Create guide for All the Mods - Gravitas 3.5

Same as in the All the Mods - Gravitas 3.6b guide

Create is a mod for building, decoration and aesthetic automation. Instead of clicking through a bunch of menus, you set up contraptions of animated components that work together, and the mod leaves as many design choices to you as possible. If you like tinkering with machines you can actually watch run, this one is for you.^[1]

The pack includes Create 0.5.1.b, built for Minecraft 1.18.2. As of 0.5.1 the rendering library Flywheel no longer has to be installed separately.^[1][2]

Learning the mod

Create has a visual in-game documentation called Ponder, which walks you through all of its mechanics and gadgets. Open it whenever a machine confuses you. The mod's own page also recommends JEI for seeing every Create recipe, because the vanilla recipe book can't guide you through the experience by itself.^[1]

Where it shows up in the pack's quests

The pack's quest book starts you on the basics with two quests in one chapter. One asks you to get a Water Wheel and the other asks for a Cogwheel. Those are the pieces you use to generate and move rotational power.^[3]

A later quest, "{gravitas.quest.steel.early_create}" quest, asks for an Encased Fan and a Mechanical Press. Its title key is filed under steel and early Create, so it looks like part of the steel progression.^[4]

Unverified The sources don't show exactly what the Create quests reward or how they gate other mods, so check the in-game quest book for the full progression.

Same as in the All the Mods - Gravitas 3.6b guide

Create is all about animated machines you build and power yourself, and its in-game Ponder screens walk you through each mechanic. The mod's own page also recommends installing JEI to see every recipe, since the vanilla recipe book won't guide you. This pack changes several Create recipes, so trust the recipe blocks below over any older tutorial you remember.^[1][5]

Step 1: Cogwheel

Your first goal is the Cogwheel, which has its own quest a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.3.title}". The pack changed both of its recipes: the normal crafting one and a deploying one.^[3][5]

CogwheelChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Shaft
• any treated lumber
• any treated lumber

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/cogwheel

CogwheelChanged by the pack

Deploying (create)

• Shaft
• any treated wood

Recipe id: create:deploying/cogwheel

The deploying version, also changed by the pack.

Step 2: Water Wheel

Next comes the Water Wheel (quest a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.3.title}"). The pack changed this recipe too, and it is built around the Large Cogwheel.^[3][5]

Water WheelChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any treated lumber	any treated lumber	any treated lumber
any treated lumber	Large Cogwheel	any treated lumber
any treated lumber	any treated lumber	any treated lumber

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/water_wheel

Step 3: Mechanical Press and Encased Fan

After basic power, one quest asks for both the Mechanical Press and the Encased Fan: "{gravitas.quest.steel.early_create}" quest. Both use Igneous Zinc Casing (called Igneous Zinc Casing here) and the Shaft. The pack changed the press recipe, while the fan recipe is the mod's own.^[4][5]

Mechanical PressChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Shaft

Igneous Zinc Casing

Wrought Iron Anvil

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/mechanical_press

Encased FanMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Shaft

Igneous Zinc Casing

Propeller

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/encased_fan

Create's own advancements describe the press as the machine that makes sheets, and the fan as something you place and power so it can process materials.^[6]

Looking ahead: Precision Mechanism

Later you will want the Precision Mechanism. It is made through a sequenced assembly, and the pack changed that recipe as well.^[5]

Precision Mechanism, Gold Plate, Igneous Zinc Alloy, Cogwheel, Gold Nugget, Shaft, Crushed Raw Gold, Wrought Iron Ingot +1 moreChanged by the pack

Sequenced Assembly (create)

• Cogwheel
• 4× Incomplete Precision Mechanism
• Large Cogwheel
• any iron nugget
• any gold plate

Recipe id: create:sequenced_assembly/precision_mechanism

Unverified The recipes for the Shaft, the Large Cogwheel, the Igneous Zinc Alloy and the Igneous Zinc Casing were not in the sources for this section. Check them in JEI before you plan your first build. This site does hold All the Mods - Gravitas's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Create doesn't hide its machines inside menus. You build contraptions out of animated parts that work together, and the mod's in-game documentation, Ponder, walks you through every mechanic and gadget. Install JEI as well, because the vanilla recipe book can't show you all of Create's recipes.^[1]

What I can confirm about the systems comes from advancement text, tooltips and the pack's configs and recipes. This page covers that and leaves out exact numbers the sources don't give.^[6][7][8][9]

