Windmill question

Windmills aren't destroyed in storms, that's Better Than Wolves you're thinking of.

Windmills can, indeed, destroy themselves.

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- Wind Mills produce 50% extra EU/t in a thunderstorm, and 20% when it's raining but not in a thunderstorm.

- If a wind mill produces more than 5 EU/t, it has a chance of breaking. If a wind mill's effective height is no more than 80, it cannot break.

Has anyone ACTUALLY had it happen to them? I've been using them in tower configurations at top layer and have never seen a windgen break on me. Might want to ask SpwnX about it as he's used piles of them at a time.

Why do windgens even break they are supposed to be no babysitting power generators which have quite high buildcosts and require some knowhow to make them work efficienty. So i dont see where 'chance to break' fits in that.

Also with the new height in minecraft 1.2 what will happen? Simply changing it so that 256 height gives same eu as 128 would in fact nerf them (its harder to reach that level + falling at that height means you are dead unless you hit deep water.

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I had broken wind mills on 1.8.1 beta . On 1.0 and on never got one.

I had one broken one in 1.0, looked funky as all heck. Just a generator up there at the top of the world amongst the windmill. (and a lit one at that)

I lost my very first gen on like the second thunderstorm that rolled through the server. It was a miscalculation on my part, it was at effective level 81. After that, I've been extremely cautious about placing the gens.