Set Desired water level for Water (Fluid) Dumps and Mechanical Pumps

58 votes

At the moment I can think of very few situations for using water dumps, since the water output is so inconsistent. Making the dump stop at a settable water level should allow for lots of new ideas and strategies around water management

Under consideration Suggestion Suggested by: Daniel (21 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 2 days ago • Comments: 7

Comments: 7

22 Sep, '21
Thaina Yu
Forgot to post this suggestion but I want it too

I want to have ability to put water dump in the existing river I have contruct the dam. And set it to refill to 0.5 or 1 level lower. So that it will stop in wet season when the dam was filled with water(at -0.5 level) and start when level of water dropped in dry season

But on the other hand there was also this idea that overlapped
https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/215198/beaver-automatorsif-this-then-thatraise-and-lower-dams-automatically-with-a-beav

And if it about consistency I have suggest this
https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/214920/water-storage-adjacancy-sharing-pipe-and-change-water-dump-to-be-workerless-buil
22 Sep, '21
Kibblesnbits
An add-on to this might be to make the water markers nameable, then add the ability to pair the water dump to the marker, allowing monitoring and setting of a maximum height limit
23 Sep, '21
Tweelicht
This would be very helpful in draining a polder, a game play i'm thinking about. (i'm dutch:P)
21 Oct, '21
Zeirlynn
Yes. Currently the dump keeps dumping when the water level is 1.0 (referring to a 1-tile-deep pool), making it flood onto the surface around it, which for some reason causes instant-shut-down!!! of whatever building gets just a little bit wet. I'd like for the dumps to only fill to, say, 0.8, then stop so it doesn't flood things around it.
12 Oct, '23
Voidseeker Merged
What if, when you built a Stream Gauge near/next to a "Fluid" Pump or Mechanical "fluid" pump you could set a max height value which would automatically prevent the nearby/adjacent pumps from exceeding/"Overflowing" whatever your pumping the water into?
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13 Oct, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Stream Gauge Controls" (suggested by Voidseeker on 2023-10-12), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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06 Apr
Villskap
This would be very useful for automating irrigation over changing terrain levels, as you can put a mechanical pump sticking over the edge of the terrain height change but set it to 1 depth output so it doesn't overflow. Pumps already have a depth limit for how much they will take, makes a lot of sense to control output depth as well.