Rotational power

Everything starts with rotation. You can generate it with a Water Wheel, a windmill assembled from blocks, a Steam Engine fed by a boiler, or a Hand Crank. Power travels along Shaft blocks, and a Mechanical Belt can connect two of them.^[6]

Linking a Large Cogwheel to a Small Cogwheel changes the speed of your contraption. A Rotation Speed Controller lets you fine-tune it further.^[6]

To see how hard your network is working, wear Engineer's Goggles and look at a Stressometer. It gives an exact readout. In this pack the client option client.enableRainbowDebug is set to true, which shows kinetic debug information on blocks while the debug screen is open.^[6][7]

Casings and key materials

Machines are built around casings. You make an andesite casing by applying Igneous Zinc Alloy to stripped wood. In this pack that item appears as Igneous Zinc Alloy, while the advancement text still calls it Andesite Alloy. A brass casing uses Brass Ingots on stripped wood, for more sophisticated machines. A copper casing uses Copper Ingots on stripped wood and is waterproof.^[6][9]

Brass comes from alloying Copper and Zinc Ingots in a Mechanical Mixer heated by a Blaze Burner. Zinc therefore matters early, and the last part of this section covers where it generates.^[6]

Processing machines

• Crushing Wheels crush materials once you place and power a set of them.^[6]
• A Millstone pulverises materials.^[6]
• An Encased Fan processes materials, and an upright Mechanical Saw does the same for sawing recipes.^[6]
• A Mechanical Press makes sheets. Combined with a Basin it can also compact items, creating fewer items from more.^[6]
• A Mechanical Mixer combines ingredients. Mechanical Crafters are placed and powered to handle crafting.^[6]
• A Deployer is described as a perfect reflection of yourself. You place and power it.^[6]

Fluids

Fluids move through pipes, and you place and power a Mechanical Pump to drive them. The pulling end of a pipe or pump can collect water, and two different fluids can meet in the same pipe network. Using your Wrench on a pipe that contains a fluid is also an advancement task.^[6]

An Item Drain empties fluid-containing items, and a Spout fills them. A Hose Pulley, once lowered, drains or fills a body of fluid. Pumping from a body of lava large enough counts as infinite. You can also use pipes to pull honey from a Bee Nest or Beehive.^[6]

The Copper Backtank accumulates air pressure. Equip it with a Diving Helmet and you can jump into water. The pack changed the crafting recipes for the backtank, the Copper Diving Helmet and the Copper Diving Boots, so check the recipe below rather than relying on the base mod.^[6][9]

Copper BacktankChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Igneous Zinc Alloy	Shaft	Igneous Zinc Alloy
any copper ingot	any copper storage block	any copper ingot
Empty slot	any copper ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: create:crafting/appliances/copper_backtank

Changed by the pack.

Item handling and automation

A Funnel extracts items from a container or inserts them into one, and a Chute transports items. A Mechanical Arm moves items between locations. You can program one with 10 or more output locations, and it can feed a Blaze Burner.^[6]

A Portable Storage Interface lets you take items from a contraption or insert them into it. A Linked Controller activates a Redstone Link by hand. A Display Link visualises information, and a Train Schedule is what instructs a Train driver.^[6][9]

Linked ControllerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wooden button	any wooden button	any wooden button
Empty slot	Redstone Link	Empty slot
any wooden button	any wooden button	any wooden button

Recipe id: create:crafting/appliances/linked_controller

The Clipboard can copy some blocks' settings, such as filters. Right-click copies them and left-click applies them elsewhere. For item filtering, the pack has the List Filter (List Filter) and the Attribute Filter. Each can be reset by crafting it on its own.^[6][9]

Contraptions

Contraptions are assembled structures that move. Examples include a Clockwork Bearing structure, a Rope Pulley and a Minecart Contraption. You can put drills, saws or harvesters on board, and Super Glue groups blocks together.^[6]

Finding zinc

The pack leaves Create's world generation on, since worldgen.v2.disableWorldGen is false. Zinc ore generates with these settings:^[8]

• Cluster size: 12, set by worldgen.v2.zinc_ore.clusterSize.^[8]
• Frequency: 8 clusters per chunk, set by worldgen.v2.zinc_ore.frequency.^[8]
• Height range: from -63 to 70, set by worldgen.v2.zinc_ore.minHeight and worldgen.v2.zinc_ore.maxHeight.^[8]

Striated ores use a cluster size of 32 and a frequency of 0.0555555559694767, which is below 1, so each chunk only has a chance of getting a cluster. They generate between -30 and 70 in the Overworld and between 40 and 90 in the Nether.^[8]

Unverified Exact stress capacities, rotation speeds, fluid throughput and whether the pack changed any of those values aren't covered by the sources available here, so check Ponder or in-game tooltips.

