How mixing actually works
A container holds a stack of separate liquid entries, not one merged substance. Add a second fluid and the container just tracks both amounts side by side. Drinking or injecting drains every entry in the stack proportionally to how much of the total you consume — each liquid still applies its own listed effects at its own strength. There's no recipe that turns two mixed fluids into a third, different one.
The liquid centrifuge is the one tool that reverses this: it splits a mixed stack back into single-liquid crafting bottles, one per fluid in the stack, at roughly two-thirds of the original volume (recharges every 60 seconds). Useful for separating out a fluid you accidentally topped up with something else.
Container capacity & delivery method
SyringeStandard limb injector — reusable, small capacity.
Combat penOne-handed quick injector for use mid-fight.
Blood bagCan also be filled by drawing blood from a limb, not just decanting liquid.
Human blood bagSame draw-and-inject loop as a standard blood bag.
Spray bottleApplies fluid directly onto a limb's surface — for topical fluids only.
Soda canSmall, disposable, common early loot.
CanteenCheap early craft — the first refillable water source most runs get.
Water bottleMid-size, easy to carry several in a bag.
Soda bottleLarger single-serve bottle.
Water jugBulk camp storage — heavy, not meant for combat loadouts.
Mini barrelHuge capacity but only holdable in your hands — no bag storage.
Liquid pouchWorn reserve tank with no drink/inject action of its own — top off your active containers from it.
Safe for a syringe, combat pen or blood bag
Injecting a fluid that isn’t flagged safe for injection risks injection sickness — check a liquid’s own page for its exact sickness value before forcing it into a vein. These 26 are the ones the game treats as injectable:
Safe for a spray bottle
Spray bottles apply fluid to a limb’s surface rather than drinking or injecting it. Only these 6 fluids are flagged for that kind of topical use:
What you can drink
Nearly everything is drinkable — only 6 fluids have no listed drink-stat change (some, like Mindwipe, still do something when swallowed, just not a body-stat delta this site can quantify):
Browse every fluid’s exact per-mL effects on the liquids page.
Filling a blood bag
Blood bags have a second use action beyond decanting from a barrel or puddle — using one on your own (or a corpse’s) limb draws blood directly into the bag, which you can then inject back into an injured limb later. See the first aid page for when blood volume is the priority.