Drinking water
Drinking water is a general codex entry in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
The drinking water is an non-alcoholic food item in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, classified as a beverage.
- For the A Woman's Lot quest item, see water.
Description
Drinking water in a skin.
Codex entry
Sufficient supplies of drinking water constituted a crucial matter for the medieval town. The townspeople often solved the issue by excavating wells in the grounds of their houses or even in the cellar. Apart from these, there were also public wells. The same usually applied in castles, where a well was often dug out to collect water from a nearby source, such as a stream. Well-building was very costly and not possible everywhere. Castle wells could reach enormous depths, in extreme cases even more than 100m deep. It proved more effective to build a cistern - a tank that resembled a well but did not have its own water source. They usually collected rainwater, which was filtered, and would be emptied once a year.
As well as obtaining fresh water, drainage was necessary. The building of simple sewers or drains is attested by instructions from aldermen regulating that these sewers be dug and maintained, follow the shortest route, and be covered from above. Especially in towns, open ditches along roads served as drains. Such a system of sewage disposal was a nuisance to the populace, a source of unpleasant smells, and spread infectious diseases and epidemics. Hence the originally open ditches were progressively covered over, eventually replaced by brick sewers, which diverted rainwater from the streets and roofs to the nearest watercourse or pond. The regularly recurring epidemics spread around Europe later demanded a more radical solution.
Notes
Potions and poisons can be applied to many food items, including Drinking Water. If one so chooses, they may apply a beneficial potion such as the Marigold Decoction or the Lazarus Potion to their supply of Drinking Water and "poison" it with the full effect of the chosen potion, essentially increasing their supply.