Same as in the All the Mods - Gravitas 3.6b guide

Create in this pack opens with a short quest line, and several of the recipes behind it are different from the mod's defaults. Here is what the pack's quests ask for and how each recipe is crafted here.^[3][4][5]

Tier 1: Cogwheels and Water Wheels

The first Create chapter has two quests. One asks you to obtain a Water Wheel, and the other asks for a Cogwheel. These are your first steps into kinetic power: a cogwheel moves rotation along, and a water wheel generates it.^[3]

The pack changed the Cogwheel recipe, so don't rely on the mod's default. The recipe below is the one that counts in this pack.^[5]

CogwheelChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Shaft
• any treated lumber
• any treated lumber

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/cogwheel

The pack also changed the Cogwheel recipe for the deploying machine, so deployer automation follows the pack's version too.^[5]

CogwheelChanged by the pack

Deploying (create)

• Shaft
• any treated wood

Recipe id: create:deploying/cogwheel

The Water Wheel recipe is another pack change, and it builds on the Large Cogwheel.^[5]

Water WheelChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any treated lumber	any treated lumber	any treated lumber
any treated lumber	Large Cogwheel	any treated lumber
any treated lumber	any treated lumber	any treated lumber

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/water_wheel

Tier 2: Early Create Machines

The next quest, "{gravitas.quest.steel.early_create}" quest, is the early-Create step. It asks you to get an Encased Fan and a Mechanical Press. Both need Igneous Zinc Casing, which this pack calls Igneous Zinc Casing, plus a Shaft.^[4][5]

The Encased Fan recipe is the mod's own, unchanged by the pack.^[5]

Encased FanMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Shaft

Igneous Zinc Casing

Propeller

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/encased_fan

The Mechanical Press is different. The pack changed its recipe, so check the version below before you gather materials.^[5]

Mechanical PressChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Shaft

Igneous Zinc Casing

Wrought Iron Anvil

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/mechanical_press

Looking Ahead: Precision Mechanisms

The pack also changed the sequenced assembly recipe for the Precision Mechanism. It runs through the Incomplete Precision Mechanism, so use the pack's recipe rather than guides written for the mod's defaults.^[5]

Precision Mechanism, Gold Plate, Igneous Zinc Alloy, Cogwheel, Gold Nugget, Shaft, Crushed Raw Gold, Wrought Iron Ingot +1 moreChanged by the pack

Sequenced Assembly (create)

• Cogwheel
• 4× Incomplete Precision Mechanism
• Large Cogwheel
• any iron nugget
• any gold plate

Recipe id: create:sequenced_assembly/precision_mechanism

Unverified The sources show no quests beyond the early-Create step, so I can't confirm what comes after it, such as brass-tier progression, or whether Create belongs on the main progression path.

Same as in the All the Mods - Gravitas 3.6b guide

Create is the backbone of the pack's automation, and the pack ties it into several other mods. Most of it comes from in-pack recipes: TFC metals and wood, Immersive Engineering and Thermal materials, Firmalife food, plus add-ons like Create Additions and Create Teleporters. Here's how it all connects.^[5]

Ores and metals

Create's crushed ores don't give you vanilla ingots here. Many of the smelting and blasting recipes were changed by the pack so they output TFC ingots instead. Aluminium and uranium are the exception: those are untouched mod recipes that give you Immersive Engineering ingots.^[5]

• Smelting or blasting Crushed Raw Copper, Crushed Raw Gold, Crushed Raw Zinc, Crushed Raw Tin, Crushed Raw Nickel and Crushed Raw Silver gives you the matching TFC ingot, such as Copper Ingot or Zinc Ingot. These recipes are all pack changes.^[5]
• Crushed Raw Iron smelts into a Wrought Iron Ingot, not a vanilla iron ingot.^[5]
• Crushed Raw Lead smelts into an Lead Ingot, and Crushed Raw Aluminum and Crushed Raw Uranium give Aluminium Ingot and Uranium Ingot.^[5]
• Washing crushed ores gives nuggets. Crushed Raw Copper gives an Copper Nugget plus a Clay Ball. Lead, nickel and silver give Immersive Engineering nuggets, while tin gives a Tin Nugget.^[5]
• Crushing Tuff drops a Zinc Nugget, an Copper Nugget, Flint, a Gold Nugget and an Iron Nugget. Crushing Veridium gives Crushed Raw Copper and a copper nugget. The pack changed both recipes.^[5]
• Crushing diamond, emerald or lapis ore (including the deepslate versions) gives you a Nugget of Experience, the matching stone, and a TFC cut gem such as Cut Diamond.^[5]
• The pack also adds EX Machinis compacting recipes that turn Poor Sphalerite, Normal Sphalerite and Rich Sphalerite into Raw Zinc.^[5]

