no idea was a coop or pvp is dead for now just from this...
I have a 15 water collectors and this is not enough. Is more looking like devs just forget that some body is playing after 21 day.
Please make the water filter filter be a resource limited, which will be consumed by workstation to produce a water. Once resource is get used - filter is broken. Broken filter can be only replaced with a new one.
Lets the water filters have tiers too, from poor filters to the best of the best, the quality is amount of jars that can be produced from filter.
Each tier of water filter have a number of jars that it will produce before get broken.
Gray - 40 jars
Orange - 60 jars
Green - 80 jars
Blue - 100 jars
Purple - 150 jars
Lets workbench consume water filter resource over a time e.g. you have a water collector and a grey water filter, over a time the collector will produce 40 jars of clean water then filter is get broken and should be replaced with a new one.
Add higher tier water filtering machines, since the game have electricity stage. Why not put a barrel and a pressure motor which will pull water from barrel into pressure trough the water filters to get the jars? That is the modern way to filter out ground water sources into clean water. Production time 10seconds by default and get lowered by workbenches skill. A21 still have a bucket in craft (for what?!) why not use it again to (re)fill the workbench with the water that should be filtered?
Nothing changes to water filters here, you still need to re-buy them or find out in loot in the world, shows will sell a good filters only if player have a good barter and tasks experience (get 6 level quests). In earlier stages player almost cannot fund a filter with 100% resource.
Filters in the world
A world after disaster, abandoned and full with the dead where ground water can not be used. So filters should be a brilliant always.
A 100% filled filer here is a RARE, a high tier filer filled with 100% is super rare item.
Player can find filters in POI workshops from Gray to Green. Blue can be also find in Medical POIs, purple it is a military resource can be find out in military POI and dropped from military Zombs with a lower chance.
Shops will respect to the filters as well, it is a RARE for them too. To have good filters in trade, player should do a lot for the trader.
Thanks.