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Vintagestory2025.09.08-02.09.44.03-ezgif.com-crop-video.mp4 It's working in pulses. From what I understand, at high speeds, the hammer requires a massive amount of torque. To generate this torque, the windmills reduce their speed. Because the windmills have slowed down, the hammer also slows down, and now it doesn't need so much torque. This causes the windmills to speed back up, which in turn means the hammer requires high torque again. This definitely seems like some kind of bug

I decided to run some tests, and it turns out that everything works like in real life: the lower the sail speed, the higher the torque, and the higher the speed, the lower the torque. That's why they slow down.But in that case, I don't understand why in my other system, 72 windmills can't provide enough power to run 1 helve hammer at x9 speed (the gearing setup is the same as in the screenshot above).Through testing, I found that 1 windmill can sustain 1 helve hammer at 1/3 speed (even with 50% wind) using one large gear for speed reduction.This should mean that 3 windmills could run the same hammer at x1 speed (one gear for reduction, one for speed-up).Which means 9 windmills should run it at x3 speed (one reduction, two for speed-up).And 27 windmills should be enough for x9 speed (one reduction, three for speed-up).However, I have almost three times that many windmills (72), and the wind is at 150%. This should theoretically be enough for x27 speed (one reduction, four for speed-up), but for some reason, the system stalls even at x9 speed.

Hi all, could someone help me understand how increasing angular velocity with gears works? I'm running into a weird issue. I have 16 windmills running. I tried to increase the output speed by 9 times. According to the mechanics, the output torque should become 9 times smaller, which is fine. The problem is that as soon as I apply the 9x gear ratio(2 big gears), the input speed from the windmills themselves drops to about 1/5 or 1/6 of its original value. The initial torque from the windmills stays the same, but this drastic drop in speed means that 5-6 times the total power is simply vanishing from the system. I made sure the wind is not the problem by locking it at 150% on a single axis. So, my question is: is it normal to have such a huge power loss just from trying to increase speed? Am I missing something about how torque and speed work in this system? (As an engineer, I can tell you it doesn't work this way in the real world, which is why I'm trying to figure this out)