I've read on the forums that you can make purified water and sell it for caps. So, I built 4 water purifiers in Sanctuary Hills but haven't seen even 1 water in my workshop. I only have 8 settlers, lots of defense and beds, plenty of food and I've only visited 2 other settlements so far and both have enough water for their population. I've also read there are bugs with the whole water going into inventory thing. I'm on PC if that makes any difference. Appreciate any help one might give.

It can take a few days before water starts appearing and the amount you get can be random. For example, I have two industrial water purifiers at Starlight Drive; each capable of producing 40 purified waters or 80 in total. I also have 4 water pumps there before building the purifiers for a total of 92 water production. There are 9 settlers.

Every now and then when I visit Starlight Drive there would be 50 - 65 purified waters in the Workstation. Not sure how the math in the game works; even if I do not bother visiting that settlement for over a week (game time) there are never more than 65 purified water in the workbench. I built a container next to the workbench to transfer all water and crops that the game drops into the workbench. After building up the settlement to my liking I will build some shops so that I can sell the water & crops within my settlement rather than having to fast travel somewhere to sell 'em.

Well the purifiers need power and it will show that the settlement has lots of water.

Water fills up and teach an cap i think is produced water- that the settlers need and rest ends in workshop so put it in another container and you can remove the next time you visit.

grab the water each time you go to an place with plenty of shops or then you want to buy expensive stuff.

One bug is that you have to take everything out of the meds tab from the workstation to get it to start collecting water and it takes a day or so to fill to its max. You can even take everything out of the workbench and put it right back in. Lets you see just how much junk vs guns and food you have.

Water fills up to some percent of the number your purifiers say. Say you have 133 water you only get a max of say 70 water in the workbench. Not exact numbers. Once filled for the day you can't stockpile any more unless you move it to a container or sell it.

I gave them the power they need. I'm going to go with one of the posts above that suggests this is random. thank you

Definitely empty the water out on a regular basis, as other posters have advised. My settlement in Sanctuary has 8 industrial purifiers going and no matter how long I'm gone there's always between 277 and 302 PW in the bench (and it's not hooked up to a supply line). It looks like past a certain point they either stop production or just waste the excess. Whether this is a bug or a deliberate design choice I don't know.

Based on my experience with water farms at several settlements, I believe the water number in your workshop is capped at the daily production number, minus what your settlers are using. If you want to use it as a commodity to save up and sell, you have to remove it from the workshop on a regular basis and store it in a container so it refills.

You have to do a quest/ explore the wasteland like into an area and progress type of thing. Not really needing to progress story just play the game as intend after exploring that one place go back to the settlement and there should be water collected.

The method works best with industrized water purfifiers

The settlement production update when one in game day AND eight real life minutes pass, so you can't get more than that allows

Only caps and scrap stack with themselves, water, food, and other production will be produced once then will not increase until you empty the original production and another cycle passes, so having a single bottle of water in the inventory prevents getting more until it is removed.

Connected settlements distribute resources between them based on production, a high production settlement provides more water for the other settlements, even if they are self sufficient, causing them to produce excess water when they otherwise wouldn't

I produce ~%50 of all my water on spectacle island, (1000) water, so all of my settlements receive 50% of their water from spectacle island even though they produce enough water for themselves, causing me to receive far less at that one place than expected.

Go spend an hour in real time playing the game outside of the settlement that has those purifiers. Then come back and you can see the purified water in the workbench. In santuary i build as many large purifiers that can fit on both sides of the river. It generates over 400 purified waters every period.. I sell them at 16 each. I also have a similar setup in the castle and spectacle island. Im never broke...

Are your purifiers powered? You should start receiving it, however, be forewarned, if you have any supply lines running from your settlement, a lot of it will go out with them.

It's funny, but, since I haven't really developed Ten Pines, the Drive-In or Hangman's yet, I think most of it is going to those places. Sure I'll have some show up in small quantities at Abernathy, Red Rocket and Sunshine, but I'm finding far larger quantities at the undeveloped ones w/out any settlers (okay, there's the original 2 at Ten Pines). I suppose, once I develop them and put in purifiers at the Drive-In it will settle out.

I had even worse problems with my last runthrough. At least on this one I'm only at 6 (about to be 7 since I'm picking up the Station) at level 27.

I started watching my inventory and low and behold, I'm getting about 40 per day so I empty it every time I go back.

Me too. If I don't empty it, it never seems to go over the max. Of course now that 90% of it seems to be getting sent out with supply lines, it hasn't been an issue.

Forget the water amd become a drug dealer...Jet, cheap to make, sells about 40 caps each, lightweight 5 jets = 1 water. Plus, no need to up your defenses to cover your water production.

But what if I want to use those drugs? There are never enough no matter how many I make! Needless to say, Codsworth isn't all that fond of me.

Dang I wasn't even aware of this cap. Kept wondering why the amount of water never got higher. Good to know I guess.

I have a weird bug, after getting my water all the time, since a few game hours I don not get any water anymore.

I have 100 water in Sanctuary, the base settlers only + Cait and McCready.

The "bug"(?) started even before the latter 2 were there.

They all run, as do the generators....

Do you have 100 water in the workshop already? It won't go higher than your max capacity.

Do you have supply lines? Maybe it's getting distributed.

Have you unhooked and reconnected the purifiers or just tried turning them on and off? Sometimes you practically have to kick things to get them to work again.

Just my thoughts.

but for anyone to find more water in their workbench they need to empty the water out of the workbench right?

No water in the bench, no supply lines.

I only turned them on and off and not even all of them, I will try unhooking or even scrapping and rebuilding tomorrow, thank you.

Yes.

Every time I visit a settlement, I always go to the workbench to empty out purified water and crops and either sell them or dump them in an adjacent container I have built specifically for water and crops.

I hadn't thought about that! Of course. I need to treat crops the same way as I treat water. Dumb me. I'm going to start emptying out gourds and melons (since they're useless for anything else), and Razorgrass (since I don't make soup anyhow!). I'll leave the carrots, muttfruit, corn and tato's though. Makes it easy to make drugs and starch for adhesive.

Thank you!

so are you saying if I keep the mutfruit out of the workbench they will also collect it too lol?

Only possible if your crop production is higher than the population. The amount of crops stored in the work bench is some random number that is less than the surplus food production. The specific crops can be random as well, it depends on what crops the settlers randomly decides to "eat". Once you settlers have "eaten" everything else gets dumped in the workbench.

Sheesh. No wonder I just do all my own harvesting and dump it in the workbench. I have so much excess at all my settlements it's little wonder they can't collect it all!