Water towers first, then barrels?

[jbradhicks]

I got driven nuts last night by the fact that I just could not get water towers to fill up, so the buildings that needed them wouldn't turn on.

I found out that hard way that if there's even one water storage tank anywhere at ground level that isn't 100% full, no water goes to the water towers.

That feels kind of backwards to me? At the very least, I'd kind of hope that incoming water would be evenly distributed among the tanks and towers.

Also, there's something that feels like it's missing to me, but -- do water tanks and water towers need to overlap the area of a well? Or are colonists carrying water to them in buckets?

[SkiRich]

Wells are autonomous. So are drills and pumps. No need for any overlaps there with tanks or towers fill up no matter where they are. With distribution the towers should overlap so they are considered one big source for all buildings. The tanks do not need to do this.

[iceflake_joanna]

Heya! The water goes to the clean water storages first to ensure the survival of your colonists - after all if they run out of water and die from thirst, there really is no reason to supply water to buildings in a ghost town. But as SkiRich mentioned above, no need for water towers to overlap with wells etc, they will get filled no matter where they are.

[jbradhicks]

Yeah, ,but what was driving me nuts about it was that I had JUST finished construction on the water tower for my sauna when the heat wave kicked in. And even though I had two water tanks already full, as soon as they dropped below 100% full, the water tower stopped getting any water. And since it started out low, it instantly hit zero and stayed there. The drinking-water tanks never dropped below 75% full.

Obviously not a problem if the water towers are full before the drought, but it shut down my sanitation system completely unnecessarily.

[Honeywell]

I agree with the OP and included this in previous feedback--I think they should fill concurrently or the smaller building water storage filled first. Field hospitals are critical infrastructure in a pandemic after all!

But... it's a non-issue and I don't care either way:

A cheap workaround is to overbuild your potential water supply. Early on, a row of water collectors are cheap to build so having multiple built and in reserve to man with colonists to try and replenish water stores as fast as possible before/after a disaster.

I find it easier and more reliable just to produce double the water needed and overbuild water wells and bore wells--which are least vulnerable to disaster. I build the small water tanks and one storage tank just in case a well needs to be rebuilt or power restored.

[Serene]

Yeah I got hit with a pandemic and this almost wiped my colony out - I build tons of water storage thinking like I did in Surviving Mars, that as long as there was a trickle filling it back up after, it was better not to waste more valuable resources/manpower on higher production that would just hit the cap right away anyway.

It seems really strange and counterintuitive to have separate water storage for colonists, and then turn around and have buildings totally disabled by shortages. Like there appears to be no reason to build up water storage for buildings towards the beginning, so of course that tiny amount you do have once you have water-using buildings is the first thing the idiots drain? At the very least it shouldn't disable your field hospital lol

[Zack Wester]

Another option would be a bottom on the watertowers and water storadge tank that say move 10, 100, 500 unit of water to the other water kind.
like I can press on a empty water tower thats connected to the hospital and press take 500 water from storadge.

[Rhakin]

i found that if you build a new water storage, once its up and say you wanted to remove an old one from a spot you wanted a different building. the water will move into the other containers. so as a work around you can remove a water storage that's full and the water should go into a tower that's currently lacking.