Funny Windmill Puns

Storytime! So, I'm a big fan of building my bases into the side of cliffs. I just started another survival game and noticed something funny. I dig a tunnel straight down from the top of the cliff into my base to build a tower for a windmill. I ended up with the windmill being half a block above the surface. I was getting optimal output, which I thought was strange but chalked it up to maybe it was part of an update.

Later on I went to add more windmills, so I just went straight out from the base of the original windmill, like 5 blocks left and right, and noticed that those outputs were poor. That really got me wondering.

While I'm not playing ATM, I'm putting together a little plan to test out what's going on. Since the original windmill has at least 10 blocks under it, I'm going to test and see if I can achieve the same result by having a bore hole down about 20 blocks, windmill about half a block from surface, and route the grids along the surface to the battery.

Or am I rediscovering the wheel here? Meaning that this has long been known in the community?

I saw it on the top page of reddit, I thought I saved it to watch it again later, and now I can’t find it!! HELP ME PLEASSSSE!

I just posted this to imgur, but I had to share with you guys. Please to enjoy some raunchy hollow on hollow action in Earthen Peak.

http://imgur.com/a/q0Rv5

I didn't really know anything about the story and I gave it a shot and I cannot believe how strangely hilarious it is. I'm still less than a hundred pages in and it's not at all a quick read but I can't believe the humor in it. I'm constantly laughing at the antics and the banter. It's hard to imagine this was written in 1605. Seeing as I'm still less than a hundred pages in, is the whole book along these lines?