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Electrical

Fluid Combiner

Merges up to three hoses into one line, so several roof catchers can fill a single barrel. Cheap at 75 frags, and worth it once one catcher is not enough.

Characteristics

Category
Electrical
Stack size
5
Workbench
Level 1
Craftable
Yes
Researchable
Yes · 15 Scrap
Health
200

Overview

In-game description
Combines three separate fluid connections into one connection.

Three catchers on the roof, one barrel downstairs: that is the job. Each large water catcher gets its own hose into the combiner, and a single hose leaves it for the water barrel. Rain that used to fill three separate tanks now ends up in one reserve your farm can actually draw on.

A barrel takes one incoming hose. Without this part you end up with three half-full stores and planters hooked to whichever one you happened to pick. The fluid splitter does the reverse, one line out to three, and plenty of farm builds use both: catchers into a combiner, barrel in the middle, splitter towards the planter rows.

It needs no power and nothing rarer than 75 metal fragments at a Level 1 bench, with 15 scrap to research. So the only reason to skip it is a small base where one catcher already keeps up.

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 Fluid Combiner
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