Create in FTB StoneBlock 4

Create is all about building machines you can actually watch work. It adds tools and blocks for building, decoration and aesthetic automation. Instead of clicking through menus, you set up contraptions of animated parts that work together, and you get to decide how they're arranged.^[1]

If you like designing your own setups and seeing gears turn, this mod is for you. When you're stuck on a mechanic, open Create's built-in visual guide, Ponder, which walks you through every machine and gadget.^[1]

Where Create fits in this pack

Your Create journey starts in the technology chapter with Andesite Alloy in "Create" quest. Next you make Cogwheel, Large Cogwheel and Shaft, then Andesite Casing. Andesite casing opens three branches: the Mechanical Press, the Deployer, and brass with the Mechanical Crafter. The deployer branch leads to the Precision Mechanism in a quest in "General Tech".^[2]

Create also matters for World Engine Tier 1. That chapter asks for Brass Casing, then Train Casing, then Shadow Steel, and finally Shadow Casing together with the Encased Chain Drive. The bounty board chapter also asks for shadow casing.^[3][4]

Several other chapters use Create pieces too:^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

• Resource generation: the Mechanical Harvester, plus the Mechanical Saw and deployer.^[5]
• Processing and automation: the Mechanical Belt together with a funnel, tunnel or chute.^[9]
• Logistics and storage: the Item Vault, Packager, Stock Link and Stock Ticker.^[8]
• Gearing up: the full set of cardboard armor.^[7]
• Useful items and tips: the Redstone Link and the Wand Of Symmetry.^[6]

Create keeps paying off right up to the endgame. In the creative chapter, the precision mechanism appears in "Creative Motor" quest, and the Creative Motor is one of the creative items gathered in "Ascension Tier 2 - Transcendent" quest. The same collection of creative items also shows up in the backrooms chapter.^[10][11]

The easiest way into Create in this pack is to follow the quest line in the technology chapter. It starts with one basic material, moves on to simple moving parts, then to your first casing, and from there it splits into your first real machines. Here's that path in order, and why each step matters.^[2]

Step 1: Andesite Alloy

Your very first quest, "Create" quest, asks for Andesite Alloy. Create itself calls it the mod's most important resource, and almost everything in the next few steps is built from it, so make a good stack.^[2][12]

You can craft it by hand right away. There's a second hand recipe that swaps one ingredient, so use whichever you have more of. Later on, a Mechanical Mixer can make it too.^[13]

Andesite AlloyMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron nugget	Andesite
Andesite	any iron nugget

Recipe id: create:crafting/materials/andesite_alloy

Andesite AlloyMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any zinc nugget	Andesite
Andesite	any zinc nugget

Recipe id: create:crafting/materials/andesite_alloy_from_zinc

Alternative hand recipe

Step 2: Shafts and Cogwheels

Next, a quest in "General Tech" wants a Shaft, a Cogwheel and a Large Cogwheel. These are the parts that carry rotation from one block to the next. Every machine you build will run through them. If you already have a small cogwheel, you can upgrade it into a large one instead of crafting it from scratch.^[2][13]

8× ShaftMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Andesite Alloy

Andesite Alloy

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/shaft

CogwheelMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Shaft
• any plank

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/cogwheel

Large CogwheelMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Cogwheel
• any plank

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/large_cogwheel_from_little

Upgrade a small cogwheel

Step 3: Andesite Casing

a quest in "General Tech" asks for Andesite Casing, the basic casing for your machines. You don't make it in a crafting grid. You apply an item directly to a block in the world. This quest is the big unlock: three separate quests open up once you finish it.^[2][12][13]

Andesite CasingMod recipe

Item Application (create)

• Andesite Alloy
• any stripped log

Recipe id: create:item_application/andesite_casing_from_log

Step 4: Your First Machines

• a quest in "General Tech" asks for a Mechanical Press plus a Gold Plate. The press turns ingots into sheets, and you'll need that plate for the next big item.^[2][12][13]
• a quest in "General Tech" asks for a Deployer, which leads straight to the Precision Mechanism quest.^[2]
• "Mechanical Crafter" quest asks for a Brass Ingot and a Mechanical Crafter, which moves you into brass-tier machines.^[2]

