Create: Gravlax

Sugar refining, seasoning and food alchemy for Create.

Create: Gravlax is a food-processing addon for Create, built around sugar beet, salt, molasses, potion extraction and seasoned food.

Grow Sugar Beet and refine it into sugar and molasses. Recover additional sugar through the Steffen process. Concentrate potions in the Evaporator, separate them into essences in the Centrifuge, and use those essences to prepare spices for vanilla food and Farmer’s Delight dishes.

And, naturally, cure salmon into Gravlax, or haunt the cure into redstone.

Features

Sugar Beet crop, sugar refining and molasses production
Steffen process for recovering additional sugar from molasses
Raw Rock Salt, edible salt and food seasoning
Evaporator and laboratory Centrifuge
Potion concentration, essence extraction and culinary spices
Seasoned vanilla and Farmer’s Delight foods
Gravlax Salmon and Gravlax Salmon Slice
Bulk haunting of Gravlax Cure into redstone
Milk-based remedies for harmful effects
JEI support for the mod’s recipes

Sugar beet and sugar refining

Sugar Beet is a new crop used for the mod’s sugar-refining chain. Its seeds can rarely be obtained while harvesting vanilla beetroot; once started, the crop can provide further seeds through mechanical processing or by normal means. Once grown, beetroots drop dirty beets, that needs to be washed before being processed. (at the moment only via bulk washing)

Sugar Beet → Beet cossettes → Juice → Thick Juice → Raw Sugar / Molasses → Sugar Crystals → Sugar

(This process can also be applied to vanilla beetroot, with smaller returns but creates raw red sugar, wich is the gravlax cure main ingredient)

Sugar crystals are processed into vanilla sugar through the Millstone or Crushing Wheels. Molasses is not a waste output: it can be processed further through the Steffen method.

Steffen process and material recovery

Molasses still contains recoverable sugar. Through the Steffen process, it can be combined with lime-based reagents to produce Calcium Saccharate, then processed into additional sugar crystals.

Molasses + Lime Water → Calcium Saccharate → Calcium Saccharate Paste → Sugar Crystals

Salt, gravlax and renewable redstone

Raw Rock Salt can be found naturally in the overworld and can be mechanically refined into edible Salt, used both for basic savory seasoning and for the mod’s signature curing ingredient: Gravlax Cure.

Salt can also be obtained by evaporating water, and to water it can return: place it near some water sources and it will dissolve, turning them into salt water (in a 3x3 radius).

Use salt to prevent water in your base from freezing around it, or spread it on snow to quickly melt huge areas. Rock salt can also be used to craft a decorative salt lamp

Use Gravlax Cure on salmon to prepare Gravlax Salmon, a cured food with the Sweet&Sour profile and a Luck effect. With Farmer’s Delight installed, Salmon Slices can be cured into Gravlax Salmon Slices as well.

Gravlax Cure also has a stranger use: processing it through bulk haunting has a chance to produce Redstone.

The machines

Evaporator

The Evaporator concentrates fluids used in sugar refining, salt making and potion extraction, including thickened beet juice and Concentrated Potion.

Centrifuge

The Centrifuge is a compact laboratory machine used for specialised separations and essence extraction. It requires at least 128 RPM, processes faster at higher speeds, displays its active recipe above the lid.

Potion processing and essences

Potions can be concentrated in the Evaporator, then separated into crystallised essences in the Centrifuge.

Positive essences are combined with Salt, Sugar or Gravlax Cure to produce culinary Spices. Applied to compatible food, each spice gives the dish a flavour profile and a related effect.

Each flavor profile grants food the original essence effects!

Negative essences are used differently. Turn your milk into Milk Bottles and brew them with nether wart to get Milky Potions. Milk bottles act as stackable milk buckets, removing all effects from the user, Milky potions remove only negative effects. Brewing negative essences into Milky Potion produces targeted remedies.

Farmer’s Delight compatibility

Farmer’s Delight and its addon Create: Slice and dice are optional, but receive native support when installed

With Farmer’s Delight and Slice and dice present:

its supported savory and sweet foods can be seasoned with the appropriate spices;
Salmon Slice can be cured into Gravlax Salmon Slice;
Sugar Beet can substitute beetroot in selected culinary recipes, including Vegetable Soup and Ratatouille;
Beets can be cut into cossettes on a chopping board or by a slicer
Create: Gravlax provides the compatible Milk Bottle used by its own brewing and remedy system.

Requirements

Required

Minecraft: 1.21.1
NeoForge: 21.1.228
Create: 6.0.10

Recommended

Optional compatibility

Farmer’s Delight
Create: Slice and dice

Credits and licensing

Create: Gravlax is an independent addon for Create by Livid.

The project includes or adapts material from third-party sources under their respective licence terms, with the required notices preserved in the distributed files.

Portions derived from Salt, used under its original licence.
Visual material based on assets by Malcolm Riley, used according to the licence terms provided in the original GitHub repository.
Centrifuge audio adapted from a laboratory centrifuge sample sourced from Pixabay, with attribution included in the package.
Selected visual assets adapted for compatibility with Farmer’s Delight, with the relevant attribution notice included in the package.

The project itself is licensed under MIT