Fallout 3. Whole game spent purifying the water. Fallout 4. i have enough water for everone in the continent.

Water farming pros & cons : 7:19 Melon farming pros cons : 13:55

Imagine this two choices to play fallout 4: 1) go hunt Kellogg 2) go harvest melon.

"Drink. Some. Water." -- The Sole Survivor. *He who controls the water, controls the Wasteland.*

I have a water farm because I like to you know... play the game.

It is not a scam.. It is a built in game mechanic.. It's called realism.. Extra water goes to settlement and they sell it to other... Hmm. So when I go buy. 24pk of water for $4.99 and sell each bottle at the concert I host for $1.00 each.. Oh no I've scammed my fans..

8 year old video blowing up lol

If you start with Int 6 and pick science the first time you level, you can have a large purifier before the Minutemen are escorted to Sanctuary Hills. This gives you starting income and completes the water mission. Once you can build shops, place a row of them beside your workbench and you can load up and sell every time you fast travel back home. No need to waste time playing with plants. You can spend more time playing.

Just found this video. The problem with the melon farm plan is that you have to make sure not to complete the "Return the Favor" quest because if you do you lose the ability to trade melons with Lucy.

Forgot that, murder farming. Build a ton of cages to capture gunners, wipe them out, sell their gear and get a bunch of levels.

So the choice is go crazy collecting 120 melons to sell for 600 caps or install 4 industrial purifiers for 120 water by just opening the Sanctuary work bench and sell for 1200 to 1800 caps depending on charma. Charma to start should be 6, then with clothing adding 4, and cap collector adding better prices selling and buying. All for a total of 12 caps per gallon. That's 1440 caps for just opening the work bench

Hey Codsworth, I want to trade a few things [hands him around 250 water to carry]. Or instead... [I drop 3000ish water on the ground in the ground in the form of 1 tallboy of water] Hey Codsworth, PICK THAT UP! Now my friend is a floating personal ATM! Game logic is great! Both my Santuary Hills & Spectacle Island have 900+ water production.

Water is better for alot of reasons. Here's how you set this up , seek out materials that you need to build water purifiers and fill up the entire Creek and keep them close/tight together . I prefer to clear an area for scrap and return to my base to store scrap and items then get my water out of the workshop put into a container or sell it immediately whichever . Have shops set up at your base , one of each type . Being able to invest in shops to increase their cap count will also be useful . You will make around 5-10k every time you return to your base if you do this right . I personally just trade water for shipments of junk. ( my main character has 300k caps on hand , enough scrap to build a mega base at all settlements , and around 20k purified water in a chest .) Melons are limited because you need settlers to farm them and the productivity is less. Just do water.

one additional con to melon farm is that you're harvesting melons so this settlement can't produce tatoes, corn and mutafruits for adhesive one additional Pros for water farming is that you have additional, almost unlimited source of healing from purified water

Not sure if anyone mentioned it, just fast travel to pass time. go out, sell your water to all the businesses, come back *shock* there's more water! the fast travel passed the game time. Sure it takes longer to set up, but it earns you way more real time than melons.

1. No tech is required for a water farm, you can use hand pumps which only cost steel and concrete. 2. Charisma is not required, 1 water is 7 caps for a 1 charisma. 3. Maybe you can get to 1k caps with a melon farm before I can get to 1k caps with a water farm, but water farm will win out over time and barring speed runs, I tend to put in 30+ hours in a play through (usually much much more). I can harvest all the water from every settlement through 1 inventory if I have local leader and supply chains, or all the water from one settlement without them vs you spending time with each harvest manually collecting them. 4. Sure, you can have a larger caps count than I will since I'm limited by shop keeper respawns of caps, but I can buy them out of inventory every single day with water and fast travel. Your follower can carry an infinite weight if you drop that huge stack of water on the ground and tell them to pick it up. Money farms are about efficiency. it's not efficient to manually harvest money, even at 5 caps per thing picked up, it's simply not worth the time invested when you can instead spend up to an hour once filling the drive in with a few hundred hand pumps and have a thousand caps worth of water spawn every hour or so. You can build an unlimited number of items in an area if you have something to scrap for each item built, minus the original limit. Simply build up to capacity, drop some looted (I like guns, but I think any scrapable item works) on the ground and scrap it, now you can build something else. Drop 20 guns and scrap them all, now you can build 20 more pumps. The only real limit on building in each settlement is your computer's ability to deal with that much crap. So no, the melon farm is hot trash, not because it doesn't work, or isn't profitable (debatable), but because it's a constant time sink. You are most likely better off with a smallish water farm, even if it's only 30 hand pumps, or a couple basic purifiers and a few cheap generators because once it's set up, you can harvest them all with one inventory instead of spending however long it takes to manually harvest a field.

