Water for Farming

[wb98]

I've scoured the internet for sources of information before starting, because I might not make it long enough to see my crops finish. I've decided to plant potatoes, cabbage, and lettuce, but I have some questions about the watering mechanics.

1. How much water per day do you need? I've looked through the wiki and I don't understand the value they have assigned to it.

2. (How much) Does it rain in co-op? It's more than 10 days and not a single drop of water has fallen from the sky. That's ten days spending sleeplessly killing hordes of zed. Normally at this point in single player, I'd have been rained on once or twice. My starting month is July, FYI.

[Gilga ™ |Yonaguni|]

1.Plants dont need water every day. Anyway i would recommand that the water level will never rech the red mark, so more then 78 hours without water isnt good;=)
You can water them up to 100 % (in the vanilla game) only radish and carrots should never be watered more then 90-95%, they may get rotten otherwise.

2. Rain in the summer isnt that common, i remember hot months where not a single drop was seen for 4 weeks.

[wb98]

Originally posted by Gilga Mesch:

2. Rain in the summer isnt that common, i remember hot months where not a single drop was seen for 4 weeks.

It rained like 3 or 4 times in the next 72 hours in game after I wrote this post, so that question was solved quickly. I can't imagine surviving for more than a few weeks with no rain when the water is shut off.

[Brother Frederick]

Originally posted by wb98:

Originally posted by Gilga Mesch:

2. Rain in the summer isnt that common, i remember hot months where not a single drop was seen for 4 weeks.

It rained like 3 or 4 times in the next 72 hours in game after I wrote this post, so that question was solved quickly. I can't imagine surviving for more than a few weeks with no rain when the water is shut off.

Unless you have West Point's river at your disposal.


In every house that you plounder try to fill all sorts of containers with water while it's still on and leave them there. You never know there might be a time when this will save your life.

[Death]

Originally posted by Cool Beans:

Originally posted by wb98:

It rained like 3 or 4 times in the next 72 hours in game after I wrote this post, so that question was solved quickly. I can't imagine surviving for more than a few weeks with no rain when the water is shut off.

Unless you have West Point's river at your disposal.


In every house that you plounder try to fill all sorts of containers with water while it's still on and leave them there. You never know there might be a time when this will save your life.

This. Also get your carpentry up to 4 as quickly as you can and build a bunch of rain barrels.

[P_ter]

i wish we could fill bathtubs with water then when the end times start i would go to home depot and fill a bunch of bathtubs

[Gilga ™ |Yonaguni|]

Originally posted by valletpeter:

i wish we could fill bathtubs with water then when the end times start i would go to home depot and fill a bunch of bathtubs

Its no big deal, you can already write it in lua, just nobody spend his time to coding this.

[Actimel]

Actualy, I have never used any source of water to water plants. It always waters rain, and I have plenty of food no rotten or whatever, just wait for rain and thats it

[Gilga ™ |Yonaguni|]

Originally posted by Actimel:

Actualy, I have never used any source of water to water plants. It always waters rain, and I have plenty of food no rotten or whatever, just wait for rain and thats it

The second year will force you to care about your plants believe me.