Create and Heavy Industry

Create is the backbone of Chevron Ten's tech, and the other chapters lean on it: Create machines make the plates, gears and molten metal for your Stargate and rockets. This page walks you through Create from your first cog to a working train, then Immersive Engineering, Mekanism and Refined Storage.

Learn as you go: Hold W while hovering over any Create block to open its Ponder scene, an animated in-game tutorial. It's the best way to learn Create.

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Part 1: Create basics

Chapter: Create: Gears and Contraptions

Step 1: Andesite Alloy

Quest: Andesite Alloy (16 Andesite Alloy)

Craft Andesite + Iron Nuggets (or Zinc Nuggets) in a 2×2 grid. Almost every early Create part uses it, so make a stack.

Then grab your two tools:

• Wrench (quest: Tool of the Trade): rotates blocks and picks up Create machines instantly.
• Engineer's Goggles (quest: Engineer's Goggles): shows speed, stress and what's inside machines when you look at them.

Step 2: Rotational power

Quests: Getting in Gear → Water Power → Encased

Create runs on rotation. Each power source adds stress capacity, and each machine uses some of it.

1. Craft Shafts, Cogwheels and Large Cogwheels to carry rotation.
2. Build a Water Wheel in flowing water for your first power source.
3. Craft Andesite Casing (Andesite Alloy on stripped logs). It's the base for most early machines.

Tip: If machines stop and the goggles show them overstressed, add more power sources or slow things down.

Step 3: Processing

Quests: Grind It Down → Under Pressure → Mix It Up → Bulk Processing → Dig Deeper

Step 4: Brass

Quests: Feed the Blaze → Brass Tacks

1. Get a Blaze Burner: craft an empty one, then trap a Blaze in it with a right-click.
2. Put the Blaze Burner under a Basin and feed it fuel to heat it.
3. Mix Copper and Zinc in the Mixer over the heated Basin to get Brass Ingots.

Superheating: Feed the Blaze Burner a Blaze Cake to superheat it. You'll need this to melt Naquadah Alloy for the Stargate.

Step 5: Brass-tier parts

Quests: Vacuum Tubes → Precision Engineering → Brass Casing → Robot Arm

Step 6: Ore doubling

Quest: Crushing Wheels

Put two Crushing Wheels side by side, spinning toward each other. Drop ores in the gap to get crushed ore, which gives more ingots than smelting raw ore.

Step 7: Steam power

Quest: Full Steam Ahead

1. Build Fluid Tanks into a boiler.
2. Put Blaze Burners underneath and pipe water in.
3. Attach Steam Engines to the sides of the tank, with a shaft in front of each one.

A heated boiler makes far more power than water wheels.

Step 8: Trains

Quests: Laying Track → All Aboard (finale)

1. Craft Train Tracks and lay a line. Craft a Train Station and place it on the track.
2. Build a train on the track at the station: place casings on the track to make bogeys, then build your train around them.
3. Add Train Controls facing the direction you want to drive.
4. Use the station to assemble the train, then sit on the controls and drive.

The finale gives 1,000 XP and 16 Brass Ingots.

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Part 2: Create addons

Chapter: Create Addons

Chevron Ten has over 50 Create addons. The quest chapter highlights these:

Tip: Search @create in JEI to browse every Create and addon item, or click an item and press W to see if it has a Ponder scene.

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Part 3: Immersive Engineering

Chapter: Heavy Industry (top row)

Immersive Engineering builds big multiblock machines.

1. Engineer's Hammer. You use it to form every multiblock. Craft the Engineer's Manual too, since it has every layout.
2. Coke Oven. Craft 27 Coke Bricks and build a 3×3×3 cube, then hit the middle of one side with the hammer. It turns coal into Coal Coke and makes Creosote Oil.
3. Treated Wood. Craft 8 planks around a bucket of Creosote Oil. You need 16 for the quest.
4. Blast Furnace. Craft 27 Blast Bricks and form a 3×3×3 cube. Smelt Iron with Coal Coke to make Steel.
5. Steel. Make 16 Steel Ingots to finish the IE line.

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Part 4: Mekanism

Chapter: Heavy Industry (bottom row)

1. Osmium. Mine Osmium Ore and smelt 16 Osmium Ingots.
2. Metallurgic Infuser. Infuses metals with carbon, redstone and more. It's the first Mekanism machine you need.
3. Basic Control Circuits. Infuse Osmium Ingots with redstone in the Metallurgic Infuser. You need 4.
4. Steel Casing. The base for every Mekanism machine. You need 2.
5. Enrichment Chamber. Turns 1 ore into 2 dusts, which doubles your ore.
6. Heat Generator. Simple power from lava or furnace fuel.
7. Atomic Disassembler. One tool that mines, digs and chops everything.
8. Digital Miner (finale). Mines out a whole area automatically. The quest also needs your IE Steel, and gives 1,000 XP.

Going nuclear (optional)

HBM's Nuclear Tech Modernized adds nuclear power and radiation. It's an alpha, so back up your world before experimenting.

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Part 5: Refined Storage

Chapter: Storage Solutions

Refined Storage turns all your chests into one searchable network.

1. Quartz Enriched Iron. Craft Iron and Nether Quartz. You need 16.
2. Silicon. Smelt Nether Quartz. You need 8.
3. Machine Casing. The base for most Refined Storage blocks.
4. Controller. The heart of the network. It needs power (FE), so hook it up to a Mekanism or Create Crafts and Additions generator.
5. Disk Drive + Storage Disks. Disks hold your items. Start with 1k disks.
6. Grid. Access everything in your network from one screen. Upgrade to a Crafting Grid to craft straight from storage.
7. Importer and Exporter. Move items between the network and your machines.
8. Wireless Grid (finale). Reach your storage from anywhere in range. It needs a Wireless Transmitter on the network.

Backpack upgrades

Upgrade your Sophisticated Backpack: Iron → Gold → Diamond. Each tier adds more slots and upgrade slots.