Windmills

[pwajnkaim 15]

I have so far never heard this being suggest it, correct me if I'm wrong, everyone want's windmills to act as a generator for some kind of new power system in the mod, I however would love them for my quern. What if you could make a windmill like this:

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W: Wool P: Plank O: Wood Block

This would replace the handstone in the quern and would create a little windmill on top of it. The job of the windmill is to automate the process of grinding flour but at the cost of an inpractical location and much slower process. The windmill will only spin in certain conditions, it needs to have a certain amount of block spaces available in every direction to perform the best, 10 to every side and no block at all above it would make it work at its top speed however this will increase the higher it is placed on the map. Even at it's top speed the windmill turns very slowly to make up for the fact it spins by itself, I think it should produce one piece of flour every 5 minutes at top speed.

[Krski 36]

You are talking of crafting a windmill and are stealing my idea of mechanical power being added , i just posted 30 mins ago , also i think a windmill if ever added should be made using multyblock stuctures not a crafting table , beacuse a thing that size would never be posible to craft inside a tiny little space in a crafting table .( also stealing the idea from redpower2 which Elooram has worked for so much to add something nice )

[killster550 401]

first of all, he did not 'steal' your idea, mechanical power has been suggested in many forms and ways before, although i do agree with the multiblock structure in said form perhaps, but when most people see a 'windmill' they think of the classic, dutch windmills, which date way beyond our scoped progression year (around 1500's) you should try and find a picture of a proper, small windmill befitting a quern to post with your OP pwajnkaim

[politehnik 9]

khm khm

[Mephistos_chan 26]

This is a very popular subject at the moment so for discussion purposes heres a wikipedia link about the sort of technological opportunities in each 'age'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_technology

[pwajnkaim 15]

I was thinking of a mini windmill, being able to fit in a one block space above the quern something like this:

[Biodigious 211]

You are talking of crafting a windmill and are stealing my idea of mechanical power being added , i just posted 30 mins ago , also i think a windmill if ever added should be made using multyblock stuctures not a crafting table , beacuse a thing that size would never be posible to craft inside a tiny little space in a crafting table .( also stealing the idea from redpower2 which Elooram has worked for so much to add something nice )

Yeah, kirsk was the first to think up windmills. Don't be taking his original idea.

If anything is going to be stolen, it should be BTW's mechanical power model. But really, *reply similar to second half of this*.

...but when most people see a 'windmill' they think of the classic, dutch windmills, which date way beyond our scoped progression year (around 1500's)...

No, that's just you. Everyone else thinks of the earlier recorded windmills from the 1200's.

I was thinking of a mini windmill, being able to fit in a one block space above the quern something like this:

A windmill the size of a block and made with the technology of the intended time would hardly provide enough power to overcome the friction in the first set of gears, let alone grind grains into flour.

[Treyflix 277]

Yeah, kirsk was the first to think up windmills. Don't be taking his original idea.

If anything is going to be stolen, it should be BTW's mechanical power model. But really, *reply similar to second half of this*.

No, that's just you. Everyone else thinks of the earlier recorded windmills from the 1200's.

A windmill the size of a block and made with the technology of the intended time would hardly provide enough power to overcome the friction in the first set of gears, let alone grind grains into flour.

Is it just me or are your posts becoming... Useful? I find myself agreeing with you more and more. I thought you were just a troll but it looks like you have more sense then most of the current members in this forum. (I miss enternal )

[Krski 36]

Anyway if this was considered and aded , a new power sistem would be before it . I would think that we should first give some thought to building blocks and the new way of powering that is being considered , maybe drinks and some bug fixes along the way but this is a topic for future discusion .

-Krski

[Srgnoodles 1,030]

. (I miss enternal )

-pats on head- we al do my good bird-thingy

-runs off to drag Eternal back to the forums by the ears-