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Electrical

Sprinkler

Waters every planter in reach from one hose, so a farm keeps growing while you roam. It needs a supply line, not power, and it drinks a lot of water.

Characteristics

Category
Electrical
Stack size
10
Workbench
Level 1
Craftable
Yes
Researchable
Yes · 15 Scrap
Health
200

Overview

In-game description
A small sprinkler that sprays water around it. Requires a hose connection to supply it with water.

Set one among your planters and watering stops being a chore. It sprays water around itself onto everything in reach, so a single sprinkler can cover several large planter boxes that would otherwise each want their own line.

It sits in the Electrical tab, yet power is not what it asks for. Its game text names one need: water through a hose. The sensible setup puts a water barrel right before it, so the plants keep getting wet after the rain stops and while you spend an hour roaming the other side of the map.

Mind its thirst. A farm with several sprinklers goes through water faster than rain alone brings in, and on a dry server a catcher-only setup runs empty and leaves the plants to wilt anyway. Groups that farm hard feed their sprinklers from a water pump instead.

At 75 frags and a Level 1 bench it is one of the cheapest crafts in its tab, and it stacks to ten. Make a few spares while you are at it; a new planter row will want one.

Raid cost

Explosive Quantity Sulfur
Satchel Charge cheapest 1 480
Beancan Grenade 4 480
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo 20–23 500–600
High Velocity Rocket 5 1,000
Rocket 1 1,400
Timed Explosive Charge 1 2,200
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo 10 120
Propane Explosive Bomb 1 900
Survey Charge 15 900
Mortar Shell 3 1,200
Homing Missile 17 1,800
MLRS Rocket 1 —
40mm HE Grenade 4 —
Hammerhead Bolt 8 —

Direct hit, hard side, no duds. Satchel Charge is a dud 20% of the time. Beancan Grenade is a dud 15% of the time. A range runs from point blank to the far end of the bullet's falloff, fired from an Assault Rifle.

Crafting

×75 Metal Fragments
×1 Sprinkler
Workbench level
Level 1
Crafting time
15 s
Research cost
15 Scrap

Recycling

Recycler

At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.

How to get

  • Craft

    at a Level 1 Workbench

  • Research

    15 Scrap at a Research Table