How to get UNLIMITED Water in Project Zomboid

Today I tell you how you can get a pretty much endless supply of water in Project Zomboid so you never go thirsty again.

[@TerryOCarroll]

If you build a barrel on a roof over an existing sink, you can plumb the sink in if you have a pipe wrench. I've done this at Cortman Medical - plumbed in the sink in the kitchen and also the upstairs bathroom like this.

[@Hoki4]

There is also irrigation mod that allows you to connect multiple barrels together with irrigation pipes to make a bigger water reservoir for yourself. I have storage for like 4k water in my base :D

[@nerfherder4284]

In fact if you put multiple barrels next to each other and then plumb a sink, all of the reservoirs will be connected to the sink. Unfortunately they drain in series so it's hard to tell. There are actually a few metal barrels (not drums) around the tents at the fence to LV, they hold 800 units of water each!!

[@Hoki4]

@@nerfherder4284 Sure but you can wire barrels between long distances with those pipes :D

[@wiawaysb]

where the fuck did you put the rain barrel? cortman medical does not have a roof level?

[@JustAnotherGuyWhoHatesGoogle]

i like beans

[@kuroneko1sama]

you could also bucket that "wild" water up to your barrel on the second floor, so you will get clean water from the sink

[@cichoriumintybus4637]

Tainted pond water wont kill you, if you drink it directly. The game kinda still does not treat it as dangerous for some reason, although filling it in a bottle will probably make someone sick. PrivateLime lately played a character and constantly drinking "funny water" without ever getting to see the "sick"-moodle.

[@nerfherder4284]

I think it's been changed to now make you 🤢

[@SuperKratosgamer]

@@nerfherder4284 no, it dies make you sick, but it does not kill you, just rest and it will be gone.

[@sasukedemon888888888]

@@SuperKratosgamer if you take weak stomach it will kill you 100% of the time unless you eat lemon grass

[@wiawaysb]

@@SuperKratosgamer this is true

[@trumplostlol3007]

Get an antique oven. Boil the "tainted water" for a second and you will be able to drink it happily.

[@liutaurasbalnius]

Water is overrated True men drink mayonnaise

[@johnwinter2252]

Mayonnaise? Pfft, I drink margarine

[@tprimmers9360]

@@johnwinter2252 i drink bleach

[@Antraeon]

God I hope you don't mean mayonnaise as a euphemism.

[@Anon-lu6ct]

@@Antraeon but why does my homemade “mayo” smell like bleach? 🧐

[@ghostsuru8429]

@@Anon-lu6ct :O

[@CREEPINGIRON]

That ending shot reminds me of a dream I had as a kid that sticks out in my mind, being stuck upstairs unable to leave because a horde of zombies is just chilling downstairs & for some reason the weapon I chose to arm myself with was an electric flyswatter.

[@MidtWinterRose]

Would be cool to have an electric flyswatter in the game though!!

[@BengalGecko]

@@MidtWinterRose I think those animal prod taser sticks, and police tasers would be interesting. Handheld tasers would be cool as well, could maybe craft a taser with say a baseball bat and foil to make an electric baseball bat lol

[@badshootykat5574]

For up-to-date concerns: If the water dispenser runs out of water, it will automatically refer its next water storage that is placed adjacently a-floor above itself. Shortly, this 9x9 Rain collector method still works!

[@KnownNiche1999]

Doesn't that mean you can theoretically make an infinitely large rain collector grid over several floors? Also, if I am not mistaken, it's 5x5, not 9x9

[@badshootykat5574]

@@KnownNiche1999 tried that, it doesn't work with multiple floors

[@KnownNiche1999]

@@badshootykat5574 So water dispensers do not reference to water dispensers above them?

[@badshootykat5574]

@@KnownNiche1999 correct

[@ARottenMuffin]

@@KnownNiche1999 I believe it's actually 3x3 to make a total of 9 water collectors lmao

[@ogalebogale]

I've never lived long enough to have to drink tainted water

[@spoodle]

relatable

[@xy5844]

SIX ONE NINE

[@august_ross]

Pro-tips are back! Collect rain water or use rivers or ponds for unlimited water! Waow! Next up: how to LIVE in Project Zomboid - don't die!

[@avaliausd.]

