Before the recent major update you could stack multiple windmills on a single large gear and it would flat out give more power, but now if i do the same thing, (which i tested in creative) there is going to be turbulence causing a penalty to be applied e.g: if you have two windmills on a large gear the penalty reduces the power to 50% effectively same as having only one windmill.
Is there a workaround for this?
Do i just spend the winter building multiple windmill towers for a each machine ?
Also i get that the new water wheels wont give you the same speed as the windmill but will rather give you more torque, what are the specifics for extracting maximum power from it and, is it just based on the water flow height, speed or amount? And is it really worth building it?
For context i had achieved iron in my previous playthrough and since the new update was released i decided to start a new one (still in year 0 in october in bismuth bronze tools and what not).