Large Water Catcher

Rain water on tap for a base far from any river. It needs a Level 2 bench and two tarps, so build it once you farm or drink at home a lot.

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Characteristics

Category: Construction

Stack size: 1

Workbench: Level 2

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Health: 300

Overview

In-game description

Collects drinkable water from the air via rain and dew. Can be connected to other entities to provide water, 20ml a second.

Set it on a roof or in the yard when your base sits nowhere near a river. It gathers rain and dew by itself, and you can take the water out of it by hand or run a pipe from it to whatever needs feeding.

Most people build one for farming. A row of large planter boxes drinks more than anyone wants to carry up in buckets, so you connect the catcher with a hose and let it water them while you are out roaming. In a dry spell it fills slowly, and a big farm can still drain it, so heavy farmers put up two or three.

The cost is what decides between this and the small water catcher. The small one needs only a Level 1 bench, one tarp and a quarter of the metal, which suits the first days of a wipe. The large one wants a Level 2 bench, 200 metal fragments and two tarps, and in return it holds and collects a lot more water.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
High Velocity Rocket cheapest	2	400
Beancan Grenade	5	600
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	30–34	750–850
Satchel Charge	2	960
Rocket	1	1,400
Timed Explosive Charge	1	2,200
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	2	60
Homing Missile	2	200
Propane Explosive Bomb	1	900
Mortar Shell	3	1,200
Survey Charge	22	1,320
MLRS Rocket	1	—
40mm HE Grenade	5	—
Hammerhead Bolt	10	—

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