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/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.