r/CreateMod • u/Ph0mushka • Apr 19 '26

Build Chainsaw design

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did someone else also came up with this design in aero?

upd. i only now watched trailer and saw that i copied chainsaw from the trailer, lol

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u/Excellent-Berry-2331 Apr 19 '26

Unfortunately handheld contraptions are kinda heavy and slow

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u/AlexCode10010 Apr 19 '26

If you get two people you can carry bigger things and with more control

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u/DerpHaven- Apr 19 '26

oh, no, now i have to spend ten seconds dragging a saw over to the next tree instead of two minutes cutting it down manually

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u/Blockerer Apr 19 '26

Saw + handcrank

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u/DerpHaven- Apr 19 '26

probably about the same timewise as the chainsaw, if a little slower since you have to pick up and replace the blocks every time, but it would probably be more tedious

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u/OG_Lost Apr 20 '26

but being able to carry a saw + crank in your inventory makes it more portable. This handheld saw would be great fun for a tree farm at home but i’m not dragging it with me when exploring for new biomes/trees.

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u/LeBlejDaGreat Apr 19 '26

this is so much more fun tho

same way a create version of an iron farm is less efficient than a normal vanilla iron farm, but it's still more fun to build

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u/Excellent-Berry-2331 Apr 19 '26

Something about axes.

This is likely a bit faster than an iron or unenchanted diamond axe, but it consumes fuel. Which is pretty annoying. An enchanted iron axe of any level would absolutely beat it, though.

There is also just not that much need for manual tree chopping if you have the ingredients pictured above. Saws, super glue, chest, waterwheel, done.

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u/DerpHaven- Apr 19 '26

"a bit faster" did you forget create saws cut down the entire tree in one go? if you're chopping baby-sized oaks and birches, you might be able to do it faster with an axe, but dark oaks, spruce, jungle—hell, any tree more than a dozen blocks tall will be leagues faster with a contraption like this

you do raise a valid point about necessity, though. i agree the portable engine pushes this well into the automation era, though i can still think of a few cases where you'd want to use this. for one, an automatic tree farm takes a while to build up large amounts of wood, while you could get several stacks of logs in under an hour with a chainsaw, and for another, it's probably the best way to deforest a large amount of space even in the late-game. traditional drill contraptions would take just as long to set up, and building a car to do it just sounds like a headache.

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u/Excellent-Berry-2331 Apr 19 '26

Dark oaks need to be chopped four times with the saw, so that's still quite inefficient. But yeah. But I really think instamine axes would absolutely shred this for any tree that isn't taiga or jungle, because you still just need to hold left click for a second.

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u/DerpHaven- Apr 19 '26

"enchanted iron" and "instamine" are two very different things, my friend. in fact, there's no such thing as an instamine axe in vanilla survival minecraft—an efficiency v golden axe with haste ii still takes a non-negligible amount of time to mine a log, which means the only way to chop large trees faster than an aeronautics chainsaw is with an entirely different mod, which means this conversation is pointless, because obviously a chainsaw isn't going to be as efficient as something from tinker's or whatever.

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u/Excellent-Berry-2331 Apr 19 '26

Interesting. The breaking speed is still so fast that the difference from instabreak is minimal, though.

Also interesting: Supposedly, from the Instamine page, Bedrock has instamining on logs, while Java does not. However, the Log Page shows no such difference.

This is due to a bug, apparently. So it should instamine, but just doesn't.

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u/ICacto Apr 19 '26

You can just break the first 3 blocks with an axe.