It seems like an incredible amount of effort for something that does essentially nothing...If you're RPing, shouldn't you RP like someone actually from that age(for whom it was only natural to drink mead) rather than RP as you, except back then?

To say people didn't drink water is a fallacy. There are wells, there are clean springs. Why not water?

Buncha milk drinkers...

Also, If the irradiated water in Fallout isn't fatal, then I'd have to say that a little water in Skyrim would also be safe. To argue the point of contaminated watersources, I give you... MAGIC THAT CAN ERADICATE DISEASE. /argument.

I think plenty of players would use a mod like this. I like the idea of the water skin, actually I remember using a water skin mod in oblivion. Lots of players used it, you used to be able to fill up at wells.

Thirst I think it was called by FritzFretz.

Well, I've put food poisoning into a needs mod, why not dysentery? Historical or no, if I were playing as a mage (and every character in this game has at least rudimentary magic skills) I'd probably want to learn a "Purify" alteration spell so that I wouldn't have to lug around a dozen bottles of mead everywhere I went, trying to fire arrows at ice wraiths with a heavy buzz, especially when snow and streams are everywhere you look.

Nobody's checked into the technical side of this though? I guess if the bodies of water are just static objects rather than activators, I might be able to use getcrosshairtarget and compare the result against a list of water object formids/refids. Hopefully they all have some property in common that I could check for instead, rather than trying to compile and maintain a list. Inter-mod compatibility problems are a hassle I try to avoid.

Potion of Cure Disease and magic separate Skyrim from the historic middle ages. I think it's very likely that people are capable of creating potable water between alchemy and magic.

Bah somebody beat me to it.

They might not drink the water, but they definitely drink milk. Though that's probably just for the kids, and the other people...

I've found no milk in game. >.> I may not have been looking hard enough.

There is no milk i'm afraid.

No, he wants realistic fantasy.

Mead -is- water in Skyrim. What are you, a damn dirty milk-drinker?

I can verify this as absolutely true.

Cast Iron Pot (small batch) or Kettle (large batch) + Fire + Empty Water Skin(s) = Filled Water Skin(s)

Restore Stamina
Reduce Dehydration
Tastes suspiciously like boiled water stored in a goat bladder

In OB GetCrossHairRef came only with OBSE 14. It works with a lot of Objects, and yes Statics, but only if the .nif of the static object has a Collision Object property.

In a vanilla way you could use IsSwimming to get water from outside, or GetPos X, Y and Z but this will be a bit boring.

There'd be nothing wrong with drinking from most freshwater sources irl, no filtration needed. Only stagnant water is particularly dangerous. Steams, lakes with a river source, rivers themselves -- all perfectly safe to drink from. There's always a tiny chance of bacteria, but it's incredibly minute. I've taken drinks from the river near my house a million times and have suffered no ill effects. It tastes a bit high in iron, but it's perfectly fine. People did it long before filtration existed.

EDIT!: Durned errant apostrophe.

"Nogvar melt snow, make water. Dawn of new age. Nogvar, master of elements! Nogvar, mighty inventor!" =D

Yes, I'd like to see drinking water a requirement of a larger "basic needs" mod, similar to hardcoe mode from FONV.

Also, a conjuration spell is needed that conjures food or drink Could use the transmute effect

You milk-drinker, you!

To correct some historical errors in this thread.

Throughtout the dark and middle ages people did drink well water and river water. It is true that in later periods and places, eg 16th-19th century London- most people drank weak beer because well and river water was so polluted, but this was confined to big cities.

In general, mountain stream water is perfectly safe to drink in Europe (different in N America I think). Even today there are plenty of villages and farms in the more isolated and hilly bits of the UK that rely on untreated spring or stream water. (Usually filtered-but not otherwise treated).

With regard to a needs mod, i really want to see an eat/sleep mod. A thirst mod is, for me, less important as there is apparently drinkable water everywhere.

You should watch the Discovery program called http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf3YvXM9j5o.
It's actually historically accurate to say that for most of the last 10k years the #1 beverage for all human kind(even over water) was beer.

Actually S'lyder is right. Also, "beer" as we call it these days wasn't the beer of those times. Back then the vast majority didn't even have hops in them, and their alcoholic content was minimal to the point of only being high enough to kill the bacteria in water. Essentially it was usually ultra-watered down beer....like Budweiser.

As for the past 10k years it being the #1 beverage, that would make it since 8000 BC, which is before farming...and beer requires barley...so no, no it wasn't.

irrelevant

this is not the middle ages, this is tamerial in one of it's own unique ages

a world with steam-powered robots, dimensional gateways, powerful god-like entities & sorcery capable of manipulating reality itself

for some reason i just don't think purifying water here will be a problem

Unless you are sipping the water around Morthal of course

Toilet water in Fallout 3 / NV was safe because of all the rads in the water! 'Natural' radiation sterilization. XD

... no such luck in Skyrim, though, unless there's a 'Nuke' shout. XD