What counts as a day for water purifiers?
The game states that any excess purified water from your purifiers will go into your workshop every day.
What counts as a day? I tried sleeping in a bed for 24h but that didn't trigger water to be deposited into my workshop. Nor did it give my traders back their caps.
So what counts? Time spent away from the settlement?
Best Answer
I have just tested this for you - I have an industrial water purifier and 20 settlers in my settlement, this means I have 20 units of water left at the end of each day. I took all of the water out of my store and then slept for 24 hours and woke up to 20 purified water in my store.
Since there are many systems in the game (such as dynamic time of day, NPCs only available at certain times, shops only opening at certain times etc) the game is well aware of what "time" it is - have you considered that maybe you have no excess purified water? That purified water only comes from the powered pumps and that each settler uses 1 unit of water?
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Answer 2
I had this problem I:
Removed the hand pumps that I had place early in my settlement. They were enough to cover the needs of my settlers so perhaps the industrial purifiers were not being "used" despire being powered and on.
Pulled up and stored my purifiers and replaced them.
I slept 24 hours and this seemed to fix the issue.
Good luck!
Answer 3
Is your extra water being moved by supply lines? Those places that don't have enough water are getting water through your supply lines. So it make sense that the extra water at one settlement is being transferred to those that does not have enough water.
Answer 4
Some have said that you actually need to be "doing stuff" for the water purifiers to do their thing, so sleeping will not work.
I have a load of them set up at Sanctuary, I go away and explore for an hour and come back to find over 200 lots of purified water to sell.
So if sleeping isn't working for you, simply leave Sanctuary and do stuff for a while, then when you get back it should be waiting at the workshop for you.
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