Why Create is the Best Minecraft Mod Ever Made 

I think Create's single most important factor is that it is highly accessible and easy to learn for anyone. The in-game "Ponder" system shows you a 3D animation on how any components work, making you not even need to go on RU-vid for a guide for the basics

I love how Create fits in with the vanilla style so well while doing such crazy things you'd never expect minecraft to be capable of. The fact that it's mechanisms are arguably easier to understand than redstone makes it my favorite mod ever, with farmer's delight being a close second.

This was a great video!! My personal favourite part about Create is the updates. They literally never hit wrong (except for maybe the new way to configure components, I'd love to have an option to use the old way with a wrench)

Hey there! I'm one of the team members for the Create mod! So happy you love the mod, this was a really sweet video, put a big smile on my face! I dunno if we deserve all this praise, but still, thank you! Crazy to think it's been 3 years!

You forgot possibly the biggest thing: Entirely custom-made moving structures. Extending beyond just the farm and windmill, a lot of people love Create's ability to make virtually anything move. It's sparked an entire group of content where people just make trains and doors. Just doors. It's simple to understand, complicated to master, and will always give a different challenge each time you try to reach the same goals in a different space. It's a constantly unique experience and you can't take that away.

I think main reason why Create managed to get so popular in such a short period of time is because of how beautiful and fun it is to the average player that doesnt really have prior experience to other tech mods, Not just furnace#1-(pipe)-furnace#2(multiblock).

My favorite part about Create is its scalability. With Immersive Engineering, you need a dozen different blocks made of a hundred different parts to craft a bucket drill that can dig out a ton of resources, making it a powerful late game structure due to its cost and complexity. In Create, all you need is a handful of materials to slap a drill and chest on a furnace minecart and make a tunnel bore. It's far simpler and easier to get early, but also can be upgraded with better parts later to make it more effective (more drills, more storage, powered rails, deployers to make bridges) In short, the simplicity of Create's single block machines allows the player to scale to whatever production level is needed, instead of having single larger machines that do a lot but cost a lot

The biggest draw of Create, at least for me, is how much of it is in-world. There are relatively few UI screens in Create compared to most other tech mods, and even a lot of magic mods, I kind of compare it to Thaumcraft in terms of in-world interaction.

The most important point is: It's enabling the players to do powerful automation without the result being too overpowered and also still looking the part - iE, not just a single block or uniquely valid multiblock structure. You can still inspect it and understand all its parts. It does not devalue the effort of achievements in vanilla automation the same way that singleblock-industry mods tend to do and therefore meshes with vanilla playstyles far better than any of those.

Many valid points there ngl, but i feel like you forgot one very important thing. The Create mod has a vast amount of add-ons. The Create mod's ecosystem went rly big in the past few months, when you look at aeronautics, clockwork, Create Deco, Brewin' And Chewin' and many more.

Let’s not forget the SchematiCannon in this mod! Out of ALL of the Schematic mods out there, it feels the most balanced with better use for gunpowder and a better way to have requirements of making the builds you want to create with it. It just feels a lot of fun doing so, and reward is far from beneficial :)

I remember the first time I saw the Create mod was on a modded server with a bunch of friends. One of them had built the most beautiful windmill I'd ever seen rotating smoothly and I just had to ask them how they did it. They then proceeded to give me a lengthy explanation of everything the mod can do and at the time I remember feeling like a kid in a candy shop. Its more than just a tech mod, it can do so many things that I hadn't even dreamed of doing but now I just had to. That's what Create is to me, everything you could possibly wish Mojang would add in the next update, Create can in some fashion do it in many different ways and with so much freedom to express however you want. And its not even done yet, with every new update there's an extra piece that adds a new branch of infinite possibilities to explore. As you said in the video, I could see Create standing the test of time. There's always going to be new unique contraptions that can be invented.

Create is op if used and right and just fun all around, it's so unique, so open to imagination and perfect for any open world

What a good time to be a modded minecraft player

Personally, Farmer's Delight and Create mod are born to be together, can't just play without one.