😂

[@nerfherder4284]

...Only if you want to live like an animal. Rain barrel on a roof (or even out a second floor window 1 tile adjacent) above a sink, plumb with the pipe wrench, this filters it safe to drink. Multiple barrels can be plumbed. The fishing stores usually have the good barrels to loot if you lack the carpentry skills. There are some metal barrels that hold 800 in LV. The barrels will fill in the rain, but can be filled with buckets and pots from a tainted source and the sink filters it. Pro tip: Snow doesn't add to your rain barrels, so be prepared for winter with extra water storage.

[@HARRAWISH]

man plumbing sinks is so broken sometimes i can attach them to the barrels over them and sometimes not idk why

[@Clearwater_WT]

>Walks into a room filled with an irrational amount of water bottles. >TV was left on. >"Mistakes have been made, I know."

[@Dreamer23245]

Maybe a fair thing to mention to new players (the one you skillfully left out) would be the little detail/fact that for making stairs and barrel water collectors you need a carpentry level of a whooping SEVEN. Plumbing takes some skill too if i remember correctly. So new players trying this will basically go like "wtf.. i can't do that" not knowing they need some skills to actually get there. simply put : just boiling the water : no skill required, takes 10 seconds plumbing and making water collectors : carpentry level 7, tons of wood, garbage bags and nails + hammer, saw, axe, wrench... see what i mean? maybe fair to mention that one way is simple and the other is well.. not so much? and wouldn't having the low attention span be affected more by doing the more complex method? lol

[@Botar48]

Rain collector box barrels only take 4 skill. Real barrier for this strategy is stairs taking 6 skill levels.

[@monkgaming651]

​@@Botar48 you can avoid stairs by building in warehouses and such but still if you wanna go build freely you'll need 6+ which depending on the server is quite a grind usually so he's right.

[@juncheok8579]

For the pond water, you actually don't even need lemongrass, resting for a bit will cure you of sickness (I've been told that filling it into a container is fatal tho)

[@Dimon811]

Use that container to bring river water to your plumbed rainbarrel, then go down and drink filtered water.

[@piotrromankiewicz3646]

It is fatal, thats how i lost my 5 months survived world just by drinking some river water from a bottle

[@StarLink149]

@@piotrromankiewicz3646 Drinking straight from a pond or river is safe, so long as you don't drink too much of it, and like Jun Cheok said, as long as you don't store it in a container like a bottle or a pot of soup. Though your character will start feeling sick and lose some health for a while, keeping yourself well-fed and resting will help him regenerate. However, if I recall correctly, if you have a weak stomach, it is *always* fatal.

[@somerandomgamer8504]

@@StarLink149 I always take weak stomach because it's basically free points, never died from it.

[@StarLink149]

@@somerandomgamer8504 Thanks. I also play with weak stomach, but I've always avoided drinking tainted water just in case. I think it might not be _certain_ death, then, but it will take less tainted water to kill someone with the weak stomach negative trait.

[@Boingy420]

You can also drink from puddles during rain, and you won't get sick. Laplaplaplaplaplap.

[@jurgevaIIejos]

thank you for being so straight forwarded

[@ntomic1]

This works even on buildings that are already there and that have a concrete roof and pre-existing sinks. The only requeriment for this to work is that the sink (either built by yourself or already there) has to be in "inside" space. Worked on the second floor of the Muldraugh's north warehouse and putting barrels on the top floor.

[@Kimberliearcher]

If you have big containers, you can fill the water manually from the water source, and pour it in the water container

[@Airvent2]

"now in the world of project zomboid, water is pretty nice to have"

[@andrehashimoto8056]

Drinking tainted water (at least straight from river/lake) won't be fatal, this was afaik made so MP doesn't end in bad situations (Such as somehow an Entire City or town Sinks end destroyed/lost and thus no ability to actually get safe water in large amounts anymore) due to impolite or excessive player looting everything even if Nailed/Bolted to a solid surface.

[@CraazyFYI]

The ultimate lifehack we all needed, but not the one we deserved >:]

[@spoodle]

bruh one of my favorite zomboid youtubers commenting on my vid this is so cool

[@CraazyFYI]

@@spoodle O: Likewise man! >:]

[@nillennir]

for your information, rain water is toxic, so if you just plumb it you get a nice supply of ................ tainted water, you have to build a filter with gravel (grey floor in the garage entry of a house) sand (yellow floor at the entry of a house or in the sidewalk and a plastic bottle, once you have the filter you install one filter in each sink and THEN you have drinkable water

[@vince7207]

What are you talking about?

[@LAST_STAND_FAN]

That bottom floor in the outro threw me for a loop, das hilarious.

