Water container

[Fabiolus]

What is the point, seem pointless to me, I rather have a water pipe coming to my base and having a tap at the end that provide infinite water.

I recently wasted engram for a metal water container which when I put my water jar in nothing happens....It looks good though thats about it

[Sly]

maybe fill it with water? the water container has to include water and it has to be a full tank then you place your container into a Irrigation tap

[Fabiolus]

Originally posted by Sly:

maybe fill it with water? the water container has to include water and it has to be a full tank then you place your container into a Irrigation tap

yes it is full, ill disconnect the water pipe from it see how long it takes to fill just by rain, still my objective was to have the tank and fill my water jars with it but you cant it seem

[Sly]

Originally posted by Fabiolus:

Originally posted by Sly:

maybe fill it with water? the water container has to include water and it has to be a full tank then you place your container into a Irrigation tap

yes it is full, ill disconnect the water pipe from it see how long it takes to fill just by rain, still my objective was to have the tank and fill my water jars with it but you cant it seem

i had some guy who complained that his water tank wasnt filling his water bottle or watering his crops... it turns out he didnt have a "irrigation" pipe tap

[Fabiolus]

Originally posted by Sly:

Originally posted by Fabiolus:

yes it is full, ill disconnect the water pipe from it see how long it takes to fill just by rain, still my objective was to have the tank and fill my water jars with it but you cant it seem

i had some guy who complained that his water tank wasnt filling his water bottle or watering his crops... it turns out he didnt have a "irrigation" pipe tap

well that is what I am saying what is the different having a water pipe to your base with a tap directly or having a water pipe to a water container with a tap? seem the water container is useless unless you are far in the Forrest and you transport water to it

[Pixel]

It collects water when it rains, which btw helps out A LOT when you are not able to pull infinite water from a nearby lake/ocean.

[William Bonney]

Water tanks aren't necessary if you have another readily available water source nearby. There are many places however, up in the mountains comes to mind, where a source of water does not exist.

Thus, water tanks, which do indeed fill up when it rains.

[leftharted]

yea, i made the mistake early game after i got a pipe all the way up a cliff to my base to waste cement paste trying to put a Tank on top of it.....

wrong. 8/

needs to be a Tap; and a tap you can open (like a dino inventory) and place your skins/jars inside to auto fill. I had to demolish the tank...

as others have stated; if you are near water, then you don't need a tank. the tanks are for rain-catching in remote-bases. I don't know of another use (but, im not my tribes farmer.. might have more use there?)

[Synthetik]

Originally posted by Chewytowel:

It collects water when it rains, which btw helps out A LOT when you are not able to pull infinite water from a nearby lake/ocean.

Help me out here... I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to place a water tank WITHOUT any pipes around for it to snap to.

[Tashina]

Is someone able to place pipes without placing an intake first? I can't figure out how. And I can't place an watertank without a pipe it can connect to.

[Tee]

You HAVE to place a pipe down horizontally and then have the water tank on top of it. In regards to the filling up the water container, you MUST put the water container in the TAP not the water tank. The description of the inventory of the water tank means that you can put a water jar that has water in it into the water tank to fill its water up.

Hope this helps

[TwistedSeven]

i wish watertanks had an extra 0 at the end of the capacity, or atleast the ability to stack them in order to add to the capacity

[Jakt Nova]

I'm not close enough to a water supply to make irrigation worth it. I've got a tank on my roof, placed a single straight pipe horozontal pipe and one vertical pipe and a tap at the end. I now have water inside my house to use for cooking recipes, topping off water flasks before I go out farming, or a dependable water supply for when I return (assuming it rained while I was out which it almost always does.

Placing water bags into water containers does nothing unless you are trying to fill the container in which case you would place a full water jug into the container and select remote use. if you want to take water from the resivoir, you need to attach a tap to the end of a pipe coming from the resivoir and get water from the tap when it's full.

Also, water bags that are stored in the tap do not seem leak out which is nice.

[sybersmoke]

The water tank is also very off in it's balance. After I thought about it some, given it's mesh volume, I did a little math and found the tank (in reality) should hold 2.2m^3 worth of water, or about 581 gallons. That means a character that is dehydrated will drink 290 gallons of water in a single drag. The tanks should hold WAY more water or each unit should count for far more.

A little sanity can go a long way.

On a side note...fun numbers really...acording to their math, your water skin should also weigh about a ton full of water. Given the above numbers at least. Since one gallon of water weighs 8.33 pounds.

[Jakt Nova]

Yeah I was disappointed at how little I was able to get from my stone container, basically two water bladders worth. You can extend that by a bit by storing water bladders in the tap and rotating them out. I think it all needs to be a tweaked a little, but that's what EA is for.

[Synthetik]

Originally posted by Teelegit:

You HAVE to place a pipe down horizontally and then have the water tank on top of it. In regards to the filling up the water container, you MUST put the water container in the TAP not the water tank. The description of the inventory of the water tank means that you can put a water jar that has water in it into the water tank to fill its water up.

Hope this helps

Thanks for clarifying.

I remember when I first saw the water tank icon, I pictured a tank sitting on the ground, like a well more or less. The floating pipes are very unsightly to me :p But yes this helped a bunch.