CreateKinetic machinery, contraptions, automation through rotational power
About
Create lets you build animated factory contraptions — windmills, water wheels, mechanical presses, mixers, encased fans, deployers, drills, mechanical pistons, crushing wheels — and tie them together with belts, gearboxes, cogwheels and shafts to move rotational force instead of energy. Every machine is visually animated; nothing is a black box.
On 1.16.5 / v0.3.2g you have the core kinetic system, contraption movement (Mechanical Piston / Gantry / Bearing), fluid pipes, item belts, ore processing (Crushing Wheels + washing in encased fans), Schematicannon and Cannons. You do not have: trains, the steam engine, modern fluid pumps, refrigerators, redstone links replacing wireless, or many of the 0.5+ blocks. Tutorials that show those will not apply.
Things to do
- Water wheel + millstone for cobblestone-to-gravel and ore doubling early game
- Encased fans over lava → smelting; over water → washing (gravel → flint, iron nuggets, etc.)
- Mechanical Press for plates / sheets (brass, iron, gold, copper) — used in many recipes
- Mechanical Drills + Saws for tree farms and stone mining contraptions
- Schematicannon — print a saved schematic block by block in survival
- In-game Ponder (
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Getting started
Andesite is the spine of early Create — make Andesite Alloy (1 andesite + 1 iron nugget) and you can build most starter machines. Zinc is the second early ore (look for it like iron); it crushes into Brass for mid-tier blocks. The first real machine is usually a water wheel feeding a Mechanical Press through a few cogwheels for plate production. For ore processing, the Crushing Wheels pair (built side-by-side, counter-rotating) is the goal — it doubles all ore drops.
Official documentation
- Create Mod Wiki (Fandom; cross-version)
- createmod.com — Getting Started
- CurseForge — Create
- In-game: Ponder — hover any Create item in JEI, press
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