Create: Crude & Current

Heavy industry for Create: smelt steel in a blast furnace, pump and refine crude oil, burn its fuels in engines, carry power across the map on a three-level electrical grid, and run a chemical industry, all with Create's own machines wherever they fit.

Beta. Playable from ore to grid, but things can still change between versions. Back up your worlds, and report bugs on the issue tracker.

Requirements

JEI is supported but optional.

What's in it

Steel

• Lead ore, coal coke, cast iron and steel, with their nuggets, sheets and blocks
• Coke oven, blast furnace and hot blast stove: brick multiblocks, each with its own look, fed by hatches and funnels
• Converter to turn molten iron into steel, casting basin and molds for ingots, sheets and blocks
• Create's shafts, cogwheels, casings, pipes, pumps, gearboxes, chain drives and fluid tanks in steel, cast iron, lead and aluminium

Oil

• Surface scanner to find oil deposits, pumpjack and deep drill to pump crude oil, injection well
• Distillation tower of up to seven stages: bitumen, heavy oil, diesel, kerosene, gasoline, naphtha and LPG
• Flare stack to burn off what you do not need

Engines

• Gasoline engine, diesel engine (with power cylinders) and gas turbine
• Engine controller: throttle by hand or by redstone, and gears
• Fuels are data-driven: datapacks can add their own

Electricity

A grid in Forge Energy, so other mods' machines plug straight into it.

• Generators turn rotation into power, electric motors turn it back, lead-acid accumulators store it
• Three voltage levels:
  • low voltage is the only one machines plug into: no losses, but it reaches only 32 blocks of cable;
  • medium voltage carries further, losing 0.1% per block;
  • high voltage, on overhead lines, carries furthest with ten times less loss
• Transformers between levels, with a screen that shows what is plugged into each side
• Overhead lines on insulators, wooden poles and steel pylons. Live lines are bare and dangerous
• Breakers opened by hand, by redstone or by a Redstone Link frequency, and a control panel to command a whole network of them from one screen, and show their state on a display board
• A multimeter to read any network, and the electrician's manual, which explains it all from scratch

Chemistry

• Electrolyzer, set on a basin like a mixer: brine into chlorine, hydrogen and caustic soda, alumina into molten aluminium
• Aluminium from bauxite, sulfuric acid, ethylene, plastic and PVC, all made with Create's mixers, presses and crushing wheels
• Acid fills accumulators and leaches ores for more nuggets; hydrogen is an engine fuel

Building

• Concrete cast by a press over a basin, in 16 colours, and reinforced concrete as blast-proof as obsidian
• Asphalt roads that speed you up, with road markings in any colour

Weapons and equipment

• Flamethrower spraying napalm, whose infernal fire only water puts out
• Tools and armour in steel, cast iron, lead and aluminium, each with its own character

Made for Create

• Ponder scenes for the machines (hold W over an item)
• Goggles information, Display Link sources and JEI categories
• Machine screens in the style of Create's Stock Keeper

Server options

In config/crude_current-server.toml, synced to every player:

Compatibility

• Everything electric is Forge Energy: cables, machines and storage from other mods work with it
• Ores, ingots, sheets and fluids use the common c: tags, so other mods' lead, steel or aluminium are accepted
• Engine fuels are datapack files

Changes

See CHANGELOG.md.

License

MIT