Characteristics
Overview
A tool used to make fluid connections between objects. Aim at an object and click on an input/output handle, then click on another object's input/output handle to form a connection.
Anything that moves water around your base is joined up with this. You hold it, look at a catcher, barrel or pump, click its output handle, then click the input handle of whatever should drink. That is one hose, and from then on the water flows without you.
The first line most people lay runs from a large water catcher on the roof down to the planters. Later the chain grows: a water barrel in the middle as a reserve, a sprinkler at the end, a pump and purifier down on the coast. Every link in it is made with the same tool, so you will carry it a lot during a farm build.
It costs two HQM at a Level 1 bench, and every player knows it from the start, no research needed. That is cheap enough to give everyone in the group their own and stop passing one around.
Tip
It looks and handles like the wire tool, with the same click-to-connect handles, but it only does water. When a handle will not take your connection, check which of the two you are actually holding.
Crafting
- Workbench level
- Level 1
- Crafting time
- 1 s
- Research cost
- 10 Scrap
Recycling
At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.
How to get
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Craft
at a Level 1 Workbench
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Research
10 Scrap at a Research Table
