I think the hydration system in general needs redoing because right now it's clunky and it has unintended issues with the Spice of Life mod (if you've drunk the same drink 3+ times you can't drink anymore even if you're super thirsty, which leads to unnecessary deaths). Also the Camel pack doesn't work and is only refillable with vanilla water bottles instead of the Fresh Water item you get from hammering snow (which I dont really think should even be a thing, just let us restore thirst from vanilla water bottles and be done with it IMO)
I agree. I feel like the new way is way too hard early game. It takes 50 minutes for one bottle of leaves to become a leaves cider. Fresh water takes levels and is very hard to get early game.
Ugh... so that is the reason why I suddenly was unable to refill my camel pack, because it turned back to normal water (which I believe was not intended)
Anyway, even if you are not very early, you can have some bad luck. Without stumbling over enough netherrack in my 1.1.17 which portet to 1.1.20 I would have constantly died of thirst, as the sudden need for leaves cider was a killer as they did not ferment fast enough (and I had to cheat a few bottles in as I had passed the quests before)
You need to know a lot from so many mods/modpacks to even have a slight chance to survive right now.
Still, I like it ^^ Only I lost my MyFit thanks to a death, not so uncommon it seems.