It's kinda crazy industrialcraft is so lost to time that it doesn't even get a mention despite being THE tech mod back in the early days

One thing that sets Create apart from other mods is the fact that most crafting processes are out in the open. Most other tech mods, like Immersive Engineering has buildings that hide it, you just put in the resources and then out comes the product. In most of Create, however, you actually see the process take place. The mixing of ingredients, grinding of the ores, and the toppings of the baked goods are a few examples (The grindstone doesn't show its process, but I think we can all imagine it's just mini grind wheels in it). That is what makes it so satisfying as well, alongside the transportation. Create basically broke down the walls of many tech mod blocks, and because of the modularity with its parts, you can get the exact ratios without too much hassle. I believe Create is a mod that can't really be topped in what it does best, or at the very least easily. I know this is a lengthy explanation, but then again, Create has a much longer list of things that can be built with it.

I think a massive part of create’s ongoing success is due to the sheer amount of addons; Clockwork, Enchantment industry, Aeronautics, Liftoff, Offroad, Steam ‘n’ Rails, Stuff and Things, and about a bajillion other ones that are out or in development.

I think that one important thing here is the fact that most automation mods give you single block machines that just do something all at once. Create instead gives you building blocks, that don't do too much on their own, and you need to assemble them on your own to make something useful. This makes the mod much more interesting, and visual. Have you noticed that create has almost no GUI's?

Can’t forget about create expansion and add on mods, from smaller expansion mods, enchantment industry, above and beyond, or larger game mechanic ones like off-road expansion and the almighty aeronautics. It’s pretty incredible stuff

I think the main thing that makes the create mod so popular and fun to play is that it encapsulates and extrapolates on the wonder of minecraft and Redstone, but all these years later, it's like that scene with Anton Ego, it's like being sent back to your childhood where you would look up tutorials for making piston doors and hopper based item sorters

Another thing with Create is that the mod works. How many times you had a mod that doesn't work properly? I never had any issues with anything Create-related. And the "ponder" option it's just an excellent way of adding well made documentation inside the game

I think the Create models for the gears and conveyor belts are just a little too over-modeled to feel legitimately vanilla, but despite that its still close enough to not feel too out of place. They work well with the vanilla textures.

It just fits man. Lore friendly, optimised, game friendly, AESTHETIC, game extension, Its just awesome AWESOME.

i first found create shortly after it released, before it even was a tech mod. i remember when all the tech stuff came out, and it was so unsearchable. i'd look up "minecraft create mod" and see only videos about creating minecraft mods, having to scroll and scroll before i got to create videos. im glad to see how far it has come.

My favorite part of this mod and why I think it's so perfect is how you can use it to solve problems in many different ways, practical ways, efficient ways, really fun and silly ways. I am really glad you brought up Hermitcraft. I think it's the ideal way to enjoy the game. I am a huge fan of GoodTimesWithScar and he's actually already messed with Create, recently even making a desert runway with a little plane. Overall why I think this mod is perfect is because I've genuinely been inspired to use it as a way to make a story. I want a train station, I want a crazy evil looking factory filled with lava, I want a giant airship that deploys flying rats into the sky!

Another thing is that create utilizes already existing minecraft resources, it does add some of their own but these are brass and zinc and some decorative stones, thats it

A very underrated part of Create is how cheap/easy the recipes are

Create is genuinely an amazing mod, I'm glad you're giving it the attention it deserves!

Create is everything I ever wanted from a single mod. Not that that stops me from still using a hundred more mods alongside it cuz I'm a mod junkie, but still. If I could only pick one mod, it would be Create, hands down I remember back in the day when BuildCraft and IndustrialCraft were the two kings of tech mods. Now Create is taking the throne

A thing you missed is the insanely powerful codebase, which makes it very easy (relative to other mods) for addon developers to add things which work with already existing create mod blocks and items.

don't forget about how many unique and amazing addons for create there is my favorite being steam & rails.

Hey, this is a really good video. I’d recommend at least giving Oh The Biomes You Go a shoutout. This video gave that mod a heavy showcase as well lol

Create is one of the few mods I would love to see being implemented into the base game

one detail i like about treefelling with the mechanical saw is that all the items will fall in a line that faces away from the saw, as if the tree really fell in that direction. it also makes it easier to get the items too.

