Water Wheel

The Water Wheel is a source of rotational power. It generates Rotational Force when water flows over it.

Due to the fact that the materials required to craft it are easily accessible in the early-game, the Water Wheel serves as the earliest generator that can be made.

Total stress capacity can be increased by adding more wheels in sequence.

Crafting

Name

Ingredients

Crafting Recipe

Water Wheel

Any Wooden Slab +
Large Cogwheel

Usage

When water flows over a Water Wheel, it will begin to rotate. This rotational power can be conveyed to other Components from the Water Wheels' Shaft.

The more sides of the wheel the water covers, the faster the wheel will rotate and the more Stress capacity it will provide. Only flowing water or source blocks with bubble columns counts toward the power generation.

The water wheel has a correct direction of rotation, shown by how the blades are oriented. Water flowing the wrong way around the wheel causes it to produce less rotational speed and stress capacity than if the water was flowing the right way. Having water flowing in the opposite directions might slow down the rotational speed or even stop it. The direction of rotation is counter-clockwise when placed standing, or clockwise when crouching.

Lava can be used as well, but this is not recommended as it produces less power and is quite dangerous, and as such does not comply with OSHA standards.

To maximize the output from a Water Wheel (320 SU), have water flowing in the right direction around as much of the wheel as possible, like vertically or horizontally.

Note that Soul Sand bubble columns can also be used to increase the speed.

The maximum SU can also be achieved in a horizontal water wheel without Soul Sand by making a single water source block flow around the wheel.

Water wheels can be placed side-by-side to add together their stress capacities.

Water wheels can also be powered by Lava and Chocolate and will grant advancements upon doing so.

Advancements

Advancements
Name	Description	Requirements
Harnessing Hydraulics	Place a Water Wheel and try getting it to spin!	Be within 5 blocks when a Water Wheel begins to spin.
Tasteful Power (hidden)	Run a Water Wheel with molten Chocolate.	Be within 5 blocks when Chocolate starts up a Water Wheel.
Magma Wheel (hidden)	This shouldn't have worked.	Be within 5 blocks when Lava starts up a Water Wheel.

Gallery

Two water wheels powering a mechanical belt with water
Water wheel set-ups with various powers generated.
A column of two water source blocks over a block of soul sand can drive two water wheels in opposing directions.
Two opposing water wheels can be linked with a pair of Gearboxes and a Shaft.
Multiple water wheels may be linked together along the same axis.
Fourteen bubbled water wheels, in two rows of seven, generate enough Stress to run a pair of Crushing Wheels at 256 RPM with the help of a Rotation Speed Controller.