MELON FARM - CONS 3. Requires settlers to be assigned to farming

You don't have to wait the in game time you can fast travel between settlement and collect between 3 or 4 farms and that'll work fine. You can use scavengers to passively generate scrap. Water generates passively. Melon might do for survival I guess. Water generation isn't random either, it depends in supply and demand, how much you produce and how much the settlement needs. If you have multiple connected settlement and one doesn't produce enough to cover the population, it will draw from the supply chain.

Or build the melon farm at Lucy's farm?

You made valid points about the cons of water farming, but it was really disingenuous to leave out the cons of melon farming (listed throughout the comments).

The market is over saturated with pure water but somehow prices are not dropping

For best "on demand" money making investing in the Scrounger perk is best imo. Upgraded two or three times and you get so much ammo, mines, and grenades of all kinds you simply sell off what you don't need. It never stops, no waiting. You just collect ammo as usual but ammo, and extra ammo, pops up everywhere. Especially nice if not using a particular kind of ammo at all. So this can work even early game say if and when you decide to forego pipe guns. .38 caliber ammo is the most common ammo in the game. Its everywhere. In cabinets, safes, storage rooms, and of course on enemies. And if not using .38 ammo (pipe weapons) yourself it's worth one bottle cap per round. With the upgraded Scrounger perk, even upgraded once, you'll notice a jump in ammo of all kinds you "find." Upgraded two or three times? You'll be making hundreds and hundreds of bottle caps in ammo and taking in a bunch of mines and grenades to stock up on and sell every time you play the game. Nothing to invest in, no resources to use or time spent building and farming and assigning workers to tasks. Just all the ammo to sell or keep that you want. And again, the single round .38 pipe weapon ammo collected, if unused and sold, will see you make a ton of cash alone by just playing the game normally. Great perk

The video feels very dragged on. I feel like A LOT of stuff can be shortened or even removed

The Institute just messed with the wrong Melon Farmers... *Loads Fatman with mini Nuke* Thug Life

The water is deposited in the workshop each day at the settlement reset time, which varies with each settlement. It does not filter in randomly during the day. Food is the same. Total output minus 1 unit of each per settler is what is deposited. Food and drink items such as whiskey or vodka stored in the workshop have limits and will stop surplus production being deposited. Also the supply does not stack, you get one production cycle and that's it until you take it out of the workshop.

If the game was more realistic, the purified water scheme would make caps worthless due to the amount of purified water, just we used to have the gold standard, post-war America uses purified water as a standard.

Take a shot every time he says extensive testing or money scheme.

I've found that the busier you stay in game time & the happier your settlers are the more purified water you produce. I have my settlements that have open waters at about 999 water or more produce anywhere from 400 to as high as 700 purified waters. I'm definitely going to try the melon farming though! Awesome video!

I don't think its a scam. Every water source in the common wealth is irradiated. The sole survivor put together the infrastructure needed to start a clean water business for the common wealth. Its actually a very realistic business for this setting.

In any play through, I build ~20 industrial water purifiers VERY early in the game. I power them with large power plants. Where do I get the components? I trade for it using purified water. It's an exponential bootstrap thing. D'uh! I wind up with more purified water than I can spend (barter). I buy ALL the raw materials the merchants have and ALL the ammo of the types I want. I also buy heavily upgraded weapons to arm my settlers with 'and' I buy all the tough armor bits I find in shops. With all that, I still have more purified water piling up.

