Ok, need some advice on reservoir placement

[Phosphonothioic]

I've been trying to figure it out on my own, but I'm just running in circles and I'm tired of wasting time on the issue.

On the Plains map, using Folktails, I always try to build a reservoir along the river that runs West to East below your District Center(DC). I'm trying to pick a spot to build it and I just can't decide where.

I typically put it just after the little inlet where you can destroy the debris (just SW of DC) and have my water wheels just downstream. I'm looking for ideas/insight on where I should be thinking about throwing something down.

This is early game, so it's just one level of levees with single-height gates on top, then I levee the coastline behind as much as necessary.

Again, insights? Mold my tender beaver body like clay.

[Oragepoilu]

... what do you mean as "reservoir" ?
You goal should to water your crops/tree and pump it, right ? You really don't need a specific placement, you just need some water flowing here.

You can just block off the end of the river that lead right to the lake and build 3 floodgate lv1 (3 in case you messed up at some point and need to remove more water).
During the drought, close them, otherwise open one or two of them and you go yourself quite a lot of water already.

Then you can work toward setting one layer of levee on both side of the river up to the small drop next to the berries. Since there is a moutain on the other side you will also cut on the cost. And replace the floodgate by some lv2.

Put some platform over the river and pump from here to save some space to grow stuff. Here you go, that's enough for 100+ beavers in normal for quite a low cost.

Placement of the water wheel is irrelevant as long as the water move and it's shalow.

Later it's best to just make a (somewhat) big dam and only let one tile worth of water flow and feed your beavers/crops/tree/waterwheel. You can do this by putting a dam upstream (after the berries, between two elevation) and wall the large part near the metal, in the north, to avoid overflow here. That's a large 1 deep area and a small 2 deep area (the river itself)



Oooooooorrrrr just be lazy and put some levee around the lake, leave one tile open to let it flow slowly to the end of the river/map and build here. There is even some metal, AND you can just destroy your district and rebuild it here whenever you want because there is already some stair here. You won't find enough berries and tree in this area though, so it's probably best stick in the first area untill stuff grow on it's own.

[Nic-sama]

On plains map u'd have to make a 2nd or 3rd district to actually dam the big lake, if you want to dam the upper lake to your west you'll need another district to levee off the map edges to prevent water flowing off. iirc, some people suggest just damming the water source canal though that should require a new district to do it as well.

[Phosphonothioic]

Originally posted by Oragepoilu:

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You and I are on the same wavelength. I had woodchips rattling in my head as to the exact point where I wanted to put the gates. I've been putting them up by the lower-level berries and a dam at the end of the lake by the river. But your idea of putting the floodgate at the river/lake junction is exactly the thought that's been escaping me for some reason. That solves a lot of issues I've been having.

Thanks!

[Kruzenschtern]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2620511190

[The_Mess]

Yoink: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2616602843

Go to the Dams 101 section, I have a guide there to dam locations for the Prairie Map and some general advice on dam locations. Haven't got the pic in for the 3rd good spot, but it's kind of obvious once you think about it. Will add that pic today, need a shower first and more caffeine.

Otherwise I usually place my first dam at the narrowest part of the river before it exits into the lake to get it built before the drought hits. And then a line of floodgates 2 above the berries to have some spare water before I get around to building more dams further upstream and downstream.

[City Builder]

on that map i place the dam just before it dumps into the large body of water
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2623125071

[Combat Wombat]

I love this community, some great examples here, thanks everyone :)