A small change to the windmills, for balance and aesthetic reasons.

I propose a "simple" change to how kinetic windmills work, requiring a long metal/wood post connecting the windmill to the deep ground (bedrock, yes bedrock).
That should be enough to increase the cost of the powerful windmills and promote people to do something about the long post standing out of the ground (aesthetic).

Wooden rotors windmills can be supported by a wooden fence, iron rotor windmills can be supported by an iron fence, steel rotor and carbon rotor windmills can be supported by steel fences (new block).

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(fence/posts)




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1. I doubt very much worlds without bedrock are common enough to consider that.
2. that will depend on how the implementation is done (by the IC2 dev team)
3. Supposedly
4. I completely forgot about that one. What about nether brick support iron rotor and move the other rotors a tier above ? (wood - wood, brick - iron, iron - steel, steel - carbon)

That would be another option indeed.

Wooden scaffold for wooden rotors, construction foam/(nether) bricks for iron rotors, iron scaffolds for steel rotors and reinforced stone for carbon rotors.

Also another aesthetic thing would be to make the blade radius proportional to the height ((height - sealevel) / 4)) so the higher is the mill, the bigger it is and farther away you can see it.

Even if you can't see it further, having a tall mill with a tiny blade is just strange. Looking to giant blades is more interesting and realistic from a closer point of view.

It would be an incentive to make a build to cover up that awkward 1x1 pole, to make it look more like a windmill tower and not just some random block in the sky and a rotor spinning out of it.