Mechanical PressMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Shaft

Andesite Casing

any iron storage block

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/mechanical_press

DeployerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Electron Tube

Andesite Casing

Brass Hand

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/deployer

3× Mechanical CrafterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Electron Tube

Brass Casing

Crafting Table

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/mechanical_crafter

Step 5: Precision Mechanism

Once your Deployer quest is done, a quest in "General Tech" asks for a Precision Mechanism. It's made through sequenced assembly, and this pack has changed that recipe. Check the version shown below rather than a guide written for another pack.^[2][13]

Precision Mechanism, Gold Plate, Andesite Alloy, Cogwheel, Gold Nugget, Shaft, Crushed Raw Gold, 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

Changed by the pack

It's worth the effort. Precision Mechanisms go into mechanical crafting recipes like the Potato Cannon and the Wand Of Symmetry. That's another good reason to get your Mechanical Crafters going.^[13]

Unverified The sources don't confirm how this pack expects you to produce your first Brass Ingots, so check the brass ingot recipes in your recipe viewer before planning that step. This site does hold FTB StoneBlock 4's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Create is all about building contraptions out of animated components that work together, instead of clicking through machine menus. It gives you tools and blocks for building, decoration and what the mod calls aesthetic automation, and it leaves most of the design choices up to you.^[1]

If you're ever unsure how a block behaves, check Ponder. It's Create's visual in-game documentation and walks you through its mechanics and gadgets.^[1]

Unverified Where this pack expects you to get the raw materials Create normally generates in the world isn't covered by the available sources. Check the pack's quests or recipe viewer. This site does hold FTB StoneBlock 4's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Rotation, speed and stress

Everything in Create runs on rotational power, which the mod calls torque. You can generate it with a Water Wheel, an assembled windmill or a Steam Engine. Windmills come in different strengths, and a boiler can run at different power levels up to a maximum. For a quick bit of power, a Hand Crank works until you're exhausted.^[12]

You carry rotation around with Shaft blocks, and a Mechanical Belt connects two Shafts. To change the speed of your contraption, connect a Large Cogwheel to a Small Cogwheel. For finer control, use a Rotation Speed Controller.^[12]

Machines put stress on your network. Put on Engineer's Goggles and look at a Stressometer to get an exact readout, all the way up to 100%. In this pack, a tooltip also appears when you look at overstressed components, because client.enableOverstressedTooltip is enabled.^[12][15]

Key materials and casings

Andesite Alloy is Create's most important resource. Apply it to stripped wood to make Andesite Casing, the basic casing for your machines.^[12]

Brass Ingots are alloyed in a Blaze-heated Mechanical Mixer. Brass applied to stripped wood gives you Brass Casing for more sophisticated machines. Copper applied the same way gives you a waterproof casing.^[12]

Refining Powdered Obsidian gives you Sturdy Sheets. You'll need those for the casing of railway components.^[12]

Processing machines

• Mechanical Press: makes sheets. Paired with a Basin, it compacts many items into fewer.^[12]
• Mechanical Mixer: combines ingredients. Some recipes, like Brass, need Blaze heat underneath.^[12]
• Blaze Burner: provides that heat, and a Mechanical Arm can keep it fed for you.^[12]
• Millstone: pulverises materials.^[12]
• Crushing Wheels: work as a set, and you can run them at maximum speed.^[12]
• Encased Fan: processes materials that pass through its airflow.^[12]
• Mechanical Saw: processes materials when placed upright.^[12]
• Deployer: acts like a copy of you, using items on whatever is in front of it.^[12]
• Mechanical Crafters: craft once placed and powered.^[12]
• Spout and Item Drain: the Spout fills fluid-containing items, and the Item Drain empties them.^[12]

Moving items

Mechanical Belts carry items. A Funnel extracts items from a container or inserts them into one, and Funnels can also be mounted on belts. Chutes transport items too, and a Weighted Ejector can launch things, including you, more than 30 blocks.^[12]

A Mechanical Arm picks items up and puts them down at locations you program. You can give a single arm 10 or more output locations.^[12]

To control which items go where, you use a List Filter or an Attribute Filter. Each has a crafting recipe that takes the filter and gives it back, meant for clearing it.^[13]

In this pack, items placed in a block's filter slot are displayed out to 10 blocks away, set by client.filterItemRenderDistance.^[15]

List FilterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• List Filter

Recipe id: create:crafting/appliances/filter_clear

Clears a List Filter

A Clipboard keeps your notes. It can also copy some blocks' settings, such as filters, with a right-click and apply them elsewhere with a left-click. Sneak-click to place it on a surface.^[12]

Fluids

Fluid Pipes and Mechanical Pumps move fluids around. The pulling end of a pipe or pump can collect water, and pipes can pull honey from a Bee Nest or Beehive. A Hose Pulley lowers into a body of fluid and either drains it or fills it. A Fluid Tank stores fluids, and you can attach Steam Whistles to one.^[12]

Whether a fluid can be drained infinitely is set by fluids.bottomlessFluidMode. This pack uses ALLOW_BY_TAG, so only fluids in the matching tag count as bottomless. That's also how you can pump from a body of lava large enough to be considered infinite.^[12][16]

Unverified Exactly which fluids are in the bottomless tag in this pack isn't shown in the sources.

Contraptions

Super Glue groups blocks together so they can move as one structure. A Clockwork Bearing is one way to mount and move a structure like that.^[12]

You can put drills, saws or harvesters on a contraption to make it work as it moves. A Portable Storage Interface takes items from a moving contraption or inserts items into it.^[12]

Minecart Contraptions can be picked up even with 200 or more blocks attached. A Rope Pulley can extend more than 200 blocks deep.^[12]

Packages and logistics

A Packager packages items from an inventory into Cardboard packages. A Frogport catches those packages from a Chain Conveyor, and Factory Gauges can trigger package requests automatically.^[12]

At a Stock Ticker, you employ a mob and make requests. You can also put items up for sale with a Table Cloth.^[12]

In this pack, client.recipeViewerIntegration.syncRecipeViewerSearch is set to SYNC_BOTH. That controls how your recipe viewer search interacts with Stock Keepers.^[15]

Trains

Once you have Train Tracks, you can assemble a train and give its driver a Train Schedule. Train Signals and Display Links help you run and monitor your network.^[12]

In this pack, track networks and trains show up on supported map mods, because client.trains.showTrainMapOverlay is enabled.^[15]

Conversion recipes changed by the pack

This pack changes several shapeless conversion recipes that turn blocks from the Create Connected add-on back into their standard Create versions. They convert Linked Transmitter to Redstone Link, Item Silo to Item Vault, Fluid Vessel to Fluid Tank, Inverted Clutch to Clutch and Inverted Gearshift to Gearshift. Check the recipe blocks below for the exact in-pack versions.^[13]

Redstone LinkChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Linked Transmitter

Recipe id: create_connected:crafting/kinetics/redstone_link_from_conversion

Item VaultChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Item Silo

Recipe id: create_connected:crafting/kinetics/item_vault_from_conversion

Fluid TankChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Fluid Vessel

Recipe id: create_connected:crafting/kinetics/fluid_tank_from_conversion

ClutchChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Inverted Clutch

Recipe id: create_connected:crafting/kinetics/clutch_from_conversion

GearshiftChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Inverted Gearshift

Recipe id: create_connected:crafting/kinetics/gearshift_from_conversion

Air pressure and the Copper Backtank

A Copper Backtank accumulates air pressure. In this pack, a full tank holds 900 air, which equals 900 seconds of underwater breathing. Each level of the Capacity enchantment adds 300 more.^[12][16]

The same air powers your tools. One filled backtank gives you 1,000 free Extendo Grip actions or 200 free Potato Cannon shots. All of these values match the mod defaults.^[16]

Copper BacktankMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Andesite Alloy	Shaft	Andesite 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

Create in this pack follows a clear ladder in the quest book. You start with andesite gear in the technology chapter, move on to brass, and then push into the World Engine chapter for train and shadow casings. The very end connects Create to the pack's creative-tier goals. Here's how each step is laid out and which in-pack recipes get you there.^[2][3][10]

Tier 1: Andesite

Everything starts with Andesite Alloy, the first Create task in the technology chapter at "Create" quest. You can hand-craft it early on. Once you have a mixer running, you can also make it by mixing, and there are versions that use either iron or zinc nuggets.^[2][13]

Andesite AlloyMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron nugget	Andesite
Andesite	any iron nugget

Recipe id: create:crafting/materials/andesite_alloy

Andesite AlloyMod recipe

Mixing (create)

