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[TheDeathMind]

Hey, just don't worry about it; I'm sure the entire thing will blow over.

[Flying Dice]

Maybe what he needs is just a breath of fresh air.

[expwnent]

A pun thread? I hate wind these happen.

[Sarda]

Yeah, they really wind up the mods when they get inane. And then they come in and BAM, it looks like a hurricane hit us, locks everywhere, deleted posts, etc.

[ral]

Does anyone know if there's some way to intentionally generate areas with wind on the map or is it just random per region or random per embark zone?

If you're on a biome boundry, can one biome have wind and the other not?

[Musashi]

You don't mistral much, though, as water mills are way more efficient and you can put a lot more of them in your fort.

[CinnibarMan]

Well blow me down. Another one.

[Forumite]

Does anyone know if there's some way to intentionally generate areas with wind on the map or is it just random per region or random per embark zone?

If you're on a biome boundry, can one biome have wind and the other not?

Itīs random, and the wind is equal over the whole embark, as well as constant for the whole fortress life. Either you have wind, and then you build a nice 4-floor windfarm, preferably underground with holes down for the wind, or you have to try something else.

[Triaxx2]

You mean I didn't have to channel out under the windmill? Nuts. At least I have another way to turn it off. (L shaped power path. Three gears, four pipes.)

[Sphalerite]

If you're on a biome boundry, can one biome have wind and the other not?

Yes.  Each biome has its own wind value, so it is possible to have a site where the wind varies in strength from one part of the map to another, if you've embarked on a site with multiple biomes.  The level of wind never changes so far as I can tell, and isn't possible to change it once you embark.

[Triaxx2]

How do I hook two Windmills into a power system? I tried one next to the other, but only one is trying to power the entire set up. Help?

[JAFANZ]

Windmills output power down through the center tile (which I believe needs to be channeled out), try putting a gear under each one, & run axles from those gears to a 3rd (the 3rd is the one you want to link to a lever if you ever need to switch them off, because switching the gears under the windmills deconstructs the windmills).

[Triaxx2]

Edit: Never mind, I'm an idiot and I forgot to channel out underneath it. *headdesk*

Well, I've got them like so:

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WWW WWW
WWW WWW
WWW WWW

And directly below:

wfwwwwg
wgssgsg
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So the windmill on the left is over a gear, and the windmill on the right is over a gear. Do I need to connect them in a different alignment? Maybe one windmill to either side of the gear transferring to the pump?

I haven't got vertical room for a water reactor because I'm on top of the Aquifer I'm pumping from. Unless I use long transit from another part of the map, but that's power intensive.

And the way they switch off is to disconnect the lower pump from the system which disables the water going into the upper pump.

Do I need to just build one windmill on top of the other?

[ral]

I think the best thing to do is build a gear under each windmill and then link those gears together with an axle, then link either of those gears to stuff with axles and possibly gears. So:

G===G

one z-level below with the G's centered on the windmills

I don't think the lower windmill will work if you build another windmill on top of it (and you'd have to build a floor above the first one to do that anyway).