Yeah you ABSOLUTELY do not need to wait 72 mins real time, just leave by fast traveling around. run to red rocket, sleep, etc. I get over 500 water like every 10 mins real life time

Sleep and fast travel work for water too. Pick water, sleep 6 hours, fast travel diamond city, sell water for cash and items, sleep on your new bought house in diamond city and fast travel again to sanctuary. Do everything again for more money. When I beat this game I had every item, pretty much infinite bullets and that cure item and 16000 caps. :V

When you were trying to select that purifier it gave me titus.

Yeah I'll pass I get 900+ water daily

With the water purifier farm instead of waiting 72 minutes you can also fast travel around the map. That’s what I do I collect my water and sell it to vendors at several different locations and by the time I make it back to base there’s more water to collect. And no it doesn’t take me anywhere near an hour to sell all my water so it’s not passing time that way.

Pls stop calling it money! Its 2277, we trade in caps!

For those getting into fallout, if your doing the water method, you need to make sure there is no water (both purified and dirty) in the workshop. This will cause water to not show up in the workshop. Just a heads up

All i can think of is the guys selling water bottles on the side of the highways during the summer.

if you do it right with the water farm, you get max charisma and all the junktown jerky vendor magazines and you can make 15 caps per bottle. i made 2 different water purifier plants and i make 1200+ every round eventually you will end up with 10k+ water botles that you wont even know what to do with so save it in a container and as long as you have max strong back, you can take all of your water to goodneighbor and diamond city and you can buy every modded weapon to scrap for all those screws and other materials that you spent to build everything. i do agree it is very expensive b ut it is not a get rich quick scheme. it is a business that can make you the richest person in the commonwealth very quickly. i have over 20k purified water bottles just sitting in storage at my castle. whenever i get low on supplies or ammo, i take about 2-5k out and head into town. i usually only end up using at max 1500 but i come back with literally every single shipment i could have possibly got. if you do it right it is easily the best way to earn caps. i just restarted my game after playing 3/4 of the game and this time, i built the industrial water purifiers immidietly after finding sanctuary. if you build them up over time you can be making up to 600-700 per location. i found that it is tough to know exactly when they will pay out but when they do, it is so easy to get rich. i cant even sell every bottle if i wanted to and if i somehow did, id have over 350k more than i started with. 20k bottles for 15 caps each. i dont understand how this isnt a no brainer for yall. you spend a bunch but nobody said building a business from the ground up was easy in fallout 4. it will take time but once it is up and running, you will be drowning in purified water. if you arent just waiting for every single batch to come out every single time then eventually you will be able to buy anything in the game and vever actually spend any caps. ive got over 40k caps and the only time i use them is when im too lazy to go and grab my bottles. if you get strong back, every junktown jerky vendor, and depending on your charisma, you can make between 10-15 caps per bottle. that is a lot considering you will be making up to 7000-10500 caps per batch. hat is if you only do it in one location. 22 industrial water purifiers in one location will provide enough caps to last you at least enogh water to sell to get you ANYTHING from vendors. eventually you can just sit and buy every single thing a vendor has and only give them water for it. if you have scrapper, you can just scrap every weapon you just bought and you will have pretty much all you will need. i dont consider this to be an exploit, cheat, or even a scheme. to me, i see it as making my own water purification empire. i become basically the richest man/woman in the commonwealth if i want something then i buy it, if i cant buy it off of someone i blast em with a fat man and take it from their corpse. once it is going you just forget about it. ive moved my main purification plant to the castle so i can collect at my main base of operations. i feel like mellon farming is the worst thing you could choose. who wants to make 3 caps per melon when literally at the lowest charisma without any junktown jerky vendor magazines you can make 7 caps per bottle? i sure dont! i feel like just spending at max, 13 perk points to max strong back and charisma, isnt ha much considering you will never have to worry about having enough caps. thsanks for listening to my ted talk and have a nice day

Yeah, I don’t know about those in game minute conversions. I can travel to diamond city, sell all my water; come back to sanctuary, and I’ll have another 50-60 water waiting for me. No matter where I went, every time I fast travel to sanctuary, there’s more water waiting.

