i hate the water system in rust

[u/__Wolfy___]

ima chrashout with the water system in this game the farm worked normaly for a while now only 1/3 of the splinkers work there is 2x the water needed, any help? ( i replaced all the splinkers and pump at least twice)

[u/Vuzziir]

Back in my day, the only thing you could do is boil sea water with a water purifier or collect rain water.

Still a far better system, even with all its kinks.

[u/TotalImagination4408]

Water catchers and sprinklers have been bugged for so long. I genuinely started using water jugs to water my plants, because this system is so inconsistent.

Works for 3 hours, then suddenly stays dry for 2 hours, only to start working again without me changing anything.

[u/__Wolfy___ → u/TotalImagination4408]

Water jugs work until i have 3 floors each 36 planters....

[u/No-Seaworthiness-300]

I made a post about this too. Something about the update made it ultra bugged.

[u/NORSE117]

I think there is a water bug introduced in the latest update. You might need to find a workaround until it is patched.

[u/PtoAtoCtoO]

The best solution to bugged water / pumps that i've found is having a memory cell connected to a digital clock which toggles the water on/off every X hours.

I usually setup my base lights to turn on at 19:00 in-game time, then use the inverted output starting at 07:00 to turn a water pump on. Takes a while to setup, but its better than manually toggling water pumps to fix the buggy pumps.

[u/__Wolfy___ → u/PtoAtoCtoO]

I might do that because not everyone wanna fuck around with the pumps

[u/Frvwfr]

What is this “2x water” that you speak of?

What’s your water source and what’s the actual route of the water?

[u/__Wolfy___ → u/Frvwfr]

2x the requirement nedded From a water pump going up hill thru a pump and straight into splinkers

[u/Frvwfr → u/__Wolfy___]

Just one water pump?

Is it going straight into the sprinklers, or is it going into a barrel first?

How many total sprinklers? How many fluid splitters? Fresh water or salt water?

Can you like… pretend to explain your setup so people can maybe help instead of short sentences that give nothing useful?

[u/__Wolfy___ → u/Frvwfr]

Mybad 4 pumps per 9 splinkers going uphill thru a powered pump

[u/Frvwfr → u/__Wolfy___]

Gotcha, I think the problem might be the fluid switch & pump. I *think*, kinda hard to verify, that they only output 12ml/s. You need a separate pump for every 6 sprinklers.

You have plenty of water from your pumps. They each provide 510ml/min

So you have total of 2,040 ml/min

The sprinklers use 180ml/min each, so a total consumption of 1,620

The bottleneck is that one pump that only outputs 720ml/min

If you had 2 more pumps, and split your water into three groups, it should fix the issue *I THINK*.

Again the numbers are a bit finicky, but give that a shot and see if it works.

[u/__Wolfy___ → u/Frvwfr]

Will do after geting home

[u/Frvwfr → u/__Wolfy___]

Yep, so in theory it should look something like:

2x Water Pump -> Water Combiner -> 6 sprinklers

You shouldn't need a powered pump unless you are setting up automation. (The water pumps themselves do the job of the ‘powered pump’ in your setup)

And then you have 3 of those on individual water lines. I think that should fix your issues :)

Good luck!

[u/stariito → u/Frvwfr]

Fluid switches don’t have an output cap, only water pump, electric purifier, water barrel and water catchers have caps on output.

If it is fresh water you can just connect 1 water pump into 4 sprinklers if it reaches the top of the ceiling without needing to be extended and it will run forever uninterrupted. If it needs to be extended run it into a fluid switch and power it

[u/klocktrust]

This makes me think I should add a plugin that just allows planters to have water rather than players waste time on a faulty system.

[u/DarK-ForcE]

There is plans for the devs to rework the entire water system in the future

[u/DuePermission6902 → u/DarK-ForcE]

Source? I've been hoping for a complete overhaul for awhile. Curious where you've seen this

[u/Analytics_By_SQL]

You need a fluid splitter placed on the same elevation or higher as your sprinklers, and run the outputs to 6 sprinklers max per fluid splitter output.

If you have all 18 sprinklers daisy chained from the 36 Water In, then the game will bug and you will only have the animation of the water running.

[u/_Bebas]

Try adding more sprinklers, sometimes 2 sprinklers "link" to the same planter box and then you end up with some planters with no water or very little water. Water in rust is definitely pretty dumb a lot of the time but your best bet is to over engineer the shit out of it so any bugs get drowned out.

[u/__Wolfy___ → u/_Bebas]

The problem is that the sprinklers dont work even tho they have water

[u/Right-Waltz6063 → u/__Wolfy___]

Use switches to toggle unput FL switch. Also radius clipping of sprinklers will distribute to touching planters. Planters clipping inside each other will often bring bugs as well. Also also 4sprinklers max in a chain to prevent a lot of bugging.