There are plenty of important resources you’ll need to have in your inventory throughout a playthrough in Prologue: Go Wayback. From your basic Walkman to food and a way to cook it, your pack often fills up faster than you think. However, one resource that will always need an inventory spot regardless of your situation is water.
Water is a non-negotiable in Prologue: Go Wayback, as you need to keep your character hydrated at all times once you leave the safety of your cabin. If you don’t have access to water or know how to get it, you’ll die within the blink of an eye. To make sure that doesn’t happen to you, check out the guide below to see exactly how to get water in Prologue: Go Wayback.
Ways to get water in Prologue: Go Wayback
For starters, there are a couple of different ways to initially find and collect water at the start of a playthrough. The easiest way to obtain water after leaving your cabin is by finding a river. There are often a few different river access points you can walk to within the direct vicinity of your cabin. However, seeing as the maps are randomized in Prologue: Go Wayback, it’s difficult to say exactly where you should go to find these rivers.
In my experience, rivers are often located a short distance away from your cabin, regardless of your map. So, as long as you look for a decent amount of time after leaving, you should be able to find running water from the river. The river not only acts as your first source of water, but often a great spot to set up camp for the first night, so it’s worthwhile to find it for more reasons than one.
When you approach a river, you can drink from it directly by standing on either mud or snow on the ground. However, this will induce a poisoning effect and slowly drain your hunger meter, so you only want to drink from the river directly if your water meter is dangerously low. You also want to ensure you have enough food to survive the poisoning effect, as the reduced hunger can also kill you.
Instead of drinking from the river directly in a single spot, you can also use your water bottle and fill it up using the river. Of course, this will also give you the poisoning effect since you’re still drinking contaminated water, but this allows you to stay mobile and not worry about water for the near future.
Once you have a decent supply of water and your water meter is filled up, your best course of action is to look for another cabin. Here, you should be able to find hydration items, such as soda and jugs. You’ll absolutely want to pick these up, as they provide great ways to stay hydrated without having to suffer the effects of poisoning. Cabins and towers will often have items like this, so moving to different ones throughout the course of a journey is one of the best ways to keep your water meter up. Cabins also have basic food, which you’ll sometimes need more than water.
However, by far the easiest and most underrated method of getting water in Prologue: Go Wayback is to use the weather system. More specifically, thunderstorms and basic rain. You might have thought that there is no way to harvest the rainwater that falls during storms, but that’s not true.
All you have to do is leave a water bottle, jug, or other usable container outside when it’s raining. Throughout the day or night, that container will slowly fill up with water, which is completely pure and doesn’t have any sort of poisoning effect. You can leave multiple containers outside to ensure you have plenty of water to sustain you for multiple days, which comes in handy whenever you need to veer off from the river to make it to the final tower.
So there you have it. Water is usually going to be in short supply during your runs in Prologue: Go Wayback, especially if you don’t get lucky with the rain. However, as long as you know the basic ways of staying hydrated, you should be able to complete a run while only draining your water meter once or twice.
Now that you know how to find water, make sure you also check out our guide on the best settings for Prologue: Go Wayback.
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