Compact your machines with these Create Mod Building Tips!

Can also dye your belts by clicking on them with the corresponding color dye. It's more for organization than looks but it could be useful for that too.

Never know that mill stone has a shaft at its bottom side, big cogwheels can transfer vertically, and mechanical belt can be encased vertically! What an informative video!

Encasing Cogs can hide shafts that would otherwise connect, and help compact a build. Or you can right click them with the wrench and expose the shaft again.

- Hey, Large Cogwheel, would you like these 16 RPM? - Double and give it to the next person

Gearbox is so powerful and capable of any kind of connections, but also belt extension and twisted chaindrives are useful as well

Great video! Also worth mentioning that chain drives lag less than belts for big-scale buildings

One tip I've discovered myself is that if you're either lacking space or looking to completely compact something, you may run into an issue where you won't have room to move an item on a belt since the minimum space for a belt is 1x2, so to save on that precious space you can use something like a drain taking up a 1x1 space which automatically rolls items over it. Do note to be careful when working with items that can actually be drained though.

The chain drive does actually connect vertically, you just have to orient them correctly. The way you oriented them wouldn't connect except for the shafts.

It's helpful to think of all of it as "ratios". Every block in relation to any specific one of it's neighbors will be a ratio of that neighbor. This will always hold true (ofc the ratio can change like an ACG). The "power source" (i.e. what's 'receiving/sending') doesn't matter, a small cog will always be 2:1 rpm ratio with the large cog it's touching. Every other relationship acts that way as well, order doesn't matter a the sense of "power flow". That millstone belt setup is nuts. The crushing wheels one is amazing as well.

I personally don't recommend showing your shafts because I did it once and now I'm not allowed within a 50ft radius of a school area

Note that encasing a cog also blocks its unused shaft outputs, and you can then un-block it by right-clicking with a wrench. This lets you build longer gear-up/gear-down systems in a much smaller space.

that crusher trick has saved me ages of heartache in the future, how couldnt i have seen that before haha

Just started watching your Create Arcane Engineering series a few days ago, and i was looking for a tutorial for some of the create machines and i didnt even realize this was your video as well! :D Thank you for the video, helps a lot when i havent tried the create mod at all before!

That shaft under the millstone… I’m shocked, that would have helped me so much in the past, ALONG WITH HORIZONTAL GRINDING I feel so stupid now XD

Loved the vid, I also really like that powering adjustable chain gearshifts with different redstone signal strengths allows for more control of rpm. Also, mechanical pumps can be especially useful in certain contraptions with weighted ejectors because they uniquely act as a cog and allow flung items to travel through them in some orientations.

I honestly haven't seen anyone else make this kind of helpful video for create. Love it!

I just started with create mod and this video helped me a ton. More videos like this please!

that crushing wheel tip is so good i cant believe i didnt see it sooner

I don't usually comment on Youtube videos, but that was actually a really nice video! I'm not even new to Create, and I still learned a few things! I would definitely like to see more guides like this. Great job, dude!

Thanks man, i’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out the point of chain drives vs belts, i thought they did the same more or less, also, got some tips from you that will make my facotires look much cooler, didn’t realise you could encase belts for example