• Andesite
• any zinc nugget

Recipe id: create:mixing/andesite_alloy_from_zinc

Zinc-nugget variant for mixing

Next, a quest in "General Tech" asks for your first power-transmission parts: a Shaft, a Cogwheel and a Large Cogwheel. Shafts come from andesite alloy. Cogwheels and large cogwheels are shapeless crafts, and you can also automate them later with a Deployer.^[2][13]

8× ShaftMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Andesite Alloy

Andesite Alloy

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/shaft

CogwheelMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Shaft
• any plank

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/cogwheel

Large CogwheelMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Cogwheel
• any plank

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/large_cogwheel_from_little

The key block of this tier is Andesite Casing, the goal of a quest in "General Tech". You make it with item application on a stripped log or stripped wood. Most early machines need this casing, so make plenty.^[2][13]

Andesite CasingMod recipe

Item Application (create)

• Andesite Alloy
• any stripped log

Recipe id: create:item_application/andesite_casing_from_log

The three branches after Andesite Casing

Once you finish the casing quest, the technology chapter opens three separate paths. You can tackle them in any order.^[2]

• Pressing: a quest in "General Tech" asks for a Mechanical Press and a Gold Plate, so you're expected to press your first plate.^[2][13]
• Deploying: a quest in "General Tech" asks for a Deployer. This leads to a quest in "General Tech", which asks for a Precision Mechanism.^[2]
• Brass: "Mechanical Crafter" quest asks for a Brass Ingot and a Mechanical Crafter.^[2]

Mechanical PressMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Shaft

Andesite Casing

any iron storage block

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/mechanical_press

DeployerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Electron Tube

Andesite Casing

Brass Hand

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/deployer

3× Mechanical CrafterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Electron Tube

Brass Casing

Crafting Table

Recipe id: create:crafting/kinetics/mechanical_crafter

Precision Mechanism, Gold Plate, Andesite Alloy, Cogwheel, Gold Nugget, Shaft, Crushed Raw Gold, 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

Changed by the pack

Tier 2: Brass

The World Engine Tier 1 chapter picks up with "Basic Casings" quest, which asks for a brass ingot and a Brass Casing. Brass casing is made by item application, just like andesite casing.^[3][13]

Brass CasingMod recipe

Item Application (create)

• any brass ingots
• any stripped log

Recipe id: create:item_application/brass_casing_from_log

Tier 3: Train and Shadow Casing

After brass, "Train Casing" quest asks for a Train Casing, which you make by item application onto brass casing. Then "Remnants of The Past" quest asks for Shadow Steel and also includes a structure task.^[3][13]

Train CasingMod recipe

Item Application (create)

• Brass Casing
• any obsidian plate

Recipe id: create:item_application/railway_casing

The pack adds its own recipe for Shadow Casing, made by item application onto a Train Casing. "Shadow Casings & Stress" quest asks for shadow casing together with an Encased Chain Drive. "Auto-Build The Shadow Casing Upgrade" quest asks for the same two items. Shadow casing also comes up again as a bounty board task in "Shadow Casing Trade" quest.^[3][4][13]

Shadow CasingAdded by the pack

Item Application (create)

• Train Casing
• Shadow Steel

Recipe id: ftb:create/shadow_casing

Added by the pack

Unverified The sources don't say which structure the shadow steel quest requires or how the pack expects you to get shadow steel.

Endgame: Create in the creative tier

Create shows up again at the very top of the pack. "Creative Motor" quest in the creative chapter asks for a precision mechanism alongside items from other mods. The big creative-items quests, "Ascension Tier 2 - Transcendent" quest and a quest in "Backstage", include the Creative Motor. "God of the World" quest asks for the Potato Cannon, Extendo Grip and Wand Of Symmetry next to a stack of singularities.^[10][11]

Potato CannonMod recipe

Mechanical Crafting (create)

Mechanical Crafting (create)

Andesite Alloy	Precision Mechanism	Fluid Pipe	Fluid Pipe	Fluid Pipe
any copper ingot	any copper ingot	Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: create:mechanical_crafting/potato_cannon

Wand Of SymmetryMod recipe

Mechanical Crafting (create)

Mechanical Crafting (create)

