In the settings.

I considered this originally and explicitly decided against it. The reasons are:

• I didn't want a mod that could potentially behave differently based on player or savegame settings.
• It messes with "balance". Since building space is practically only limited by how powerful your computer is, you can always build more than 1 pump. And as I stated in the description: if for whatever reason, the pump is not suited for what you want to build, there is always the idea of building near a water body, or train the water in, or (since 2.0) build just really really long pipelines. And with Space Age and Quality and since 2.0.13, you could increase the output up to 750 water /s (when you build a legendary waterpump).

TLDR: It would be possible technically, but I'm not going to implement this. Sorry.

Got it, thanks mister who publishes mods under MIT license :)

I considered this originally and explicitly decided against it. The reasons are:

It's an option, though. If people want to tweak mod settings, they can simply text-edit your data.lua. What's the harm in offering a user-friendly way of tweaking stats that players can tweak anyway?

For those interested: look in data.lua and find water_pumpjack.pumping_speed = 5. That's your pumping speed per tick. Tweak to your heart's content. Incidentally, you'll also find water_pumpjack.energy_usage = "300kW". That's your energy consumption. Just in case you want to tweak it yourself.

I considered this originally and explicitly decided against it. The reasons are:

It's an option, though. If people want to tweak mod settings, they can simply text-edit your data.lua. What's the harm in offering a user-friendly way of tweaking stats that players can tweak anyway?

For those interested: look in data.lua and find water_pumpjack.pumping_speed = 5. That's your pumping speed per tick. Tweak to your heart's content. Incidentally, you'll also find water_pumpjack.energy_usage = "300kW". That's your energy consumption. Just in case you want to tweak it yourself.

Well I got inspired and made my own mod

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ViidisElectricOffshorePump