TFC-flavoured Create machines

The pack rewrote a lot of Create's crafting recipes to use TFC items. That includes the machines, belts, funnels, tunnels, the Hose Pulley and the Spout. The Create windows were changed too, and each wood type now needs its matching TFC planks. Here are a few examples.^[5]

Mechanical PressChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Shaft

Igneous Zinc Casing

Wrought Iron Anvil

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/mechanical_press

Pack-changed recipe.

MillstoneChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot
Cogwheel	Quern	Cogwheel
any smooth stone	Igneous Zinc Casing	any smooth stone

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/millstone

Pack-changed recipe.

Mechanical BeltChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

6 × Dried Kelp

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/belt_connector

Pack-changed recipe.

The Precision Mechanism sequenced assembly was also changed by the pack. It uses Immersive Engineering and TFC items along the way.^[5]

These changes show up in the quests. The early Create quest asks you to get an Encased Fan and a Mechanical Press, and the Mechanical Press uses the TFC-modified recipe above. Two other quests ask for a Water Wheel and a Cogwheel: a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.3.title}" and a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.3.title}". The press quest is "{gravitas.quest.steel.early_create}" quest.^[3][4][5]

Food and Firmalife

Create's food and fluid recipes connect to Firmalife through pack changes. Compacting Create's Chocolate gives you Dark Chocolate. Filling berries with Chocolate makes Chocolate Glazed Berries. Emptying Builder's Tea or a honey container returns a Firmalife Empty Jar.^[5]

Create Additions

Create Additions adds electricity to Create. Its recipes in this pack are unchanged mod recipes built around Create parts. They give you the Electric Motor, Alternator, Tesla Coil, Rolling Mill, Accumulator and Portable Energy Interface. There's also a Create mixing recipe for Bioethanol.^[5]

Electric MotorMod recipe

Mechanical Crafting (create)

Mechanical Crafting (create)

Empty slot	Empty slot	Igneous Zinc Alloy	Empty slot	Empty slot
Empty slot	any brass plates	Copper Spool	any brass plates	Empty slot
any brass plates	Copper Spool	any iron rod	Copper Spool	any brass plates
Empty slot	any brass plates	Capacitor	any brass plates	Empty slot

Recipe id: createaddition:mechanical_crafting/electric_motor

Create Teleporters

Create Teleporters builds on Create's casings, sequenced assembly and item application. The pack changed three recipes: the Quantum Casing, the Advanced Component and the Entity Teleporter Receiver. The Item Teleporter recipe is an unchanged mod recipe.^[5]

Quantum Casing, BucketChanged by the pack

Item Application (create)

• Brass Casing
• Telejuice Bucket

Recipe id: createteleporters:quantum_casing_recipe

Pack-changed recipe.

Advanced ComponentChanged by the pack

Sequenced Assembly (create)

• Sturdy Sheet
• 4× Incomplete Advanced Component
• Redstone Pearl
• any diamond gem

Recipe id: createteleporters:advanced_part_recipe

Pack-changed recipe.

Entity Teleporter ReceiverChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Brass Casing	Advanced Component	Brass Casing
Brass Casing	Redstone Pearl	Brass Casing
Brass Casing	any brass ingots	Brass Casing

Recipe id: createteleporters:tp_rec_recipe

Pack-changed recipe.

Same as in the All the Mods - Gravitas 3.6b guide

In this pack, Create appears in a few quests spread across separate chapters. The chapter titles only exist as untranslated placeholder keys in the pack files, so I can't give you their display names. I'll point to them by the order the files list them.^[3][4]

The chapter with the water wheel and cogwheel quests

This chapter's Create quests are simple item tasks. The quest a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.3.title}" asks you to obtain a Water Wheel. The quest a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.3.title}" asks you to obtain a Cogwheel. Neither quest has a title in the pack files.^[3]

The chapter with the early Create quest

This chapter has the Create quest "{gravitas.quest.steel.early_create}" quest. Its tasks ask you to obtain an Encased Fan and a Mechanical Press.^[4]

Unverified The files I have don't show which quests depend on which, or what rewards they give, so the order you're meant to complete them in isn't confirmed.

