Cannot place water in a new beacon [working as intended]

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Trying to place water down to test out crop farming but i’m hitting the issue of cannot place water in new beacon, anyone with ideas on how to fix this?

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The beacon has to be one hour old before you can place fluids it is an anti-griefing measure

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I believe you have to wait an hour

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thanks for the info will get everything ready in place for it when it’s time :slight_smile:

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After the hour you can place as much as you want including in any new plots so long as they are attached to the main beacon.

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Edited title and category as this is not a bug and is working as intended.

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So … How in one hour it can prevent griefing ?

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Griefers are notoriously impatient, looking for an easy laugh. A 1 hour delay to placing water discourages them from placing water in a plot, then removing that plot to flood wilderness plots. It takes away the potential for instant gratification.

No, it does not prevent 100% of grief cases. But in my long personal experience in hosting and moderating a similar mechanic in a similar game, this technique is a highly effective deterrent, and well worth the minor headache it may cause as collateral to the typical user.

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with setting up to do the testing, for a new beacon planned for farming, to get properly set up with everything ready for water that one hour is likely to tick by quick enough anyway. By time i had ground done for the 6 water crops beacon was at the 1hr timer :slight_smile:

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This has got to be one of the dumbest things i’ve seen. Lets be real griefers don’t care how long it takes them to grief you.

I just find it silly that they continue to release content that is blocked behind something. Take a new player or returning player who lost his settlement. Wants to mess with liquids, gets a tool to gather water finds a place to setup his home and then Sorry you cant use a new Game mechanic for an hour cause you may use it to grief players. The real Anti grief mechanic is to have a better TOS on griefing and do something when someone actually griefs a player… Not block content for specific timeframes to the entire player base.