Windmill

File:Windmill Bearing Ponder.mp4

The Ponder scene for the Windmill Bearing.

A windmill generates Rotational Force. It is composed of a Windmill Bearing (or Mechanical Bearing in pre 0.3 versions) and at least 8 sails or sail-like blocks. Due to the easy access to its components, the windmill along with the Water Wheel are the earliest automatic power generators in the game.

Sail-like blocks include:

• Windmill Sails
• Windmill Sail Frames
• Wool Blocks
• Copycat Panels equipped with another sail-like block

Usage

A windmill is created by attaching any block to the front of the Windmill Bearing to act as a hub, then attaching multiple sail blocks to the hub bock. The Windmill Bearing comes with glue already on the face to which the hub block attaches. Additional blocks may be attached with Super Glue. The additional blocks are decorative only. Only the sail blocks generate power.

Sail blocks include Windmill Sails, Sail Frames, and Wool blocks. The windmill's angular velocity increases by 1 RPM each time the number of sail-like blocks increases by 8, only starting to rotate once there are 8 sail-like blocks. The amount of stress generated is 512 su per RPM. Sails will automatically connect to each other and to blocks that have already been attached. The sails can be placed in any configuration; the shape does not matter.

Right-click the Windmill Bearing anywhere but the center with an empty hand to start the windmill. To stop it, right-click on the block with an empty hand again. To change the spin direction, right-click and hold on the center of the bearing where a circular arrow appears. Hold down the right mouse key and either scroll the wheel or move the mouse left and right to select the direction.

Amount of power from windmill

Number of attached sail blocks	Power produced	RPM
0-7	0su	0
8-15	512su	1
16-23	1024su	2
24-31	1536su	3
32-39	2048su	4
40-47	2560su	5
48-55	3072su	6
56-63	3584su	7
64-71	4096su	8
72-79	4608su	9
80-87	5120su	10
88-95	5632su	11
96-103	6144su	12
104-111	6656su	13
112-119	7168su	14
120-127	7680su	15
128+	8192su	16

Advancements

Advancements

Name	Description	Requirements
A mild breeze	Assemble a windmill	Build and activate a windmill with a minimum of 8 sail-like blocks
A strong breeze	Assemble a windmil of maximum strength	Build and activate a windmill with a minimum of 128 sail-like blocks

Gallery

• 
  Simple Windmill from a creative test
• 
  Windmill with more than one chassis on the rotation axis of the mill.

History

• 0.3.1: The minimum sail blocks required can now be adjusted in the Config.
• 0.3: Split functionality from Mechanical Bearing into the new Windmill Bearing.
• 0.1: Added.