Drifters spawn and windmill 12.9

[Rejgnar]

Hi there,

concerning the lates version of the game, is it normal that dirfsters spawn on solid block at daylight and the sails (only one set attached to the rotor) of a windmill dont rotate, though the windspeed is like 80%?

 

Regards, Rej

[Chris H.]

I second the windmill problem, my windmill stopped working after installing the new version. Added 4 sails for 80% efficiency, but it won´t rotate (last wind speed 64%, so it should work). 

Regards, Chris

[redram]

On 3/22/2020 at 4:03 AM, Rejgnar said:

the sails (only one set attached to the rotor) of a windmill dont rotate, though the windspeed is like 80%?

So, if you have the windmill hooked up to a machine, this causes a load on the system which has to be met before the windmill will then move at all.  A quern is relatively easy to power I think, but a helve hammer needs quite  bit of wind, and I think you will need 20% power with full sails.  So I'm not sure that a windmill with just one set of sails would move a helve hammer at all.   However if you don't have a machine attached then ya, they should move, unless you have an incredibly long series of axles and such attached - each axle and gear adds a slight amount of load as well.