Water Barrel

A wooden tank that holds water between your catcher and your crops and feeds a hose slowly. Cheap to build, worth it once a farm outgrows buckets.

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Characteristics

Category: Items

Stack size: 1

Durability: 100

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 15 Scrap

Health: 250

Overview

In-game description

A storage container for water. Can output 10ml of water a second via a hose.

Give your farm a reserve. A barrel sits between whatever collects water and whatever drinks it, so the planters keep getting fed after the rain stops and while you are three grids away on a roam.

It costs one tarp and 250 wood, needs no bench and takes 15 scrap to research. Recycle it and the tarp only comes back by chance, so do not count on getting it back.

Put a large water catcher on the roof or in the yard.
Run a hose from the catcher's output to the barrel.
Run a second hose from the barrel to a sprinkler over your planters.

Mind the speed. The game text says it pushes 10 ml a second through a hose, and that is slow. A sprinkler or a couple of large planter boxes can live on it, but if you split the line across a whole farm, check that the far end still gets wet. You can also fill a bottle or a jug straight from it before you head out.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Satchel Charge cheapest	1	480
Beancan Grenade	4	480
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	25–28	650–700
High Velocity Rocket	6	1,200
Rocket	1	1,400
Timed Explosive Charge	1	2,200
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	12	180
Propane Explosive Bomb	1	900
Survey Charge	18	1,080
Mortar Shell	3	1,200
Homing Missile	21	2,200
MLRS Rocket	1	—
40mm HE Grenade	4	—
Hammerhead Bolt	10	—

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.