I am unable to play with the food and drink required option due to being unable to fill any waterskins, whether it be at a well or with the draw water spell. When using a well, it SAYS I filled the skin, but when I check the skin in my inventory it still shows as empty, and I cannot drink from it. Same with the spell, no effect at all on my skins.

This is rather annoying, and I would really like to know if anyone else has encountered this and figured out how to fix it.

Where did you purchase Book II from, and what version are you playing with?

Impulse, and version 1.05

And I take it you haven't hacked your character or modified any of the game files? If I were you, I'd send a saved game to Basilisk Games so they can have a look. Contact details can be found here.

Or post a saved game here so we can try it out. That would at least let us determine whether it's a problem with the save itself or with your install of the game.

In the event the save file I attached doesn't work for some reason:

When i tried with all 4 options marked, the waterskins worked fine. I encountered the problem with the skins when using only "Need Food/Drink" and "Can't Save When etc" are marked, with the other 2 shut off.

Character data:
Name: Digital Terror
Male, Kessian, Druidic, Magic User

Choice of skills or stats made no difference.
Haven't tried a shorter character name to see if that's the issue, but I rather doubt it would matter.

If you look at the skin before filling it, you can see it weighs 3.0 but the "fullness bar" is blank. After "filling" the skin, it changes to 1.0 weight and empty.

I just tested this and encountered the bug. Version 1.05, downloaded from Basilisk Games.

I just noticed this when starting a new character to eventually explore the 'zoo' and other stuff that had been added. I had turned food/water off. I picked up the waterskin, went tot he well and filled it..well, I thought I did. Script came up that I had but when I went to sell the skin it was empty! I hadn't used it. I was going to check again today before reporting it. I, too, downloaded it from here. Not sure if I can get to it today though, we're celebrating my son's birthday..gah! He just turned 40! Man, I feel old all of a sudden!

Yay, I don't feel like a crazy noob who's doing something wrong on my own end anymore....posting about a bug that noone had posted about before
(Yes, I had done an extensive search on the Impulse and Basilisk forums, and in Google before posting it here)

Absolutely nothing was touched in 1.05 that could account for this. Is everyone sure that this is a 1.05 problem and not a problem that has existed since 1.0?

Currently looking through 1.05 code....this bug looks to be diabolically hidden....

Oh, um, found it.

Yeah, if anyone has an old version installed you should be able to verify it- this bug probably goes waaay back.

It works like this: If you DON'T have the equipment wear rule turned on then all items are generated with a MaxCondition of "0" (zero). This is the system's way of knowing that an item is undamageable. When a waterskin is created, and the equipment wear rule is off, it makes the Waterskin have a zero MaxCondition. Well, a waterskin's condition is a measure of how full it is, since waterskins never actually wear out in any other way.

So, when you fill up at a well, the function applied to the waterskin is: CurrentCondition = MaxCondition. See the problem?

Heh, was about to report that I had found that, too. Actually on my 1.04, this doesn't happen; I wonder if it's related to this fix from the 1.05 changelog:

Anyway, there you go. :) Anyone with a "broken" waterskin who wants to fix it should be able to use my editor to do so, btw; just set the max condition up to 10.

Ah, but wait!

This bug probably only applies to the ORIGINAL waterskin that you find in your house. I believe that waterskins found randomly, or at merchants, will not be affected by this bug.

This is because items that I generate forcefully, such as the waterskin in your house, have the wear rule applied differently than one that comes up via the generate miscellaneous item function.

A workaround may be to find a waterskin at a merchant and use it.

Anyway, yes, xolotl's editor can fix the problem and is a suitable workaround as well.

Looks like you won't have to. Did you have a good time with your son?

yes. Though he did get a bit miffed at the Mirror Rubic's Cube I gave him I got from ThinkGeek store. (all surfaces are mirrors and different sizes) He liked the computer chair and 2 tshirts. One is a replacement shirt with Milkyway on front with pointer and "You are Here" words. The other was "I'm with the genius" and arrow points up to wearers head.

And I discovered that waterskins found elsewhere did fill up as BW mentioned above, just not the house one. I don't care so I'm not complaining about it.