[@colinhubble6667]

Water concerns are a joke in this build, they need to remove it from sinks and subs in all houses and give the option to manually plug and fill tubs or else.

[@Vinnocentus]

Maybe its a mod I have on as I haven't tested in Vanilla PZ yet, but putting the pond water in the rain water barrel auto purifies it. So if you need that pond water but have no lemon grass, use buckets to haul the pond water to the rain water barrels and you got yourself some clean water

[@nerfherder4284]

Only if it's plumbed to a sink, which is the filter.

[@TheAlphaHawg]

another hard watch Spoodle! Keep up the work

[@mesrszmit6295]

You can safely drink water from ponds/lakes/rivers as long as you're not low on HP. But remember not to drink it from a bottle or any kind of canister, just drink it directly

[@jacobbargmann2958]

he man i really love your videos, keep up the good work

[@spoodle]

thanks so much i’m glad you enjoy

[@Mad5cout]

People been saying you can do preexisting sinks with concrete roofs. Has anyone tried the sinks that have a regular rooftop over that doesn't go up a full level? example: The fire station in rosewood has a sink off of the main vehicle bay with a regular roof over it that appears to only go up half a floor.

[@TYOjoe]

i put a ton of barrels ontop of the school in Riverside above the upstairs bathrooms, so ive got like 10 sinks and 20+ toilets to work with

[@mangaranwow2543]

Never died by drinking tainted water, i did die however by eating poisonous mushrooms. Apparently i made a wrong assumption that food nutriest trait would let me identify what food is save to eat, now i know better.

[@somerandomgamer8504]

Pretty sure just sipping straight from a lake won't kill you

[@sebbediah]

This is revolutionary 😱

[@ZamboniZone]

Also collect water coolers as that gives you even more water on back up

[@thatonedude05]

Make sure to grab water coolers from office buildings for the overflow. 250 water storage isn't anything to sneeze at.

[@nerfherder4284]

Water coolers can actually be used like a rain barrel. Put above the sink and plumb it in. You can then add water from a tainted source and filter it. Great for testing whether your sink is plumbable b/c you can carry it full and there is no risk to break.

[@dumbo2306]

What about wells?

[@spoodle]

lmao yeah i kinda forgot about those

[@xcoeri123l8]

DUDE the house you are in at thee end is the house im living lol

[@aidenjoeo3382]

I think that this could be very useful

[@diospato]

cant you just fill containers with tainted water from a lake and pour it into the rain barrel that is connected to the sink? then you can drink from the sink and it will be safe

[@1973Louis]

Yes you can, tedious but you can do it.

[@trumplostlol3007]

Build your base right next to the river. Voila.

[@orangesoda4535]

Just pour the pond water into the rain collector

[@gammaray152]

Does the order of plumbing sink have to be first sink them barrels? I build barrels above, then I put in a sink but I'm not getting the plumb option.

[@nerfherder4284]

If the sink is in one of the 9 tiles around the barrel you should be good to go. If however you are in a cabin that you built, you have to make sure that the game thinks it's "inside". A doorframe w/o a door, or a missing window or even a corner post will make the game think it's outdoors and the option won't show. Also, used to be you needed a wrench, but now you can only use the pipe wrench.

[@DurakovPOLKOVN]

drop a lighted campfire in middle of the river and all water is boiled now

[@AutoholicsDriveThru]

The last 20 seconds!

[@taiguarathemanedwolf]

I come here because my game has already started with the water supply cut off. *pain*

[@user-qd9ep7dl6d]

you can drink tainted water without having to eat any grass, just not too much

[@FizzleFX]

0:50 "we dont have magic shenanigans" ........... barrel on roof = clean water from sink that isnt even connected by pipes Oo Physics!

[@demonjmh]

There should be more than enough waterbottles to last you a good while even with high thirst ylur bottle doesnt run out terribly fast

[@SurvivalistWithChrist]

It hasn’t rained in a month and my car broke down in the middle of the forest. I’m cooked.

[@wolhaiksong2558]

So,did you manage to survive ?

[@SurvivalistWithChrist]

@@wolhaiksong2558 I managed to walk to rosewood so I’m good.

[@gamingmoth4542]

Would you have the option to take pond water and put it into the rain barrels that are connected to the sink?

[@FizzleFX]

0:12 how old is that clip?? it doesnt work like that for ages anymore. You need sources left and right and not in a square formation

[@mantovannni]

I drank pond water yesterday and my character didn't get the sickness Icon, he was really thirsty so must have had a good drink (He got eaten yesterday though so...). I'm wondering if you can develop iron gut naturally?