Empty slot	any glass blocks	Empty slot
any glass blocks	any ender pearl	any glass blocks
Empty slot	Precision Mechanism	Empty slot
Empty slot	any brass ingots	Empty slot
Empty slot	any obsidian	Empty slot

Recipe id: create:mechanical_crafting/wand_of_symmetry

Side quests worth doing along the way

• Resource generation: "Mechanical Harvesting" quest asks for a Mechanical Harvester, and "Contraption Cutting" quest asks for a Mechanical Saw and a Deployer.^[5]
• Processing and automation: "Create Item Options" quest asks for a Mechanical Belt plus any one funnel, tunnel or chute.^[9]
• Logistics and storage: "Create's Inventory System" quest asks for an Item Vault, Packager, Stock Link and Stock Ticker.^[8]
• Gearing up: "Cardboard Armor" quest asks for the full cardboard armor set, starting with the Cardboard Helmet.^[7]
• Useful items: "Wireless Redstone" quest features the Redstone Link, and a quest in "Useful Items & Tips" features the Wand of Symmetry.^[6]

Create is one of the most connected mods in this pack. Lots of add-ons build on its parts, and the pack has rewired several recipes so Create machines feed materials into other mods. Here's what you'll run into.^[13]

Ore processing and materials

The pack changed Create's crushing and washing so the nuggets you get are the pack's shared materials, like Zinc Nugget, Copper Nugget and Uranium Nugget. Crushing Asurine and Veridium stone also gives these nuggets alongside the crushed ore.^[13]

9× Zinc Nugget, GunpowderChanged by the pack

Splashing (create)

• Crushed Raw Zinc

Recipe id: create:splashing/crushed_raw_zinc

Crushed Raw Copper, Copper NuggetChanged by the pack

Crushing (create)

• Veridium

Recipe id: create:crushing/veridium

The pack also adds a crushing recipe for Black Quartz ore. It gives you Black Quartz plus a Nugget of Experience as a bonus.^[13]

2× Black Quartz, Black Quartz, Nugget of ExperienceAdded by the pack

Crushing (create)

• any black quartz ore

Recipe id: ftb:create/crusher/ores/black_quartz

Mixing into other mods' products

Your Create mixer isn't just for Create items. The pack adds a mixing recipe that makes Biofuel, and it changed the mixing recipe for Pie Crust.^[13]

125× BiofuelAdded by the pack

Mixing (create)

• Cinder Flour
• 2× Biomass
• Sugar

Recipe id: createaddition:mixing/compat/bioethanol_industrial_foregoing

Pie CrustChanged by the pack

Mixing (create)

• 3× Wheat Flour
• 250× any milk

Recipe id: farmersdelight:integration/create/mixing/pie_crust_from_mixing

Experience and enchanting

The pack changed the Mechanical Grindstone recipes for experience. Grinding a Block of Experience or Nugget of Experience now produces Cognitium Source, so your Create experience farm can supply that mod too.^[13]

27× Cognitium SourceChanged by the pack

Grinding (create_enchantment_industry)

• Block of Experience

Recipe id: create_enchantment_industry:grinding/experience_block

The Experience Hatch is made by item application, using a recipe the pack added. The Blaze Enchanter, Blaze Forger and Blaze Composer are smithing upgrades that use the Smithing Template. The pack changed the Blaze Composer's recipe, as well as the recipes for the Brass Bookshelf, Ender Woven Bag and Affix Augmentor. Some of these pull in items from Apothic Enchanting, such as the Pearlescent Endshelf and Ender Lead.^[13]

Experience HatchAdded by the pack

Item Application (create)

• Block of Experience
• Item Hatch

Recipe id: ftb:create_enchantment_industry/experience_hatch

Brass BookshelfChanged by the pack

Sequenced Assembly (create)

• Pearlescent Endshelf
• Precision Mechanism
• 4× Incomplete Brass Bookshelf
• 250× any experience
• any brass ingots

Recipe id: create_enchantment_industry:sequenced_assembly/brass_bookshelf

Kinetic add-ons and conversions

The pack changed nearly all the recipes for the extra kinetic blocks, like the Kinetic Battery, 6-way Gearbox and Sequenced Pulse Generator. Check the recipe viewer rather than relying on older guides.^[13]

