Quick item summary
TypeMedical / Water Purification
Main usePurify unsafe water
Best forPreventing sickness from dirty water
Inventory size1 × 2
Weight40 g
Quick answer
Chlorine Tablets, also known as water purification tablets, chemically disinfect untreated water so it is safer to drink. They are most useful when you find a water container with unknown contents or collect water from ponds, rivers, watering troughs, or other unsafe sources.
Main Uses
- Purify water in bottles, canteens, canisters, and barrels
- Make unknown container water safer to drink
- Reduce cholera risk from untreated water
- Clean water collected from ponds, rivers, and troughs
- Carry as a backup when traveling away from water pumps
How to use this item
Purify unsafe water
Use Chlorine Tablets on a water container when the water source is unsafe or unknown. This is especially useful for pond, river, trough, or looted container water.
- Fill or inspect the water container.
- Combine Chlorine Tablets with the container.
- Use one tablet to purify the container before drinking.
Clean unknown bottles or canteens
If you find a bottle, canteen, or other container with water already inside, empty it or purify it before drinking.
View related guideSkip them at water pumps
Water from standard water pumps is already safe to drink, so Chlorine Tablets are better saved for questionable water sources.
View related guideHow to get Chlorine Tablets
- Check medical loot areas.
- Search hunting-related loot spots.
- Look in farms, kitchens, prisons, and survival-focused locations.
- Take them from other survivors when safe, especially if you plan to travel away from towns.
Spawn info
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- • Chlorine Tablets are useful when clean pump water is not available.
- • They are especially valuable for purifying water from looted containers, ponds, rivers, watering troughs, canisters, and barrels.
- • Water pumps are already safe, so tablets are better saved for questionable water sources.
Medical notes
Risks
- • Drinking untreated water can cause cholera or other sickness
- • Unknown bottles and canteens may contain unsafe water
Related symptoms
- • Cholera
- • Vomiting
- • Dehydration
- • Sickness
Prevention tips
- • Purify water from ponds, rivers, troughs, barrels, canisters, or unknown containers before drinking.
- • Use water pumps when possible because pump water is safe by default.
- • Empty or purify water from containers found on other players.
Important notes
- Chlorine Tablets are prevention-focused, not a general cure item.
- Use them before drinking unsafe or unknown water.
- Water from standard water pumps does not need to be purified.
- Unknown water from looted bottles, canteens, canisters, or barrels should be emptied or purified.
- They help disinfect untreated water and can reduce sickness risk from dirty water.
- Each pack contains 10 tablets.