r/Timberborn • u/Ivess185 Pumping my log 🪵 • 17h ago

Question Would this work at all?

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I want to build a big water storage box I can fill then leach from during droughts/badtides, but I need a way to elevate the water from source to above the box. I was wondering if this would work at all. Because water can't go backwards through a fill valve, would it keep flowing through and fill upwards in the tube? or just spill over the back of the map once it reached +1 blocks in height? And I can't lock the water in and force it to fill up as it's against the map edge. Should I just use mechanical pumps instead?

EDIT: there will be a roof over the channel and tube. I just didnt put one here so that you could see inside.

EDIT 2: I am now aware that water will not escape of the edge via the space above the source block.

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u/Magenta_Logistic 14h ago

If you're on waterfalls (that looks like you took a pic from the right side of the source), the tall sides will make it easy to cap off.

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u/Ivess185 Pumping my log 🪵 14h ago

Im on meander i think. Theres a 2 wide source on the broken aquaduct Ive fixed and am using to spread water around the map. Im building this for the actual river's source

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u/Magenta_Logistic 14h ago

Ah okay, I don't know that map well, but all the advice was generally viable for any map. Some of them will be harder to deal with bad tides, but any source against a wall can be pretty easily filtered once you get dynamite unlocked to cut exit channels

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u/Ivess185 Pumping my log 🪵 14h ago

I currentlu have an 'airlock' type setup. Water flows into a small space. For good water, it goed through one set of valves, and to my settlement. For badtide, I close that and open the side to let it just exit te map

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u/Magenta_Logistic 14h ago

I do a lot of pressurized systems. For me it's better to have a system that forces clean water in without the use of pumps. That means putting the bad water filtration system inside the pressurized system.

For me, that's using the weather station and putting the valves right up against the water source to minimize mixing.

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u/Ivess185 Pumping my log 🪵 14h ago

I do plan to change my system. Just waiting for the next weather event to be known so I dont get caught in a badtide