Field manual · Survive
Found Bottle or Canteen
corroborated
Short answer
If you did not fill it yourself and cannot verify the source, empty it or purify it before drinking.
Also: found bottle · found canteen · looted water
What to do
Inspect the container. Treat the liquid as unknown. Empty it or apply a verified purification method. Refill from a known safe source when possible.
How it works
The container condition does not prove the water is safe. This simple rule prevents a large class of avoidable illness.
Evidence
Status: corroborated. Baseline from 1.29. Sources: DayZ Wiki - Plastic Bottle; DayZ Wiki - Canteen; DayZ official Stable Update 1.29 thread. Unofficial field-manual pack (v24). Not Bohemia. Empty boxes stay empty.
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