Create to me feels like it belongs in vanilla. It’s such an outstanding mod that allows so much creativity, and its style fits so well with the rest of the world. Every time I see the mod, it just feels like minecraft.

Create is really something special. It integrates itself into vanilla very well, while adding mechanics that open up a lot of possibilities that players only could have dreamed of, most importantly moving contraptions. The sheer amount of ways contraptions can be used; in farms, in windmills, minecart contraptions, trains... all rely on this mechanic. And the way Create is visually pleasing: You have all those moving parts and great animations happening in the world, with little to no GUIs. Automation is handled in a way, that isn't too complicated, but leaves a lot of space for creativity. Trains are another good example: Create doesn't give you, say 10 train models and thats it, instead you build the trains yourself out of regular blocks. Create does everything in a way, that allows for creativity, and thats what Create is all about, and why it fits into vanilla so nicely.

Another thing to think about is how much worldbuilding this could expand upon in a lot of diff types of servers and allow for so much more capabilities in all kinds of aspects of the game. Personally I would love to see more steampunk and or fantasy servers with a large scale of players and just being able to see all the different types of aeronautics and how players use to mod to expand on their specific interests, ie: a floating restaurant, sky ports for trade, and all kinds of stuff.

I could not agree with you more, I think the first time I saw Create was when it’s initial boom in popularity hit back in 2019-2020 and I think it was through the Epic SMP or the Cogchamp SMP (Fundy and his friends) and I was absolutely blown away by how complex yet simple the mod was and how much modularity it had, it made me think things of Minecraft I had never thought about before or ever thought was possible. I personally would say create is the best and most influential mod ever made but there are other greats (E.g. tinkers, immersive engineering) which were probably inspiration for create (mostly talking about immersive engineering)

0:36 *"Lucky Block, Spawn, Galacticraft, andTwilight Forest to name a few"* Oh man, you totally left out the Aether...THE definitive mod that changed the game

There is a couple of flaws with old mods like Twilight and etc.. Lucky Blocks are repetetive, you break a block get something good or bad. Twilight, no updates, didn't even finish the final boss. GalactiCraft, go to space, finished the mod. Create is quite literally just an additive of minecraft, it just compliments the game.

Fits beautifully into Minecraft's feel of doing what you want with some tools we've given you. Feels more like DLC than a mod

Excellent video I just have a suggestion: when you make replays of yourself exploring in these custom biomes, don't forget to set your fov to 30 !

One thing I like about create is that everything relies on kinetic power sources instead of electricity. I've always been big into locomotives so seeing how things are working as they work is always exciting for me, building huge machines to do things for me tickles the right spots in my brain.

This is why, to me, the mod trifecta is Minecraft Comes Alive, Create, and Tough as Nails. They just fill in the things that feel missing in vanilla to me, you know?

i'm just leaning into Create and what's drawing me to it, is how I loved immersive engineering and Tinker's construct. I love the idea of multi-block doodads and machines.

I give Create 0.00001 Gregtechs out of 10 Gregtechs. Conclusion: Not Greg.

I think you should have mentioned little animations that really help by explaining how things in this mod work

i saw your shorts. your videos are awesome, im subbing rn😃

really nice job on the video :) amazing quality. However, as someone who had previously never heard of create, you only explained what the mod did at 4:40, i was left having to piece it together via the background footage without a direct informational overview. I feel that a proper explanation early into the video would be fitting and also advantageous to both you and the viewer. keep up the nice videos :)

Create reminds me of one of those complex marble contraptions

As someone who LOVES multiblock structures, I still agree with Create being the best Minecraft mod. Goes with anything, from One Piece to Kingdom Hearts to Pokémon. Unlike Redstone, you can do A LOT without a Ph.D, but when you see someone who really KNOWS Create, you get arguably an even bigger joy from watching their work.

