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[Admiral Badger]

Now, I don't browse the forums regularly, and I don't keep up with the community knowledge or anything, but as far as I know it's considered possible to achieve Perpetual Motion with water wheels.

Well, I got to thinking about that while I was reading the wiki, and because of this piece of info...

"It is good to have a ready source of water to refill the machine, as water tends to escape and evaporate. As the water level decreases, the water wheel may intermittently stop providing power; when the level falls below 4/7, the wheel stops providing power altogether."

...I have to wonder, doesn't that technically mean that it isn't truly perpetual unless you pull from an aquifer/river?

Your thoughts, please.

[Fleeting Frames]

Replace the pump on the side with minecart on a track stop below dumping to a ramp on the side. Now it doesn't evaporate :v

Iirc you can also keep the older pump-based reactors locked into having 7/7 water on every tile expect for pump inlet.

[Skullsploder]

Replace the pump on the side with minecart on a track stop below dumping to a ramp on the side. Now it doesn't evaporate :v

Iirc you can also keep the older pump-based reactors locked into having 7/7 water on every tile expect for pump inlet.

Yeah it is possible with the old reactors but it can be finicky, sometimes the game doesn't recognise the 7/7s as flowing.