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Water Barrel

ItemsCondition 100
Water Barrel

A storage container for water. Can output 10ml of water a second via a hose.

Shortname: water.barrel

Item ID: -1863559151

Despawns after 5m on the ground

Craft recipe
Wood250xWoodTarp1xTarpWater Barrel1xWater Barrel
Workbench tier
T0
Craft time
30s
Recycling yields

Radtown Recycler

Wood150xWoodTarpTarp(+1 at 60%)

Safe Zone Recycler

Wood100xWoodTarpTarp(+1 at 40%)

Approximate — recyclers return a share of an item's crafting cost (60% at monument Recyclers, 40% at Safe Zone Recyclers), not a fixed table.

Repair cost
Current condition
%
Wood50xWoodTarp1xTarp

A repair bench restores 20% condition per click, at 20% of the recipe cost per point missing.

Placed entity
Health
250 HP
Decay delay
8h
Decays over
8h

Health once placed in the world — not to be confused with the item's own condition/durability while held.

Raid cost
ExplosiveDamage / chargeCharges needed
Timed Explosive ChargeTimed Explosive Charge5501
Satchel ChargeSatchel Charge4751
Beancan GrenadeBeancan Grenade1153
F1 GrenadeF1 Grenade2252
Molotov CocktailMolotov Cocktail358
FlashbangFlashbang2013
Bee GrenadeBee Grenade2013

Assumes no damage resistance — unlike building tiers, this entity has no separate protection multiplier, so raw HP is divided by raw damage per charge.

Sold by NPC vendors
Bandit Camp – Farming1x for 30 ScrapScrap
Loot sources
★Workbench Experiment Tier 03.2%Barrel1.1%Generic0.1%Barrel (Better Loot)<0.1%

Chance the item is included whenever that container rolls, resolved through nested loot tables. Approximate — doesn't account for seasonal or event-restricted rotations.