Waterwheel rarely turns

[mammut0815]

Hello beaver friends.
I've been playing for a short time and have chosen the top card, i.e. the easiest card. I built a waterwheel in the river, but it rarely turns. I also built a dam as you can see, but that doesn't solve the problem. Do you have any advice?

[EleventhStar]

waterwheels need fast flowing water.

look at the river, you should be able to see where it flows fast and slow.

you can use a dam to narrow the flow of the river to speed it up.

during droughts water wheels typically don't turn at all.

[Graf Schokola]

Hau mal nen Bild vom Geschehen rein. Dann lassen sich Probleme mit dem Wasserrad besser erkennen.

[Redbulloth]

It's a fairly expensive setup, but I've been doing one lately with a bunch of dams between wheels to direct all the water flow into narrower channels that all turn wheels.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3172895157

This setup allows both movement and power transmission across, while, again, generating more power than just a row of wheels. Plus, I like the look of it, personally. But, like I said, it's expensive.

[Alcator]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Redbulloth:

It's a fairly expensive setup, but I've been doing one lately with a bunch of dams between wheels to direct all the water flow into narrower channels that all turn wheels.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3172895157

This setup allows both movement and power transmission across, while, again, generating more power than just a row of wheels. Plus, I like the look of it, personally. But, like I said, it's expensive.

Would have worked even better with just 2 wheels and everything else blocked by levees -- the water doesn't seem too high to overflow such setup, and it would be cheaper.

[Graf Schokola]

Merge the water masses before the water wheel to get a higher water level and a faster flow.

But Alcators hint is cheaper.

[stonelock99]

I go to some effort to build water wheels in narrow channels but find even then they are not realiable. Neither is wind power. So I build hundreds of beaver wheels.

[Graf Schokola]

Ursprungligen skrivet av stonelock99:

I go to some effort to build water wheels in narrow channels but find even then they are not realiable. Neither is wind power. So I build hundreds of beaver wheels.

Wind power with grav storage is superior but very expensive.

[stonelock99]

I use some wind power. Most of my power shafts are elevated to cross a road and I usually put a windmill on the platform than that just a fourway power block.

[Fall2YrDoom]

I use windmill's for Foxtails's. I use bad water as well and keep my main flow untouched for the most part, some spots I create just for water wheels.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199024260926/screenshot/2455103368293412687/

[Ericus1]

Waterwheels are easy to cheese, you just need to build artificial channels, and you cannot leave a path for water to "go around" the flow, which it will because of back pressure being behind the wheel.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2722011190