How to irrigate a beer barrel with a tap?

[Aviarchis]

I've spent the last couple hours trying to attach my beer barrels to a water source. For some reason I can't seem to irrigate them with a tap anymore. I managed to do this without much trouble when I built a base last year, and all the sources I looked up say I should be able to simply place the barrels "near the tap", but no matter what I've tried I haven't been able to get it to work. Is there a specific way I should be setting the pipes up, or a certain hot spot I need to place the barrels in for this to work? I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[zerassar]

Afaik they must be connected to the network. And taps won't work.

It is best to start your water network from such structures and work back to the water source.

Rather than starting at the river.
This will save issues with misalignment.

Also several structures won't accept water if you have a tank in the network. So remove any tanks.

[Liralen]

I can confirm that beer barrels can't draw water from a tank.

I've built bases before that didn't have direct access to water, and so used water tanks. Everything else worked fine, except for beer.

[123]

They snap to water pipe intersections

[Liralen]

Originally posted by 123:

They snap to water pipe intersections

duh. Can you confirm that they actually get water from tanks?

[Aviarchis]

Originally posted by Liralen:

I can confirm that beer barrels can't draw water from a tank.

I've built bases before that didn't have direct access to water, and so used water tanks. Everything else worked fine, except for beer.

I legit feel like I remember cheating the system by putting a tap attached to tanks near the barrels and irrigating them that way. This time I tested it by placing a barrel under a tap connected directly to the river, yet the barrel still shows "not irrigated". All the sources I looked up say you should be able to use taps to irrigate barrels, even the wiki. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong that makes taps not work.

[🦊 Hermit]

Speaking personally, I've never been able to irrigate the barrel with taps, and neither it nor the industrial cooker can be irrigated solely from a water tank. They need a water intake on the system before they will work.

I believe, however, that at one point the Structures Plus mod did have a setting to allow these structures to irrigate from tanks (though I think this setting has since been removed). Might it be that S+ also allowed for the irrigation from taps that the OP is referring to?

[Aviarchis]

Originally posted by Hermit:

Speaking personally, I've never been able to irrigate the barrel with taps, and neither it nor the industrial cooker can be irrigated solely from a water tank. They need a water intake on the system before they will work.

I believe, however, that at one point the Structures Plus mod did have a setting to allow these structures to irrigate from tanks (though I think this setting has since been removed). Might it be that S+ also allowed for the irrigation from taps that the OP is referring to?

I think this might be what's going on. I used S+ for a while until I heard it wasn't being actively developed anymore, at which point I switched to SS. They must have removed the feature of irrigating from tanks and taps before SS went active. Strange that this feature is mentioned both on the wiki and on various Reddit threads, but your explanation is the only one I've seen that makes sense.

Welp, I guess it's time to start manually filling the barrels. I'd really rather not have to build a network of pipes all the way to a water source. Makes the build super ugly in my opinion.

[crimsondrac]

If you are using SS then it is really easy. Use the hidden, in-structure pipes to run water to a floor piece then just drop the barrel right on that floor piece. It will be irrigated.

[🦊 Hermit]

You can even hide the normal, non-internal pipes too, make them completely invisible so they don't spoil the view.

[crimsondrac]

There is also a setting in SS to allow Intake pipes to be used anywhere. I often allow this on my servers unless I am playing Scorched Earth and want to make water scarce.