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[Craftling]

Currently, windmills are just turbines on the ground. My suggestion is that Windmills are built like a workshop, except multiple z levels high. When it is windy, the rotors (turbines, sails, blades?) should move between z levels.

[SirHoneyBadger]

That would, indeed, be awesome.

When you say "multiple z levels high" though, isn't it already theoretically possible to build a windmill contained within a building that just happens to be more than 1 storey high? Or do you mean that the parts that make up the windmill (the main axle?)should be more than 1 z-level in height?

I'm thinking here that it would be interesting to have workshops, and then have people living over them, particularly in human settlements.

[Chthonic]

It would be nice if it got windier at higher altitudes as well, especially since high mountainsides can suffer a dearth of streams.  Also would give you a reason to put your windmills on towers.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Windmills should also occasionally turn into giants, unless they're jousted at, regularly.

[savanik]

As I understand it, our windmills currently look like this:

http://fab.cba.mit.edu/content/projects/energy/wind/Picture9.jpg

We want them to look like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/DK_Fanoe_Windmill01.JPG/300px-DK_Fanoe_Windmill01.JPG

Btw, if you're wondering, that second, smaller fan in the back powers a gear that actually turns the crown of the windmill and keeps it oriented into the wind. Nifty, eh?

[Mel_Vixen]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dwarfs use the Chinese Model as seen in the spoiler above.

[SirHoneyBadger]

So different types of windmill?

[eerr]

So different types of windmill?

we won't really see much, so taller = better.

[Poil]

I'm pretty sure that windmills already are the regular kind. They turn on the z-axis once (towards the wind?) and then stand spinning along in the breeze. The =-= -=- animation seem to indicate that you are looking down on the arms from "the side". If they had been the chinese version they would've spun continuously on the z-axis.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Tall is good. Although maybe Toady could come up with a way to display both vertical and horizontal windmills, visually?