Nono it's bad idea to place a solar panel to the "water spot"... yes it's possible, but it will be later unable to place Medium solar panel there... so you migh well need you infrastructure (transformers, batteries) elsewhere which is possible, but cost time and efforts...

Please don't fear your starving, you will be finding MRE packs enough to survive for at least few weeeks so no real problem there... time enough for you own plants (thus own meals production)...

ya, im a hoard, i scavenge everything and anything until i am well established and learn what i dont need. I put medium solar panels on the water spots, they have to be 3 spots away from another solar panel is all.

Your order of "importance" for things will be: 1st above all - emergy/electricity (without that, allmost nothing goes, please remember during night no solar panel production, other means possible: battery, wind, nuclear 2nd close after - water (one flask is enough for cca. 12hr, lucky a well is quite easy to build on many places and accumulate reserve water for you) 3rd only after that - oxygen (one bottle is enough for cca. 24hrs so twice capacity as water bottle, plus buildings and some vehicles can be filled with oxygen) 4th far behind - meals/food (maybe one shall add a sleep/sleeping place too, but tiredness could be compensated by medboxes in worst case)

@@tristint.4857 OK, i don't believe but maybe... last player i seen trying that he was unable. Also on slopes, medium panels had stricter requirements than small ones. Raster 3x3 is ofcourse known, as oposed to 3x2 for small ones.