I was chatting in TS with some of the folks this evening about the modding I did to my own 7D2D server before finding this server and community. They suggested I bring some of what I implemented here. Please note I did NOT come up with the idea or the changes that do this, I found them on other forums, loved the idea, and implemented them on my own server. Anyway ...
The first is getting water from sinks. I figure if you can get water over and over again from toilets obviously the plumbing must still function, at least to some extent. If your interested add the below lines to the section of the empty jar in the items xml and once the server is rebooted players can use an empty jar on sinks in the game to get dirty water. The numbers in the lines may need to be changed depending on the numbers in your current files. This change only needs to be implemented server side.
focused_blockname_8 = "graniteSink"
focused_blockname_9 = "cabinetOldSink"
The second item for this post is working fridge bottoms. Currently when you encounter the two part fridges only the top part is lootable and useable for storage. If you implement the below code changes to the fridge bottom section of the blocks xml file newly generated fridge bottoms (whether newly created or generated from exploring) will function identical to the tops, they can have randomly generated loot and be usable for storage purposes. I could not remember which line I had to add so I copied the entire entry to show here (I think the it was the first two lines the class line and the loot line that I added ... in any case add whichever lines are missing in your file and it will work).
<block id="841" name="fridgeBottom">
<property name="Class" value="Loot" />
<property name="LootList" value="4" />
<property name="Material" value="metal_weak" />
<property name="Texture" value="267,267,266,267,266,267" />
<property name="Weight" value="18" />
<drop event="Destroy" name="scrapIron" count="3,5" prob="1" />
<property name="Group" value="Furniture/Decor" />
</block>
There are some other minor mods I implemented on my own server but thought as the new guy here I would make a few suggestions at a time and see how they go over.