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[AncientEnemy]

just a little streamlining idea. unless there's some practical application of making windmills fall apart, there doesn't seem to be a reason to make gear assemblies stop supporting connected mechanisms when the power transfer is disconnected.

it actually doesn't make much sense the way it is, because it means abstractly that the entire weight of whatever the assembly is connected to is resting on the gears themselves, rather than the 'housing' or whatever of the assembly. In fact a windmill couldn't even operate if the only thing holding it up was the axle going down, the blades would just end up turning the whole windmill back and forth -on- the axle rather than turning the axle itself. the base would have to be connected to the ground via the housing of the gear assembly, in which case disconnecting the gears themselves shouldn't matter.

[Silverionmox]

Seems logical. Let's include a block in a gear assembly to represent the casing.