No matter what point of the game you’re at in7 Days To Die, you’re going to need water. It’s one of the many drinks that will keep your thirst meter full, and it’s required for a lot of recipes in the game, like Red Tea. You can loot it or drink it from streams, but often enough, that water’s dirty.

Too much dirty water’s just going to make your character sick and drive your Thirst Meter even lower, but not drinking means you’ll run out of stamina quicker. If you want to survive in the wild, you’ll need a source of clean drinking water to help you.

Player character finding Glue and some other items in a trash pile on the ground in 7 Days To Die.

How To Craft A Dew Collector

To start consistently getting Water, you’re going toneed a Dew Collector.It’s one of thefirst resource-generating itemsyou’ll be able to craft in the game, and you’ll need toread at least two Forge Ahead magazinesto be able to craft it.

Each one you craftneeds some basic materialsto be crafted, themost difficultof which to get isDuct Tape, as ituses Glueas an ingredient.

Player character checking on a Dew Collector and about to take one Murky Water from it in 7 Days To Die.

Glue isone of the rarer findsand if youwant to craft it, you’ll need to get lucky andfind a Cooking Pot, which mostoftenspawns inside the stovesor cabinetsof home kitchens, orinvest in a Forge, one of themid-early-game crafting stations.

It’spossible tofind Duct Tape on its ownin some of the same lootables as Glue, but it’s still a rare find, andpurchasing itthrough Traders, in the beginning,can be expensive.

Scrap Polymers x100

Looted fromrandom cars, cabinets,garbage piles, and other lootables.

Found whenbreaking debris made of cans, and some furniture items like trash cans.

Obtained when breaking down plastic-based items, like old tires, office chairs, and X.

Looted fromrandom cars, cabinets, backpacks, and other lootables.

Looted fromrandomcabinets, backpacks, and other lootables.

Crafted withone Glueandone Cloth Scrap.

How To Collect Water

With at least one Dew Collector, you’re ready to get started having water on hand. Dew Collectors canonly be placed outside with a clear view of the sky, such as on theground or a roof, and they take uparound a nine-by-nine area of space, using Building Blocks as a size reference.

When placed, they’llautomatically begin generatingone Murky Water per six to nine in-game hours. They cangenerate a maximum of threein their inventory, and ittakes 24 in-game hoursfor its inventory to fill up.

Start making Red Teaonce you’ve got some Water and a Cooking Pot available – it restores a decent amount of Thirst andlowers the drain of your food and thirstfor 12 minutes.

Dew Collectors can bemodified with three different mods, which can be obtained by crafting,buying at Traderslike Trader Rekt, orlooting themrandomly: