Probably Stolen Water Guide: Test, Clean and Label

Test before buying or treating water

Drag a water testing strip onto the liquid container to check its purity and grade. You can also test a customer's water before buying it, so do not accept the label as the measurement. Strips are single-use, while AquaScan provides a reusable composition check showing the liquids present and their amounts. Water Trading Made Easy · Testing and composition reference

Use the grade to understand the result and the composition to choose the treatment. Those are different questions: knowing that water is below your target does not, by itself, tell you what the next filter can remove.

Match the treatment to the problem

The filter targets are described in the water reference and demonstrated for organic waste, mineral and physical contamination in water footage, 1:25–2:01. The community water guide separately identifies the microbial and chemical limitations.

Follow the basic treatment loop

1. Test the starting container and inspect its composition if AquaScan is available.
2. Apply a purification tablet for microbial treatment, or use the documented UV alternative.
3. Fit a usable water filter to a pitcher.
4. Pour the water into the pitcher so it passes through the filter.
5. Transfer the treated liquid into another container.
6. Test the result before deciding what grade to sell.

This sequence combines microbial treatment with filtration instead of expecting one tool to do both jobs. If the filter is depleted, replace it and repeat the relevant filtering step. Retesting remains part of the routine even when the same process worked on an earlier container. Documented treatment sequence · Pitcher operation

Use the powered purifier for the documented Pure Water route

Load a water container into the Water Purifier and provide battery power before leaving it to work overnight. Check both inputs: powering an empty machine does not fulfill the documented loading sequence. Purifier instructions · Loading demonstration, 5:38–5:45

Community guidance describes using a purifier with at least 100% Quality to reach 99.9% purity. The accompanying written route starts with 99.00% high-quality water, while the footage explains that completion depends on machine performance. Use this as a documented route to check against your equipment, not a promise that any starting liquid or container will finish in one night. Pure Water route · Quality and duration discussion, 4:33–5:39

Hotfix 1.0.0.2 reworked the purifier's logic. Older purifier descriptions should therefore not override the behavior of your current machine. Official purifier change

Label the measured result

The labeler changes the declared grade; it does not perform treatment. A strip or AquaScan can show the label, with Match label available for your own water and Confront for a customer's overstated water. Test first and make your own label agree with the result rather than using a higher label as proof of purity. Label controls · Labeler explanation

If you want to signal water trading to customers, the display case can indicate that business line. This is separate from proving the quality of the water inside a particular container. Display-case guidance · Water display example, 1:39–1:53

Troubleshooting questions

Why does filtered water still contain microbes?

Microbes are not a pitcher filter target. Use purification tablets or UV, then test again; another pass through a working filter does not replace the separate microbial treatment. Guide explanation · UV demonstration, 1:25

Why has filtering stopped improving the grade?

Check for a depleted filter first, then inspect what remains. Chemical contamination and heavy metals cannot be removed by ordinary filtration, so repeatedly filtering those contaminants is not the documented solution. Filter limits · Technical confirmation

Why does a scanner show slightly less volume than expected?

Since 1.0.0.5, scanners truncate liquid volumes to hundredths instead of rounding upward. For example, 1996 µl displays as 1.99 mL rather than 2.00 mL. The readout is designed not to claim more liquid than the container holds. Official scanner change

Scope

The Pure Water threshold is community-documented, not a universal completion guarantee. This guide does not prescribe fixed prices, tablet ratios or accelerated-machine timing. Sources checked November 2, 2026; see Dr. Jackson for equipment-shopping guidance.