• You can convert back and forth in a crafting grid between Clutch and Inverted Clutch, and between Gearshift and Inverted Gearshift.^[13]
• The same two-way conversion works for Fluid Tank and Fluid Vessel, and for Item Vault and Item Silo.^[13]
• Redstone Link swaps with Linked Transmitter, and Copycat Step swaps with Copycat Vertical Step.^[13]
• Cutting a Shaft with a saw gives you a Shear Pin, a recipe the pack changed.^[13]

Shear PinChanged by the pack

Cutting (create)

• Shaft

Recipe id: create:cutting/shaft

Power and transport

Create components also show up in electrical machines like the Alternator and Tesla Coil, both made in a Mechanical Crafter. Charging a Golden Sheet turns it into an Electrum Sheet. For moving yourself around, the hypertube blocks are built from Create parts too, and the pack changed the recipes for the Hypertube Splitter and Tube Scanner Attachment.^[13]

AlternatorMod recipe

Mechanical Crafting (create)

Mechanical Crafting (create)

Empty slot	Empty slot	Andesite Alloy	Empty slot	Empty slot
Empty slot	any iron plate	Copper Spool	any iron plate	Empty slot
any iron plate	Copper Spool	any iron rod	Copper Spool	any iron plate
Empty slot	any iron plate	Copper Spool	any iron plate	Empty slot
Empty slot	Empty slot	Andesite Alloy	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: createaddition:mechanical_crafting/alternator

Quests that mix mods

• In the technology chapter, a quest in "General Tech" asks for a Mechanical Press together with a Gold Plate, and "Mechanical Crafter" quest pairs a brass ingot with the Mechanical Crafter.^[2]
• "Basic Casings" quest in the first World Engine chapter wants a brass ingot and Brass Casing.^[3]
• "Wireless Redstone" quest shows off the Redstone Link alongside an RFTools redstone receiver or transmitter.^[6]
• Late game, "Creative Motor" quest combines a Precision Mechanism with an electric motor and a redstone singularity. "Ascension Tier 2 - Transcendent" quest and a quest in "Backstage" put the Creative Motor next to creative items from many other mods.^[10][11]

Create shows up in quite a few quest chapters in this pack. The biggest chains are in the technology chapter and the World Engine tier 1 chapter, and Create items also appear in the endgame creative chapter. Several smaller chapters have standalone Create quests you can pick up along the way.^[2][3][10]

Technology: your Create starter path

This chapter has a clear chain of Create quests. Here's the order they unlock in.^[2]

1. "Create" quest asks for Andesite Alloy.^[2]
2. a quest in "General Tech" comes next and wants a Cogwheel, a Large Cogwheel and a Shaft.^[2]
3. a quest in "General Tech" asks for Andesite Casing. Completing it opens up three branches.^[2]
4. a quest in "General Tech" asks for a Mechanical Press plus a Gold Plate.^[2]
5. a quest in "General Tech" asks for a Deployer. It leads into a quest in "General Tech", which wants a Precision Mechanism.^[2]
6. "Mechanical Crafter" quest asks for a Brass Ingot and a Mechanical Crafter.^[2]

World Engine tier 1: brass, trains and shadow steel

The World Engine tier 1 chapter takes Create further. Its first Create quest has prerequisites outside this chain, so you may need progress elsewhere before it unlocks.^[3]

1. "Basic Casings" quest asks for a Brass Ingot and Brass Casing.^[3]
2. "Train Casing" quest follows and wants Train Casing.^[3]
3. "Remnants of The Past" quest comes after that. It has a structure task and asks for Shadow Steel.^[3]
4. "Shadow Casings & Stress" quest finishes the chain with Shadow Casing and an Encased Chain Drive. "Auto-Build The Shadow Casing Upgrade" quest asks for the same two items but has a different prerequisite.^[3]

Endgame: the creative chapter

In the creative chapter, "Creative Motor" quest asks for a Precision Mechanism alongside an Electric Motor and an Redstone Singularity. It is one of many prerequisites for "Ascension Tier 2 - Transcendent" quest, a big collection quest that includes the Creative Motor among creative items from lots of other mods. The backrooms chapter has a quest with the same task list, a quest in "Backstage". Separately, "God of the World" quest wants a Potato Cannon, an Extendo Grip and a Wand Of Symmetry, plus a long list of singularities.^[10][11]

