Water Bucket
| “ | A bucket that holds water. You can toss water onto fires to extinguish them. | „ |
| — In-game description |
The Water Bucket is a utility item used to move water from one location to another: to put out fires and remove water from flooded Large Ships or Puddles.
Description
The Water Bucket is a primary tool used to scoop and throw water. It has two charges. It is very lightweight (10) when empty but very heavy (300) when full.
It can be reloaded next to any source of water: a body of water, a flooded Large Ship compartment, a Puddle, a Water Well. Reloading takes 2 seconds, immobilizes the player, and refills both charges. Reloading can also be done with water cans in the player's inventory except each reload action consumes just 1 can and fills only 1 charge.
The player can "shoot" the Water Bucket charges over a very short distance. They explode on impact with a wide 3.5m effect radius.
The Water Bucket has multiple purposes:
- Bailing out water from the flooded compartment of a Large Ship then throwing it overboard
- Collecting the water from Puddles on the ground, in Trenches, and in Craters during Rain Storms to remove them
- Helping extinguish fires on structures by throwing water at them
- Extinguishing soldiers on fire by throwing water on them
- Cleaning mud off of vehicles by throwing water at them
When shooting water at structure fires, steam will come out of the structure if the water correctly hit the fire. How much water is necessary to put out a fire depends on the fire's intensity. Using a Fire Engine rather than Water Buckets is much more efficient.
Usage
Filling the bucket
- Put the Water Bucket in the primary slot
- Equip it with
1 - Get close to a water source
- Fill it with
R(2s animation).
Throwing the water
- Aim with
RMB - Throw the water with
LMB
Production
| Structure | Input(s) | Output | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
Factory  (Utility) | 80 x Basic Materials  | 1 crate  of 50 x Water Bucket  | 00:00:40 |
Storage
It does not stack in structure or vehicle inventories (1 per slot). It can only be stored in the stockpile of Bases (32k max). It cannot be submitted into a stockpile if it is not empty.
Crates of Water Bucket can be directly submitted to any item stockpile that accepts that item to transfer their content.The crates can also be stored in the crate stockpiles of Storage Depots (1000 public, 100 per Reserve Stockpile), Seaports (1000 public, 100 per Reserve Stockpile), Shipping Containers (60), or Storage Ships (1000).
It can be transported by almost any vehicle with inventory slots. However it is much more efficient to transport it in bulk amounts as crates, either delivering them to a Base's stockpile with a Truck or to a crate stockpile with shipping vehicles carrying Shipping Containers.
It cannot be submitted into a stockpile if it is not empty.
Tactics
Water Buckets are essential but comes in large crate size so players do not have to produce a lot.
Water Buckets and Water should always be stocked in a base, just in case a fire breaks out, which will allow defenders to quickly respond and extinguish it.
If the town you are in has a Water Well nearby, have a bunch of filled Water Buckets stored nearby there so you can quickly grab them and use it when a structure is on fire. Additionally, players should be aware of nearby water sources, as certain areas are more susceptible to fire due to lack of water (such as certain inland regions).
Large Ship Crews Due to Large Ship crews being the largest vehicles in the game, and having the larger crews overall, it is important that most, if not all personnel be equipped for multiple roles. This can mean being equipped for infantry combat (in case of boarding actions), ship repair (when flooding happens), and Ammo loading (carrying ammunition to the main guns).
Trivia
- When the fire mechanic was introduced in Update 1.50 ('Inferno'), Water Buckets were the only way to extinguish fires.
- Over the course of the game, firefighting mechanics would be buffed in certain ways, such as Water Bucket's overall effectiveness against fires, adding an additional charge (allowing to throw water twice), and the introduction of Fire Engines.
- When Large Ships were introduced in Update 1.54 ('Naval Warfare'), Water Buckets were changed so that they could not be stored in a stockpile when they are filled.
- This was added during the devbranch, as players found that they could bypass the bailing water overboard mechanic and simply scoop up the water and storing it (which meant players could stay below decks if leaks happened). With this change, players must scoop up the water, and toss it overboard if they do not want their Large Ship to sink.
Gallery
A Warden soldier holding a filled Water Bucket
A Colonial soldier filling up a Water Bucket from a Water Well
A Water Bucket can be refilled at any source of water
A Warden soldier throwing water out of a filled Water Bucket.
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