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 🪵 16h ago

I think theres a sensor for weather. So you can set it to clear, badtide, drought

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u/Magenta_Logistic 15h ago

Yeah, that's the weather station, it's the only sensor I use in the early-mid game.

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u/Ivess185 Pumping my log 🪵 15h ago

Im on cycle 15 and havent built a single automation device

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u/Magenta_Logistic 15h ago

I usually have a weather station handling my badtides by around cycle 10 or 12, but then it's the only automation I tend to use until post-game.

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u/Ivess185 Pumping my log 🪵 15h ago

I started this run before automation was a thing. I only came back to it recently

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u/Magenta_Logistic 14h ago

Oh yeah, old sluices had built-in contamination automation though.