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[darkflagrance]

So I built two windmills right next to each other to power some millstones.

A couple years later, I check back to queue up some milling of cave wheat, and find that the one on the left has lost power. However, the one on the right works fine, and generates 40 power. In the past, I had used both to grind wheat, and both had received 40 power. Both windmills were set up exactly the same.

Has anyone else encountered this? At all?

[darkflagrance]

Nobody at all?

[The Scout]

• Is there a roof over them?
• Anything of roof-like nature?

[Davichococat]

I think it depends on the wind.


I'm just not sure if placing your windmill at level +1 will produce less power than level +5.

[gtmattz]

If you embarked on multiple biomes it is possible that one of the windmills is in one biome and the other in another, and the one not being powered is in a low/no wind biome.

[darkflagrance]

When I originally built both, they both originally had power. So it can't be that biome changes affected this.

I have not built any buildings on the surface since my windmills, so constructions can't be obstructing it.

The two windmills are right next to each other on the same z-level.

I'd just never heard that DF actually calculated windflow before, if it does.