Talking about big mods influencing the community and not bringing up MUCH older stuff like Tekkit and Better Than Wolves makes me feel... old. It's simple, really, Minecraft's biggest "hole" is making stuff move, and Create does that in a way that fits right into the Minecraft philosophy of making useful machines by knowing how blocks interact rather than just... making a block that does stuff.

it was a awesome journey too see a mod go from 500k downloads to 20m+ troughout the years

My friend started a server with a modpack with create as the focus, i was reluctant at first but i was amazed at how well it fit with and improves upon the vanilla game. It feels like if mojang made an official dlc or expansion to the game

In my opinion create’s biggest innovation is to have buildable contraptions that move. This adds a lot of dynamics to Minecraft, something it is sorely missing. The fact that you build the contraptions yourself without many restrictions also plays into Minecraft’s biggest strength: it’s one of a kind building mechanic

This video was really well done. I've been playing since 2012 on consoles and later made the switch to PC without ever playing much more than pixelmon when it comes to mods. This video has completely sold me and it makes me nostalgic for the golden age of tinker's construct. *subscribes in elder zoomer*

I few things that make Creat great: 1. It's like Redstone, as there are countless ways to build the same thing, and there are never really a one block solution. 2. It looks right. It perfectly fits into vanilla. Some mods are straight up ugly, or even terrifying. 3. It feels right. That I can put a block in a Minecart, blocks interacts with other blocks, piston can be longer. It feels like all would be in Vanilla Minecraft if the game was today..

I wanna get into create, but there's so much to learn and it's honestly kind of intimidating especially when I don't have the time to learn everything when life is going on.

This video feels like a Documentary. Very very good video

When i first saw that mod on some smp, i thought to myself "wow, nice plugin" that's how it is perfectly fits in minecraft style

What I like about create is that it basically makes Minecraft one of the best factory building games. I like Factorio for it's freedom of how you build and I like satisfactory for the ability to build in 3D. And than there is create mod that allows you to build interesting contraptions i in whatever style you want in 3D and even more freedom, than Factorio and Satisfactory

ty for crediting throughout the video

I remember the first time I played with create, I spent a whole day just making a mineshaft elevator and having an absolute blast, it wasnt any faster than the vanilla ways but god it was so fun

Love this video going to need to know that shader and the cool trees that are just sitting around the world 👀👀👀

I want this so bad on 1.19.4 and I can’t wait till it gets updated

with the combination of other mods and more mods being added to create as addons will make this last as long as people play minecraft

Great video, really give Create the attention it deserves! Wont start a new modpack without Create now days.

GREGTECH RAINS SUPREME

I don't enjoy playing mods that are too complicated for minecraft, or just don't feel like minecraft at all. Create both works and feels like minecraft while also doing things that you didn't know were possible to even code im minecraft, and this is what makes it my #2 mod of all time

as i got more and more familiar with create, all i could think about was a video just like this one so that i could justify why this mod was so special to me. without a doubt, this is the best "why create is the best minecraft mod ever" video ever. couldn't have done it better myself.

Another great thing about create is that you can use it in pretty much everymodpack. It can look both old and modern, it feels like vanilla, but you can also incoperate it in a more outlandish modpack and you it can even fit into something that has nothing to do with Tech (like Dawncraft).

6:10 it's more effective to use a press to do blocks of iron, or nuggets to ingots to blocks of gold. Or mechanical mixer for various shapeless recipes. But yeah for non-shapeless recipes the mechanical crafter is a nice. The fast the mod introduces these options dovetails nicely with the point you're making here.

Create is a revolutionary mod. Aeronautics is the second wave

ngl replace create with gregtech and i agree

amazing to finally see someone put all my thoughts on create and its brilliance into words!

i finally got one of your videos on my youtube homepage!

Great video, this is high quality and insightful stuff!

Great video! Quick thing I’ll point out though, you can use a press to compress nuggets into ingots, you don’t need a mechanical crafter

Create lets me build the windmills I dreamt of as a kid. With actual functionality.

One of the best ways to describe Create is a tagline a friend told me once, though I don't know if he came up with it or it originates elsewhere, "The factory must grow." There's always something new to automate, always something to improve and optimize. If you're standing there with no idea what to do next, that tagline is more then enough to tell you. Go find something else to automate, go and see what you can speed up. Complimented with some other mods, Create can do almost anything. The modpack me and some friends play has projecte (with the right EMC configured, it and Create compliment eachother so well, without stepping over one another), and using both of them we have managed to make something that can craft enchanted golden apples, a recipe another mod added.

