Purified Water for crops

[RevMaillet]

I can understand having to purify water for us to drink but having to purify it for the plants makes my inner gardener scream in frustration. Unless there are poisons in the water, which would kill the wildlife, then you want all the lovely poo from the fish and animals to help fertilize the crops. Sorry, I had to get this off my chest.

:edit: Yes, I know it is for hydration but that makes no sense either.

[dominuskevin]

I asked about thqat sometime back and was told it still worked though you didn't get quite as much as distilled. Haven't had to do it so I can't say for sure.

[Zuleica]

You can use unpurified water on crops, I do it all the time.

[southofpegasus]

I don't get purified water being better either. Really should be the other way around. :D

[Original-Pauper]

The rub is that unpurified water yields less water than purified...really? A canteen of water is a canteen of water regardless of purified or not. Same thing for the animal housing too.

Here is a nice tip though - If your base is near or in the large lake, like mine, I created a courtyard on the beach. My animal house is there but real close to the shore-line. I have a crate very near it with animal food and a canteen. If you stand just in the water, you can place water in the housing and refill very, very quickly. No running around or wasting bottled water on the animals. I have two wellheads on the beach and use bottled water for farming and my drinking because I always put my planter boxes on my roof.

[Zuleica]

Originally posted by Original-Pauper:

The rub is that unpurified water yields less water than purified...really? A canteen of water is a canteen of water regardless of purified or not. Same thing for the animal housing too.

Here is a nice tip though - If your base is near or in the large lake, like mine, I created a courtyard on the beach. My animal house is there but real close to the shore-line. I have a crate very near it with animal food and a canteen. If you stand just in the water, you can place water in the housing and refill very, very quickly. No running around or wasting bottled water on the animals. I have two wellheads on the beach and use bottled water for farming and my drinking because I always put my planter boxes on my roof.

Maybe the BCU has a hidden safety feature that is sending leakage current from the power storage to the mass fabricator where it is being turned into water to ensure that it isn't turned into carbon monoxide accidently.

The point I'm making with that is that the leap you took with a device that turns items into some 'generic mass' and stores mass, a property, in a tank should make other leaps like the purified water pale in comparison.

[Ribalder]

I retract my hunters need fixin in lieu of this being the No. 1 needed fix.

[Zuleica]

Originally posted by Ribalder:

I retract my hunters need fixin in lieu of this being the No. 1 needed fix.

Water for plants is the No 1 needed fix? Really?

[dominuskevin]

Originally posted by Zuleica:

Originally posted by Ribalder:

I retract my hunters need fixin in lieu of this being the No. 1 needed fix.

Water for plants is the No 1 needed fix? Really?

Yeah. I think I'm still in shock over that one.

[Ribalder]

yes Zul. it is now. get on board man, don't be such a drag all the time dude- ;>

[Stigandr]

Don't think this is really going to be a big fixit ticket item for one simple reason. It's too much trouble. Basically there are 2 water states, unpurified and purified. Each has it's hydration status and unpurified has the toxic effect. Other than that there's nothing else going on with these two items, so the model for efficiency says this is too small of a detail to actually concern yourself over because any alteration will have almost "zero" overall affect on the game while taking up way too much time to alter and then troubleshoot.

Just use whatever water you have available for animal pen and garden, it's only about a 10% difference anyway.