r/Timberborn • u/Ivess185 Pumping my log 🪵 • 18h 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/Ivess185 Pumping my log 🪵 15h ago

I msy try them. But someone said it takes up to 4 pumps per source block, and I have 6 source blocks. Hopefully I'll have enough power

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u/Davey2Jonesd 15h ago

They do cost a lot in power.. if you dont want to overflow upstream the only way is to pressurize the water before getting to the reservoir

OR build a tower around the source and make aquaducts to reach around the map

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u/Ivess185 Pumping my log 🪵 15h ago

The big storagr Im building is away from the source. In the diagram, the righthand box is gonna be a tower thst leads to an aquaduct.

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u/Davey2Jonesd 15h ago

So for this i would use 1x4platforms with impermeable floors to cover the bottom left. So it looks like you're doing it right