I still remember when this mod was kinda new and you couldn’t find anything about it on RU-vid because there were always other videos which got recommended when you typed „Minecraft create (mod)“ into the searchbar

Haven't seen anyone talk about this but the ponder system is so well done as well. You don't have to check a generic wiki for the mod to get stuff done, it's all right there in-game, super simple, well explained, well structured. I think this makes create attract everyone, experienced or not.

You forgot about basin compressing. You can compress nuggets and ingots into block in the space of a couple blocks automatically, it's ridiculously smooth.

I honestly think Create set off a new golden age of minecraft modding. Like i know modding has never gone away, but for years you had that all the old great packs like FTB were stuck in the previous golden era of v1.12, with mods stagnating in creativity ever since. Java Minecraft was seen as limited, too easy to break or cause performance to plummet like mad if you tried anything fancy beyond static blocks and maybe other planes of existence, but Create burst unto the scene and showed how far modding can go now! That the age of simple blocks is long past and the sky is the limit. Reinvigorating modders to keep pushing with new versions of MC and reviving old ideas.

It is Factorio in Minecraft, except that you create the machines from parts. It is so cool. Given with leisure time, I would dive into Create mod more.

Im just now getting into create. I'm enjoying roleplaying as an alien trying to make use of the materials available on the planet and figuring out technologies with it

Create is very cool mod, but too be clear, it collides with a lot of other mods, so if you plan to put it in costume modpack, just make sure, that all of your mods are compatible with it.

The thing that made me want to try this mod was that you could build a train. I have always loved to have a little bit of roleplay with my minecraft friends, so with this mod I was able to do the kind of train that you could see i these murder mistery kind of books, movies and games. I took them for a ride, and it was phenomenal. They even made a murder mistery roleplay while we got to the place. I love this mod.

create is dependent on YOU, not itself which is why people get bored of other mods, because create is only limited by very few conditions and your own desire to get it done immersive engineering is the second best mod ever made, because its literally create, but without all of create's own flexibility but immersive engineering is "too easy" while also being "too hard"

I think industrialcraft might be one of the most important and significant mods ever created for minecraft, it layed the groundwork for countless other mods like gregtech

Create is more vanilla than Mojang's latest updates

Create is the only mod I ever bothered to delve deep into, besides thaumcraft (way back). The mod looks and feels awesome. Even setting up a simple rotating farm was very rewarding for me. Redstone was just too intimidating and complicated for me to go beyond 2x2 doors and copying tutorials block for block. But in Create I felt like I actually had a shot. It took me a lot of projects and tutorials before I got the hang of it, but in time, I was building my own factories and figuring out my own way to compact and improve them. Thats when an idea struck me. I always like the idea of a flying machine, but in vanilla it was just too impractically slow to beat the elytra (or even a horse). But maybe in create, things could be different. I would build _the_ flying machine. The fastest, the most maneuverable, the awesome-est airship dreamed up by create maniacs. One that would be worth building in survival. Heh, had I known how much time I would sink into this beforehand, I might've given up on the spot. Thankfully I didn't, and this mod has been one of the most captivating gaming experiences I was lucky to stumble into.

Something that I think makes create the best tech mod is the fact that you can find it for the newer versions giving you access to minecrafts newer stuff. (Also because of what the comment below me says)

Thanks for the video. It was great!

Your so underrated, great video!

Tip: if you are playing with create, install integrated dungeons and structures, as you can find many structures that contain blocks from create and other mods.

I know a japanese mod that did the same but It was only on 1.5.2 called hugo's mod, but Create makes hugo's mod like an old man, i love create even if is hard as shit to me to manage

I think this mod and tinkers construct should be part of minecraft vanilla because how good and fitting they are

It's great, and one of it's understated aspects is the extraordinarily early game entry point with it's materials. Andesite, lava, iron, a little redstone, and some time can get you anywhere. As opposed to most modpacks locking behind the truly cool stuff behind a good supply of ender pearls and a stable power setup that involves dozens of different materials, you can jump into the meat of Create after spending an hour or so in a new file just setting up a basic base with a shaft to diamond level. The only other sizable mod with a comparable material entry point I can think of is Tinker's Construct.