Purified Water/Settlement Questions

[Pundaker]

I have 21 settlers with 111 water and 2 Industrial Water pumps, the rest being normal water pumps.

The Purified Water in my workshop is always getting lower, not higher.

I don't understand what the wiki says about this, and should I make more water purifiers?

[Flippy]

I guess other settlements may be using the water also or that happiness is to low to produce lots.

My understanding is that settlements do share resources and that output levels are determined by happpiness.

Seems to work like that in game but never stopped to really count these factors over time and things like to know any approximate details even.

[DrNewcenstein]

You have Water Purifiers and Water Pumps. Water Pumps do not purify water. Hence, with only 2 pumps producing Purified Water, it should be obvious as to why it's running low.

Delete all the ground pumps and put in more purifiers.

[DrNewcenstein]

Originally posted by Flippy:

I guess other settlements may be using the water also or that happiness is to low to produce lots.

My understanding is that settlements do share resources and that output levels are determined by happpiness.

Seems to work like that in game but never stopped to really count these factors over time and things like to know any approximate details even.

Settlements do not share food resources unless you establish Supply Lines. That's the point of Supply Lines.

[Rez Elwin]

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

You have Water Purifiers and Water Pumps. Water Pumps do not purify water. Hence, with only 2 pumps producing Purified Water, it should be obvious as to why it's running low.

Delete all the ground pumps and put in more purifiers.

Pumps do produce purified water, all water resource objects do.

@OP
If you have supply lines your other settlements that are not producing enough on their own are taking your excess. Make sure that none of your objects are broken after an attack either.

[Pundaker]

Originally posted by Rez Elwin:

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

You have Water Purifiers and Water Pumps. Water Pumps do not purify water. Hence, with only 2 pumps producing Purified Water, it should be obvious as to why it's running low.

Delete all the ground pumps and put in more purifiers.

Pumps do produce purified water, all water resource objects do.

@OP
If you have supply lines your other settlements that are not producing enough on their own are taking your excess. Make sure that none of your objects are broken after an attack either.

I have supply lines with almost every northern settlement :O :'( and some southern as well, Vault 88, etc

[Rez Elwin]

Originally posted by Pundaker:

Originally posted by Rez Elwin:

Pumps do produce purified water, all water resource objects do.

@OP
If you have supply lines your other settlements that are not producing enough on their own are taking your excess. Make sure that none of your objects are broken after an attack either.

I have supply lines with almost every northern settlement :O :'( and some southern as well, Vault 88, etc

That's most likely the reason then, all settlements with supply lines share not only supplies but water and food too. If some of the settlements you're connected to don't have the water production to sustain their settlers they will take it from excess you produce elsewhere. You can find the "problem" in the settlement menu in the pip-boy, it will show a statistic of each settlement. Find the ones that have more people than produced water and fix it.

[EolSunder]

yep they are producing water, but they can only product it so fast, other settlements since you are linked are using it also. Take one of your other settlements with a water supply and turn them into water producers also, get another settlementing going gathering water.

[Doombringer]

If the water in the workshop is above a certain amount, no more will be produced until you clear it out.
To get water every workshop update you need to remove all water from the workbench.
Also if not enough real-world time passes (like if you just sleep for a month in game), the workshop won't update.
You should get about 0.75*(WaterRating - Settlers) water whenever it updates.


Also, you should fill every possible pool of water with as many purifiers as you can - it's free money ;)

[Pundaker]

I put 2 more water purifiers, making my water go up to 181

[Shahadem]

The way that the game adds water to the workshop was poorly implemented. Basically the game will only add water if the amount of water in the workship is either zero or else some number less than the number of Settlers in the Settlement*X+Y water pumps or something. The game counts Nuka Cola, beer, dirty water, vodka, etc. as water.

In certain circumstances (probably a bug) the game won't add any water to the workshop unless there is zero water in the workshop. So if you have one Nuka Cola in your workship then the game won't add any water to your workshop.

If there is zero water in your workship then the game will add water to your workship equal to the highest of:
1) max allowable water limit
2) Settlement water pump output - number of Settlers

The hand crank water pumps do not produce purified water. They only increase the displayed water output but are not taken into account when calculating the amount of purified water to add to the workshop.

If you are using Sim Settlements then the reason why your displayed water output keeps decreasing is because Sim Settlement buildings produce negative water output. A level 3 residential building reduces your water output by 2 in addition to the 1 water output reduction from the Settler who lives there. I think the brewery industrial building also reduces your water output as do several of the entertainment buildings.

[Nite69]

The purified water won't continuously duplicate on its own, what you have to do is take what is currently in the workshop and store it somewhere else and then a new supply of water will spawn in the workshop after a while.

Its the way the game is, if water is in the workshop already it won't spawn more ya have to remove it

[ElanaAhova]

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

You have Water Purifiers and Water Pumps. Water Pumps do not purify water. Hence, with only 2 pumps producing Purified Water, it should be obvious as to why it's running low.

Delete all the ground pumps and put in more purifiers.

You sure? Except for castle, I have NO water purifiers, all are the hand pumps. ANd my settlemts produce lots of 'pure' water.