I kinda wish they would've simply added it back in as an option. Maybe they were going to only for the code to be to old to bother with.
Meanwhile I have now discovered that buckets can't collect rainwater from a funnel. Boooo. I salvaged enough plastic to make a a gallon jug, and have a replacement. Now I just need either clay or a steel frame, and I can continue on my quest to turn the helicopter wreck I started on into a metalworking paradise. I even have a mine nearby to harvest more metal if needed.
I also got irradiated as all hell doing a brief raid on the surface of a hazardous waste sarcophagus. So long as I don't grow a couple new toes, I now have a 100-liter drum to replace my shitty jug.
EDIT: Minus 1 to all stats and minus 8 speed presumably translates to "go to the hospital you dumb fuck" in real-life terms.
EDIT 2: The Pukening begins the day after that sarcophagus raid. Amazingly I haven't mutated yet.