The short answer is: the Ponder system is your friend. If you hover your mouse over any part from Create and hold w, you get an animated tutorial for how to use that part. There's also a button in your pause menu that looks like a pair of goggles, that allows you to browse every tutorial in game. The longer answer is, to get started with Create in survival, collect a bunch of iron and andesite. Craft some iron nuggets and andesite together to create alloy, and you can use this to create your first machine, a mechanical press. You can power it with a handcrank, which turns the power of your massive biceps into mechanical force. The press turns ingots into plates, used to build more advanced machines. Any item called "Mechanical X" in JEI is a machine used to either process items or affect the world. A good next step would be to make a mechanical mixer and a basin, which allows you to mix alloy together more efficiently. But the mixer needs to turn at a high speed, higher than your arms can provide... So you'll have to learn how to make a windmill or waterwheel, and how to use shafts, cogs, and gearboxes to connect the machine to the power source. Once you get a handle on the basics, you can think about building assembly lines. Mechanical belts can be used to transport items through the world, and funnels and tunnels move items into machines or storage, and route them across your belts. A good first contraption is an automatic tree farm. There are lots of ways to build one, but by using mechanical saws to chop the trees, deployers to replant the saplings, and some belts to move logs around, you can to get a fully automated supply of wood, which could mean a fully automated source of charcoal, which could mean a fully automated source of power... etc. Dig through the ponder tutorials and experiment. More on reddit.com

Create Chronicles is pretty fun and it has some nice quests for Create The Factory Must Grow. Although it kinda misses the standard tech mods. E9E is a really good pack that I liked, I recommend it. But it doesn't really focus on create, it's a combination of both magic and tech. If you play Create above and beyond, which is one of the best create pack, I recommend to play the version newer create called CABIN More on reddit.com

RotaryCraft and ReactorCraft are actually some of the better mods out there for having a pretty linear progression and being easy to follow once you understand the key mechanic, and that mechanic is power. While it might be overwhelming to look at a gas turbine on day 1 of your world and try to get there, when you actually work up the progression tree to the gas turbine you'll find you have all the supporting infrastructure pretty naturally. If you want, I can write out a guide for you. If you'd rather play through the progression, I'll do a little self-promotion and suggest my custom modpack which has HQM quests to lead you through the basics of RoC progression - check it out here . If you're looking to do it on your own, the super high level view is figure out how to get yourself: HSLA steel, steam engine (side quest - fans and canola farm), gas engine (side quest - grinder), microturbine (side quest - extractor), pulse-jet furnace (side quest - hydrokinetic engines and boring machine), and finally the gas turbine. Building out the ancillary equipment to support each of those machines will take you a long way. In terms of other mods and progression guides in general, well... some are great, some are less so. Packs like Agrarian Skies are very good at introducing you to the mods featured in them which will give you a better idea of how to deal with things in other packs. More on reddit.com

Most brass variants of items have filters. You can automate everything in Create but it requires more creativity than Mek.

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