[@staples138]

There's a trait for that

[@onemanband3461]

“Probably”

[@GoTrespassing]

I usually run weak stomach, will this change things?

[@francoemmanueldeanta5933]

in my house i use metal barrels to colect rain, just use a mod to craft them and install it like a normal wood barrel and done each one have the 2 times more that normal barrels and i even make my base in the gas station near the north direction of the river, i turn that dusty place in a mega base without build anything just moving furniture here and there

[@welzerknightwesker8038]

Or just grab a old bucket and fill with pond water then fill the rain collector 😅

[@pinetree320]

Can anyone help, ive done everything exactly i just cant plumb the sink with my wrench

[@Wolfy_Gamer-Rus]

or you could just find a well

[@oatkungar]

Is it still viable? I did the same exact thing but the sink still has tainted water tooltips.

[@1973Louis]

Is building 9 barrels that useful? From my experience only one barrel get connected via plumbing.

[@spoodle]

i believe it only connects to one but if one runs out you can unconnected the sink and then reconnect it to one with water

[@cichoriumintybus4637]

@@spoodle Yet you cannot move a filled barrel.

[@nerfherder4284]

Pretty sure they all get plumbed together, they just drain in series so the next one won't drain until one's empty. It only gives you the option to plumb it once tho

[@nerfherder4284]

@@cichoriumintybus4637 you can plumb a water cooler like a barrel for testing, which you can move full and can't break.

[@teepaul911]

It'd be nice if we could dig a well😏

[@jamesodwyer4181]

Agreed. The More Buildings mod lets one do so, thank goodness, which is handy for a relaxed building/construction run

[@teepaul911]

@@jamesodwyer4181 oohh

[@mathdantastav2496]

is there a way to pump lake water to a sink?

[@sldu89]

In the past builds, you can only plumb the sink if you build the rain barrels adjacent to the sink tile, (1 floor above, of course). Did they change it so that you can build right on top of the sink now?

[@spoodle]

i believe they did yes

[@andrehashimoto8056]

Yes

[@Kimberliearcher]

And even better, you can plumb it into the water system if water is still active

[@nerfherder4284]

Yes any of the 9 tiles around it including now directly under. Multiple barrels next to each other will all be plumbed into the same sink. The only bug seems to be from a player built structure that isn't finished, meaning the game thinks it's outdoors and won't let you plumb it.

[@A-G0005]

Cant place the sink ont a Crate :(( And if i just put it on the wall it doesnt work.

[@Bumbleoni]

I've been playing this for hundreds of hours, and I'm just now learning that you can plumb sinks while holding a pipe wrench. I am not a smart man lol

[@spoodle]

hey i had like 150 hours before someone taught me you could do it lol so don’t feel bad

[@Sr.Pirulito]

Eat grass? If I knew what that was I wouldn't play PZ!

[@eggyplanty]

someone pls tell me how tf i pick up a sink it dont work the way he showed

[@ultrasuperkiller]

IM HERE

[@Huneidu]

How do you build a barrel? It is not in my crafting list.

[@adamkosz93]

I had this problem too. It's not in the crafting menu. Just right-click -> Build -> Furniture (or sth like that depends on your game language) -> Barrel

[@ScottMansfield]

I thought drinking tainted water kills you but it doesn't. You get nauseous and then sick. I think in summer or during heavy exercise or overheating you might need to drink more water and then it might be a problem, but otherwise you're fine. Better to have clean water though, obviously.

[@morty8367]

what kidn of crate is that

[@radioactivespeeder2591]

It’s not even that hard to get water

[@victorcanobarranco5113]

Meat reveal?!?

[@Ugh718]

0:20:I'm sorry what?What on earth is the point of collecting rainwater then if its also contaminated?Might aswell use river water if that's the case XD. That's so freaking stupid rainwater is supposed to be CLEAN not contaminated wtf. Edit:Nvm didn't comment before I watched the entire video XD. So rainwater magically becomes clean if it goes through barrels into a sink:Got it XD

[@kompletnyidiota4196]

So i want to say that Rain water is deadlier than river water as long as you don't drink a lot of river water (deadly dose : about 20 units refreshes daily) you should be safe

[@hugogabrielle-simpson5213]

IM HERE

[@spoodle]

about time

[@MooKau_]

lies. I looked all around the house, and youre not here at all.