Create Picky Wheels

Create's waterwheels normally work wherever they touch water. With this mod, a wheel needs to sit against a large body of water, similar to how Hose Pulleys require contact with a large body, and water added through a river biome counts only inside that biome. A configuration option sets whether a source-based water check applies, so rivers can turn the wheel correctly.

The change applies to both small and large waterwheels. Windmills get a matching rule: the mod checks the surrounding area for enough open space for air to circulate and checks the biome, and by default Windmills work only inside the Overworld. Biome requirements can be tweaked through a biome tag, and a threshold can be set in the configuration, as with Hose Pulleys in Create. Warning tooltips in the style of Create's own tooltips explain what is missing.

Default structures use wheels, and an option lets only player-placed wheels keep the requirements. The mod runs on Forge and NeoForge for 1.18.2 – 1.21.1, with files for 1.18.2, 1.19.2, 1.20.1 and 1.21.1. It is released under the MIT License and is open source. Create is a required dependency.