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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Pay attention to the biome (F3, on the left) you start in. If it's bad re-roll the seed. You want one that will spawn useful animals. If you started in a bad seed and need to replace biomes (cheat mode commands). Modifying the level.dat WorldGenSettings > seed value with an NBT editor is left to the reader's choice of tools. I used nbted (command line) to correct the seed (so chunks regen correctly). Then mcaselector to select the starter ship(s) and chunks I'd built in, invert selection, and finally delete all the other chunks to force them to regen. [replace ] /fillbiome ~-4 -63 ~-4 ~4 319 ~4 minecraft:jungle replace minecraft:badlands /fillbiome ~-4 -63 ~-4 ~4 319 ~4 minecraft:forest replace minecraft:badlands Remember standard Skyblock mechanics / progression. Collect the tree + Saplings Grow the platform to collect more Get a cobble gen going (look it up so you don't kill the lava or water) JEI + EMI / NEI / etc keybinds of note focus OUT of the search bar, hover over an item, tap 'a' to add it (or remove it) from the shortcut / bookmark list 'r' for recipe if you've enabled creative cheats E.G. in your SSP creative world hold 'w' over select items for inspirations / use / animations Create has in-world interaction for many crafting steps Key resource: Sunflower + Sunflower plant (top half) + Bone Meal Mill Cog Crank Composter (Minecraft) Mill down cobblestone to gravel, to sand. Sand smelt == Quartz Sunflower == Slow growth OR bone meal top block Sunflower mill => Sunflower Seed mill => craft to Asurine Asurine mill => Zinc Nugget Andesite <= 4 cobble around Diorite <= Calcite + Gravel 2 Zinc Nugget (2 sunflower + lots of crushed cobble) == Andesite Alloy Glass <= smelt Glass Mix <= Quartz + Calcite Advice: plan your own tradeoff between ability to produce bonemeal and passive sunflower (very VERY slow) growth. Advice: Bonemeal is VERY GOOD for making solid grass blocks spawn grass 'plants' which can be sheered with wooden sheers, then milled to seeds (wheat+water+smelt=bread) Advice: Bonemeal on dirt under vertical flowing water == spread water blocks, then infinite water @@ 6 crushed sunflower seeds @@ MAKE Mechanical Extruder (w) Make an Andesite Casing + 8x Shaft (2 nuggets) + 4 small gears can automate cobble (up to 64 buffered in the Mechanical Extruder) Fan <= 4 Iron Bars It's going to suck a little up front, but build a PROPER mob farm, you'll need it. == 21.5 block drop is OK ; From top of slab to the top side of the block the water flows over = 21.5 blocks I used a double slab block every 5 rings, after the 2 for the kill chamber at the bottom to keep count. The top ~13 rings should be solid to drop the light level to ZERO in the spawn chamber (this is MC 1.20) Mini-farm water base... # = outer wall, W source block, f flowing water, + inner fill, . drop shaft ############ #WffffffffW# #f+++ff+++f# #f+++ff+++f# #f+++ff+++f# #ffff..ffff# #ffff..ffff# #f+++ff+++f# #f+++ff+++f# #f+++ff+++f# #WffffffffW# ############ Cover the 3x3 fill and the water block against the wall to leave 4x4 pads and a 2 high spawn area. Works for spiders and non-enderman. ? Granite mill => Red Sand => Redstone + Gravel => Crimsite mill => Iron If you built the mob farm correctly, and cull it when it's near full, it will likely be your iron source until you've made a Brass cobbleworks. The fan? It's "to wash gravel to get iron way faster... and progress towards automation." also all the other USEFUL things, like... Seaweed from: Sniffa Egg 5% drop (Took me nearly a stack to get one) <= wash Sus Sandstone <= mill Smooth Sandstone <= smelt Sandstone <= Sand Sniffer's want 20 GRASS blocks in their enclosure, make sure it's sufficiently large. Moss (block) <1%drop <= wash cobble -- I don't love mossy cobble that much Sniffer eggs hatch 50% faster (10 IRL min) on Mossy blocks 2 Dirt + 2 gravel => 4 coarse dirt till => 4 dirt At this point continue from the "Fantastic Fanning" section of the written out guide. Andesite CobbleWorks ... No crafting, this is limited enough that maybe just... Cobblestone -> Chest -> Mill: Gravel -> Chest -> Mill: Sand -> Chest Re: Chart https://preview.redd.it/kyh144uiy3je1.png?width=1996&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d6692b3cef92ba325d145cf39592409b1ae2891 Around HALF of that chart is a 'logical dependency' but isn't part of a process that can be fully automated. Sugarcane - it's possible to make. I saw a streamer do so and I did it too. (copper) Mechanical Fryer + Caramel <-- Mixer + 4 sugar :: If you don't have sugar from the mob farm 1B honey <- 12 Cactus <- dripstone Moss <- wash LOTS of cobble !!! NOTE: Basin can't be moved, need horizontal gear power for the mixer, and horizontal shaft rotation for the frier. Need to RIGHT CLICK the frier with the bamboo. Dripstone -> More Lava <<-- compact + blazed 4 clay + granite New-ish vanilla (AKA vanilla modded old vanilla), low RNG chance every 68 seconds, 'average' is 19 min per refill, could take WAY longer. Cauldron under (optionally air only) Dripstone under solid block (just one) under Lava SOURCE BLOCK. +++ BRASS age CobbleWorks +++ Brass Tunnels and Funnels - Round Robin, Filtering, STACKS of items rather than one at a time. Suddenly it's possible to make a real cobble-works. There's more than one type of stone generation, I don't know about what the others are useful for yet. I also haven't re-built my cobbleworks yet so I'm not sure how feasible it is. Cobblestone mill Gravel wash Mossy + Moss -- Are these useful for anything? blast Stone (smooth) (crafts) Stone blast Smooth Stone (crafts) Gravel mill Sand wash Iron Nugget (12%?) + Flint (25%, trash overflow) (crafts) Sand wash Clay blast Quartz (craft) -> Granite -> Red Sand -> Redstone (dust) -> Rose Quartz (crafts) Clay blast Brick -> Decorated Pot -> Copper nugget -> Copper ??? Pointed Dripstone -> Lava Quartz (craft) Glass powder -> Glass (craft) Calcite -> Diorite -> Andesite -> Andesite Alloy (component) (crafts) Red Sand wash gold nugget + bush (trash) More on reddit.com