If you daisy chain all the generators and then chain all the purifiers and connect just one generator to one purifier they will all be powered. Just a tip for when you're having trouble wiring anything that takes multiple generators/components

watches video : *does both*

Melon farm needs a huge time investment to double melons over and over and also attract enough settlers to tend to them as farmers, without them they grow 10x slower. Water arguably requires less setup

Wish you would have mentioned that retrieving Mary's locket for Blake removes the ability to sell Lucy melons..... Spent ages setting up the melon farm. Now i have melons for days but nowhere to sell them.....

Ok, slack. U need to learn a new word: I-N-V-E-S-T-M-E-N-T. Investment, not scheme. Scheme implies cheaty and get rich quick. And I'm sure u must know by now... fertilizer... yes, it IS renewable.

could have easily stretched this video to 40 minutes... just redo it and add 10 more minutes of cons for water and 10 minutes more of pros for water Mellon... very biased video but thanks for ur time... water is the way to go

"Fertiliser is not a renewable resource" MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO lol Junk collecting settlers for plastic, and the Brahmin dude. I have so much jet it's insane, and you get xp making it too. Thousands of jet lol. It's for when you have lots of settlements, mid to later game it's perfect.

The production of water is also directly impacted by how much you have in your workshop, both water and generally anything else junk included. What makes water ridiculously strong is how much of it you get when it's not only a thirst heal but a health heal, when even though 40 health doesn't seem like much, opening a pip and then spamming 3 or 4 waters is a good chunk of health and replenishment for thirst to boot. It's more than caps.

I am new to the game and i am gonna do the water purifier method. I ain't go no time to be harvesting like a goddamn settler. Bitch I am the general

I do the water farming thing today - And your information, although somewhat correct in regards to time. I can run about killing things and questing for about 15 minutes and then I fast travel to my 4 water producing locations and each are usually ready for collection. I get about 1800 water just about every 30 minutes real time. Also - Along with scrapper perk - You can accelerate your ability to make more purifiers by buying everyone's junk and shipments for water. I'm on day 60 of a new playthrough and I already have close to 30,000 water You need to wear Agatha's dress or another Char 3 outfit. Black rimmed glasses and Militia hat or Pompadour wig to get your charisma up by 5 points. You don't get Charisma from whiskey. You get it from beer. Mentats is also about intelligence I don't think you get CHAR from Mentats

Every playthrough, I usually have 10 - 12 industrial water purifiers going. Sometimes I'll set up a side melon farm at Sanctuary. A water farm is very resource hungry, but it is well worth it. Highly recommended. Check out the industrial ones, if you have enough to make a few, it takes time, but it does produce a goodly amount of water.

Water farm is just objectively better and easier once you get it rolling. Better ratio of caps for weight, scales to a higher amount, doesn't require settlers to be assigned, doesn't require running around to gather, etc. Just open your workshop every few days and move all water to a separate container. EZ-PZ! The only advantage of melons IMO is that the only resource you need to plant melons is... melons. So you can get it rolling right away without needing to scrap anything, and (assuming you have settlers) you can double your production with each growth cycle.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER WHEN FARMING WATER is to REMOVE the water from your workbench EVERY TIME it replenishes and PUT IT IN A SEPARATE CONTAINER (cooler, chest, whatever). My regular water restock is around 700. That’s 700 purified waters every day which when you accumulate them for three or four days is more than you can spend or sell. But if you leave them in the workbench they do not accumulate. You don’t get 700 on day one and 1400 on day two. It just sits at 700. But when I remove them and store them somewhere else another 700 show up. I have my water level in the 800s I think. I’ve got a shitload of purifiers.

