Can't Pump Water In Red Rocket?

[danconnors]

I decided to settle down in Red Rocket. I recruited 4 settlers; no problem. They grew food, fine. I decided to give them an ample supply of water, and built 2 of the generator run pumps (supposed to pump 10 units of water per day). They didn't; they produced no water per day. I threw in 3 regular muscle powered water pumps, and the water production remained at zero.

Anybody else having water problems at Red Rocket? Yes I built the required generators for the powered pumps.

[danconnors]

I have no mods in my game. The powered wells built as normal, but I'm beginning to wonder if I built them over the molerat den. In that case I may have drilled down into empty air. Think I'll dig them up, and transport them to a different area on the premises. If that fails I'll move them to a different settlement. Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm very leery of downloading stuff into my computer. I had to get rid of three viruses that managed to install themselves on my "c" drive yesterday.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Water and crops stored in the Work Bench have limits. Google for one of the many threads here for the grusume details.

[danconnors]

I moved the 2 powered units, and on the first day they produced 18 units, so, problem solved.

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by danconnors:

I have no mods in my game. The powered wells built as normal, but I'm beginning to wonder if I built them over the molerat den. In that case I may have drilled down into empty air. Think I'll dig them up, and transport them to a different area on the premises. If that fails I'll move them to a different settlement. Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm very leery of downloading stuff into my computer. I had to get rid of three viruses that managed to install themselves on my "c" drive yesterday.

If you're talking about water purifiers, they don't care (in terms of game mechanics) about their location as long as they've got power. They'll work perfectly even if they're somehow suspended in open air (which is possible if you use game glitches), or if you do something like sticking one on a garden bed a few inches deep on top of a concrete overpass.

Originally posted by danconnors:

I moved the 2 powered units, and on the first day they produced 18 units, so, problem solved.

The game does occasionally fail to recognize when certain things are placed, and selecting and re-placing them (even in exactly the same position) can get it to recognize them properly.

Though I'm speaking about accounts from other people there; the only problems I've had personally are when I didn't connect things properly.

EDIT: Purifiers and pumps are basically the same in terms of not caring about the logic of available water if you manage to place them somewhere. But as correctly pointed out by others, pumps (not purifiers) are what you'd be using at the Red Rocket settlement.

[danconnors]

Well, at any rate, I now have reliable water at Red Rocket. I wonder, a little, why the settlers weren't showing displeasure when they weren't getting any water.

[Lemurian1972]

Originally posted by danconnors:

Well, at any rate, I now have reliable water at Red Rocket. I wonder, a little, why the settlers weren't showing displeasure when they weren't getting any water.

Because literal water production for your workbench, and required water production for the settler happiness formula are different things.

[The Inept European]

How can you place water purifiers at Red Rocket? There's no water source in the build area (as far as I know) so you can only build pumps surely? Purifiers require an open water source.

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by The Inept European:

How can you place water purifiers at Red Rocket? There's no water source in the build area (as far as I know) so you can only build pumps surely? Purifiers require an open water source.

If I may pop in on this, I believe danconnors made a mistake - he meant to say "Powered Water Pump" but mistakenly referred to the Water Purifiers, which yes, require open bodies of water - and cannot be built at Red Rocket.

[The Inept European]

Actually to be fair danconnors in the OP said powered pumps, "purifiers" was in one of the replies. My bad.

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by The Inept European:

Actually to be fair danconnors in the OP said powered pumps, "purifiers" was in one of the replies. My bad.

Ah, I just went by what you said, heh. No problems.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by Tesityr:

Originally posted by The Inept European:

Actually to be fair danconnors in the OP said powered pumps, "purifiers" was in one of the replies. My bad.

Ah, I just went by what you said, heh. No problems.

Thanks anyway as you pointed out ny own mistake. Much appreciated!

[Bored Peon]

Also keep this in mind:

1. It takes actual play time for a "production cycle" to complete. As in you can not simply wait/sleep 24 hours and get another production cycle for food or water. Their is some fractional value invloved somehow.

2. If connnected to a supply chain the water can be redirected elsewhere. Especially if you get one of them zero data bugs on a settlement.

3. Storing food or water into a workshop manually can satisfy the demands for settlers.

[G hunter 093]

every 72 minutes of in game time away from the setlement the some water will be added acording to you production i have a setlement that has 410 points of water production but it only spits out 230-280 water per 40-72 minutes of gameplay (72 minutes 1 in game day)

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Tesityr:

Originally posted by The Inept European:

Actually to be fair danconnors in the OP said powered pumps, "purifiers" was in one of the replies. My bad.

Ah, I just went by what you said, heh. No problems.

I'm the one guilty of mentioning purifiers, though the pumps are basically the same as the purifiers for what I was talking about (ignoring the logic of where they're placed, as long as you manage to place them there).

I even mentioned sticking them up on overpasses, which is something you specifically do with pumps and garden plots, rather than with purifiers. I've just played around more with the purifiers and forgot about Red Rocket not having water access (unless maybe you play around with jet and quickloading to cart stuff beyond the settlement boundary, as I once tested with one of Nuka World's tribute chests).

[Kool Kevin]

Originally posted by DouglasGrave:

Originally posted by danconnors:

But as correctly pointed out by others, pumps (not purifiers) are what you'd be using at the Red Rocket settlement.

I found every patch of dirt and crack in the asphalt at the airport (had a robot as the sole occupant) Had nothing else but hand and power PUMPS (shelter for generator ) and did like 240 units at a time. Did it - just for fun.
Congrats on getting 4 people there - I always skipped that one. Happy trails! Kevin