Create's config is mostly set-and-forget, but a few options are worth knowing about, especially the worldgen ones if you're hunting for zinc. Here is exactly how this pack sets them.^[7][8]

World generation

worldgen.v2.disableWorldGen is set to false in this pack. That means Create's worldgen is active. If you set it to true, it prevents all worldgen added by Create from taking effect.^[8]

Zinc is the ore most players go looking for. In this pack it is set as follows:^[8]

• worldgen.v2.zinc_ore.clusterSize is 12.^[8]
• worldgen.v2.zinc_ore.frequency is 8. This is the number of clusters generated per chunk, so a value above 1 spawns multiple clusters, a value below 1 turns it into a chance, and 0 disables it.^[8]
• worldgen.v2.zinc_ore.minHeight is -63 and worldgen.v2.zinc_ore.maxHeight is 70, so zinc generates between those two heights.^[8]

The striated ore veins use the same kind of settings. In the Overworld, worldgen.v2.striated_ores_overworld.clusterSize is 32 and worldgen.v2.striated_ores_overworld.frequency is 0.0555555559694767, which is less than 1, so it works as a chance per chunk. The height range runs from worldgen.v2.striated_ores_overworld.minHeight at -30 to worldgen.v2.striated_ores_overworld.maxHeight at 70.^[8]

In the Nether, worldgen.v2.striated_ores_nether.clusterSize is also 32 and worldgen.v2.striated_ores_nether.frequency is also 0.0555555559694767. Its height range runs from worldgen.v2.striated_ores_nether.minHeight at 40 to worldgen.v2.striated_ores_nether.maxHeight at 90.^[8]

Client options

client.enableRainbowDebug is true in this pack. It shows kinetic debug information on blocks while the F3 menu is open.^[7]

client.mainMenuConfigButtonOffsetX is set to -40000. It offsets the Create config button in the main menu by that many pixels on the X axis. The sign decides which side of the row the button appears on.^[7]

Unverified The sources only show this pack's values, not Create's own defaults. This page therefore can't confirm which of the values above the pack changed from the mod default.

This pack ships Create 0.5.1.b for Minecraft 1.18.2 (file create-1.18.2-0.5.1.b.jar). It has been in the pack since Gravitas 1.1 or earlier. Below are the notable changes from 0.5.1b and the two releases before it, 0.5i and 0.5h, taken from Create's own changelogs.^{[10][11][12][13]}

Create 0.5.1b (the version in this pack)

This one is mostly a big round of fixes. These are the ones you are most likely to notice:^[10]

• Elevator contraptions no longer misalign with their contacts if you change the target floor mid-travel, and there was an attempt to fix lighting issues with elevator contacts.^[10]
• Copycat blocks: you can now sneak-pick to get the copycat block itself instead of its applied material, and they no longer keep the NBT contents of the material's item when loaded from a schematic.^[10]
• Deployers no longer fail to activate bearings and other components with value input slots.^[10]
• Waterlogged belts and depots now wash contained items when a fan targets them.^[10]
• Smart Chutes no longer stop chests from opening under them.^[10]
• Mechanical Rollers no longer place blocks into train tracks when paving steep slopes.^[10]
• The netherite backtank now depletes air in lava even when your head is not fully submerged, and the netherite diving suit protects from fire damage again when Quark is installed.^[10]
• Contraption mounted storage no longer interacts with modded ender chests, because it didn't work correctly.^[10]
• Crashes fixed: placing a clipboard into replaceable blocks mid-air, and cycling bogey types on a server.^[10]

Create 0.5i

• Fixed a crash when loading trains with the most recent Forge versions, and players getting kicked when merging very large track networks.^[11]
• Crashes during schematic loading no longer terminate the server.^[11]
• Fixed a crash when creating new belts at existing chutes or funnels, and ghost items appearing on non-powered belts when extracted from.^[11]
• Added enchantment descriptions for Capacity and Potato Recovery.^[11]

Create 0.5h

This release changed some mechanics as well as fixing bugs.^[12]

• The superheated burn time of blaze cakes changed from 1000 to 3200 ticks.^[12]
• Blaze Burners now accept fuel from deployers and arms a number of seconds before running out.^[12]
• Deployers can no longer consume potions or milk, and instead feed players in their target area. A new #deployable_drink tag covers consumables that are not considered food.^[12]
• The maximum placement length of tracks and turns is now configurable.^[12]
• Added a config for the maximum contraption size for syncing, and the minecart pickup maximum is increased if XL Packets is loaded.^[12]
• Create now uses Crowdin for community translations, with Thai, Czech, Hungarian and Norwegian localisations added.^[12]