Water reservoirs do not work

[Morath]

Hi guys,

have someone problem with water reservoirs now? This issue is probably in game longer, few months. We have defense towers, which have Species X on them, and they are covered, so rain cant irrigate them. So we built few water tanks for them (2 at start) and it worked for months. But some patch (no idea which one, it is not working already few months) changed something with rain and irrigation, I dont know if flowers need more water or water reservoirs get water slowly (they do tbh, it is like 16 water every few seconds, which is with rate of rain quite pathethic), but two tanks were not able handle it. I said ok, and we added 4 more for each tower.

Well, it did not help at all, just last water reservoir in line is getting water, again in that slow rate, so literally nothing changed. I made two screenshots and marked water reservoirs which take water (in that slow rate cca 16 every 5 seconds), but others are literally without water.

Any idea what could be issue of it and how to fix it without big rebuilds?

PS: To keep flowers alive at the moment I am addig water in tanks manually.
PPS: We cannot connect on water or sea, so we need solution with water tanks + rain.

Screenshots - http://imgur.com/a/PoFZ0

[di eshor ribly]

It could be a few things, but offhand my three guesses are:

Not enough tanks to match the species X plots. If the plots are low on water they will drain the tanks pretty much instantly, which prevents them from filling back up.

The second guess is there may or may not be a waterskin in one of the taps. The water decay on skins are enough to slowly drain tanks over time, and prevents the tanks from refilling during rain if the waterskin is empty or nearly empty.

Finally, tanks built above other tanks prevent the lower ones from being filled, even if they're connected by irrigation pipes. I can see in your screenshot you don't have them stacked, so I'm just saying this one to be thorough.

I'd suggest manually watering all of the crops and then filling the tanks again and see if that helps. Your biggest issue is lack of direct irrigation through rainfall mainly, too much water decay and not enough water intake.

[Morath]

Thanks for answer. Well we are talking about like 12-16 flowers on each tower irrigated by these tanks (5-8 per tower). Tanks are not vertically, so none of them block any other, only what is above them is pipe, but it should not have any impact. We are not using waterskins, so it is not inside, I controlled them since I filled them manually today.

What is weird is, that only tanks on end of the "tank" line getting water from rain. When I am watching them, others are still at 0, even when they havent anything above them. Also contribution of rain on tanks is super low. 16 water pet few seconds is just pathethic ammount if you really need keep some flowers alive.

[Ghilgamesch]

I have a flower defense tower with some 11 x-turrets, with most of them having to be irrigated. When x-turrets arn't mature they use quite a bit of water so if you're feeding them through resevoirs you're going to need to fill (at least 3 for you, 2 for me) personally twice a day. Some of mine have died during this process as I forgot how water hungry they were. Once they're matured, top both/all-three water tanks off and you'll never have to worry about irrigation again as mature x-turrets drain water VERY slowly.

[di eshor ribly]

It might actually be your irrigation pipes too, now that I think of it. The few times I've had pipes connected to the top 'port' of a water reservoir or keg it wouldn't fill with rainwater. I always connect on the bottom now. Should be easy enough to build some pipes underneath them and build up before tearing down the old piping, and it should save you having to rebuild the tanks.