Windmill
Reduces fuel consumption & heat damage of nearby gas generators. Works at low wind speeds, but is more effective at higher wind speeds.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASA
- Expansion
- Frontier
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 55
- Engram points
- 15
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Windmill guides
How to craft Windmill
Windmill is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 42, costs 15 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 6.9 XP.
SmithyWindmill — Detailed Guide
Wind power for gas generators
The Windmill is a structure in ARK: Survival Ascended that works alongside nearby generators. Its in-game text explains: "Reduces fuel consumption & heat damage of nearby gas generators. Works at low wind speeds, but is more effective at higher wind speeds." The ARK Wiki places it in Bob's Tall Tales: Frontier Showdown, and our records list it on 9 maps, including The Island, Scorched Earth, Extinction, Lost Colony and Astraeos.
Engram and recipe
The engram requires level 55 and costs 20 engram points, with the 
Fabricator as its prerequisite. The wiki names the 
Smithy and the 
Argentavis Saddle as places to craft it, using this recipe:
- 200
Wood - 100
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 25
Cementing Paste - 5
Electronics
Each craft gives one Windmill and 8 XP. A single Windmill weighs 10 and has a stack size of 1.
Which attacks can hurt it
The wiki counts the Windmill as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and ranged attacks that are not explosive cannot damage it. The wiki also names aggressive creatures that cannot harm it, for example the 
Raptor, 
Direwolf, 
Sabertooth, 
Thylacoleo, 
Titanoboa, 
Pulmonoscorpius and 
Piranha.