Windmill
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- This article is about the building used to turn grain into flour. For the building that generates power for Nurmof's pickaxe machine, see Power Station.
A Windmill is a building that players can use to make flour. The functional parts of the windmill are the hopper, the hopper controls and the flour bin. The flour bin is typically on the ground floor, whereas the hopper and its controls will be two storeys up (with the millstones on the storey in between).
Players do not gain any Cooking experience for making flour, so those who need it in bulk to train Cooking may prefer to purchase it (for example, on the Grand Exchange) instead of making it from scratch.
[edit] Making flour
Players must first place grain (which can usually be found growing locally as wheat) into the hopper, and then operate the controls. This causes the grain to slide down the chute, where it is ground into flour by the millstones on the storey below. The flour then falls down one further storey to the flour bin. Players can repeat this step up to thirty times before the flour bin is full.
They should then go back down to the flour bin and use an empty pot on it to fill the pot with flour. Alternatively, they can just left-click on the flour bin with an empty pot in their inventory. They must do this for every empty pot they have, since the game will not fill all pots automatically (unlike filling jugs with water, buckets with compost, etc.). Each bundle of grain used provides exactly enough flour to fill one pot.
Interestingly all flour bins across Gielinor are linked. Therefore if a player leaves flour in one location it can be retrieved later at another location.
[edit] Locations
Windmills are marked on the world map and minimap with a yellow icon (
). Players can find them in the following locations:
- Mill Lane Mill is north-east of Draynor Village, on the long route to Lumbridge - players can talk to Millie Miller here for a tutorial on making flour
- In the Cooks' Guild - players need to wear a chef's hat and have Level 32 Cooking to enter, but can find everything inside to make apple pies & jugs of wine ; also closest to a bank (there is a bank within the windmill). However, you need to be wearing the Varrock Armour 3.
- Between Hemenster and East Ardougne, run by Milton the Miller. Secretly the entrance to Sigmund's Base.
- On Harmony Island
- In Zanaris - this is the only windmill not powered by the wind, being powered by a cow
- The flour bin contains flour to fill exactly 29 pots of flour
