One of my settlement is not depositing purified water in the workshop.

[sobrano]

Hello everyone. I have settled in the Drive-In camp. I filled the small pond with by using many water purifiers. I connected the electric generators, and they are on and working. They should be producing purified water as I have already done at Sanctuary, but at the Drive-In, after many in-game days, no purified water is being produced and deposited in the workshop. I have read online that several people have the same problem, but none of the proposed solutions solve the issue. I play on PC and launch the game from Steam, and I obviously have the latest updated version of the game. Do you know what might be causing this problem? Thanks to everyone.

[Charon]

The workshop has a cap for drinkable food. Afaik 5 plus 1 for every 4 settlers. So if you have 5 beer in your workshop > no more water. Might be limited to dirty and purified water. But you get the meaning.

[Tiretracker]

I wouldn't be surprised if the water beneath the Drive in was undrinkable, considering when you first come across the theater its got a pile of radioactive barrels in a water basin crater.
All that would have seeped into the groundwater; even after removing the barrels the water remains contaminated.

[Skarmo]

Many people do not know that the settlements are capped in their production. This might be the case here - you are producing too much water in Sanctuary already.

While I never witnessed problems in former play-throughs, I had exactly this one in my current game. The Uncapped Settlement Surplus mod from Nexus helped me.

[steventirey]

Settlements have two timers. A certain amount of both in-game time and a certain amount of real world time must pass in order to get food/water deposited into the workshop.

As Charon said, there is a cap and it is a very low one. Make sure there are no other drinkable items (not just water) in the workshop.

Originally posted by Tiretracker:

I wouldn't be surprised if the water beneath the Drive in was undrinkable, considering when you first come across the theater its got a pile of radioactive barrels in a water basin crater.
All that would have seeped into the groundwater; even after removing the barrels the water remains contaminated.

In the game, water is water. It doesn't matter how many rads it gives you. If it is water, you can put purifiers in it an get purified water. All water sources in the game are contaminated. That doesn't matter in the slightest.

Many people do not know that the settlements are capped in their production. This might be the case here - you are producing too much water in Sanctuary already.

The cap is per settlement. Water being produced in Sanctuary has absolutely no impact on water produced in other settlements, an so will not prevent his other settlement from producing.

[Cyan]

I have the problem in my current playthrough. Instead of turning to mods instantly like lazy wimp, I take the surplus out of the workshop and put it into a seperate container everytime I visit Sanctuary. This takes approximately 15 seconds.

[jynx]

Have you tried removing all the aid items(crops/meds/raw meat/drinks) from the settlement, waiting a few days, then coming back? It works fine for me. I use the visits to make all the Klepto's dump their loot and punish anyone joyriding my power armor....

[sobrano]

I tried completely emptying the workshop, but the problem persists. I also tried removing all the water purifiers and rebuilding them with new ones (this time I built only two purifiers), but unfortunately, the Drive-In is still not depositing water in the workshop. In Sanctuary, I have only one water purifier that I installed while doing Preston's mission. I don't think it's a CAP issue; that would be too simple.

[sobrano]

Originally posted by jynx:

Have you tried removing all the aid items(crops/meds/raw meat/drinks) from the settlement, waiting a few days, then coming back? It works fine for me. I use the visits to make all the Klepto's dump their loot and punish anyone joyriding my power armor....

I tried doing this and then I slept three times for 24 hours on one of the camp's beds, but the problem was not resolved.

[Death Approaches]

one easy way to overcome this in the Water Baron scenario is to use a settlement solely for water production; with contraptions, leave the workbench empty via the vacuum hopper depositing it into a conveyor storage, since food and water for the settlers living there is taken before it's put into the workbench. This way you can have all kinds of production, scavenging stations, etc.

but if you really want some control you want Manufacturing Extended[www.nexusmods.com] mod (don't worry, no prerequisites, a straight CK mod, still works fine), which give a lot of granularity to the machines, near total control for your manufacturing needs, and the vacuum hopper can be set to only pull certain items, like purified water and foods, and leave the rest alone... you can even put stuff BACK in the workbench, which you cannot do with the vanilla game. You should, that's for sure. This mod fixes stuff that should have been part of contraptions, and even has a tweak to let you produce 7.62mm and .45-70 ammo from the DLCs.

Better Manufacturing[www.nexusmods.com] is also a good mod to go with this, but fair warning, it does require F4SE which is still beta, if you're nervous or suspect another patch to the patch to the update is coming. :-)

This way you can yank out hundreds of bottles for selling to your own vendors on-settlement, and to the 4 passing caravans if you did the Bunker Hill chick's mission already...

[Cor.]

If youre making purified water to sell, you will make more profit by building slot machines in a settlement. Its from Vault 88 quest line.

I run 8-10 in each and I'm picking up anywhere from 2500 caps to 5000 when I remember to collect.

[Stardustfire]

for me food and water production ever only kicked in when i wasnt near the settlement back in pre survival patch times. in survival it seems the same as well, as long i sit in a settlement it dosnt gets more in the workshop. as soon i make a short loottrip somewhere and come back its filled again. also its important that your otehr settlements connected with a provisioner with the producing settlement are not in a negative. if they are they will be provided with what they need from other settlements with overproduction.

[Zotliatlicor]

You can try to remove ALL Aid items from your workbench (just put them in a chest), go to another location and Hard-Rest for 24 hours. Should reset the timer for your water production.

[milo29]

You have the mod Idek Logistic that can manage supply lines with the terminal option to retrieve various items from connected settlements... But If you use this automatic option after a time your central workshop will by bloated by purified water. You also have the option to retrieve them manually from any workshop. It's a complete no bug supply line management.

Very practical when use heavy modded hardcore mods because you have also option to not have traveling lines and consequently not killed travelers.

Is not limited to that, it has also the logistic storage to retrieve all items from the central workshop. Very practical when you want distribute weapons, clothes an armors. You use the logistic storage to acces the central workshop.

[Zes]

you dont have any settlers there i presume.. they use water before its deposited

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by sobrano:

Originally posted by jynx:

Have you tried removing all the aid items(crops/meds/raw meat/drinks) from the settlement, waiting a few days, then coming back? It works fine for me. I use the visits to make all the Klepto's dump their loot and punish anyone joyriding my power armor....

I tried doing this and then I slept three times for 24 hours on one of the camp's beds, but the problem was not resolved.

That's not going to work. You need elapsed real time as well as elapsed game time.

Just remove all AID every time you look at the workshop inventory. And move it to a NON workbench, otherwise the problem continues.

I'm not persuaded you have a bug there as opposed to just not understanding the vanilla mechanics.