What's the point of the horizontal tank

[Mr. Dude]

I placed a horizontal tank near my base that is currently holding 3900l of water. But my max throughput into my base is only 10l an hour with so much water in reserve how can I increase the throughput so that I can expand my farming?

[Seraphin]

The point of the horizontal tank is to store fluids or gases of course.


I've got one horizontal tank for water which leads into my base. I've got hydroponics which use 17 l/h, the are growing fine with all their water they need.

My green house says, it gets 47,52 l/h of water. That's the 48 l/h which my 9 wells (6 water only, 3 with oxygen extensions) are producing.


So, I guess, you wonder why your green house/workshop only shows 10 l/h?

Do you have one well for water only and one with an oxygen extension (6 + 4 = 10 l/h)?

If so, it shows you how much water is extracted by your wells.

Do your plants need more water and your plants are withering?

If not, then the difference is taken from the tank and anything looks to be fine.

[longword]

My understanding is the structures, like Greenhouse and Dome, will draw however much water they need (or configured to use) until the source is empty. I think only the Pump puts any limit on flow.

[Giland]

Pump doesn't limit flow either. If you had a tank with 16,000 liters in it, attach that to a pump, the pump would show 16,000 liters per hour flow to start (or similar). Arguably, there is no reason to have 3 outs on a pump. You only need one connection to the entire base. All flow will go through that. Downside is a meteor strike can wreck your water supply. That is the only reason to have more than one intake to the base.
I like to put a vertical tank near my base intake for both water and o2. then every pump is sending 100% to them. They fill up, then backfill to any other tanks. For your rover, have 02 going to a vertical tank so you can pull up, connect and top off your rover o2.
The garage needs an O2 module added to it so I can fill up both power and O2 in the rover. Ideally, add a power connector to it also so I don't need to run lines all over the garage to plug stuff for power.
Would also love the ability to use my rover power as a battery for say the survival pod.

[Seraphin]

Originally posted by Giland:

Arguably, there is no reason to have 3 outs on a pump.

That may be for you, but not for all.

e.g. Oxygen-Pump:

1 out for the base
1 out for the heavy rover
1 out for outdoor refill of personal oxygen

Voila, 3 outs of a pump are used.

[jbailey]

Originally posted by Seraphin:

Originally posted by Giland:

Arguably, there is no reason to have 3 outs on a pump.

That may be for you, but not for all.

e.g. Oxygen-Pump:

1 out for the base
1 out for the heavy rover
1 out for outdoor refill of personal oxygen

Voila, 3 outs of a pump are used.

I also will split my water from a pump (and O2) to multiple buildings instead of using just a single connection. This allows me on occasion to remodel the buildings and not stop the flow of things. I also sometimes interconnect pumps for redundancy. Many times I could use more so can't wait for the pump extension to come out.

[Bollocks to plan B!!]

Need to store it up. Each Horizontal tank holds about 50K Litres. But depending on the crop, you can burn through it fast. I was growing a big crop of corn (lots of seeds and lots of carbs), but it's a thirsty beatch, and it drained 26k of water before I realised. My water ran out. Keep an eye on it.

[Mr. Dude]

I will experiment maxing out my greenhouse with potatoes and see how it goes. Just didn't want to not have enough water. All of your answers have been very insightful.

[Jason Bourne]

Can someone make a tutorial video on how to setup? That be very helpful.

[woenk]

Originally posted by Jason Bourne:

Can someone make a tutorial video on how to setup? That be very helpful.

What do you mean "setup" ? You drop ot when it turns green and put the hoses to it.
If it does not turn green it might be becuse if the terrain blocking, play around with arrow up and down.

[gagnedd]

I think he means the logistics of the setup. I use 3 wells per water spot with a pump to hook the 3 together, and run a long hose to a horizontal tank on my base. If I wanted, I could use another pump to hook 3 horizontal tanks together, for a total of 9 wells inputting water (54 L/Hr max). I usually attach a medium solar panel, a battery, and a transformer with 3 outputs to provide power to each of my 3 wells per water site, so they produce water 24 hours per day.

[pubhea99]

Originally posted by Bollocks to plan B!!:

Need to store it up. Each Horizontal tank holds about 50K Litres. But depending on the crop, you can burn through it fast. I was growing a big crop of corn (lots of seeds and lots of carbs), but it's a thirsty beatch, and it drained 26k of water before I realised. My water ran out. Keep an eye on it.

Is there a way to tell how full the horizontal tank is?

[Bollocks to plan B!!]

Originally posted by pubhea99:

Is there a way to tell how full the horizontal tank is?

Well the control consoles in the base will show total water available in storage, as well as litres per hour inflow and outflow. Also in the radar, you can click on the tank, and by cycling through the symbols on the left, you can see the structural integrity, liquid content etc.

[pubhea99]

Originally posted by Bollocks to plan B!!:

Originally posted by pubhea99:

Is there a way to tell how full the horizontal tank is?

Well the control consoles in the base will show total water available in storage, as well as litres per hour inflow and outflow. Also in the radar, you can click on the tank, and by cycling through the symbols on the left, you can see the structural integrity, liquid content etc.

I had seen the in base water totals. I will look more carefully at the radar display.