In front of my windmill were two small ponds. Some eyeballing of the placement of the fence posts was necessary to get the turbine blades looking right. This curvature at the bottom combined with the curvature of the cap work to produce the impression of overall slope. The scale of a standard windmill, however, is medium – bigger than the average house, but smaller than monumental architecture.īecause of this, I chose to make the main body of the windmill simply vertical with a slight slope at the bottom (consisting of Stone Brick Stairs). Because of the limitations inherent in Minecraft with regard to vertical slopes (because we only have horizontal slabs and not vertical slabs, it is extremely difficult to create good-looking slopes with a pitch greater than 12:12 (or a 45° angle), unless you scale is massive and you can afford to work in full blocks. There are variations in materials, turbine blade designs, and rate of slope and curvature to the top. The Windmill Body Design and Material Choicesĭutch windmills are not all exactly alike. Its turbine doesn’t turn, and no millstone processes wheat into flour at the bottom, but darned if it don’t look spiffy. This project is another example of the latter category: a Dutch-style Windmill. Other times you make something that resembles a real life structure for purely aesthetic reasons.
One the one hand, you can make a purely functional piece of Redstone automation, like my Automatic Chicken Farm, which bears no resemblance whatsoever in look or function to real chicken farms. Sometimes, though, the limited realism of Minecraft (especially vanilla Minecraft) makes it so that either function or aesthetics have to give way.
With mods like these, you can make a turbine that looks like a turbine and actually does something. That’s one reason I like mods, especially ones like Rotarycraft and Immersive Engineering that go to great lengths to simulate real life technology and mechanics. I really like it when I can combine function with aesthetics. A not-so-simple Dutch-style Windmill, using a limited palette.
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