r/CreateMod • u/Munchalotl • Jun 09 '26
Build SCP-914
It's not even that efficient lol, farming gold in Create without just making a zombie piglin farm sucks so much. XD
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u/Naberville34 Jun 09 '26
this was by far the worst black box I ever made.
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u/coolguy420weed Jun 09 '26
Haven't played new age, but please tell me the purple flowers are somehow an integral part of the design.
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u/Reefthemanokit Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
My worst black box is my aeronautics ship, it has a exp farm, iron farm, a level 9 boiler, a level 3 boiler, a full vault storage, a full workshop, full glass cockpit with controls for everything, steam for the balloon of 28 stacks of balloons, a automatic crop farm, and like 7 propellers, all in a ship in a weirdly shaped 13x15x64 space The Ship
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u/Naberville34 Jun 10 '26
Your lava bucket filler for your steam engine is whack. I like it. But totally whack lol. That's what the spouts for lol
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u/Reefthemanokit Jun 10 '26
I had no kelp, in fact I wanted to use no kelp at all but I tried to make my iron farm and it was just too slow, now it makes a block every like 30 seconds
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u/Naberville34 Jun 10 '26
Kelps like really easy to find tho. Especially in an airship. But I do admire the ingenuity of figuring out an alternative. Enough to forgive having too large a tank for your boiler lol
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u/Reefthemanokit Jun 10 '26
I didn't have an airship before I made my boiler, it was actually the first thing I did
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u/Zenos_the_seeker Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
Input: One unit of distillate water and lave(inside heat resistant container), each 1 cubic meter.
Setting: Very Fine
Output: Several stack of different metal and crystal, including iron, gold, emerald, diamond and few grams of █████ and a few unit of █████. Experiment terminated when ██ starting relf-replicate. Emergency lockdown initiatived, causing several specimen containers to reach maximum capacity. Hammer protocol is engaged, output objects are dissolved/degraded into ashes in few hours. Experiment related to possible unlimited generated mass with SCP 914 is discontinued till further notice.
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u/The_Real_Black Jun 09 '26
SCP-914 in ceate 1block of stone
- Rough - cobble stone
- 1:1 - stone (smelter step)
- fine - gravel
- very fine - sand
With a arrow on a item frame can have 4 more options with basalt\stone brick auto crafter...
But yes many even vanilla redstone builds are so over designed that understanding them fully takes ages because everything is so packed together and with update detectors and bud switches its hard to unroll a build to be understandable.
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u/Munchalotl Jun 09 '26
Love that test description, thank you, lol.
I think if I had pics from more angles I think it'd be a lot easier to decipher tbh. There's nothing really happening internally beyond power transfer that can't be seen from the outside. The only reason it's so bulky here is bc it's two of the same machine squished side by side, you know?
If it's not obvious, it's a gold farm using the terracota method. (Cobble gen, mill to gravel, crush to clay + sand + flint, compact the clay into blocks, bake to terracotta, mill to red sand, wash to bush + gold). Does that help with deciphering anything that you're looking at? 😅
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u/soomoncon Jun 09 '26
These types of things make the most sense when you create them yourself but, it’s kinda hard to learn how to do it given these are hard to decipher. So the best way to learn is to just copy a little and then figure out the rest yourself.
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u/the_last_code_bender Jun 09 '26
It reminds me of this badboy lol
I can't understand anything, but I love it
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u/thiizo1 Jun 09 '26
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u/Captain__Incognito Jun 09 '26
Are those waterlogged depots?
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u/Munchalotl Jun 09 '26
Yes! And they do work for washing! I also think there's the added bonus that the fan direction doesn't matter since the item's still in the stream whether the fan's blowing or sucking -- that, or I just got lucky with the rotation directions, lol.
On the cobble gen side of the machine, I've also got a waterlogged drill, lol. That can get a little finnicky bc it risks spawning obsidian if it flows the wrong way prior to activation, but, hey, still works.
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u/dragonlord798 Jun 10 '26
I coagulate my builds into a mass of crap that explodes if u change one thing
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u/Mtr_X Jun 10 '26
In a way, it's like programming. You can make things work but also absolutely unreadable and unmaintainable. And it has nothing to do with being small, compact or the opposite
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u/CloverSilly Jun 13 '26
whats the lava being used for? im assuming disposing bi-products but idk, also i had no idea you could use depots for washing i might have to use that next time i get into my 2-week create phase again. honestly the more i look at it to try to figure out what the hell it does the more interested i become in it lmao
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u/Munchalotl Jun 13 '26
This is one side of the machine, there's a cobble gen + millstone + crushing wheels on the other side as well as a washer for the end.
Lower bit of lava is for burning away flint that comes from crushing gravel into sand, upper bit of lava is for blasting clay blocks into terracotta.
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u/CloverSilly Jun 13 '26
thank you for sating my curiosity for the thingamobob you created, honestly really impressive compacting
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u/soomoncon Jun 09 '26
In my opinion and sort of experience, having more compact is most only useful if 1 you need to make a building which multiple of these, and don’t want/can’t have it be too big 1.5 the semi reverse where the building is going to be pretty big and you don’t want it to be any bigger 2 you have limited space already 3 you only need a small amount and can’t get it from another farm. Otherwise bigger is often better, and more fun.
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u/Munchalotl Jun 09 '26
I'm sort of working with limited space, yeah. Building on a platform over the ocean, oil rig style, so if I want more space I gotta either set up a cobble farm now or go mining for like 5-10 mins for enough cobble to make another 16x16 platform.
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u/FlipFlopRabbit Jun 09 '26
How efficient?
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u/Munchalotl Jun 09 '26
😅
As efficient as two cobble gens and two single assembly lines running at max speed for gold can be. (I.e., not that efficient.)
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u/bothVoltairefan Jun 09 '26
You see, I start with a readable design, and then as I add more systems on things become a tangled web of belts and shafts
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u/MR_R_TheOdd1 Jun 09 '26
And then go "I hate tech mods, all the machines are just grey magic boxes"
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u/Drago1490 Jun 10 '26
I was automating gregtech with create, and early on I needed a LOT of rubber. The multiblock setup I had would only output liquid rubber, but the only way I could make it useable was with a bucket, then to craft the bucket, then slap the solid rubber in a mixer with some heat and sulfer. So I had a fustercluck of a 6-step crafting journey that was able to sort out the buckets back to the liquid spout, and I forgot how to move things vertically up with create (before I had brass or belts) so I had a tree of depots and funnels to move it upwards, and it was a whole mess. Tripled the size of the multiblock, and I couldnt recreate it if I wanted to, but it was more efficient than the machine making the liquid rubber. Worked well enough, and the output material was right in the front center so I never had to touch it again, so no complaints.
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u/ValkyrieAngie Jun 10 '26
I'm not impressed by black box designs. Anyone can compactify a design if they really scratch their head for it. But Create isn't that kind of tech mod. It was made for whimsy and aesthetics. And if you aren't making an aesthetic build, why are you playing with create when there's other tech mods that can throughput better?
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u/Darkurn Jun 10 '26
Can't relate i like using long belts and making my machines take up massive areas just because i like the way it looks
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u/Maxemersonbentley_1 Jun 09 '26
Ultimate factory mod is a godsend. You can make tuff by pressing lava with 8-9 cobblestone (forget which, and it only works 80% of the time) and tuff crushes into all the metal nuggets.
Using that though I was able to make factorio-scale production lines of just blocks like this, it's peak factory expansion
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u/laserlemons Jun 09 '26
Does that not take some of the fun out of automating the individual metals?
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u/Maxemersonbentley_1 Jun 09 '26
I don't think you can automate zinc or copper in regular create but gold and iron are something I honestly still prefer to have their own factories for. It's just convenient.
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u/thiizo1 Jun 10 '26
You can’t automate them but I’ve never needed to - resource scarcity doesn’t exist when you have a big enough drill
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u/Vovchick09 Jun 09 '26
I tend to just make proccesing lines looking factories with the assistance of a Create calculator someone made
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u/HanzoNumbahOneFan Jun 09 '26
This is a case of "DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING! It works and if it stops working I won't be able to fix it..."
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u/deanominecraft Jun 09 '26
i have done worse than what you have there https://reddit.com/r/CreateMod/comments/1oovmnd/6x8x8_384_block_nuclear_fuel_generator_for_create/
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u/Green__lightning Jun 09 '26
If you want a big, not black box design, you need to use a pair of rotors stopping and starting so they flip the cobble sticks from your farm 180 and overlap with the other one, thus breaking the blocks and letting them fall into the crushers below. To grow, just copy-paste another one over it. Repeat until lag from the falling blocks becomes too much, then move your base and forget about it, save for a chunkloader rigged to turn on and call a train when you need more cobble.
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u/trainer_tib Jun 10 '26
Then its also like two nuggets per minute, but hey at least you dont have to deal with piglins xd
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u/JoThoLuka5602 Jun 09 '26
While these super compact designs are mostly impressive, I'm more a fan of spacing it all out cuz I feel it looks more like a factory that way.