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First thing, if you get born into one of the towns, you won't know what part of the water making process the pump you have stands at. You might also have a kerosene newcomen pump with a wick burner inside of it: https://onetech.info/2348-Kerosene-Wick-Burner The kerosene newcomen pump has advantages to it.
0. Using a kerosene newcomen pump doesn't produce less water in the long run. For reference, see this discussion of this back here a while back: https://www.onehouronelife.com/forums/v … p?id=10181
1. For each bucket of water used to run the pump, the charcoal pump gives 4 buckets of water. Thus, we have a 1/4 ratio of used buckets of water to produced buckets of water when running a charcoal pump. With the kerosene newcomen pump, we have a 1/8 ratio of used buckets of water to produced buckets of water.
2. The water ends up more mobile with the kerosene newcomen pump since the tank ends up bigger. Of course, mobile water has a disdavantage also, since we don't know who moved the tank of water. Hence, oil makers have sometimes liked an 8 bucket tank of water for when making oil.
3. The kerosene newcomen pump can be difficult to distinguish from the charcoal pump visually. If you can't see the difference, it can be easy to take out the kerosene wick burner.
4. Figuring out the next step of what to do in running the pump requires knowing what step of the process the pump sits at (or what the last action to run the pump consisted of).
5. The crafting hints system that comes with YumLife and YummyLife mods do NOT tell what step of the process the pump sits at. On the other hand, the game's default crafting guide DOES tell you the part of the process the pump sits at. The crafting hints system can get disabled while using YummyLife mod by the change of one flag (iirs, one 'yes' to a 'no' or conversely).
So, when playing in a new town to you where you have a pump or any town reall, I suggest that you first hold some object and try to throw it in the pump. Maybe it's a piece of adobe. Or maybe you use a basket. Or maybe you use a fire stick. Or a rubber tire. Heck, maybe even joke with yourself that you're trying to grief the adobe or basket. I do not recommend using a tank though, since you need to have a wick burner inside of a charcoal pump with water in it. After you've tried to grief the rubber tire or whatever, then you can figure out the next step.
Danish Clinch.
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