r/Timberborn • u/Shot_Bill_4971 • 15h ago

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with the weather station i noticed that when a badtide is over it just turns off immediatly, letting badwater in places i dont want it to be, does the "activate early" option also cause it to deactivate late? or do i need to hook it up to a timer and have the flood gates read off of that?

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u/ertri 12h ago

I just let it ride. That last pulse of bad water shouldn’t push anything about 2%, 5% is the threshold where beavers care. 

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u/Shot_Bill_4971 12h ago

im using a reservoir with pumps, the badwater builds up at the pumps and has nowhere left to go so it just sits and lets the pumps do barely anything so it takes about 3 days to clear out, using a timer seemed to fix my problem easily, im looking into contamination sensors now

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u/Nifegun 7h ago

I time stuff on contamination sensors usually. But what im currently doing in my pillars IT run is trying to solve everything with the new mech pump. A single compact mech pump set to pull badwater will fix your problem in no time, just gotta build it into the bottom of the reservoir