Producing purified water

[M.]

Why the heck it could not working for me? I build purifiers and get water first time. And that's it - it'll never increase amount. I have settlement with Codsworth only in it. And he is on supply line. 3 purifiers get me 30 of purified water. Then i left settlement at my 10lvl and returned now when i am 30 lvl. It's some time, you should agree, to generate enough water. But there is still 30 bottles.

Why the hell?

[HoroSaga]

If the settlement is linked to other settlements that aren't producing enough water, then the excess water will be used to satisfy the water requirements of those other settlements.

[SuperBobKing]

The workshop will only store a limited amount of water, I am pretty sure it is 1 days worth. If you want to get more you need to take the water out of the workshop and store it somewhere else. It isn't a good idea to store aid items in the workshop anyway because there was a bug where they sometimes disappear. I don't know if it has ever been fixed.

[DEVOLVE MINHA CACHAÇA!]

There is a cap for leftovers (yeah, what goes to the workshop is what settlers do not consume) of produced water and food (which depends on how happy your settlement currently is). If you reach that cap, and do not take the leftovers from the workshop, the next production won't stack over what is already in there.

You must collect it from time to time, so it can be generated again.

[Kameraden]

I've had to to 91 water at one time in storage from one return trip.

[ƎϽ∀ƎԀ]

I dont know if I am correct over all but my settlements wont store any more than my purifiers produce. If the settlement produces 30 then thats all it will store.

edit: unless I personally place more in the storage myself.

[HoroSaga]

Originally posted by Kameraden:

I've had to to 91 water at one time in storage from one return trip.

I believe the maximum amount of "storage space" for purified water depends on how much water the settlement is producing.

In my current main save file, I have a settlement with about a dozen large water purifiers set up around it. It appears to store up to about 250 or so bottles of purified water at a time.

[SuperBobKing]

Originally posted by Kameraden:

I've had to to 91 water at one time in storage from one return trip.

It is based on how much excess water the settlement produces, and I think happiness factors in as well. I get about 160-170 every time I go to Sactuary (I always take it out of the workshop and put it in a box next to it) and it is always that amount no matter how long it has been since I last cleared the workshop (as long as it has been long enough for more water to spawn).

[HoroSaga]

Originally posted by SuperBobKing:

Originally posted by Kameraden:

I've had to to 91 water at one time in storage from one return trip.

It is based on how much excess water the settlement produces, and I think happiness factors in as well. I get about 160-170 every time I go to Sactuary (I always take it out of the workshop and put it in a box next to it) and it is always that amount no matter how long it has been since I last cleared the workshop (as long as it has been long enough for more water to spawn).

Sounds about right. I have many of my settlements set up with excessive water production in mind, and I routinely "make the rounds" passing through every settlement to collect the extra water and crops they generate.

Funnily enough, I eventually got to the point where I had so many settlements, that the time it takes to complete one full "round" through all of them is enough that the first settlement will have already generated a new stash of excess water. I could theoretically just keep travelling through all of the settlements in an infinite cycle, collecting infinite water. :P

But really, once you get past a certain point in the game, money becomes more or less meaningless because you won't really need to buy new weapons or armor anymore.

[Nite69]

The water will regenerate every 48 in game hours, and you have to keep the workshop empty of it for more to acumulate, so store it in a seperate container next to it.

[SuperBobKing]

I still end up having to buy ammo, fusion cores, and sometimes shipments of materials, because I can't find enough to keep up with how much I use them. Even with collecting the water every time I go back to sanctuary to store loot I had to use nearly all of the purified water I had saved up to buy the recon marine armor, and I didn't get the helmet. I pick up everything except armor, and until recently I picked that up too so I make frequent stops to unload.

[Nite69]

Build more purifiers and generators then, the more you build the more the water will generate.

I can make around 800 bottles every few in game days at taffington boathouse

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=678812126

The trick is use the resources you can find from the surrounding settlements to start up the purifier production, then as the water accumulates, use those first sets of bottles of water to buy the materials needed to expand the purifiers, and it will get easier and easier.

[Tim Timsen]

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=678812126

And I thought my 5 purifiers in the water basins at Warwick Homestead were much...

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Tim Timsen:

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=678812126

And I thought my 5 purifiers in the water basins at Warwick Homestead were much...

yea and this is my power grid for it

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=678811408

[Defektiv]

Are the Fusion Reactors and the new Water Pumps part of a DLC? You can save a ton of space using those over generators.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Defektiv:

Are the Fusion Reactors and the new Water Pumps part of a DLC? You can save a ton of space using those over generators.

I can't use them cause they require the science perk, I have to keep intel low for idiot savant perk to work faster for leveling.