Board Thread:Bug Reports/@comment-26007341-20150426015148/@comment-24108228-20150429201524

However, if you use enough snow, you don't need a cup:

Scar has a point though. Snow water, although nice, probably wasn't a good enough gameplay feature to justify its ignorance of basic water physics. Personally, I wouldn't be sad if it was reimplementented, but the same applies vice versa. It's not a big loss.