Kytampe Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Stacking metal water tanks Is this possible? I mean I stacked the tanks, put the pipes up first and then the tanks neat and tidy on top of eachother. But only the top one fills up as far as I can see (I fill them when it's raining). The tanks snap to the pipes right? Or are they snapping to eachother? Do I have to use a lot of extra pipes to be sure to connect everyone? I hope not, that would really look awful. Anyone who knows and can give a helping hand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
003 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 they only snap to pipe nodes, if not connected with pipes useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pipinghot Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 5 hours ago, Kytampe said: Stacking metal water tanks Is this possible? I mean I stacked the tanks, put the pipes up first and then the tanks neat and tidy on top of eachother. But only the top one fills up as far as I can see (I fill them when it's raining). The tanks snap to the pipes right? Or are they snapping to eachother? Do I have to use a lot of extra pipes to be sure to connect everyone? I hope not, that would really look awful. Anyone who knows and can give a helping hand? It's been quite a while since I've played with water tanks like you're doing, so I'm relying on memory. I think this answer is right but take it with a grain of salt, just in case. 1) When you have water tanks below other water tanks only the top tank will fill from rain, the tanks that are underneath are blocked from receiving the rain. If I remember correctly you can get around this by staggering the second layer of water tanks so that they are not directly below the upper layer. Since tanks can snap either in the center of a pipe or at the end of the pipe you should be able to get two layers of tanks that collect water during rain (I think). 2) As a result, you need to have lower layers of tanks connected to the upper layer using pipes, so that the rain which is collecting in the top tank will use the pipes to "flow" into the other tanks below. 3) I don't remember if tanks will snap to each other (although you can use various tricks like raising & lowering foundations & ceilings to get layers of tanks closer to each other), but even if they do it won't help. If you want to have a true water network you must have your pipe network connected to each and every tank, tanks will only share water if they are connected by pipes. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyBear Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 they snap onto the pipes on the joints.. u can put them in a line or stacked or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piffguru Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 I have a tank setup on aberration similar to grumpybears and since it doesnt rain they just fill from condensation and it works fine for top and bottom layer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard03 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 been trying to conjure up a solution to water myself. Been playing PvE online for a little while now, but I still don't want to call attention to myself and a big long pipe from the water to my base just isn't ideal.....Im starting to think maybe a crap ton of reservoirs will do the trick, but will have to figure out if I wanna go that route or if I wanna go with the pipes......only good news is Im in a location that's sort of overlooked right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graviphoton Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 I tried such setup https://youtu.be/IfBO8JkyHgA?list=PLayRndJ0Fvge0IXaZE1Vc2PpuooSr9P05&t=1708 Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard03 Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Got about 5000 in water reserve, its good enough for 12 large crop plots and 6 medium plots, but starting to ponder about a cooker.....have not unlocked it yet, but Ill keep you posted.....might be a case of you can only cook during rain or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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