Side quests in other chapters

• Resource generation: "Mechanical Harvesting" quest asks for a Mechanical Harvester, and "Contraption Cutting" quest wants a Mechanical Saw and a Deployer.^[5]
• Processing and automation: "Create Item Options" quest wants a Mechanical Belt plus any one of the Brass Funnel, Brass Tunnel, Smart Chute, Chute, Andesite Funnel or Andesite Tunnel.^[9]
• Logistics and storage: "Create's Inventory System" quest asks for an Item Vault, a Packager, a Stock Link and a Stock Ticker.^[8]
• Useful items and tips: "Wireless Redstone" quest accepts a Redstone Link or an Redstone Receiver or Redstone Transmitter, and a quest in "Useful Items & Tips" asks for a Wand Of Symmetry.^[6]
• Gearing up: "Cardboard Armor" quest wants the full cardboard armor set: Cardboard Helmet, Cardboard Chestplate, Cardboard Leggings and Cardboard Boots.^[7]

Good news first: every numeric Create setting in this pack that lists a mod default is left at that default. Belts, ranges, train speeds and tank sizes all behave the same as in standalone Create. The settings below are the ones most likely to affect your builds, along with the exact values this pack uses.^[15][16]

World generation

This pack sets worldgen.disableWorldGen to true, which stops all of Create's worldgen from taking effect. Don't expect Create's own ores or other generated features to show up in your world, so plan to get those materials some other way.^[14]

Stress and rotation

The stress mechanic is fully on, because kinetics.disableStress is false. The speed cap from kinetics.maxRotationSpeed is 256 RPM, the same as the mod default.^[16]

• Stress capacity per source in this pack: hand crank 8, water wheel 32, large water wheel 128, windmill bearing 512, steam engine 1,024 and creative motor 16,384.^[16]
• Hungriest machines: the crushing wheel and mechanical press each have a stress impact of 8. Drills, saws, mixers, millstones, deployers, pistons and bearings each have an impact of 4.^[16]
• Lighter loads: the encased fan, mechanical arm, mechanical crafter and weighted ejector each have an impact of 2. Shafts, cogwheels, gearboxes, belts and clutches have an impact of 0.^[16]
• Windmills need at least 8 sail-type blocks to assemble, and every 8 sail blocks add 1 RPM, using kinetics.minimumWindmillSails and kinetics.windmillSailsPerRPM.^[16]

Automation limits

• Belts can be up to 20 blocks long, and a Mechanical Arm can reach 5 blocks.^[16]
• Redstone links reach up to 256 blocks, and display links reach up to 64 blocks.^[16]
• Vaults hold 20 stacks per block. Fluid tanks hold 8 buckets per block and can be up to 32 blocks tall.^[16]
• Contraptions can move up to 2,048 blocks, and harvesters replant crops but leave partially grown ones alone.^[16]
• Spawners and Budding Amethyst are set to NO_PICKUP for contraptions, while Obsidian and Reinforced Deepslate are set to UNMOVABLE.^[16]

Recipe behaviour

Your Create machines can handle plenty of ordinary recipes in this pack. Mixers can do shapeless crafting and potion brewing, presses can do single-ingredient 2x2 or 3x3 crafting, saws can do stonecutting, and Mechanical Crafters can handle any standard crafting recipe. However, recipes.bulkPressing and recipes.bulkCutting are both false, so presses and saws won't chew through whole stacks at once.^[16]

Trains

Trains have a top speed of 28 blocks per second, or 40 blocks per second for powered trains. Manually driven trains run at 0.75 times the speed of scheduled ones. Moving trains can hurt mobs and players they collide with, so watch where you stand.^[16]

Client options you can tweak

Client settings only change what you see and hear, so you can adjust them freely. Ambient machine sounds are on, with the volume cap set by client.sound.ambientVolumeCap. The goggle overlay position can be shifted with client.goggleOverlay.overlayOffsetX, or with the /create overlay command. Track networks show on supported map mods through client.trains.showTrainMapOverlay.^[15]

In FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 you're running Create version 6.0.10, shipped as the file create-1.21.1-6.0.10.jar. It's been part of the pack since version 1.21.0 or earlier, so it has been available to you from the start of this release line.^[17]

Unverified There are no pack changelog entries or stored mod changelogs for Create in this pack yet, so any changes, tweaks or recipe adjustments made across pack releases can't be listed here. Check back once changelog information is available.