world generated with nearly no windmill pieces

[Zyro]

i've been searching for 5 mintues (no joke) close to base, far from base, too far from base, but i could not find a field with a complete windmill. i could not find a field with 3/4 pieces of it, nor could i find 1/2 of a windmill. im not exaggerating. this doesnt feel right. i can't remember it being this obnoxious the first time i played this game.. i need these collect corners from all over the place just to make a complete windmill.

how is the world generated? is the game simply pulling some silly formula to determine what field it will provide? and what is this formula? <1% chance for windmill?

[MacFeely]

You're just going to have to bite the bullet and set up a bunch of cutters, rotators and stackers to create your Windmill. I had the same problem finding the lower layer of the Blueprint Shape.

[LetzPlay]

Yeah, I don't think the windmill exists as a full shape out in the wild... and I'm pretty sure the world isn't randomly generated. It may rely on a formula, but it's the same in every instance of the game.

[Kyborek]

After doing the same for much shorter time i just realised that it is simply a feature of windmill - you can not find it naturally.

[duregard]

1/2 windmills are the most I've found.

[PeterHoHK]

There's code that specifically forbids full windmills from generating.

[MacFeely]

Originally posted by PeterHoHK:

There's code that specifically forbids full windmills from generating.

Why would the dev hard code that? I've found full Circles, Squares and Stars, surely full Windmills exist.

[GeneralVeers]

Originally posted by madcapjoe49:

Originally posted by PeterHoHK:

There's code that specifically forbids full windmills from generating.

Why would the dev hard code that? I've found full Circles, Squares and Stars, surely full Windmills exist.

Don't tempt him. Last thing I want is for the dev to add code that prevents full circles from spawning so we have to farm quarters from other pieces and make our own circles.........

(most likely the dev threw in the lack of full windmills for a bit of extra challenge, but after having played "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy" I do know there are devs out there who have darker motivations)

[Mikemk]

Originally posted by madcapjoe49:

Originally posted by PeterHoHK:

There's code that specifically forbids full windmills from generating.

Why would the dev hard code that? I've found full Circles, Squares and Stars, surely full Windmills exist.

Why should he give you full windmills? He might as well give fully painted & stacked shapes, simply extract and submit

[GeneralVeers]

Originally posted by Mikemk:

Originally posted by madcapjoe49:

Why would the dev hard code that? I've found full Circles, Squares and Stars, surely full Windmills exist.

Why should he give you full windmills? He might as well give fully painted & stacked shapes, simply extract and submit

[sarcasm]
DUH! That's exactly how the game goes during the FIRST level!! You extract circles and deliver them!! No coloring or cutting or stacking. That's how the game was meant to be played.
[/sarcasm]

[live22morrow]

It's possible to find 1/2 windmills in the wild, but they're extremely rare.

[Geothermal1159]

Don't know how recently they added it but one of the hints on the loading screen says no whole windmill / pinwheels can spawn naturally.

[hmiersch]

why would they do that? it makes no sense

[Geothermal1159]

Originally posted by hmiersch:

why would they do that? it makes no sense

Part o the challenge.
You ave to plan out how to get the pieces of a shape you want to create as well as attaching them.
It would be really simple i the game gave each shape in its pure form.

[Medu Salem]

I know, necroing is bad.

But I am glad I found this thread nonetheless, because I was starting to pull my hair out because I could not find any full windmills. xD

Because for some reason I have in memory that I found one in an old game 2 years ago, but now when I started over yesterday after a long time of not playing, I did not find any.

But guess it explains it... if it is hard-coded not to show up (anymore).