How to find water

[thecarlocarlone]

So, I'm in need of water, since I unlocked coal generation.
Coal? not a problem, just need to blip and you find it, but water?

This is where I got creative: i looked around and I saw a waterfall, so I travel there. No water, just an endless pit.

I think: well water must be on a lower place, then I think about the endless pit and I shiver. After the second time I ran to a cliff I decided that's enough and I would have asked here.



where is water? how do I find it? please don't tell me there is a secret lake or something

[Mansen]

There's plenty of water. It just needs to be deep enough for a pump to sit in (which excludes most smaller streams)

I recommend climbing up from where your base is using towers and such and looking around. It is much easier to build near the water than moving the water to you.

[Snip]

Only way to find water is explore the map, there is no water detector

[Paul]

There is plenty of water in the game in form of lakes and seas. Later on you will unlock the ingame map, with it you can spot water more easily.

I can also recommend this website: https://satisfactory-calculator.com/ where you can upload your safefile and view your progress on the interactive map.

[ste]

If youre on the grassy land, head south from the water fall there a little lake of water

[Kamina]

You may go to https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map and load your save there. Then just pickclosest water on a map.

[Vividnightmare]

I'm also lost on water. I've spent over an hour looking and have only found a single pond that is virtually inaccessible. The lack of a map really makes this a pain, I'm at the point where to ramp up production any further I need more efficient power systems because I'm spending a ton of time just trying to keep up with my biomass burners, but water is in not trackable. Seems really absent minded to make a required resource rare and unfindable.

[Mansen]

1. Please don't necro TWO-HUNDRED YEAR OLD threads.
2. There's water everywhere - You can't walk for long without falling into a lake or a river. Literally just look up one of the (interactive) maps and head out based on your spawn location to find some.

[T-Bone Biggins]

Originally posted by Vividnightmare:

I'm also lost on water. I've spent over an hour looking and have only found a single pond that is virtually inaccessible. The lack of a map really makes this a pain, I'm at the point where to ramp up production any further I need more efficient power systems because I'm spending a ton of time just trying to keep up with my biomass burners, but water is in not trackable. Seems really absent minded to make a required resource rare and unfindable.

In the grasslands there is literally a waterfall you can see quite easily. Follow it up to it's source maybe? You can build ramps with concrete or walkways if you unlocked the ficsit shop. Even if you don't bother with the waterfall there are various ponds spread around that can fit at least a single water pump.

[Tman]

Originally posted by Mansen:

1. Please don't necro TWO YEAR OLD threads.
2. There's water everywhere - You can't walk for long without falling into a lake or a river. Literally just look up one of the (interactive) maps and head out based on your spawn location to find some.

wow, what universe do you live in where 7 months = 2 years?

[Mansen]

I'm a time traveller - The point stands.

[SixMan]

this is a joke. i can ping everything but water? why? what reason? i will necro any thread thats a first google search. its absurd this hasnt been fixed. i need a third party tool when i can literally look for berries

[Aranador]

If you really, really, really cant find water - google a satisfactory map and look for the blue bits.

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by SixMan:

this is a joke. i can ping everything but water? why? what reason? i will necro any thread thats a first google search. its absurd this hasnt been fixed. i need a third party tool when i can literally look for berries

Have you considered using eyes? Or the map? If you can't find water, you're going to have a very hard time on this game.
Who necros a 4 year old thread just to whine about this?

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by SixMan:

this is a joke. i can ping everything but water?

Actually... you can't ping everything. For example you can't ping mercer spheres, harddrives, berries, hostiles, etc., etc. What you can ping are mineable resource nodes.

Water isn't a resource node in that definition, ergo... you can't ping it. For obvious reasons: for starters it gives more value to unlocking the map. Which is something you should try looking at; you can open it with the "m" key.

[Arron_uk]

u can locate mercer spheres and sommerloops and hostiles etc with the hand scanner so yes they can be pinged as such. as for water its everywhere tbh u really need to explore a bit. you are clearly new did u start in the starting areas or go to the advanced areas? one part is a desert so yeh it lacks water... lol