How to Build a Mechanical Press – Create Wiki (1.21.1)

The Mechanical Press presses what lies below it. Here it sits two blocks above a Depot and turns with a Water Wheel on the same axle. On our test server one iron ingot on the depot became an Iron Sheet within 200 ticks at 8 RPM.

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Place a Depot on the ground. The press will work on what lies on it.
Two blocks above the ground and one block west of the depot, place the Water Wheel with its axle pointing east–west, with a row of stone north and south of it as the floor of a water channel.
Put the Mechanical Press directly east of the wheel, so it sits two blocks above the depot with one block of air between them. Its axle lines up with the wheel's and is driven by it.
Glass on both sides and at both ends of the channel keeps the water in.
Pour one water source at the north end of the channel: it flows over the wheel and turns it. Put an ingot onto the depot (right-click it) — the press comes down and turns it into a sheet.

Materials 6 kinds · 20 items

Depotstep 1×1
Stonestep 2×4
Water Wheelstep 2×1
Mechanical Pressstep 3×1
Glassstep 4×12
Waterstep 5×1

Layer planLayer 1 is the bottom · north is up · 3 × 4 × 7 blocks

The layer plan appears with the 3D view.

Water wheel in a raised channel, Mechanical Press on its axle, depot two blocks below the press.Textures, models and item names © simibubi and the Create contributors. Vanilla textures © Mojang.

How it works

The press is driven through its axle; here it is the same axle as the wheel's, so no shaft is needed in between.
There is exactly one block of air between the press and the depot. The press head comes down into that gap.
Put items on the depot by right-clicking it, or let a belt carry items under the press — it presses them as they pass.
At 8 RPM it uses 64 SU (8 SU per RPM) of the wheel's 256 SU.

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What the press makes

any Brass Ingot → Brass Sheet

Pulp → Cardboard

any Copper Ingot → Copper Sheet

any Gold Ingot → Golden Sheet

any Iron Ingot → Iron Sheet

Dirt or Coarse Dirt or Rooted Dirt → Dirt Path

All 8 Pressing recipes in the Mechanical Press

Above a Basin the same press compacts the basin's contents instead:

Lava100 mB

2 × Flint + Gravel + Lava 100 mB → Andesite

any Egg + Sugar + Cinder Flour → Blaze Cake Base

Chocolate250 mB

Chocolate 250 mB → Bar of Chocolate

Lava100 mB

2 × Flint + Calcite + Lava 100 mB → Diorite

Lava100 mB

2 × Flint + Red Sand + Lava 100 mB → Granite

Honey1,000 mB

Honey 1,000 mB → Honey Block

All 7 Compacting recipes in the Mechanical Press

Crafting the parts

Shaft + Andesite Casing + any Block of Iron → Mechanical Press

Andesite Alloy + Andesite Casing → Depot

8 × any Oak Planks (#minecraft:planks) + Shaft → Water Wheel

Next: the iron sheets make the Empty Blaze Burner for How to Build a Brass Mixer.

Recipes, names and numbers are read from the mod files of Create 6.0.10 for Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge). Not affiliated with the mod authors, Mojang or Microsoft.