Getting Started with Create – Create Wiki (1.21.1)

Create has no energy cables. Everything runs on rotation: a source such as a water wheel turns a shaft, the shaft turns the next block, and every machine on that network turns with it. Two numbers matter: the speed in RPM, and the stress — each machine puts a load on the network, and the sources must be able to carry all of it. This page follows the order Create 6.0 (Minecraft 1.21.1) lets you build things in.

1. Andesite alloy

Almost every early part needs Andesite Alloy: andesite with iron nuggets (or zinc nuggets) in the crafting grid. Later a Mechanical Mixer makes it too.

2 × any Iron Nugget + 2 × Andesite → Andesite Alloy

2 × Andesite Alloy → 8 × Shaft

Shaft + any Oak Planks (#minecraft:planks) → Cogwheel

Shaft + 2 × any Oak Planks (#minecraft:planks) → Large Cogwheel

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2. A first source: the water wheel

A Water Wheel is eight planks around a shaft. It turns when water flows past its paddles. Lead a small channel of water over its top: on our test server one water source flowing over the wheel turned it at 8 RPM, and the wheel then carried up to 256 SU of stress (32 SU per RPM in the default settings).

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

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

3 × any Oak Planks (#minecraft:planks) + Andesite Alloy → Hand Crank

any Oak Slab (#minecraft:wooden_slabs) + any Andesite (#c:stones) + Shaft → Windmill Bearing

Other sources: the Hand Crank (turned by hand), the Windmill Bearing with sails, and later the Steam Engine. Their numbers are on Stress and Speed in Create.

3. Carrying rotation

Shafts carry rotation in a straight line; a Gearbox passes it around corners.
Cogwheels mesh with the cogwheels next to them. A Large Cogwheel meshes with a small one placed diagonally next to it: from large to small the speed doubles, from small to large it halves. Our brass mixer goes 8 → 16 → 32 RPM this way.
Some blocks only connect on certain sides: the Millstone is driven from below only, and the Mechanical Mixer has no shaft at all — it meshes with a cogwheel next to it.
Engineer's Goggles show the speed and stress of what you look at; a Stressometer (made from a Speedometer) shows the stress of its network.

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4. The first machines

Millstone — mills what goes in on top: wheat into flour, gravel into flint and more. At 8 RPM it put 32 SU of load on our water wheel.

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Tap or click a block to see what it is.

Place the Water Wheel so that its axle points east–west, and lay a row of stone north and south of it at the same height: the floor of a small water channel that runs over the top of the wheel.
A Gearbox on the east side of the wheel takes the rotation around the corner: its top face turns the Millstone placed on it. The Millstone can only be driven from below.
A Stressometer on the other side of the gearbox shows how much of the wheel's capacity the machines use (look at it with Engineer's Goggles, or read its dial).
Glass on both sides and at both ends keeps the water in the channel. The Millstone itself closes the channel on the east side next to the wheel.
Pour one water source at the north end of the channel. The water flows south over the top of the wheel and turns it. Put wheat (or gravel, flowers, …) into the Millstone from above and take the flour out of it.

Materials 7 kinds · 20 items

Stonestep 1×4
Water Wheelstep 1×1
Gearboxstep 2×1
Millstonestep 2×1
Stressometerstep 3×1
Glassstep 4×11
Waterstep 5×1

Layer planLayer 1 is the bottom · north is up · 4 × 2 × 7 blocks

The layer plan appears with the 3D view.

Water wheel, gearbox and millstone, with a stressometer: 8 RPM, 32 SU of 256 SU in use (measured).Textures, models and item names © simibubi and the Create contributors. Vanilla textures © Mojang.

Mechanical Press — two blocks above a Depot it presses ingots into sheets. Iron sheets are needed for the next step.

Mechanical Mixer — above a Basin, with a Blaze Burner below for heat: copper and zinc become brass. Catch the blaze with an Empty Blaze Burner (iron sheets around netherrack) by using it on a blaze.

Cogwheel + Andesite Casing + any Andesite (#c:stones) → Millstone

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

Andesite Alloy + Andesite Casing → Depot

Cogwheel + Andesite Casing + Whisk → Mechanical Mixer

5 × Andesite Alloy → Basin

4 × any Iron Sheet + any Netherrack → Empty Blaze Burner

Tip Step-by-step plans, each checked on our test server: How to Build a Water Wheel Millstone, How to Build a Mechanical Press and How to Build a Brass Mixer.

5. Casings

Many machines need a casing. Right-click a stripped log or stripped wood with andesite alloy to get Andesite Casing; brass and copper make the other casings the same way.

Held

any Stripped Acacia Log (#c:stripped_logs) + Andesite Alloy → Andesite Casing

Held

any Stripped Acacia Log (#c:stripped_logs) + any Brass Ingot → Brass Casing

Held

any Stripped Acacia Log (#c:stripped_logs) + any Copper Ingot → Copper Casing

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.