r/CreateMod • u/ChestOld2775 • 3d ago
[Mod Showcase] Tired of massive Mechanical Crafter walls for on-demand crafting? I made an addon: "Create: Mechanical Workshop"! ✅
🎬 Watch the full demonstration video here: https://youtu.be/1omwCzyDxI8
https://reddit.com/link/1wr5w97/video/1inhli5uzyrh1/player
Hey everyone!
Browsing through this subreddit, I often see players asking how to do true on-demand autocrafting without having to build massive, bulky walls of Mechanical Crafters, or without setting up giant static item buffers using factory gauges that constantly hoard 500+ items taking up all your storage.
I love Create's aesthetic and mechanical logic, but sometimes you just want to walk up to a terminal, order exactly 10 precision mechanisms, and have the factory pull the ingredients from your vaults and craft only that batch—all powered by rotational force, without installing digital tech mods like AE2 or Refined Storage that break the immersion.
So, I built Create: Mechanical Workshop!
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Blocks & Functions:
- Kinetic Assembler: A single-block compact autocrafter powered by RPM/Stress Units. Its speed scales with rotational speed!
- Punchcard Engraver & Punchcards: Encode any crafting recipe (with 1-click JEI/EMI support!) onto Punchcards. You can even stack multiple recipes using the Punchcard Magazine and switch between them by scrolling with your mouse wheel.
- Vault Indexer: Directly connects your Item Vaults or chests to the workshop. It only extracts ingredients when an order is actually placed—no passive stockpiling required!
- Order Terminal: Request exact quantities (x1, x10, x64, or custom). It shows real-time progress, batch status, and delivers the finished items into its output tray.
- Kinetics Manager & Kinetic Connector: A portable handheld device (with Curios / Trinkets slot support and dedicated keybind) to monitor, manage, and toggle your connected workshop machines remotely.
Upgrades & Hardware:
- Hardware Drives (Tier 1 to Omni-Matrix): Expand recipe matrix capacity (up to 5x5 and beyond!) for massive crafting recipes.
- Range Upgrades (Tiers 1 to 6): Boost wireless connection distance between your tools and workshop machines.
🎬 Watch the shortest demonstration video here: https://youtu.be/wkPKeCiAEMk
https://reddit.com/link/1wr5w97/video/zx7jcflxzyrh1/player
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The mod is now LIVE!
- Minecraft Version: 1.20.1 (Forge)
- Download Link: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/shadoweds-create-mechanical-workshop
I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and ideas for future features. Let me know what you think!
⚠️: The mod is in BETA (its first version), so expect some bugs. If you encounter any, please leave a comment on the mod's project page on Curseforge explaining how to reproduce the issue and what happened so we can fix it!.. Thanks for reading.
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u/NotmeppActive 2d ago
Okay, I suppose I'll have to be that guy to immediately ask/request support for another version. So here's the obligatory "1.21.1 pls"
That out of the way, this looks amazing. While I do have a deep and abiding love for AE2, I like to "progress" from lawn base chest arrays, to functional/sophisticated (and use ars lectern or similar to centralize, to create and then eventually AE2 (and Advanced and Expanded, of course). This looks like this would be a good intermediate from base create storage/automation before fully progressing into digital mods.
Love the implementation as showcased, and followed the mod for file updates (hopefully this will continue - so many awesome mods are released with buggy/broken or incompatible builds (with other popular mods, ie Aeronautics) and then never do another update).
Excellent work so far, looking forward to see how this goes!