Windmill in FarmCapi: your first production building

The Windmill is FarmCapi's first production building: it becomes available at level 4, costs 250 coins and has two recipes, feed and cornmeal. Feed turns 2 radishes and 1 carrot into 6 feed in 2 minutes; cornmeal (fubá) turns 2 corn into 1 cornmeal in 15 minutes. In the current version (November 2026), the Windmill arrives with its first feed batch already cooking, for free, plus the ingredients for one more batch.

Windmill recipes

FarmCapi production buildings

Building	Level	Cost	Queue slots	Recipes
Windmill	4	250 coins	2 (up to 5)	Feed, Cornmeal
Cheese house	7	900 coins	2 (up to 5)	Minas cheese, Butter
Wood stove	8	1,400 coins	2 (up to 5)	Cornmeal cake, Cheese bread
Sweets kettle	10	2,400 coins	2 (up to 5)	Strawberry jam, Pumpkin sweet

How to build and use the Windmill, step by step

1. At level 4, Capi points out the building site (stakes, rope and a sign with a hammer).
2. Tap the site, then Build (250 coins).
3. The first time you open any building, a "How buildings work" card pops up. It's three sentences; read them.
4. Pick a recipe and tap Make. Ingredients come out of the Barn.
5. When something's ready, a bubble appears over the Windmill. Tap it to collect.

The free starter batch

When you build the Windmill, it arrives already working: the first recipe available at your level (feed) starts right away, takes only 45 seconds and uses no ingredients. On top of that, the game drops the ingredients for one more batch into your Barn (2 radishes and 1 carrot).

The design call: the building arrives "half full" so you see the whole loop work right away instead of staring at an empty building and guessing what to do. It happens once per building.

Queues and slots, explained simply

The Windmill makes one item at a time. Each slot holds an order waiting its turn, so you can fill the line and go tend your field.

• The Windmill starts with 2 slots and maxes out at 5.
• A finished item keeps its slot until you collect it. A line full of finished items = an idle Windmill.
• The queue runs while the game is closed: everything is based on the clock.

Opening all 3 extra slots costs 38 gems total.

Speeding up with gems

The Speed up button finishes the item in progress instantly. The cost is 1 gem per 10 minutes remaining, rounded up, with a minimum of 1. A fresh cornmeal batch (15 minutes) costs 2 gems; a feed batch costs 1. Everything waiting in line moves up too. Speed up and Open a slot both need a second tap ("Confirm?") so you don't spend gems by accident.

Which Windmill recipe pays best

By sale value, cornmeal: 2 corn are worth 38 coins and 1 cornmeal is worth 55, a 17-coin gain per batch (68 coins per Windmill-hour). Feed can't be sold, so its math is different: 6 feed would cost 12 coins in the Shop, and the ingredients sell for 8. It saves you 4 coins a batch.

The caveat: recipe value doesn't count growing time. The 2 corn in one cornmeal tie up a plot for 2 hours. For chickens and cows, Windmill feed is the cheapest source; for coins, cornmeal is worth more as an ingredient in cornmeal cake at the Wood stove. In the real world, the trip from kernel to bag is in what fubá is and how it gets made.

Keep reading

The ingredients come from radishes and corn. For build order, read building order and best recipes. Play free and build your Windmill.