Well Water Regen Question

PopcornFireworks · 2020-02-19 02:30:24

I've been playing for a couple weeks and have a question about water. On the wiki (link), it says that shallow and deep wells regenerate water, and that accessing the well resets the regeneration counter, so it's best to empty them into cisterns. Is this information current?

I've noticed that people tend to build a Newcomen pump as soon as the deep well runs dry, even if there is a decent amount of water stored in cisterns. If water does regenerate in deep wells, and your town is small enough to subsist on that regeneration, is it better to avoid upgrading the deep well and becoming dependent on rubber and later oil?

testo · 2020-02-19 02:44:52

PopcornFireworks wrote:

I've been playing for a couple weeks and have a question about water. On the wiki (link), it says that shallow and deep wells regenerate water, and that accessing the well resets the regeneration counter, so it's best to empty them into cisterns. Is this information current?
I've noticed that people tend to build a Newcomen pump as soon as the deep well runs dry, even if there is a decent amount of water stored in cisterns. If water does regenerate in deep wells, and your town is small enough to subsist on that regeneration, is it better to avoid upgrading the deep well and becoming dependent on rubber and later oil?

No, it is not, regeneration rate of all water sources was nerfed to prevent that. Current regeneration rate is a bucket for two and half hours which is not enough to keep a town alive.

Coconut Fruit · 2020-02-19 02:46:16

https://onetech.info/663-Deep-Well
Deep well recharges one use every 150 mins if it's untouched. Dry well would recharge to one use after 150 minutes, but last use is 100% so you would get only 1 bucket of water from it.

Not worth it.

testo · 2020-02-19 02:54:42

Coconut Fruit wrote:

https://onetech.info/663-Deep-Well
Deep well recharges one use every 150 mins if it's untouched. Dry well would recharge to one use after 150 minutes, but last use is 100% so you would get only 1 bucket of water from it.
Not worth it.

No, deep well doesn´t recharge one use every 150 minutes. It has a 1/8 chance to regenerate a use every 150 minutes if its not dry and a 100% chance to regen the last use if it is dry. All in all you are getting the same bucket every 2 and half hours.

sigmen4020 · 2020-02-19 12:40:39

Here's the recharge rate of all the water sources.

And what testo says is also true. After the last charge of water has been recharged it isn't even guaranteed that you are gonna get new charges of water. After this point there's a 12,5 % that a new charge will be generated for a deep well, for a shallow well it's a 3 % and for ponds it's a 20 % chance.

So waiting for water to regenerate really isn't worth the wait time. If you don't wanna do the more advanced methods of getting water like Newcomen and Diesel, a good third option is to scavenge for water and filling that water into cisterns.

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Morti · 2020-02-19 21:21:39

sigmen4020 wrote:

Here's the recharge rate of all the water sources.

10,080 years, for an empty pond to fill with one bowl's worth of water.

DestinyCall · 2020-02-20 01:17:31

Morti wrote:

sigmen4020 wrote:
Here's the recharge rate of all the water sources.
https://i.imgur.com/g5cpDCV.png
10,080 years, for an empty pond to fill with one bowl's worth of water.

Just like in real life

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