Create: Custom TACZ Automation

Bring your TaCZ workshop into a Create-powered factory.

Create: Custom TACZ Automation expands Create: Precise Manufacturing (PRMA) with hundreds of automated recipes for Timeless and Classics Zero (TaCZ) and supported addons. Build production lines for guns, attachments, ammunition, targets, turrets, and tactical gear using Create's Mechanical Crafters, Deployers, and processing machines.

Inspired by Create: Arms Race, this project retains PRMA's original machinery and processing content while expanding what you can automate.

Latest release: v1.3.3
Minecraft: 1.20.1 | Mod loader: Forge 47.x | Client and dedicated server

IMPORTANT: This mod replaces the original PRMA / Create: Precise Manufacturing JAR. Its internal mod ID is still prma for compatibility. Do not install both mods together.

Features

• Automated gun crafting — Build TaCZ firearms using Create Mechanical Crafters, including Arms Race-inspired patterns.
• Attachments and accessories — Automate compatible sights, grips, magazines, and other equipment.
• Industrial ammunition production — Keep PRMA's original Sequenced Assembly ammunition processes and manufacture additional ammo variants.
• ZeroContact ammo integration — Finish 55 ammunition variants with Create Deployers using PRMA-prepared cartridges and variant-specific components, instead of oversized Mechanical Crafter patterns.
• Tactical equipment and targets — Craft gear, turrets, and target blocks from supported TaCZ addons.
• Full PRMA processing — Preserve the original cutting, mixing, crushing, milling, and manufacturing content.
• Extra Gauges × TaCZ compatibility — Includes GunId-aware Factory Gauge recipe selection to help distinguish guns that share the same underlying TaCZ item.
• Forge update notifications (v1.3.3) — Supports Forge's built-in Mods-menu update indicator once the online version feed is published and maintained.

Recipe count

The mod includes 537 Create recipes in total: 452 added automation recipes and 85 original PRMA recipes.

Not all recipes use a 3×3 crafting grid. Large firearms and equipment may require extended Mechanical Crafter layouts.

Supported mods and recipe coverage

These are the mods actually covered by the added automation recipes. You only need to install the optional addons whose items you want to manufacture.

Create: Arms Race is a required dependency and provides inspiration for some weapon-crafting layouts. Its own existing recipes are not counted separately in this table.

Other reviewed addons — including TaCZ Guns Lights Addon, TaCZ Tweaks, TaCZ Presence, and TaCZ Addon — do not have additional converted recipes in this release.

Requirements

Required mods

Optional integrations

• Create: Extra Gauges 2.0.7 — Enables the included TaCZ GunId Factory Gauge compatibility feature. Use the original, unmodified Extra Gauges JAR.
• ZeroContact — Enables its 124 additional automation recipes.
• Other supported TaCZ addons — Install the matching addon to use the recipes listed above.

Do not install the separate Extra Gauges × TaCZ compatibility addon. Its fix is already integrated into Custom TACZ Automation.

Installation

1. Install Minecraft 1.20.1 Forge and all required dependencies listed above.
2. Download the latest Create: Custom TACZ Automation JAR from this CurseForge page.
3. Remove the original PRMA / Create: Precise Manufacturing mod and any older Custom TACZ Automation versions from your mods folder.
4. Place the new JAR in the mods folder on both client and server.
5. Optionally install original Extra Gauges 2.0.7 and any supported TaCZ addons you want to automate.
6. Launch Minecraft, check the recipes with your recipe viewer, and start building your factory.

Updating an existing world: Replace the previous JAR rather than keeping multiple versions. Back up your world before major modpack updates.

How the automation works

• Mechanical Crafters assemble guns, attachments, armor, targets, turrets, and equipment.
• Sequenced Assembly handles PRMA's multi-step ammunition production.
• Deployers finish ZeroContact ammunition using a PRMA-prepared cartridge and a matching bullet component or modifier.
• Mechanical Saws, Mixers, Crushing Wheels, and Millstones create the materials needed by your production lines.

Extra Gauges and individual TaCZ weapons

Many TaCZ guns use the same item ID, tacz:modern_kinetic_gun, but have different GunId data. Without special handling, a Factory Gauge can choose a recipe for a different weapon.

This mod includes a GunId-aware compatibility patch for original Create: Extra Gauges 2.0.7, intended to help Factory Gauges select the requested gun rather than another weapon sharing the same base item. This does not replace or modify the Extra Gauges JAR.

Version history (v1.2.2 → v1.3.3)

v1.3.3 — Update notifications

• Added Forge's built-in update checker, linking to CurseForge through a GitHub-hosted update feed.
• Added optional release-sync tooling for GitHub Actions.
• Left recipes and gameplay content unchanged from v1.3.2.

v1.3.2 — Factory Gauge recipe selection

• Improved TaCZ GunId matching before Extra Gauges selects a mechanical crafting recipe, targeting issues with RPK, SKS, and SCAR-H gun selection.
• Retained the existing recipe catalog and ammunition processing.

v1.3.1 — ZeroContact ammunition overhaul

• Converted 55 ZeroContact ammo recipes to Create Deployer processing with PRMA-prepared cartridges.
• Preserved the other ZeroContact automation recipes and original PRMA ammunition manufacturing.

v1.3.0 — Integrated release milestone

• Released the integrated Extra Gauges compatibility system as v1.3.0.
• Updated documentation and build tools without changing recipe materials or outputs.

v1.2.3 — Built-in Extra Gauges compatibility

• Merged the separate Extra Gauges × TaCZ compatibility addon directly into Custom TACZ Automation.
• Kept original Extra Gauges 2.0.7 unmodified.

v1.2.2 — ZeroContact expansion

• Added 121 ZeroContact automation recipes, establishing the 537-recipe baseline.

Across these releases, the recipe catalog remains at 537 recipes. The most significant production change was switching 55 ZeroContact ammunition recipes to Deployers.

Important notes

• Some recipes are adapted for Create automation and may not use the exact material totals of their original crafting stations.
• Upgrades that modify a gun's existing NBT data are not all converted into fixed-output crafting recipes.
• The compatibility patch is designed for Extra Gauges 2.0.7; other versions are not guaranteed.
• Not every combination of supported addon versions has been tested in-game. If a recipe produces the wrong item, include your mod versions, recipe ID, and latest log when reporting it.

Links and credits

• Source code and documentation: GitHub — Create: Custom TACZ Automation
• Downloads and releases: CurseForge — Create: Custom TACZ Automation | Modrinth — Create: Custom TACZ Automation
• Original project: Create: Precise Manufacturing (PRMA) by Type-32 / CTRL-Neo-Studios

Based on PRMA's simplified Create automation variant. Credit and license notices for PRMA and any third-party assets should be preserved. Some TaCZ-derived textures have licensing terms separate from PRMA's MIT-licensed code.

This is a community-made project, not an official Create or TaCZ release.