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I've played in two families that I think might be interesting to talk about since the new update.
In the pie family, I managed to get an oil rig to gush (it wasn't the closest spot as I discovered later and made some weak choices), while someone else had I think completed all of the parts for a diesel engine and the last part just needed get put together. So, the Pie family MIGHT be the first family to complete a diesel water pump since the new water update. They had well-organized 3x3 berry fields and used water pouches in baskets (which I didn't even realized worked) to store water. I played in generation 18, and the family lasted 31 generations. Is the Pie family the longest surviving lineage which settled on a spot without a pond cluster which, consequently, must have gotten built before this latest update?
The other family was the Pepper family. I got born as great grandaughter of Eve and she died shortly after I was born. We didn't have a single pond for farming (and perhaps only Eve knew where the clay was for a while?). We didn't even start farming until we dug up a natural spring into a well. Then, unsurprisingly, we have a bit of a holdup in the water supply as we need two buckets up, one for the stanchion kit and one to take the water out... or build a road to the other natural spring site I saw and run water without a bucket for a bit or run to the ponds, which maybe only a few people knew about by the time I died? I made buckets before a cart, which feels unconventional, but I didn't think there was much choice. I also made a newcomen atmospheric core, which required a third bucket without taking the farmer's single bucket. I have no idea how long the Pepper family will last, but a shallow well goes very fast. What can I say? Families will need buckets or they will need to move or run water the slow way with a clay bowl rather early unless they have a large pond cluster and have farmers smart enough to take water from each pond (good luck getting farmers to do that!). At least if they want to settle in one spot.
Edit: It would be interesting to know if any families since the "Pump Overhaul", as Jason has entitled it, have lived more than 31 generations STARTING without wells. Families that resettle a town where wells got built on ponds don't count here.
Last edited by Spoonwood (2019-05-06 04:33:10)
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