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[Dame de la Licorne]

Hiya,

I just built a windmill on the z+1 level (one level above the surface), and realized that for the first time ever, I have embarked on a windless map.  Is there a fix to get wind, or do I have to abandon my windmill-powered project?

-Dame de la Licorne

[therahedwig]

Abandon

As far as I recall, you either have wind or you don't on a map. Pity it's so difficult to tell as well...

[YAHG]

Hiya,

I just built a windmill on the z+1 level (one level above the surface), and realized that for the first time ever, I have embarked on a windless map.  Is there a fix to get wind, or do I have to abandon my windmill-powered project?

-Dame de la Licorne

From what I understand you either have wind or you don't. I have also heard it has something to do with latitude.

[Dame de la Licorne]

Hiya,

Thanks for the quick response, guess I'll have to go elsewhere and try again.  *sigh*  And I was almost done, too. 

-Dame de la Licorne

[Quietust]

From what I understand you either have wind or you don't. I have also heard it has something to do with latitude.

It is indeed based on latitude, but it also depends on world size - notably, only MEDIUM and LARGE worlds actually have any measureable amount of wind in them (as of 0.34.11, anyways; haven't checked if 0.40.05 is still affected by this).

[Larix]

I might be misunderstanding it, but i got 20 power in a POCKET world, both in .40.03 and .34.11; both in a cold-temperate biome. That may be inconveniently low for larger installations, but it's quite enough for irrigation or a small minecart route. In my experience, zero-power biomes are fairly rare - i usually see them in "hot" regions, i.e. in the equivalent of the horse latitudes.

[quarague]

never experimented with windmills, I always used dwarven water reactors for all my power needs,
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/40d:Water_wheel
I don't think anything changed here in 0.40 versions.

[MarcAFK]

If you consider this cheating just build the windmills for asthetic purposes and put the water reactor somewhere near the powerchain..

[Larix]

If you don't need much power, windmills can be quite convenient - if you only want to run a single millstone or pump, e.g.
Saves you the fiddling with the waterwheel and is quite easy to switch on and off (via load). Of course, they're also naturally susceptible to flying building destroyers, which are extremely rare but also extremely fun (_if_ they show up and manage to path to the mill, the latter of which is pretty unlikely but not entirely impossible).

But if you have no wind, just try to get some water power working; there's almost always a way and you don't necessarily need water reactors - different-height aquifers and drainage off the map often suffice.

[I am Leo]

Failing that, vampire power. Wall one off with a pump, tell him to crank the handle.

[Quietust]

I might be misunderstanding it, but i got 20 power in a POCKET world, both in .40.03 and .34.11; both in a cold-temperate biome.

I've just investigated the relevant code in 0.40.05, and it appears that the bug with sub-MEDIUM world wind strength has been fixed, so all worlds should have proper wind now.