irrigation water system

[-=GUARDIAN=-]

Will the Devs Make the Irrigation System Great or more relevant?
(So i can have fun doing other stuff in game, not walking around watering/refilling)

Yes or No

ATM the Irrigation system is below par with what players need it to be.
much like other similar games, (star dew Valley) player start with a singular way to water crops, but this system over time is upgraded, allowing players to be much more effective at watering crops and covering a much larger area. (Let do the same here)

a) the system needs to cover a much larger area, something like a) 3x9 than upgrades to b) 9x9 c) than upgrades to 12x24 area
b) the system should require Less refills (need to fill them once a week), or be connected to a main Water Barrel (These last 2 week and can refill 20 nodes)
c) when it rains nodes and barrels they should refill them selves.
d) if the system had a way to connect to well, or to a Large Water Barrel, this way players only need to check and refill Barrel.

These simple ideas would make the irrigation system a nice cool system for players to build/work towards/and simple to maintain.

[brian_va]

i see the sprinklers used in SDV and similar as drawing from an underground source, where the ones in travelers rest feel more like an above ground storage container that then lets the water drip out through the pipes.

I'll meet you halfway and agree that they should be extendable in length (3 x 3 or 3 x 6 or 9 or ...), but refilling them seems reasonable and is significantly less of a chore than manual watering.

I don't see them changing, though.

[Doc Savage]

Any relatively smart and enterprising villager would be able to prop a barrel on a table next to the irrigation bucket and make it so they did not have to do that watering all the time. LAzy always wins. You just know some lazy person had a eureka moment one day and discovered they could do the work without all the work.

Most village craft persons would have the brains to cut a length of tree on the rings and make gutters to make water go more than a few feet/one meter. We still use this today on buildings the world over. It's not like it's an unknown technology.

That said.... I have to say I really do not want SDV 24 squares of irrigation. I mean unless it comes by way of the magic promised later on in development by way of some silly spell or some such that takes a lot to pull off. It needs to be epic to water all that.

I think a 3x3 tile with runners to carry water from an irrigation square that you could use, and later extend to a 3x9 set up would be more than sufficient. One water barrel mounted on the system and some gutters along the rows. Make it take wood and require replacing once a year because those runners "wood" rot over time always being wet.

Give me that and a different key than the E or LMB to fill it and I'm good to go. I like the set up TBH, it just gets in the way of harvesting by constantly refilling all the buckets. Otherwise, I kinda like it.

Cheers..!

[eXeZ|Gamer433]

The game says, you have to water every 3 days.
When your maximum filled irrigation thing (the upgradet one) is full of water, you can see next day, that it used 1/5 (?) of its water.
This should normally mean, that this system can water for 15 days.
Huge lack of logic, if you ask me.

[GreyBeard512]

The advanced irrigation lasts 6 days if you put two buckets of water into it. The progress bar decrements at least daily if not more often, so they are small decrements. You can refill them at any time. One bucket will fill it if it was at least half full before you added a bucket of water, and two buckets always fills it.

[brian_va]

Originally posted by eXeZ|Gamer433:

The game says, you have to water every 3 days.
When your maximum filled irrigation thing (the upgradet one) is full of water, you can see next day, that it used 1/5 (?) of its water.
This should normally mean, that this system can water for 15 days.
Huge lack of logic, if you ask me.

The water every 3 days is for the manual watering

[eXeZ|Gamer433]

Originally posted by brian_va:

The water every 3 days is for the manual watering

Yes, I know this myself, but its still lacking of logic in comparison of irrigation.
I had already mentioned the reasons.

<EDIT>
To make it way more senseless:
After whole day of raining, next day the crops ground is dry like a desert.
With this logic: The watering can is 3 times as powerful, than the entire weathersystem...

[Doc Savage]

Rain water is not as wet as ground water.

"In ancient times, the Sun goddess Mom sent her daughter Rain to cry over the land anytime she wanted something and Mom said No.

When the daughter grew up, she stopped crying over everything and her tears were only 1/3 as wet as before..."

(...excerpt from an old folk tale circa 659 ABT...)

(...ABT = After Beer Time...)

(...which is why it doesn't make sense....it's After the Beers...)

I have been saying this for awhile now. Rain should be a good thing. Now it's just a sure sign it's time to water again because it does not have the same ability to water as water from the ground does.

Common sense and logic are not to be found here. Water is wet. Just not *that* wet...

Maybe after they get everything hooked up it will make sense, but for now it prefers to defy the natural order of things and make some water wetter than other water for the sake of gamey grindness. Or gindy gaminess. Either way, it's a gamey BS thing that makes no sense other than something might be considered OP or EZ.

Rain should bring Joy. It should bring relief. It should create freedom and set you off to run around and fish and do all those back story things you never have time for.

BUt no. Go grind. Bah..!!

Cheers..!

[GreyBeard512]

They actually fixed rain when using the watering can. The watering can normally gives you 3 days of water. I think when it rains now, that extends it by one, so if it rains once the watering can will last 4 days. This fix came shortly before the irrigation systems.)=

The irrigation system appears to use water at a constant rate, even in the rain.

[Doc Savage]

That's not a fix, that's a wrong.

Water from the sky should water 3 days, just like water from the ground.

Instead, we get Water light. All the wetness but only 1/3 of the time.

It needs to be when the ground gets wet, it's 3 days. That's it.

Instead I have to water 2 days early...

Cheers..!

[ChaosLegion]

Originally posted by GreyBeard512:

The irrigation system appears to use water at a constant rate, even in the rain.

Indeed and it drives me crazy. The rain imho should either refil irrigation or at the very least take priority over irrigation so we don't use charge when it rains.

[eXeZ|Gamer433]

Seriously, I have no idea what do you want to tell with your novel. So, I just read this text:

Originally posted by Doc Savage:

Rain water is not as wet as ground water.

I compared a watering can (what is 3 days watering) against rain all day log, what waters the ground only for ONE day.
Wher the heck do you get the ground water? It isnt even part of the game.

The whole irrigation system of this game is totally broken and lacking of logic.

[Doc Savage]

Ground water comes from the well. It's what is in your watering can and it works for 3 days.

Sky water comes from rain. It waters for 1 (one) day.

Sky water is not as wet as ground water, or it would water for 3 days.

It is one of two issues of contention among 100 things done well.

That is all.

Cheers..!

[eXeZ|Gamer433]

Originally posted by Doc Savage:

Ground water comes from the well. It's what is in your watering can

But you never fill your watering can at the well.
You fill up your buckets at the well and with this buckets, you fill up your irrigation system.