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Water Wheel
alaindustrial:water_mill_wheel
Summary
The Water Mill Wheel is a crafting component: the wheel you place into the wheel slot of a Water Mill. Without a wheel in the slot, the water mill generates nothing. The wheel is a durability component: it wears out only while the mill actually generates EU/FE (proportional to output) and breaks when its durability runs out. The wear bar shows in your inventory and in the mill's slot. It's built from planks, copper ingots, sticks and a wooden gear — an early mechanical part, available at the same time as the water mill itself. It's the thematic counterpart to the wind mill rotor, for water generation.
Mini-example: a fresh wheel lasts about 6–7 in-game days of continuous work before it wears out —
keep a spare crafted so you can swap a worn wheel and the mill keeps turning.
Energy
Uses no energy — it's a plain ingredient for the wheel slot.
How it's used
Goes into the dedicated wheel slot of the Water Mill. Rendered in the world as a 3D model — tilted blade-planks, a rim, spokes and a copper axle in the style of Create (rendered on vanilla wood/copper sprites). Wears out while the mill generates EU/FE.
Block properties
Not applicable (item). Durability component: max durability 1000, so it does not stack (stack: 1).
Recipes
Crafted on a workbench (shaped 3×3): planks in the corners, copper ingots top and bottom, sticks on the sides, a wooden gear in the center.
PUP
SGS
PUPP — planks (any, ×4); U — copper ingot (×2); S — stick (×2); G — Wooden Gear (×1).
Progression
A component with no tier of its own. Gates water generation: without a wheel, the mill stays silent. The wheel itself is crafted from early materials, so it's available alongside the first mill.
Related
Water Mill — consumer of the wheel slot. Wooden Rotor — the thematic counterpart for wind generation. Wooden Gear — the central component of the wheel.
Implementation
Technical details for developers (not surfaced in the wiki). Durability ingredient item: maxDamage = Config.waterMillWheelMaxDamage (1000), so it is non-stackable (stack 1) with the vanilla wear bar. block_id: . Craft: — shaped 3×3. Viewers: JEI/REI/EMI see the item as an ingredient. Design goal: a thematic component tying the water mill to wood and gears, paired with the wind mill rotor, and a consumable — wear ∝ output (Config.waterMillWheelEuPerDamage), ~6–7 in-game days of life. The in-world 3D wheel render lives in the water mill's client renderer (see water_mill.md).
Crafting
Shaped Crafting
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Water Wheel