Create Guide

What is the Create Mod?

Create is a mechanical engineering mod by simibubi for Forge and NeoForge, with community ports covering other loaders. Machines run on rotational force carried by shafts, cogwheels, and belts, and every process is visible in the world. A press stamps ingots right on the belt that feeds it, fans blow items through fire or water to process them, and whole drilling machines carve tunnels while they crawl forward.

Create's design philosophy favors in-world mechanics over GUIs, which makes factories from this mod some of the most watchable builds in Minecraft. The mod also includes a full train system with custom tracks, stations, and schedules.

Getting Started: Rotation and Stress

1. Craft Andesite Alloy from andesite and iron or zinc nuggets. It is the material of the mod's first age.
2. Build a power source. A Water Wheel beside flowing water is the classic start; Windmills (a Windmill Bearing plus wool or sail blocks) scale up early power.
3. Move rotation with Shafts, Cogwheels, and Gearboxes. Large-to-small cogwheel connections double speed; small-to-large halves it.
4. Watch your Stress Units (su). Every source provides capacity and every machine consumes it. The Stress-o-meter and Speedometer report network health at a glance.
5. Add your first machines. The Mechanical Press stamps sheet metal and the Millstone handles grinding, while an Encased Fan aimed through water or fire washes or smelts items in bulk.

The next milestone is the Brass Age: Crushing Wheels, the Mechanical Mixer plus Blaze Burner for alloying, and the Precision Mechanism assembly line unlock brass machines, smart logistics (funnels, filters, tunnels), and eventually trains.

Contraptions and Trains

Contraptions are structures that move as a unit. Mount blocks on a Mechanical Piston, Mechanical Bearing, Gantry Shaft, or Rope Pulley and the attached machines keep working while in motion — a moving drill bores tunnels, while harvesters and deployers tend to whatever the contraption passes over.

Classic contraption builds include bearing-driven crop farms, piston bore mining machines, and elevator pulleys. Super Glue and chassis blocks define which blocks travel together.

Trains run on Create's own track system. Assemble a locomotive on track with a Train Station, add Train Controls and bogeys, then automate routes with Train Schedules dropped into the driver seat. Signals manage multi-train networks, and observers plus station conditions let cargo trains load and unload automatically.