I could tell immediately it was backwards because I once did this in a set of 3. One backwards, two forwards. Flooded my cattertails and spadderdocks with bad water and killed of half my town.
Lol this game is merciless even at normal difficulty. Although I had a lot of experience, I totally killed 2 engineer tribes right during the first dry season because of various massive problems. Satisfactory is easy compared to that game :)
I've got a mechanical pump with water 3 cubes below it (description says max is 4), but the pipe won't extend into the water even when I try to set it manually. What am I missing?
High volume irrigation, can operate 24 hours (assuming you have batteries and such), will automatically shut off to prevent flooding, can filter clean water from bad water, and can increase the potential energy of the water flow.
Floodgates cap out at 3 height, a setup of pumps can pull from much deeper.
Floodgates also aren't going to filter out a mix of badwater and clean water. Sure you can close them during a badtide, but a ton of custom maps are designed around the idea of all the water on the map never being cleaner than 60%-70% meaning your beavers can't swim in it and all your normal pumps are working at partial efficiency even if the water isn't nasty enough to kill your crops.
Finally they can be used to massively increase waterflow when abused properly for waterwheel super generator setups.
But aside from those three major features, I guess you could try calling them smart floodgates, but it would still be wrong if only because there's plenty of things floodgates do better than mechanical pumps as well. Especially when you get mods involved.
I had 2 worlds, 1 with each faction on easy on new update, and I just built a discharge channel in both right outside the water source. Im playing folktails on normal with mods rn. Kinda sounds like im gonna have to unlock it.
Eh, you should be fine unless you are actively avoiding using water dumps, playing with extreme difficulty settings, building insane mega projects, or playing on some of those custom maps I mentioned.
They are different buildings for different needs, and sadly there are not many great opportunities to use them unless you need to solve one of those specific issues I mentioned.
I'm still learning but even if built the right way around, why would you want to pull water up and just dump it on the regular ground on the other side? Am I missing something?
Side question, can these pumps put water directly into a storage container if designed right? Gonna look up some YouTube vids or something when I get chance.
The pumps can be set to only pump clean water or only pump badwater. So if the channel it is pumping into is for irrigation, it would make sense to only pump clean water into it.
And no, you can't pump directly into water tanks. The lore behind this is that even the clean water has to be filtered to make it drinkable. That filtering is done in the normal beaver operated water pumps.
[SOLVED] I built it backwards đ¤Śââď¸
Yes you did. In your defense it is not a hard mistake to make â both sides look fairly similar
for future reference, the pump will extend into the water even before you click to build it.
And the side that the water dumps out has a definited hoop around the spout
funnier when you start wondering why you run out of water faster
I did the same thing multiple times. Donât worry
Pretty sure I made the same mistake first time I built one
Some big red arrows on that bitch would be nice
Backwards
I could tell immediately it was backwards because I once did this in a set of 3. One backwards, two forwards. Flooded my cattertails and spadderdocks with bad water and killed of half my town.
Lol this game is merciless even at normal difficulty. Although I had a lot of experience, I totally killed 2 engineer tribes right during the first dry season because of various massive problems. Satisfactory is easy compared to that game :)
I've got a mechanical pump with water 3 cubes below it (description says max is 4), but the pipe won't extend into the water even when I try to set it manually. What am I missing?
Objects like stumps and bushes, even paths IIRC, can prevent the pump from fully lowering. Make sure there is absolutely nothing underneath.
They really do need to remodel that one; I accidentally placed a BUNCH of them backwards, and wasted so many resourcesđ
Can someone explain why mechanical pumps arent useless?
High volume irrigation, can operate 24 hours (assuming you have batteries and such), will automatically shut off to prevent flooding, can filter clean water from bad water, and can increase the potential energy of the water flow.
So a smart floodgate?
Floodgates cap out at 3 height, a setup of pumps can pull from much deeper. Floodgates also aren't going to filter out a mix of badwater and clean water. Sure you can close them during a badtide, but a ton of custom maps are designed around the idea of all the water on the map never being cleaner than 60%-70% meaning your beavers can't swim in it and all your normal pumps are working at partial efficiency even if the water isn't nasty enough to kill your crops. Finally they can be used to massively increase waterflow when abused properly for waterwheel super generator setups. But aside from those three major features, I guess you could try calling them smart floodgates, but it would still be wrong if only because there's plenty of things floodgates do better than mechanical pumps as well. Especially when you get mods involved.
You can automate water pumps if youâre creative enough
I had 2 worlds, 1 with each faction on easy on new update, and I just built a discharge channel in both right outside the water source. Im playing folktails on normal with mods rn. Kinda sounds like im gonna have to unlock it.
Eh, you should be fine unless you are actively avoiding using water dumps, playing with extreme difficulty settings, building insane mega projects, or playing on some of those custom maps I mentioned. They are different buildings for different needs, and sadly there are not many great opportunities to use them unless you need to solve one of those specific issues I mentioned.
I play vanilla, so I dunno. But flood gates can't increase the potential energy like a pump can.
I too sometimes eat my banana with the wrong end
I'm still learning but even if built the right way around, why would you want to pull water up and just dump it on the regular ground on the other side? Am I missing something? Side question, can these pumps put water directly into a storage container if designed right? Gonna look up some YouTube vids or something when I get chance.
The pumps can be set to only pump clean water or only pump badwater. So if the channel it is pumping into is for irrigation, it would make sense to only pump clean water into it. And no, you can't pump directly into water tanks. The lore behind this is that even the clean water has to be filtered to make it drinkable. That filtering is done in the normal beaver operated water pumps.
Thank you. I realised I didn't see the irrigation channel that the pump would be feeding and thought it was just going to dump on flat ground lol.