Water Pump

Pulls water from the sea, a river or a lake while powered and pushes it down the hoses, so your farm no longer waits for rain. One gear is the hold-up.

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Characteristics

Category: Electrical

Stack size: 3

Workbench: Level 2

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Health: 300

Overview

In-game description

Can be placed in a water source to collect that water while powered. Can be connected to other Water entities.

Put it where the water is, give it power, and everything hosed up behind it stops depending on the weather. A catcher fills slowly in a dry spell. A pump keeps going as long as the electricity does.

What it brings up depends on where it stands. In the sea you get salt water, and that goes through a powered water purifier before it reaches anything you care about. In a river or lake the water should already be fresh, so an inland base needs one box fewer in the chain than a coastal one.

Place it in the water source you want to draw from.
Run power to it with the wire tool.
Connect its output with a hose to the purifier, a barrel or the planters.
Use a fluid splitter when one line has to feed several planters.

The recipe has a snag for a fresh group: one gear next to the frags and wood, at a Level 2 bench. Early on gears only come from crates and the recycler, so hold one back for the pump rather than feeding every gear you find to the recycler.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo cheapest	100–104	2,500–2,600
High Velocity Rocket	19	3,800
Satchel Charge	8	3,840
Rocket	3	4,200
Beancan Grenade	36	4,320
Timed Explosive Charge	2	4,400
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	49	600
Propane Explosive Bomb	3	2,700
Mortar Shell	10	3,000
Survey Charge	73	4,380
Homing Missile	58	5,800
MLRS Rocket	2	—
40mm HE Grenade	17	—
Hammerhead Bolt	24	—

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.