Any help getting water?

[Robin_L_Fox]

Water is such a finite resource in the early game. You get water coolers, but they run out eventually. I'm /told/ that sinks refill after a certain time, but it feels like it must be every turn of the century - there's a sink in the very beginning of the game that STILL hasn't gotten water back after several hours and in-game weeks.

I have little idea of how to unlock the filtration barrel, but that seems like a late game find, so until then I feel like I really am scraping by for my garden and stuff. Boiling water was possible, but you get SO LITTLE back that it doesn't seem worth the effort.

[Monokuma]

Water boiling is something that has to be done en masse unfortunately, I always end up with about 6 stoves at minimum because of it. Once you've gotten a power cell, you can keep going back to that location every time the chat says a reset has occurred to pick up another pot on a counter so you don't have to craft makeshift ones.

Ultimately I wouldn't make too many small garden plots anyway, since when you unlock the medium plots they're more water efficient and you can't reclaim the soil from the small ones.

[Yaridovich]

Yeah, don't focus too much on gardening at first, just 2-3 plots max, at least until you have access to medium gardens and better ways to stock on water.

Drink sodas if you can, robots drop them, this reduces some of your water consumption. Making Root Beer is also a good option since it recovers a lot of thirst.

Water Filters do come later, but you'll also get access to something before that (Anteverse Juice), which I think can't be used for farming but can be consumed just like water and you can refill your Water Coolers with it.

[YourMomSaysHi]

As to the question of the sinks that refill, in my experience, it's only the ones that sound like they're dripping after you empty them that refill. Some of the ones at the beginning of the game, the ones near the broken stove and outside of the initial base if I recall, had the dripping sound, but after refilling once or twice, the sound didn't return and they stopped refilling. Same goes with all of the other sinks I've found.

One area of note, kind of early/mid game, is the Flathill portal town. Filled sinks, along with nearly everything else, will refill after the reset announcement is made over the intercom. FYI

[Yaridovich]

Originally posted by YourMomSaysHi:

As to the question of the sinks that refill, in my experience, it's only the ones that sound like they're dripping after you empty them that refill. Some of the ones at the beginning of the game, the ones near the broken stove and outside of the initial base if I recall, had the dripping sound, but after refilling once or twice, the sound didn't return and they stopped refilling. Same goes with all of the other sinks I've found.

One area of note, kind of early/mid game, is the Flathill portal town. Filled sinks, along with nearly everything else, will refill after the reset announcement is made over the intercom. FYI

It's every sink actually, they just refill incredibly slowly.

You can test this by going to Sandbox options and maxing out the option for the rate of sinks refilling, you'll notice all of them will be refilling often.

[YourMomSaysHi]

You may be correct, but those initial sinks I mentioned haven't refilled at all since I last emptied them two weeks ago. That was about 2-3 hours into playing and I'm now over 80 hours. I don't have the water refill maxed out, but I did set it higher than default. Could be that I'm experiencing a bug, though.

[CombatWombat]

I never needed to boil water in the office, there are so many water coolers around (solo). An easy thing to do is, to take all your empty water coolers and fill them at once and take them back to the base. Whenever you are base building, boil some water. As someone mentioned, kill the the robot each night and you can survive on soda only.

[YourMomSaysHi]

Is it weird that the pails hold more water than the much larger looking pots? Just me?

[PHW]

The sinks are probably bugged at the moment, if you hang around them for like 3 days they'll refill. But the problem lies in having to be constantly near them cause if you leave the zone they're in it feels like the refill progress gets reset.

[YourMomSaysHi]

Well at least Flathill still works, though after getting the Water Filter, I haven't needed any sink water. It helps being close to that aquarium in the Cascade Labs, too.

[MattyK]

Once you get to the Manufacturing Sector there's a big water tank full of potable water in the storage yard, should tide over your water needs until you get the Water Filtration recipe in Labs.

Else, setup a few stoves next to an infinite water source and get boiling~

[MechWarden]

I don't know how practical it is for co-op, but in my solo play I'd platform cart a few water coolers (and later Barrels) over to the lobby fountain, fill them up (and was happy to know you can just direct fill while in the hotbar! ), cart them back, and use the 3 dual burner stove tops to mass boil water during the downtime of the night.

This was also when I didn't catch on that you can leave harvestable crops alone, thinking something would go bad if I didn't (since anything else with plants did), and using up a lot of water.

I think I was depleting my found water supply, but it was doable, if boring, to keep up with the water demands. Once I got the filter going, water became a no issue, since I could still cart back barrels of water, but now it is 4 times more effective and required practically processing time.

[Kai]

Yeah once you start gardening and know how the water usage works, you can make do with 1-2 plots entirely.
Only super tomatoes and anteverse wheat is all you need if you wanna make simple soups with them, but otherwise you'd gather other simple ingredients.

[Monokuma]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

I don't know how practical it is for co-op, but in my solo play I'd platform cart a few water coolers (and later Barrels) over to the lobby fountain, fill them up (and was happy to know you can just direct fill while in the hotbar! ), cart them back, and use the 3 dual burner stove tops to mass boil water during the downtime of the night.

I couldn't even be bothered using a cart, I just wholesale hauled them.

[Tarciryan]

Personally I have found that as long as you're not using clean water to wash yourself, there are more than enough water coolers around to provide all the water you could want until you get to Manufacturing, where you can get one full barrel of clean water, from the big tanks, and a bit later access to Antejuice which acts as infinite clean water (currently). Just Pop over and grab a whole barrel when you need it.

That should be convenient enough until you get the Filter to solve the issue permanently.

I still have like 8-10 full water coolers that I never needed to touch...

[Ykronix]

Before going through Manufacturing and finding antejuice I was making nightly trips to Flathill. Grab the respawning pot in the store security room and just refill fresh water from four sinks. The first from the bathroom literally next to it, one from syrup factory toilet, and two from the arcade (after opening the shortcut).