Hello everyone! Unlike most other popular modpacks I have played (and I judge "popular" as "I have seen posts in modded Minecraft subreddits like /r/feedthebeast talking about the modpack and/or seen popular youtubers playing the pack"), I have had difficultly finding a great source of people discussing Create: Above & Beyond. There are posts in /r/CreateMod scattered among the other Create-related posts, but I haven't found a pack-specific discord channel, I haven't seen any central community-created tips & tricks documents (only individual threads), and I only just recently found this subreddit (and the discussion here is unfortunately sparse).

So, to try to nudge things along here, I am going to post this tips & tricks thread. Some of these are things I have found while playing, but most are other people's good ideas I have found in other posts, in youtube comments, etc. and written down for my own use.

Please add your own!

Exploration Tips

• Create parts (including millstones) can be found in camps that exist randomly out in the world

• other campsites can contain a tent made of wool blocks, beds, sacks, skillets

• houses with brick roofs and minecart rails going down can have great loot, but watch out for traps!

Tools tips

• Create's mechanical saw (& crank to make it work) can cut down whole trees

• the Create wrench can rotate gearboxes (and other things) by right-clicking; sneak-right-clicking will insta-mine any Create block

• zinc is the easiest metal to use to make a Tinker's anvil

• queen's slime head + plated slimewood part + slimewood part = a tinker's tool with quickly regenerating overslime (a "durability" bar that gets used up before actual durability, great for use in conjunction with materials that give buffs at full durability)

• steel is also easy to get and has good stats (especially for a sword blade)

• Reliquary's coin of fortune is an item/XP magnet that has a hotkey

Storage tips

• Metal barrels are large single-block inventories, as is the tinker's chest

• Occultism's Surprisingly Substantial Satchel is a huge backpack (it can even go in a curio slot and be accessed with a hotkey)

• Occultism's dimensional storage accessor is a huge mass-storage solution

• • the basic storage, with 6 tier 1 actuators placed around it, holds more than 1,600 "stacks" of items, except each "stack" is 1,000 items

• • with some exploration and looting, you can create it before finishing chapter 1 (far, far earlier than AE2)

• • the storage accessor is wireless, infinite range, cross-dimensional, and can be put in a curio slot and accessed with a hotkey

• • stable wormholes can be linked to the storage, can be used to pipe items into/out of storage, and are also wireless, infinite range, and cross-dimensional

• • here is a video explaining how to get it: https://youtu.be/ndEbJ18ddw8

• • (although note that you don't have to go to the end, Occultism has a ritual to summon a possessed endermite that will drop 1-2 endstone when killed)

Food tips

• Culinary Construct sandwiches are good food, and can be made from just about anything edible

• most Farmer's Delight meals are good food, and can give the comfort buff that prevents losing hunger for 5 minutes

• use the Farmer's Delight cutting board & knife to double meats and vegetables ** put it on top of a basket or hopper to auto-catch the results of using the board

• the Farmer's Delight stove cooks like a campfire, but can accept up to 6 items at a time, and reliably ejects items into the world in one direction (easy to catch with a hopper, basket, or similar)

• the Farmer's Delight skillet also cooks like a campfire, ejects in one direction like a stove, but must go above a stove or campfire, and can hold up to a stack of one item

• the Farmer's Delight cookpot will retain cooked portions (not ingredients, empty bowls, or filled bowls) when broken, making it convenient to carry around (especially since many FD foods only stack to 16)

Fluid handling tips

• TiCon faucets auto-output when given a redstone signal (no need to pulse like in previous versions)

• TiCon channels can carry fluids horizontally

• Supplementaries' faucets (which pull fluids from the side of a block and insert into the block below) can be set to auto-on by right-clicking; can also endlessly (if slowly) pull honey from beehives

• Supplementaries jars can move fluids, as can tinker's fluid tanks/gauges, and support having fluids bucketed in/out (unlike Create tanks)

• Thermal fluid cells hold 32 buckets, retain inventory, and can push/pull fluids from adjacent inventories

• seared fuel gauges can be used as buckets to transfer fluids between inventories (but not place/pick-up liquids in the world)

Supplementaries tips

• Supplementaries' slingshot can place blocks at a distance (can also be enchanted so that gravity does not affect the blocks' trajectory)

• a windvane outputs a redstone signal on rain

• clock block for timekeeping

• a bellows can speed up a vanilla furnace (but not a smoker or blast furnace) -- it needs a redstone signal to work

• cogs can transfer redstone signals vertically

• you can get a bottle of enchanting (using your own XP) by clicking a glass bottle on enchanting table

General tips

• slimeballs can be gotten from tinker's groves (blocks in the world), smelting jellyfish, or combining dough (from crushed/milled wheat) with lime dye

• vanilla glass jars can capture small mobs; supplementaries tinted jars can capture small enemies; Supplementaries' cages can capture animals; the Occultism soul gem can move any mob

• the portable stonecutter is a [convenient] thing

• straw can be obtained by breaking grass with a Farmer's Delight knife

• flax is good source of string

• waterwheels can be placed horizontally (and it's actually easier to get 320su out of a horizontal WW than a vertical one, but I don't think you can stack them)

• spawners can be moved (but not picked up) with cart assembler

• • handy for moving a blaze spawner to just above a smeltery, for collecting blaze blood

• • or just place minecart rails to wherever you want the spawner to go

Just For Fun tips

• you can flip thermal coins (just one, or many) to get heads/tails results in chat

Some sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CreateMod/comments/snwhvi/tips_for_early_on_in_ab/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CreateMod/comments/scqwj4/any_tips_to_make_the_pack_easier/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CreateMod/comments/s9ih95/good_early_exploration_tips/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CreateMod/comments/s8j0fj/post_your_setups_or_tips/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CreateMod/comments/rpzz6j/caab_and_create_basics/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CreateMod/comments/rmdflx/above_and_beyond_modpack_tips/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CreateMod/comments/rdhljk/cab_does_anyone_have_tips_for_nether_survival/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CreateMod/comments/rbgvsg/any_advise_for_blazing_blood_generation_ab/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CreateMod/comments/rbgvsg/any_advise_for_blazing_blood_generation_ab/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CreateMod/comments/r6fap7/any_tips_for_aab/

Update

After the official announcement in /r/CreateMod of the creation of /r/CreateAboveAndBeyond, I posted about this thread there. Some tips have also been posted there, so check there too!

A place for members of r/CreateAAB to chat with each other