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So I recently got this game, and I just want to say I rarely get games as I don’t care to spend money on games. But with how economy heavy and world wide focus, I really needed to get the game

My first server I find this really large mountain with a river running from the top of it, so I just spent the past 4-5 hours with stone gear and wheelbarrows planning and moving dirt, and before I started the main excavation to make the GIANT hydroelectric damn I was hoping to build, I tried a small section just have some fun. aaaaand it sucks

Nothing filled up this section, it honestly acted like Minecraft water when I was expecting timberborn like water detailed.

I feel like I wasted my time and my money, this was a main positive for me. I don’t care too much about the laws and stuff, and one of the main things i started having fun with ended up failing because the game doesn’t have the physics for it.

Idk what to do anymore, I don’t want to quit because I already spent 30 bucks. Are there any mods that implement the physics I’m trying to utilize?

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8 months ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Sorry to hear you are disappointed by that. Have you tried using aqueducts for your project? We recently fixed some wrong behaviour with aqueducts in Update 10.2, they should be pretty viable for most projects - though there is a few more issues tracked and also a task to make it easier to fill those up completely without needing to resort to some magic trickery as is sometimes necessary.

As for general water behaviour there is unfortunately no current plans to expand that beyond the capabilities it already has, which are similar to minecraft and for the purposes of Eco with the aqueduct available were the goal. We did discuss about a few concepts how that could be expanded, but for now decided against that in favour of other development goals.

8 months ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Originally posted by Fun_Personality_7766

Do you plan on making hydroelectricity a viable option for power? From what I see, you would need way too many water wheels to actually be able to power things

Water wheels create mechanical power and only in low amounts - you are supposed to switch to a steam engine later on and then over to the electrical power generators. A way to convert electrical to mechanical and the other way around is planned. (And then you can profit off wind turbines and solar generators)

As for hydroelectric turbines there is unfortunately no such plans. You can add it here, though: https://feedback.play.eco