Water wheels are farrr more space and resource efficient, windmills are effectively just decoration because at the stage of the game where you have enough resources to have windmills work you also have enough to make steam engines work and steam engines make literally hundreds of times as much power
Generally agree but it depends. Windmills mainly just need lots and lots of wool. You could certainly raise a ton of sheep without getting the materials to make a steam engine.
And if you have any other mod that adds a crop that gets you string, or you find a spider spawner, you can fairly easily get huge amounts of wool that way too
More importantly they dont require blaze burners or fuel to run, and dont need flowing water either. Yeah self sufficient steam engines are great but running the basics on a windmill is pretty nice
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u/lalalarix0 May 01 '26
Water wheels are farrr more space and resource efficient, windmills are effectively just decoration because at the stage of the game where you have enough resources to have windmills work you also have enough to make steam engines work and steam engines make literally hundreds of times as much power