[Discussion] Water buckets. Do they belong in a stockyard?

I would like to see the community’s opinion about water buckets being stored in stockyards instead of back in the wells.

As you can see in the screenshot below, I’m starting to see wells drying out.
And I know what you’ll will be saying next “HaVe YoU cOnCiDeReD pLaCiNg MoRe WeLls?”
And yes, I have wells distributed pretty efficiently, all upgraded and some even on 75% near where this screenshot was taken.
But not that I find huge amounts of buckets in my storage, but I find it odd that they don’t get stored back into a well which is drying out instead of going to lazy route and putting it in storage.
And yes, I know I can uncheck the water buckets manually. I have a large city and It’s a bit of a hassle to go through all my stockyards and do this one by one.

What’s your opinion on this?

And to any devs reading this, are there any changes in the pipeline to how villagers go about with water?
Like how they ALL pick up water when there’s a fire on the other side of the city?
Or how they ALL drop it where they were standing when the fire’s out instead of disposing it properly?

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Can water buckets be dumped back into wells? Especially the ones which got completely drained by the dozens of people going to the fire?

Agree on that.
My industrial park is running out of water, and opening more wells around dont help, since when they are too close (blue mark) they loose the water bonus.
About the fires that the whole city stops to go to a well get a bucket is soooo annoying. There should be a radius ser for it initially. And gets bigger if the fire spreds and be out of control.

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Labourers drop water in closest available space (wells with space available included). As for water problem in industrial area. Always leave some space to plant decorative trees around well and You won’t have any more problems :wink:

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Good advice. Didnt think about that.:+1:

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I do not know how the fire is put out and why the water buckets are all around town when the animations shows them throw water back into the well or lake. :slight_smile: