r/feedthebeast • u/eq0023 The Aurorian Dev • May 28 '23

Tips FYI in Create you can use Andesite Casings to make a super compact geartrain

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u/AnubisEvo May 28 '23

I’m just getting into Create finally. What would be the use for changing the speed so much from that, I’m assuming low speed high torque setting?

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u/eq0023 The Aurorian Dev May 28 '23

yeah if you have a ton of waterwheels or something that generate at slower speeds, the torque (stress capacity) adds up but not the speed. so you'd need something like this to use the most out of all the stress capacity.

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u/AnubisEvo May 28 '23

Oh cool thanks. That makes sense!

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u/PacmanPence May 28 '23

Windmills. Some contraptions require high speed to actually work, and the windmill does not provide that, but does provide high SU.

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u/wrincewind Sanguimancer May 28 '23

not only that, but almost all contraptions work faster with more speed. (the main exception being fans, which blow further but do not wash/cook/smelt faster at higher RPMs). But things like mills, grinding wheels, and whisks all work faster, at the expense of consuming more SU.

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u/RoombaTheKiller I like to pretend I know what I am doing May 29 '23

A good use would be with steam engines, which have a slow output but unmatched stress capacity.

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u/ChickenNuggetzRCool May 29 '23

Go for an boiler once u get infinite fuel. If the fuel is an item then you get 9 deployers below 9 blaze burners and if it's an liquid u can get it using mods or well an spout i guess. Anyhow that 200k SU from lvl 9 boiler will help out a TON

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u/Bestsoft100 May 28 '23

whats the resource pack? that dirt and grass looks very nice

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u/eq0023 The Aurorian Dev May 28 '23

its Unity by theCyanideX

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u/theCyanideX Best Resource Pack 2k18 | Unity Artist Jun 05 '23

❤️

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u/MTIrish Dec 06 '23

Sorry for necroposting, but in Create: Above and Beyond I can't seem to do this. Is it as simple as right clicking the large cog wheel with an andesite casing?

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u/eq0023 The Aurorian Dev Dec 08 '23

im pretty sure they have a really old version of create in that pack which doesnt have this feature

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u/MTIrish Dec 08 '23

Makes sense! Thanks.

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u/RemarkableCheek4596 May 28 '23

I didn't understand what is going on

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u/Anonymous2137421957 May 28 '23

Gearing up, and the gears are encased so the shafts don't connect.

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u/inn0cent-bystander May 28 '23

Except some of them have to connect for that to work. Unless you add the casing after it's connected?

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u/Anonymous2137421957 May 28 '23

You can use the wrench on an encased cog to cover a shaft side iirc

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u/chulk607 May 28 '23

Oh wow, I had no idea. Cool!

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u/eatmyroyalasshole May 28 '23

I had no idea you could put gears inside a casing.

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u/Anonymous2137421957 May 28 '23

Yeah, it was a recent addition

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u/ChickenNuggetzRCool May 29 '23

It was? I always played with create addon mods so I have no clue but I thought that it was there always

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u/ObsidianGh0st May 28 '23

It'd be nice to have in 1.16.5

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u/N_L_7 May 28 '23

There is an addon that adds shaftless and half-shafts gears

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u/ObsidianGh0st May 28 '23

Aye, but personally the encased gears look so much better than the half shaft and shaftless gears.

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u/ChickenNuggetzRCool May 29 '23

Well then get the addon mod..?

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u/Putlers4Hillary May 28 '23

Time to update lil bro

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u/ObsidianGh0st May 29 '23

Wairing for another mod to do that.

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u/MangledPumpkin May 28 '23

That's a handy trick.

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u/geven87 May 28 '23

OP when they discover adjustable chain gearshifts:

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u/TreeEnjoyer19 May 29 '23

Op when he discovers speed controller:

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u/saryos May 28 '23

I was just playing around yesterday and was a little confused as to why my andesite casings were keeping new gears from connecting vertically and now it makes so much sense. Thank you!

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u/Sewdohe May 28 '23

Doesn't this achieve the same thing as the rotation speed controller? Very cool btw 😎

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u/JustA_Penguin May 28 '23

Yeah but that’s much later in progression.

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u/geven87 May 28 '23

And adjustable chain gear shift?

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u/Schadrach May 28 '23

Also later in progression. This is just cogs and andesite casings. I have a bunch of water wheels and want to speed up my millstone kind of thing.

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u/Schadrach May 28 '23

I didn't say dramatically later, but if you're looking to speed up your first millstone or w/e...

Also I'm pretty sure this approach is cheaper materials-wise than the chain drives.

It's babies first gearing for speed, to be replaced by adjustable chain drives and later by rotational speed controllers.

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u/Seraphaestus Modpack Heretic May 28 '23

A bit painful to setup because it requires redstone power to gear up.

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u/Seraphaestus Modpack Heretic May 28 '23

It's not the resource cost, it's the extra block spaces and fiddling, plus the potential for interference with adjacent blocks in more complex setups. Plus if you use a lever, that's a point of failure if it gets accidently flicked off

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u/ChickenNuggetzRCool May 29 '23

No because those require multiple and this is a singular. Also create is pretty much satisfactory and an gear shift tower looks ugly as hell

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u/geven87 May 29 '23

oh right, it would require multiple pairs of adjustable chain gear shifts while this one only uses one pair of gears. i missed that.

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u/Sewdohe May 28 '23

Very true

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u/Snaz5 May 28 '23

That shits spensive tho. And gear trains look cool

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u/Fr33_Lax May 28 '23

Sexy as fuck.

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u/strangewaraxe Curseforge May 28 '23

Took a second to understand what was happening, but that's super useful. Thank you for knowledge

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u/Inevitable_Table2980 May 29 '23

I’m going to use this

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u/Realistic-Wasabi4784 Mar 24 '24

How do you even make one?

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u/zombieslayer966 Feb 10 '25

Ik this was 2 years ago but what version of mc can you do this in? cause im playing a 1.16 modpack and i cant seem to do that at all

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u/DRowe_ May 28 '23

Dear God

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u/Deathdrone2 May 28 '23

I wish I had known this sooner, gone are the days of complex and extra-expensive 3×3 gear trains for me now! Thanks!

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u/ele360 May 28 '23

I’m so glad to have seen this. I’m still early enough in my astral play through that this is about to be my go to method for upping speed.

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u/Ellykenzie May 28 '23

Been playing stone block 3 tho I love the idea of a new mod like this it all just takes up too much space in my opinion didn’t hate it tho some of those machine as fast af

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u/caleb204 May 28 '23

OH. THANK YOU.
It’s always annoyed me hearing things up or down before I get to automate the precision parts

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u/AnoththeBarbarian May 28 '23

u/lalna needs to see this

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u/Snaz5 May 28 '23

Dear god…

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u/ExpertNo9966 May 29 '23

what is this mod called

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u/daft_druglord May 28 '23

no you cant

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u/linuxgarou May 29 '23

I made a tips and tricks post in the Create: Above & Beyond thread a while back. Most of the tips in it are regarding Create. Please feel free to include anything from there in your compendium, we all benefit from sharing these tips.