whats the point of making melons/water then going to diamond city to sell to get tons of caps but not buy a single thing?i usually have a side jet business so i buy bags of fertilizer and some junk and meds/amno occasionly

the water purifier idea is best done at the start of a new game cus all the quests and exploring you have to do

i just make drugs, i'm the heisenberg of the commonwealth

What about a jet farm and producing your own fertilizer then sell to the one that’s addicted in the vault for 75 caps

Solution: build tons and tons and tons of water purifiers in each settlement and supply link them all to gain access to all the collective water in all your settlements across the commonwealth. also: mods

My comment is only about the footage in the video. The reason you are getting uneven distribution of water from the purifiers is because of how you have them wired up to power. In the footage, you are turning them on at separate times, linking them to separate generators. Wire all the purifiers to each other, then wire them to a switch. Build all your generators, wire them together as a group, and then hook them up to the switch. So that you only have two wires going to the switch, one that leads to the purifiers in a chain, and one that leads to the generators as a chain; doing this will keep them all on the same timer. I know this footage was shot in January of 16, so I am not going to comment about subsequent DLCs.

In my opinion selling jet is better because all you need is to get a couple Brahmin and then scrap some plastic and you have hella caps

Lucy stops buying melons after you complete the Locket quest Water farm and Vegetable component farms are all you need to just play and enjoy the game No idea why he refers to water farming as a scam

Just make Poison Caltrops at an Armour station they sell for 40 caps each and you can make a few thousand in 10 mins.

the reason the number of water produced seems random is because any settlements you have connected with a supply line will share the water resource if the settlement is water deficient; or at least that's what I've come to understand

Started with the melon farm (did open more than one location afther it up), use the caps to buy out trashcan carla and set up some water so i can play (running around shooting mostly) and come back and have a big paycheck. I just trade water for gear. I have no problem with that. wen u lvl up u its easy to carry and dogmeat (or melonbag in my case) can move loads easy to. Still i see Abernathy farm from time to time to drop a couple of thousend melons @ ones. Its just good caps in the pocked and water i just use for trade. Finch farm (for melons) and Nordhagen beach (for water) are both cashcow locations if u need to open secondairy. Mostly i wanna say u doing a great job, explaining some of the things that i don't know and give the game great value. Haven't been hooked on a off-line game since GTA-SA and u and a other youtuber (Oxhorn for the story-line) made that happen. Thank u and keep up the great work :3

The water purifiers are better. Between Sanctuary, The Castle, and Taffington Boathouse I can make +10K caps per day. The biggest problem is enough vendors to sell it all but with shops in each settlement it's doable. Anyway, that's 2000 watermelons and 200 settlers to produce the same money. By using water instead of watermelons you can use the watermelon settlers for shops and make even more money. Water is King. Just remember to remove it from the workshop daily or it won't respawn.

All you have to do to get more water is fast travel a few times. I go from settlement to settlement gathering and than make a run at the stores all over the map. I travel with 6k+ purified water because of strong back. Strong back is essential to making the most out of any money making scheme.

About the jet. There is a NPC in the institute taht buys all the jet that you bring him. The fertilizer is produced by the brahmin that you have in your settlements. You can have upto 3 brahmin per settlment ....

Melons are good to get enough capital to then buy shipments for water farming. This is particularly useful for survival play throughs. I usually wait until I can use the vertibirds before going hard on the melons to get water farms running in a few places.

"Jet requires fertilizer and fertilizer is not a renewable resource". Yes it is. It is produced by your brahmin. I don't know how you would get much brahmin very fast though.

just looking at the pick up all those damn melons make me tired... I'll stick with my water :P

I know this is 3 years old, so this is for anyone that stumbles on this video. Fertilizer is renewable as hell. Resources, miscellaneous, brahmin feed trough. Brahmin will continuously produce fertilizer. And even if they didn't, the margins on making Jet from fertilizer shipments is still pretty good.

