Create is a mod that brings Minecraft to a completely new level. Made by simibubi, Create is part science, part engineering, and completely aimed at making your Minecraft life a little easier. Create automates everything from cutting down trees to delivering items with the click of a button, and comes with aesthetic material to make your home look amazing.
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It's a fairly straightforward mod that requires only a little bit of tinkering to get familiar with it, but finding the starting point of a big mod can be difficult. Where can you look when you're wondering where to start? Here, we are going to take a look at some tips to help you start with the Create mod.
Updated November 16, 2023 by Jacqueline Zalace: Minecraft's Create mod only continues to grow in popularity. As such, we've updated this list with even more helpful tips to help your begin your Create mod experience.
9 Ponder To Understand Mechanics
If you pause the game, you'll see a small icon with a pair of goggles on it next to the menu options. Click that, and go into the Ponder Index, where you'll find visual tutorials on how to build most of Create's basic machines. The Ponder Index also introduces you to the materials you'll need most in your Create journey, like Andesite, Copper, Zinc, Gold, and Brass.
In game, you can also hover on Create machines and components, then press W to ponder and find out how they work. The Ponder Index is an invaluable resource — be sure to make good use of it.
If you are struggling to understand how a single part works, be sure to head to the Create mod wiki. There are in-depth explanations found here that can really help you understand the mod.
8 Gather Basic Materials
Create, like most mods, introduces some of its own base materials — Andesite alloy, Zinc, Brass, and Rose Quartz. It also introduces new variants on common ores — crushed, nuggets, and sheets — that you'll use in your creations.
In general, you can never have enough Andesite! We suggest mining any that you see.
Zinc can be found among the normal ores, while Andesite alloy, Brass, and Rose Quartz are made from material you'll find anywhere in the Minecraft world. There's more, but these are the basics for what you'll need to get started with your Create adventures. Get to mining — that Andesite isn't going to find itself!
7 Chop Down Trees With A Mechanical Saw
We've all spent way too long chopping down a tree in vanilla Minecraft. Once all the wood is finally collected, you then have to deal with the mess of leaves. Sure, they disappear on their own, but until then, you have a mess of floating leaves.
With the Mechanical Saw, you can chop down a tree instantly. Simply place the sawblade facing the bottom block of wood, and then use a Hand Crank to generate some rotational force, causing the blade to activate and chop down the tree.
Blocks will then fall in the opposite direction as if the tree actually fell down. What's more, all the leaves will be gone! You can then run and collect everything that dropped from the tree. Below, you can check out a small table of the materials needed to make both pieces of this simple machine.
Hand Crank | Mechanical Saw |
|---|---|
3x Any Plank Type 1x Andesite Alloy | 1x Iron Ingot 1x Iron Sheet Andesite Casing |
6 Craft Backup Cogwheels
Cogwheels are a cornerstone of Create. Most early-game machines need them, and you will never have enough. Cogwheels are necessary for both creating and powering machines. You can make small ones in stacks of eight, and big ones in stacks of two, using wood and Andesite alloy. They also make for a great decoration if you're trying to achieve a steampunk look, or an engineer's lab.
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Always make sure you have a few on hand, as well as some gear boxes, because you're going to be doing some wild things to get your machines to work. Whether you choose to pare down on the number of gears or keep them for decoration, you'll be happy to have as many as you can possibly make.
5 Build A Mechanical Press
The first thing you'll want to build, once you have your materials ready, is a Mechanical Press. It's a fairly simple machine that can be powered by a Water Wheel, and will press ingots into sheets. Get yourself some gold sheets, then make your next two most important tools — the goggles and wrench. Below, you can see what's needed to make a Mechanical Press.
- 1x Shaft
- 1x Andesite Casing
- 1x Block of Iron
The goggles let you see how fast an energy source is moving, and the wrench will help you change the direction something is facing, allowing you to rearrange how you connect Cogwheels to a machine. You might be able to live without goggles, but you won't get far without the wrench.
4 Understand Different Versions Of Energy
As we know, the Create mod lets you generate energy (power), but it's important to know all the sources available. Energy is used to turn Cogwheels and power machines; you can check out the main energy sources below.
- Manual (turning a crank by hand)
- Water
- Wind
- Steam
A Water Wheel may be your first source of energy, but it's slow, and will really only be good for early machines. Once you move on, you'll want to look into some of the faster energy sources, which will be able to keep up with your advancements. Equipped with your goggles, you'll be able to see the Kinetic Stress Impact an energy source has on a machine.
If a machine needs more energy than the source is outputting, you'll get an error about the source being Overstressed. At that point, you may need to graduate to a new energy source if you can't find a way to speed up the one you have.
Note that speed and Stress are two different things. Speed is measured by rotations per minute (RPM), and is measured in increments of two, while Stress is measured in increments of 12. You'll need to figure out how to keep your stress low and speed high to get things done.
3 Build A Simple Auto-Miner
With the Create mod, you will no longer have to manually mine! An auto-miner will propel itself forward and mine through blocks that stand in the way. With chests attached to the contraption, it will automatically collect any gathered blocks and store them for you.
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The simplest way to make an auto-miner involves a pre-determined railway that a contraption sits on. As it moves on the rails, areas that your drills touch will be mined out. You can check out a tutorial for a mining machine like this from Monkeyfarm on YouTube.
There are also versions that lay down their own track so you can just set the contraption down and let it go! A tutorial for this version is available from Deosil25 on Youtube.
2 Watch Create Mod SMPs
There is a lot to take in with the Create mod, so it's totally possible to miss out on certain features. One great piece of advice we can give is to watch Create mod SMPs on YouTube. With this, you can watch people who truly know the mod build their world. Doing this can help you learn what to do and replicate it in your own world.
One great series to check out features YouTuber Tango Tek. In this series, you can watch him build incredible structures that you can draw inspiration from. This SMP features other YouTubers who make impressive creations as well, such as BdoubleO100.
1 Be Creative!
Create — like the name suggests — is all about breaking out of the box, going above and beyond, and expanding your imagination. Minecraft is a game all about flexibility and using what you have to make great things, but the Create mod goes further by making all of your wildest dreams a reality.
If you can think it, you can build it. Everything from giant automation factories to a working rocket is at your disposal with just a few smaller pieces of a machine.
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