Is it possible to run out of water?

[Sgt PimpSlap]

I have one lake that I'm getting water delievered from. Just worried the train might come back with no water at all at some point.

[robert225]

Your lake won't ever run out of water.

[Killcreek2]

Nope, water sources in the game do not dry up. No need to worry.

Just place an offshore pump & it will provide a constant stream of water until you delete that save file (or the pump is removed by you / destroyed by a rampaging biter).

[Sly-Scale]

Nope.
But you're giving them ideas. (Honestly, it'd be sweet if water was finite. Watch the land dry up, expand your factory into it without having to do landfill (which can be near-automated, mind,) find water someplace else.)

[Jupiter3927]

There could be a way to run out of water.
If you set the water to 'only in starting area', your map will have a finite amount of water on it.
Putting every possible pump on the lake will yield some finite amount of water per second.

You would need some rediculously huge factory to use all of the water so it's close enough to infinite that you won't have to worry about it.

[Sgt PimpSlap]

Originally posted by ShMo:

Nope.
But you're giving them ideas. (Honestly, it'd be sweet if water was finite. Watch the land dry up, expand your factory into it without having to do landfill (which can be near-automated, mind,) find water someplace else.)

Definitely something the devs should add to the game.

[Ragnaman]

Well, with mods you can have no water maps with certain water sources akin to oil patches that give smaller yields over time.

[Ragnaman]

Originally posted by MeskyTwo:

Originally posted by ShMo:

Nope.
But you're giving them ideas. (Honestly, it'd be sweet if water was finite. Watch the land dry up, expand your factory into it without having to do landfill (which can be near-automated, mind,) find water someplace else.)

Definitely something the devs should add to the game.

I oppose,
Such feature would add nothing to the game, but it would take away a chunk of performance.

[AlexMBrennan]

Honestly, it'd be sweet if water was finite. Watch the land dry up, expand your factory into it without having to do landfill

Fortunately there is this thing called "the water cycle" which prevents the oceans from drying up - after all your steam engines don't vent steam into space.

[Sgt PimpSlap]

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

Honestly, it'd be sweet if water was finite. Watch the land dry up, expand your factory into it without having to do landfill

Fortunately there is this thing called "the water cycle" which prevents the oceans from drying up - after all your steam engines don't vent steam into space.

But how does it return to the lake? It never rains in the game.

[Jupiter3927]

It only rains when no one's looking.

[pfcole]

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

Honestly, it'd be sweet if water was finite. Watch the land dry up, expand your factory into it without having to do landfill

Fortunately there is this thing called "the water cycle" which prevents the oceans from drying up - after all your steam engines don't vent steam into space.

LOL I actually heard a young lady say that we should not convert sea water to fresh to drink (here in S. California) because we will use up the oceans and all the fish will die. She was serious, and a college grad on top of it ?! The water cycle, is just one part of the closed system that is earth.

[Peter]

Originally posted by MeskyTwo:

But how does it return to the lake? It never rains in the game.

Aquifers.

[Geomancer]

Originally posted by pfcole:

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

Fortunately there is this thing called "the water cycle" which prevents the oceans from drying up - after all your steam engines don't vent steam into space.

LOL I actually heard a young lady say that we should not convert sea water to fresh to drink (here in S. California) because we will use up the oceans and all the fish will die. She was serious, and a college grad on top of it ?! The water cycle, is just one part of the closed system that is earth.

You can get the same type of people bent all out of shape if you tell them about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide and how many people it's killing every single day. For crying out loud, you find this stuff in horrible things like explosives, poisons, and acids. It should be banned.

[pfcole]

Originally posted by Geomancer:

Originally posted by pfcole:

LOL I actually heard a young lady say that we should not convert sea water to fresh to drink (here in S. California) because we will use up the oceans and all the fish will die. She was serious, and a college grad on top of it ?! The water cycle, is just one part of the closed system that is earth.

You can get the same type of people bent all out of shape if you tell them about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide and how many people it's killing every single day. For crying out loud, you find this stuff in horrible things like explosives, poisons, and acids. It should be banned.

You also drink it everyday... it's water.

[THE kilroy]

Originally posted by MeskyTwo:

But how does it return to the lake? It never rains in the game.

technicaly water vapor can be deposited on anything without the formation of clouds causing rain. but a better "solution" is that it is not raining at the small portion of the planet that you are currenlty in.