Water purifier not working ?

[Crixus]

I have 20 industrial water purifiers powered up but they aren't producing any water, so I would like some advice on how to make them work please :)

They produced 5 at first, but I have been playing for hours and they haven't made any more since. It's probably something stupid I'm doing but just not sure what. I also have no settlers in this settlement if that makes a difference.

[steventirey]

If I remember right, there are limits. If you have 5 or more drinkable items in the workshop, no more will be produced until that number drops below 5. That includes not just purified water, but dirty water and I believe alcohol as well. The same applies to food.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

No settlers?
How so?
Any purified water is added the workstation in that settlement.

[The Inept European]

No(/few/any/many) settlers makes no difference to water production.
(Edit: apart from, obviously, they consume 1 water each "off the top").

This is the production cap. It's a standard feature.

Empty the settlement workshop of all AID items (not just water) on every production cycle, or it will stop producing.

[kharille]

Oh yeah, I tend to just press 'R'. I used to bother grabbing food and water until theres 3 left. Theres a formula on the wiki bt I can't be bothered. Totally normal. In my 2nd playthrough I patched it with a nexus mod so that I can use purified water for soup recipes. Now I'm level 79 and I ain't been to far harbour.

[Anvos]

Really does make you wonder why building your settlements a water tower to store more water wasn't a thing.

Also yeah I have to agree with the above that the dirty water requirement for some cooking is kind of stupid and illogical that contaminated water is harder to acquire than clean water.

[Crixus]

Thank you all for the replies :)

This must be a new feature ? For so long people said about using this method to make caps but if 5 is the limit then it's 100% pointless.

I checked and I have no aid items at all in the workbench apart from the 5 purified water and the purifiers refuse to make any more :p That was a waste of resources.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by Crixus:

This must be a new feature ? For so long people said about using this method to make caps but if 5 is the limit then it's 100% pointless.

No it's not a new feature, it's been this way from day 1.

Water farming is OP effective. The fact that you have to show up once a day per settlement to collect your ill-gotten gains is a minor inconvenience, and at least imposes some kind of limitation on water farming.

It's kind of amazing that you are complaining about the free money exploit not being easy enough. It's already basically Cow Clicker for caps.

[Crixus]

Originally posted by The Inept European:

Water farming is OP effective. The fact that you have to show up once a day per settlement to collect your ill-gotten gains is a minor inconvenience, and at least imposes some kind of limitation on water farming.

It's kind of amazing that you are complaining about the free money exploit not being easy enough. It's already basically Cow Clicker.

How is getting 5 purified water per day "OP effective" ?

That has to be the slowest method of farming caps that I have seen.

And I didn't mean water purifiers being new, I meant the fact that you can only get 5 bottles a day being new. Because this is a very recommended method of getting caps, but 5 bottles a day is too low to make it worth it.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by Anvos:

Really does make you wonder why building your settlements a water tower to store more water wasn't a thing.

Water is probably the most poorly thought out and badly designed part of the game. Water towers/storage is the least of it. Unattended pumps cranking out enough water to buy the entire contents of the Commonwealth and they don't get attacked. A tsunami of "valuable" water enters the economy and it has zero effect on the price of water.

Originally posted by Anvos:

Also yeah I have to agree with the above that the dirty water requirement for some cooking is kind of stupid and illogical that contaminated water is harder to acquire than clean water.

This is my personal bugbear that I dislike the most, though I admit it's not as serious in its impact as the general water farming.

Luckily lots of mods are available to address the dirty water issue. There is Dirty Water Pumps and various recipe replacer mods that add the ability to use Purified Water in the recipes that call for Dirty Water.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by Crixus:

Originally posted by The Inept European:

Water farming is OP effective. The fact that you have to show up once a day per settlement to collect your ill-gotten gains is a minor inconvenience, and at least imposes some kind of limitation on water farming.

It's kind of amazing that you are complaining about the free money exploit not being easy enough. It's already basically Cow Clicker.

How is getting 5 purified water per day "OP effective" ?

That has to be the slowest method of farming caps that I have seen.

And I didn't mean water purifiers being new, I meant the fact that you can only get 5 bottles a day being new. Because this is a very recommended method of getting caps, but 5 bottles a day is too low to make it worth it.

Visit each settlement once a day and collect 1000+ water from each on each visit. Or 2000 or 5000. How is that not OP effective?

[Crixus]

Originally posted by The Inept European:

Originally posted by Crixus:

How is getting 5 purified water per day "OP effective" ?

That has to be the slowest method of farming caps that I have seen.

And I didn't mean water purifiers being new, I meant the fact that you can only get 5 bottles a day being new. Because this is a very recommended method of getting caps, but 5 bottles a day is too low to make it worth it.

Visit each settlement once a day and collect 1000+ water from each on each visit. Or 2000 or 5000. How is that not OP effective?

Because I have said twice now that it caps out at 5 bottles stored? That is the reason I made the thread...

I was wondering if it was a bug or me doing something wrong.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by Crixus:

And I didn't mean water purifiers being new, I meant the fact that you can only get 5 bottles a day being new. Because this is a very recommended method of getting caps, but 5 bottles a day is too low to make it worth it.

Yes it was clear you were talking about the 5 item cap (it increases with population but not much).

Ok maybe you are not understanding. There is no production if the workshop cap has been exceeded. As long as you clear the workshop of AID, a full production cycle occurs.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by Crixus:

Because I have said twice now that it caps out at 5 bottles stored? That is the reason I made the thread...

I was wondering if it was a bug or me doing something wrong.

And I've said twice now, clear the workshop of AID and the full production occurs.

So yes if you are not doing that, you are doing something wrong.

[Crixus]

Originally posted by The Inept European:

Originally posted by Crixus:

Because I have said twice now that it caps out at 5 bottles stored? That is the reason I made the thread...

I was wondering if it was a bug or me doing something wrong.

And I've said twice now, clear the workshop of AID and the full production occurs.

So yes if you are not doing that, you are doing something wrong.

I am just confused about the information. You say visit once a day and collect thousands of water, but I am not getting thousands of water, just 5 bottles.

I have no other aid in the workshop.

[The Inept European]

Ok if you remove the 5 bottles, and come back 24 game hours later (plus elapsed real time) and there are not zero bottles and not hundreds of bottles, but again 5 bottles, then yes that sounds like some kind of a bug,