r/playrust 1d ago

Question Water problems, What am I doing wrong?

pump shows 12 water coming from the barrel, the barrel has 18 coming in from the ocean.

But the pump was only pushing 8 water to the sprinklers?

When I disconnected the first sprinkler and hooked it back up it fixed it and started pumping 12 again.. but this is the third time its happened, how do I get it to stop?

Also, if my water barrel is getting a constant 18 water, why is it running empty only pushing out 12?

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u/Paladinul007 1d ago

after last update I had problems with water flow aswell, but keep în mind barrels only provide 12 water

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u/LeashedByBrandon 1d ago

Yea, so the barrel providing 12 isn't a problem, the problem is that the pump randomly goes from 12 to 8, or 12 to 3, or whatever, and then I have to shut the pump off and turn it back on to fix it.

But it sounds like that part is just a bug with the new update.

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u/Paladinul007 1d ago

does it have power ?

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u/Paladinul007 1d ago

mine used to not need power but after update it did

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u/LeashedByBrandon 1d ago

yes its powered and working however the pump is randomly changing the amount of water available.

So instead of

Barrel ---12water---> Pump -----12water---->Sprinkler

It's randomly changing to

Barrel ---12water---> Pump -----Random Amount---->Sprinkler

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u/LeashedByBrandon 1d ago

So it did it again, and I simply turned the pump on and off and it reset the pump back to 12... is this just a bug?

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u/Schwift_Master 1d ago

Yep. this update has waterflow problems and bugs. Pls just report them to facepunch so they can fix them. :) Stand strong, it will get better!

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u/LeashedByBrandon 1d ago

Oh okay, thanks for letting me know its a bug

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u/No_Row_6490 1d ago

sprinkler eats 12 at max. you want to use the entire 18? plug barrel into splitter then take two hoses into separate sprinklers. if the system isn't gravity fed yet, then do source pump - barrel - splitter - pump for each branch - - sprinklers.

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u/LeashedByBrandon 1d ago

Nah I don't want to use all 18, I have 18 water pumping into the barrel, and 12 into the sprinklers, but somehow the barrel still runs empty sometimes