Create: Maintenance Control
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A Create addon introducing maintenance mechanics. Allows Train Stations to be temporarily disabled, making trains skip them without modifying any train schedules.
Train Stations can be temporarily taken out of service while the rest of the railway network continues operating normally. Trains automatically skip stations marked with a Maintenance Box.
Without Maintenance Boxes, trains will stop at all scheduled stations as normal.
A screenshot showcasing the GUI of the Maintenance Box
This is a showcase of the Maintenance Box's default behavior. For a more detailed guide on how to use the block, visit the official mod wiki.
Description
🛠️ Create: Maintenance Control
Create: Maintenance Control is a small addon for Create that lets you temporarily disable Train Stations, making trains skip them without having to edit their train schedules manually.
Place a Maintenance Box next to a station to mark it as under maintenance. Trains with that station in their schedules will automatically skip it until maintenance is disabled again.
🛠️ Dependencies
- This mod requires Create
- Using a recipe viewer such as JEI or EMI is recommended
🔎 Features
Maintenance Box
Place a Maintenance Box next to a Train Station to mark it as under maintenance.
While maintenance is active:
- trains will skip that station instead of stopping there
- train schedules do not need to be edited manually
- redstone can be used to temporarily disable the maintenance effect
Example use cases
- Temporarily closing a platform during rebuilding
- Skipping a station during track work
- Toggling maintenance with redstone for operational events
Current behaviour / limitations
- If a disabled station is a terminus, trains may encounter route errors unless the network allows them to pathfind from the previous stop to the next scheduled one.
- This is currently the intended behavior rather than a bug/limitation.
- The mod currently focuses on skipping maintenance-marked stations rather than rerouting trains to alternative destinations. More advanced routing behaviour may be explored in future updates.
- Best results are achieved on networks where trains can still pathfind from the previous stop to the next one.
⚠️ Known issues
See Issue Tracker
🤝 Compatibility
The mod has been tested in larger Create-based modpacks and appears to work fine alongside many common Create addons.
This includes initial testing with:
- Create: Aeronautics (MC 1.21.1)
- Sable (MC 1.21.1)
- Create Railways Navigator
- Steam 'n' Rails
📌 Planned
See Roadmap
Documentation / Usability
- a Ponder scene for the Maintenance Box
- expanded documentation and examples on the Wiki page here on GitHub
The Create: Maintenance Control Team