The vendors have more valuable things than caps. When I sell my junk and other items that I don’t use I always buy up the rare items that have components that I need. And ammo and fusion cores.

what about doing both?

Good video. You've fairly convinced me that melon farming is the better way to get caps. I have a couple of issues with it though, that you didn't mention. So maybe add these to the con list. Most of these issues are play style issues, but one of them is at least a game mechanics issue. The game mechanics issue is the reliance on Lucy for it to work. Should Lucy ever get killed, or gets mad at you, or as another commenter pointed out, if you finish the locket quest, then any of these will break the system. The water purifier money making system has a lot more game mechanical supports so that it would take a lot in the game world to break or prevent the system from working. I have two play style issues. First is game realism. I don't think even a radioactive mutant melon plant can fully grow a new melon in a few in-game hours that you mostly spent fast traveling. It also presumes that Lucy has an infinite cap supply. You're essentially taking advantage of the rapid growth of melons for it work, and the fact that Lucy's dialogue option doesn't do a check for what is actually in her inventory. If you do this, you're profiting off what is essentially a game exploit. So if you're striving for role play immersion, then this method isn't for you. The water purifier system fits into the way the game world actually works. (except for the real in-game time requirement.) The second problem is also kind of based on immersion, but isn't a realism flaw. It's not even really a flaw, but more of a nitpicky moral observation. It's a product of the implications of roleplaying a character who is essentially running a slave plantation, and exploiting settler labor for personal profit. Given the game's attempt at being an allegory to historical Boston during America's role in slavery, this method of profit is a little on-the-nose of everything the whole Institute versus the Underground Railroad is meant to fight against. That's not necessarily a problem, The world of Fallout is certainly no stranger to themes of slavery and the slave-trade and addressing the moral evil of that institution... I'm just saying that of all the Fallout games this is the game setting that seems make the most effort at putting that issue front and center, as it is pretty much part of the main story arch. So if you want to roleplay as a plantation slave owner, that's fine... I'm not going to tell anyone how to play. I'm just saying, that's pretty much what you're doing, roleplay wise, if you use this method, and the game already has something to say about people who do that; they deserve to be nuked until there is nothing but a radio-active crater in its place. :)

set a load of these up and stockpile it to use as currency by buying the expensive gear and items and offset the cost using the water for essentially free stuff

id say melon farming is great for lvl 1-25 or 30. the water purifier farm is meant for late game. mine makes 750 water every aabout 40-60 mins. and for my charisma gear it makes amazing money to get whatever u need for ur build. or just weapons like big boy or if u have Far Harbor u can buy all the legendary marine armour with little effect.

Why not both ?

Use both. Play on survival. Loot everything. Sell everything.

You forgot about using outfits to boost charisma. Reginald's Suit, Black Rim Glasses, and any number of +1 charisma hats will net you +5 charisma while equipped, and all these items are fairly easy to get. Furthermore, if you have the Far Harbor DLC you can get the Dapper Gent, a legendary hat which gets you even more charisma making a +6 charisma outfit you can wear any time you go to trade.

It’s a good early game strategy, and melons satisfy thirst and food which is vital for early survival difficulty, but eventually you will want to turn Abernathy farm into a settlement which removes the melon selling option from Lucy. Hopefully by that time you have the resource stream for your water farm.

To comment on the jet farming you need to buy shipments of fertilizer and if you're lazy plastic too but you need a crazy high charisma to make this possible. Meaning you need drugs and sharp clothing. It's complicated and hard to pull off and your net cap has a chance to go negative if you're not careful. But I guess it's possible. But a way I like to make money is taking legendary weapons and upgrading them to max mods. It compliments my play style well because I like to pick up junk and I pick up EVERY legendary weapon. Big downside is legendary weapons are rare to come by and you need perks. But sense you want these perks in every play through it doesn't matter. But the only thing I really buy is shipments so I don't usually use my caps for weapons....

