industrial water purifier not producing pure water?

[No Good Names Left]

I saw someone on Reddit mention that using an industrial water purifier is a great way to farm caps in the background. I have an industrial one set up in sanctuary. It has enough power, its running, i walked around and played the game naturally and waiting multiple days afterwards, and nothing has appeared in the workbench yet?

[Haze]

That's strange indeed i do get purified water myself..

[worm_master]

It seems rather hit an miss, i've tried it too, never been able to produce enough water, even with 5 or more purifiers. If u want to make bug bucks, fairly quick, Ammo, gun ammo, it is weightless and extremely common, even when searching buildings, if u take the luck perk, u find even more in buildings.

Depending on ya preferences, keep some, sell the rest, I keep 9MM .50's and Shotgun, and sell certain energy ammo the rest, I sell.

.45 ammo sells for 1 cap apiece, an u can easily find hundreds of .45

[soulshiver]

I've heard before,not sure of true, that if you have too many items of a similar nature (nuka cola, whiskey etc) it will not deposit the water into the stash, you need to move aid/food items to a separate container

[DonJuanDoja]

You need to have a surplus. The settlers use some of the water.

[Zekiran]

How much stuff do you have in your workbench storage?

I don't use water purifiers I'm not on survival mode so they're largely irrelevant to me, but I've seen comments to the effect that they will only produce so much.

[Material Defender]

there is normally a cap on how much surplus is stored in the workshop, provided you are making more than what is used by that settlement

this mod can remove those caps https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/12430

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

How much stuff do you have in your workbench storage?

That. If you stored a bunch of aid items it will not spawn because the storage for a production limit has been reached. Storage limit is based upon the population of the settlement.

If it is even 1 item blow the max in the workbench it will produce the entire production.

[Kathanis]

A settlement does not produce water if the water stored exceeds a limit of 5 water + 1 water per 4 settlers. Therefore, the water must be collected regularly to stay below this limit.

[sdack]

Did you fill the water purifier with sand?