I'm assuming this is a bug, but water purifiers in your settlement will not generate and store excess purified water in your workshop if you have any stored there already.

I wanted to mention it because I've seen a TON of guides recommending that people build water purifiers to sell off excess water and even MORE forum topics/Reddit posts asking "why do I still have only 5 purified water in my workshop storage?", but maybe only 2 cases where someone brought this bug up.

I had 9 water purifiers running (with maybe 13 settlers) and the stock of 12 purified waters in my workshop's storage didn't change in about 7 hours of playing. I took those 12 waters out of storage, and maybe 20 minutes later I found 40+ units of purified water in my workshop.

I built a little trunk/chest (in the furniture section of the build menu) to keep my water from now on, to get around this. Hopefully stuff stored in player built storage is safe from raiders/settlers/game engine cleanup processes. I don't know for sure, though.

*edit: This MIGHT not be the case if you have supply lines running between settlements. The fact that I have seen so few mentions of this weird workshop caveat leads me to suspect that there might be some other factor (such as supply lines) that also deals with this bug*

Good to know, thanks.

I just started up like 6 big water purifiers in my main town and I didn't experience this bug. I do have a supply line set up and I had some water in my workshop. I played for most of the evening and before I logged off I have over 50 in my workshop and only had around 5 when I started that I had placed in there.

I'm going to keep an eye on this now though.

This is happening with the food for me. I should be having 30 units of food placed in the bench, but instead it just vanishes.

I would hesitate to call it a bug. It makes sense that they'd only want you to store one "batch" at a time, rather than having it pile up endlessly.

@moonshadow101: Good point. Player-created homesteads in Skyrim's Hearthfire expansion would spawn milk jugs inside the kitchen cupboard if you had a cow on the property, but only up to a maximum of seven. This sounds like a similar situation.

@moonshadow101: If that's the case, that's a shitty design. It's meant to be stored inside the workshop, you should be able to have it stack up.