Is water broken, or am I just done?

[Doctor OwO]

So. Recently, I came back to this game, cause so far I've loved everything about it, but I wasn't around for when water and farms requiring them, became a thing.

I can't seem to get enough water, to feed the crops, whatsoever. Either my villagers are all sons of the Kool Aid man, and are stealing every single drop that dare disgraces a bucket made by man, its broken, or I'm doing something terribly wrong. Not to mention, the Water purifyer doesn't make enough water, nor quickly enough from what I can see.

[EldVarg]

Farmers will always prioritize harvest food resourses (outside farm) before taking care of the farm. If you want them to use farm, remove all the food farming outside.

[Merluca Kitsokami]

it just takes getting used to, for a decent sized village i either have 3 full upgraded water purifier that are allways filled to the brim with dirty buckets or 8 wells. that keeps my villige on a good water stock while 4 farms are using it

[Grimmrog_SIG]

yes if you want wells, you need quite some of them, Rain catchers are very unreliable. purifiers delivr good and steady water, but i am not sure how exactly they work and where their dirty water comes from.

[Leonard✌d'Moogle]

The dirty water comes from lakes. You havest with the same tool as you use for food.

[Rayvolution]

Originally posted by Voren Redden:

So. Recently, I came back to this game, cause so far I've loved everything about it, but I wasn't around for when water and farms requiring them, became a thing.

I can't seem to get enough water, to feed the crops, whatsoever. Either my villagers are all sons of the Kool Aid man, and are stealing every single drop that dare disgraces a bucket made by man, its broken, or I'm doing something terribly wrong. Not to mention, the Water purifyer doesn't make enough water, nor quickly enough from what I can see.

You need a good mix of all 3 water buildings usually (Rain Catcher, Water Purifier and Wells). They all have their various benefits to help you through each season.

The Rain Catchers are usually the best source of water in the Spring, unless you have terrible luck, and it never rains all. Rain Catchers are no doubt the fastest way to generate large amounts of water quickly, but as the name implies, they only work when it's raining. So they're not as effective in the Summer, and almost completely useless in the Winter since it snows a majority of the time instead.

The Water Purifier comes in second speed wise, but can work non-stop in the Spring, Summer, Autumn and warmer parts of the Winter before the oceans freeze over. Personally, I upgrade it fairly early because the increased output helps a ton. The downside though is you need a few Water Masters to harvest nearby dirty water from the ocean, taking away villagers you could assign elsewhere.

Finally, the Wells. The Wells are extremely slow. But cheap to build, and run 24/7 without any workers assigned to them, although at least 1 Water Master is useful to make buckets. They also work throughout all 4 seasons. Some players have actually opt'ed to just build a massive amount of these. But it's an expensive hit to your built slots to do.

My personal play style, I usually build 3 Rain Catchers by day 2, a Water Purifier shortly after, then around the Summer I build some Wells. Then expand as-needed from there. For me, that works fairly well, although sometimes I get hit pretty hard if by dumb luck I don't see rain until day 3 or 4.

[CHENZ]

Unless you're in deep winter, you can always forcibly make it rain using the storm power (in winter, it just snows instead) If you've mucked up your planning badly and are short on water this is an effective stopgap measure if you're relying on rain catchers

[Arucard]

Still feels like this could be balanced a little better, maybe if wells filled slightly faster since people tend to stand there and empty it immediately? Or faster depending on proximity to water sources or if it has recently rained.

Rain catchers aren't as necessary when the rain fills everything that needs water anyway (wells, fountains, farms). Water continues to be the major thing keeping me from moving forward.

[CDDB]

I just started a town, and maxed out my building allotment w/ the basic starting necessities. everything is working fine, except the water --- despite having one of each kind of water building, everyone starts dropping dead from dehydration, (*while it's raining* over and over, mind you).

I've given far less attention to food, or any other resource, and yet no one is hungry, all the other resources are abundant. I can see why there are multiple messages wondering if water is "broken"??

[Doctor OwO]

Originally posted by CDDB:

I just started a town, and maxed out my building allotment w/ the basic starting necessities. everything is working fine, except the water --- despite having one of each kind of water building, everyone starts dropping dead from dehydration, (*while it's raining* over and over, mind you).

I've given far less attention to food, or any other resource, and yet no one is hungry, all the other resources are abundant. I can see why there are multiple messages wondering if water is "broken"??

This is exactly what I mean. I could have one small farm for 50 people, but you need like 8 water purifyer's for every twenty of them

[Rayvolution]

Originally posted by Voren Redden:

Originally posted by CDDB:

I just started a town, and maxed out my building allotment w/ the basic starting necessities. everything is working fine, except the water --- despite having one of each kind of water building, everyone starts dropping dead from dehydration, (*while it's raining* over and over, mind you).

I've given far less attention to food, or any other resource, and yet no one is hungry, all the other resources are abundant. I can see why there are multiple messages wondering if water is "broken"??

This is exactly what I mean. I could have one small farm for 50 people, but you need like 8 water purifyer's for every twenty of them

You definitely don't need 8 water purifiers for 50 people. I usually can play well into the game with 80-90 people with nothing more than a single purifier and 3 rain catchers.

Are you upgrading the purifiers, and making sure they're actually stocked with dirty water at all times?

Originally posted by CDDB:

I just started a town, and maxed out my building allotment w/ the basic starting necessities. everything is working fine, except the water --- despite having one of each kind of water building, everyone starts dropping dead from dehydration, (*while it's raining* over and over, mind you).

I've given far less attention to food, or any other resource, and yet no one is hungry, all the other resources are abundant. I can see why there are multiple messages wondering if water is "broken"??

It's not broken, people just don't know how to use it correctly. I may need to add some better tips. Check out my above reply on May 25th. :)