I just make tons of Brahmin troughs everywhere and use cages (razor grain which I grow) to load my workshops with fertilizer...works pretty damn good for very light sellable product. I carry like 80+ of it around on survival mode and it’s cash on hand brah. Get a bunch of Brahmin everywhere and if you grab salvage plastic is abundant and easy...

I have done 4 play through s using the water farm method and making jet and this last time I incorporated your melon farm method and I have to say you are dead on with your video this last time seemed the easiest using both methods. The one advantage the water has over the farm is the farm needs settlers. Thanks for a great video

Get DogMeat to get the Cryolator in vault 111 and do the Abernathy Farm mission. Then convert thier farm into a melon farm by replacing all thier crops. Lucy will pay you for any melons, even locally harvested.

Water farming is better because placing any type of food resource neatly is impossible

Jet farming

Good video. As for the settlers you need them in your places anyway to provide other stuff like food water and junk anyway so that's not so much a problem as it is a must do down the road . The good thing with the melons is you can save some of them and start other farms and make more money when you need it

What I remember is resting does make the production work...but only if you are in ANOTHER area! So if you rest at one farm...say the boathouse...then goto sanctuary to grab water...they will be there. Also drop your water in a seperate container, if you leave it in the normal storage...your settlers take it!

If you're lazy, and won't pick your own melons, melons isn't any better than the water pumps. This was seven years ago so you probably made this before you could have Brahmin. Kind of doing all three, let it stack and check it every so often when I come through town and steal it from the town and put it in the Box. Also, don't just grow melons! Remember to grow the free part for starch and some carrots for orange metals! Also, if you're going to be making jet, you should be doubling down and making ultrajet!

You have to take into consideration your settlers. they need to drink water too. So, it's not going to produce and leave how much water you have set up.

If you complete the quest where you retrieve Mary's locket for Blake, you can no longer sell melons to her.

Regarding water farming. 1. it will only produce water once every 24 hours. 2. production depends on the water needs of your settlement AND other settlements connected via supply lines. So if one settlement is not self sustained with water, it will come out of your production. If your production seems low, check your other settlements. 3. water will not endlessly produce. So every 24 hours you need to take the water out of your workbench and place it in a container, and 24 hours later do the same. You then have loads of water sitting in the container when needed. I think this only requires a few steps every "day", as opposed to melon farming which require you to walk around picking every single melon.

I know this has nothing to do with farming but set an artillery up in hangmans ally,(also be allied with the minute men) have artillery signal flares, and start throwing your flares at enemies.(if your wondering no this will not work while in diamond city)

Yeah Water is the way to go.. Was this even a legitimate question? Melons are trash

You Diamond. I knew it was time but I couldn't work out how much. I have 6 industrial Water Purifiers and getting about 130 return per time. Melons & the other food is as you said, a best way to get money on top of water. Thank you.

great informative video slack! I would recommend the purified water to anyone who has the perks and materials necessary to set up. Since it takes an hour to either farm enough melons for 3000 caps or wait an hour for an in game day to pass, when you could be leveling, collecting ammo and more caps off baddies. melon farming is definitely the way to go if you do not have the materials/perks necessary since it does require quite some investing.

melon farm cons you forgot melons weight twice as much, also you have to pick the melons water all goes to the stations automatically, also water is a decent healer so multi purpose.

I don't get hung up on my water production. I have a small water farm. I get 75-100 water per game day. I also am not watching the clock. I take the water out of the workshop and put it in a red toolbox. Then I wander off on a quest or just decide to check out a particular location, or even make a run to a certain spot to collect certain items as loot. Sometimes I get into a fight and sometimes I don't. But I'm generally gone for more than a game day. If not, and I have no water in the workshop, then I wander off again. There is always a bunch of chores that need my attention especially as you get more settlements, because crops and water is automatically put into the workshop and that draws the attention of attackers. So, if you do NOT manually harvest the melons they are NOT stored in the workshop ? If I have a regular garden which includes melons, they appear in my workshop, minus a few that I assume got eaten.

I'm glad you did extensive testing.

I wear a clean grey suit and a post boy cap when I sell my water to boost my charisma