![]() ![]() The latter is also far simpler and easier to set up. On hard, water is the most important resource, and the evaporation from a perpetual motion setup is vastly higher than the water usage from running a tree farm and fueling an engine. That's obviously a worst case scenario, but still, I don't think using water pumps to fuel water wheels is remotely viable on hard without a perpetual motion setup.Īnd honestly? Even with a perpetual motion setup, that still feels like a waste. With 8 cms of output, 3 pumps will pump the entire water output of a 5 day wet season in 27 days. Some are higher (cough thousand islands and its combined 52 cms of output), but several are actually lower. ![]() Put that together, and you get ~113 blocks/day, which aligns with your numbers.Īlso, worth noting - most of the default maps haver water sources with a combined output of ~8 cms. According to this post, 1 cms = ~227 blocks of water/day, and according to the wiki, a mechanical water pump produces 0.5 cms. In a 30 day drought you need around 711 square meters of 6 deep completely full reservoir (25x29, 20x36, 15x48) in order to pump the entire cycle with 1 pump. Iron teeth mechanical water pump sucks up 107 blocks of water every 24 hour day (in-game). If you found any mistakes please let me know, I will try to correct them. This means for me my planned powerplant that uses 8 water pumps will either need a 2-3 times bigger reservoir or perpetual motion by filling the reservoir back up again. That leaves me with 25*53*8=10600 blocks of water.ġ0600/3300=3.2 pumps to completely drain my reservoir in a drought of 30 days. ![]() I am gonna take off 2 layers of depth due to evaporation and usually filling up to. My current reservoir size is 25 wide, 53 long and 10 deep. Since you are able to pump 6 tiles with the Iron teeth pump, minus the 1.36 layers, is 4.64 layers.ģ300/4.64 = 711 square meters of required reservoir 6 deep. 22 days for 1 layer of water, 30 days is 1.36 layers. One of the output is the mechanical water pump, with a long canal stretch around your colonies (usually with watermills to power back the mechanical pump). I am playing on hard mode so a drought can be up to 30 days which means 3300 tiles of water. The concept is to have a large water reservoir and the reservoir contains 1 input and 2 outputs. I am gonna round it up to 110 for a worst case scenario. This was measured at regular speed.Īt regular speed a day (24 hours) is 8 minutes real-time, 480 seconds. I timed a water mechanical water pump (iron teeth, I assume it's the same for folktails) to roughly 22.5 seconds to pump 5 blocks, 4.5 seconds for a single water block. I decided to share it here in case anyone ran into the same problem. As I was designing a water/power system I needed to find out how much the water pump actually pumps, input-wise. ![]()
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