Water

Water is the most important resource in the game. It cannot be replaced by any other. Your mutants need water for drinking and cooking meals and also for growing food on fields. Water is also a neccessary part of many production lines.

There is usually at least one source of water on the map. It looks like an endless hole. This source can temporarily dry up during heat or get stroneger during rain.

Moisture spreads through the ground from the nearest water source and allows vegetation to grow. Moisture gets higher when rain falls and it gets lower when drought, sand storms, heat bursts, and fire come. Moisture evaporates from the ground. When there is more vegetation like trees and grass they all slow down the evaporation which means moisture can spread far from the water source.

Water can be distributed by pumps, pipes, taps and sprinklers throughout an environment as same as in barrels. And it can be stored in liquid containers. It's better to use the sealed ones because they don't leak.

Here are a couple of rules for how water (and also other liquids) work in the pipes:

• Water needs pressure to flow through pipes, sprinklers, or taps
• The pressure is created by pumps and also objects that show water height in the right window
• The number of the height tells what maximum height can be water distributed by this object
• For example Deep Water Pump shows a heigh 31 which means that water can be pushed up to 31 tiles above
• The length of just a pipe network (without any objects like containers, taps, or sprinklers) at the same level doesn't affect the amount of pressure needed or the speed of distribution
• Flow pump helps to make the pressure higher
• If you have a Deep water pump with a height 31 linearly connected to pipes, the water can be pushed up to 31 tiles above
• But if you put into such a linear network any other object than a pipe it would reset the pressure made by the pump and have the new pressure of this precise object
• Then you need to build the Flow pump at the output of such object to make the pressure higher again if necessary