It would be nice if Klei could add Sprinkler and Ice Maker to DST someday.

[rain grass]

Personally, I like the settings of these two machines very much.

[Radicaljoe]

Technically klei did add an ice maker, but it comes at the cost of making the area around it uninhabitable, also post rift, and needs you to kill 3 mutated bosses. 

But I would love a sprinkler to be added.

[Frosty_Mentos]

We have an ice maker

And sprinkler

It's just the weirder way of getting these things. Much more effective than either of things that were asked, higher effort for obtaining but with greater reward.

[Echsrick]

icefling-o-matic is the ice maker, it makes iceballs

[Well-met]

Never got the appeal of the icemaker. it's slow and takes forever.

one pengull nest gives you around 30-40 fairly quickly with no effort

[SirToastyToes]

My Ice Maker:

[David808]

Sprinkler would be so nice It's a shame It's not in the game

[Maxil20]

3 hours ago, Well-met said:

Never got the appeal of the icemaker. it's slow and takes forever.

Main reason I saw it’s appeal is its a way to reliably produce ice inside of a base pretty much permanently once you make then. 1 might be slow, but nothing stops you from making 10!

Fuel to use it would be an issue if the DLC it was added in didn’t add debatably the most powerful fuel source in the series, making it very easy to keep them stocked up for a burst in ice.

I don’t think its the end all be all source of ice, but I think as one of the sources its an alright alternative. Personal favorite will always be the nuclear option of planar strike + ice crystaleyezer glaciers though.

[Mike23Ua]

4 hours ago, David808 said:

Sprinkler would be so nice It's a shame It's not in the game

Ahh but it could be.. and it could be a rework of the awful thing we have now that is a Boat Pump.

seriously.. this thing is useless, but it would not be so useless if it was instead tweaked into being a Boat Mast upgrade Kit, and THEN… you could build boat masts with sprinklers spraying from the top on dry land.

I just made the boat pump actually useful on a boat.. and gave your garden crops an over head sprinkler system. 

Edited May 17, 2025 by Mike23Ua

[DVGMedia]

I mean water pump can work as a sprinkler but it doesn't work on land only on boats

and it doesn't target plants yet its able to water farm plots with its action

 

Edited May 18, 2025 by DVGMedia

[Reiko24]

15 hours ago, SirToastyToes said:

My Ice Maker:

Jokes aside, how effective is that at making ice? XDD

[Zima Blue]

Before Winona's rework update I was lowkey hoping she would get sprinklers in her skill tree. Sprinklers would make farming so much more enjoyable for me 

[Keller Max]

7 hours ago, DVGMedia said:

I mean water pump can work as a sprinkler but it doesn't work on land only on boats

and it doesn't target plants yet its able to water farm plots with its action

 

I've tried placing it as close as possible to my farm and it was extremely inefficient.

[cropo]

Having a Dreadstone(obsidian) firepit would be kinda cool as well, but obviously it would be pretty OP. I remember when I played Shipwrecked I had like 3 of them spread out on the island on my base and it was bright enough to appear as if it was daytime everywhere and it was immune to rain.

[DVGMedia]

7 hours ago, Keller Max said:

I've tried placing it as close as possible to my farm and it was extremely inefficient.

yep thats called an item working as intended.
You cant even cheese it by placing it on a boat with sails because its projectiles don't get affected by boat speed. unlike how flingos do.

[Semind]

16 hours ago, Reiko24 said:

Jokes aside, how effective is that at making ice? XDD

Just tried it out, doesn't seem very good. You can't build wetness fast enough to avoid a tick of water damage, so you're losing a charge to get one proc of ice generation, which only gives you like 2 ice pieces. However, I learned about how Volt Goat Milk restores charges while investigating, so this was awesome for me.

As for using the Refrigerant Circuit for ice generation, it seems like the most cost effective method is simply abandoning ship. But I'm not a WX expert, so maybe there's something else. If you happen to play with a Wurt who could ostensibly farm Mosquito Sacks, water balloons seem like the quickest way to do ice generation, but it's 5 water balloons for 2 ice pieces, so the margins for resource gain are pretty slim.

[SirToastyToes]

16 hours ago, Reiko24 said:

Jokes aside, how effective is that at making ice? XDD

It gets the job done, one driftwood can get you 72 wetness, so a stack of driftwood can get you about 30 Ice. The real issue is needing a G.E.M.erator on hand to recharge the circuit from the slow power loss from being too wet

[DVGMedia]

13 hours ago, Semind said:

Just tried it out, doesn't seem very good. You can't build wetness fast enough to avoid a tick of water damage, so you're losing a charge to get one proc of ice generation, which only gives you like 2 ice pieces. However, I learned about how Volt Goat Milk restores charges while investigating, so this was awesome for me.

As for using the Refrigerant Circuit for ice generation, it seems like the most cost effective method is simply abandoning ship. But I'm not a WX expert, so maybe there's something else. If you happen to play with a Wurt who could ostensibly farm Mosquito Sacks, water balloons seem like the quickest way to do ice generation, but it's 5 water balloons for 2 ice pieces, so the margins for resource gain are pretty slim.

you gotta do it to the max. Sea weeds shells can make holes that stack on each other.  and the way their projectile works means they can be blocked by walls. so you can set up a item that will permanently block the leak. and just have hundreds of leaks blocked.  and when the player stands on it they will get wet.

The walls actually don't work but I did see a method of making the seed shells bounce I'm just not sure how it works 

 

13 hours ago, SirToastyToes said:

It gets the job done, one driftwood can get you 72 wetness, so a stack of driftwood can get you about 30 Ice. The real issue is needing a G.E.M.erator on hand to recharge the circuit from the slow power loss from being too wet

you don't actually need the circuit to be charged in order to get ice from it.

Someone did a video on it. im just showcasing it.  This is not an idea i came up with

Edited May 19, 2025 by DVGMedia

[_mylilsunshine_]

i think the icemaker is cool (heh, nice one walter) but when i first tried it in the island adventure/shipwrecked DST mod, i was absolutely baffled by just how tiny the fuel reserve is. i put in a whole tar and only got back 3 ice, which felt like a scam. i looked it up and found out it only takes 02 logs to max out the fuel (!) which is, imho, wildly impractical.

i would like for it to have a bigger reserve so dont have to babysit it and constantly refueling it with logs. i would like to chuck in a board/tar and go do my thing and come back to a lot of ice.

other than that, kelp works better as a filler imo and you can save your winter ice for your dishes that need it.

Edited May 19, 2025 by _mylilsunshine_

[SirToastyToes]

On 5/18/2025 at 11:39 PM, DVGMedia said:

you don't actually need the circuit to be charged in order to get ice from it.

Oh that's neat I've been recharging it just off the assumption now I'm down a red gem haha

[Hungry French]

Give ice edible value