Create: Smoke Stacks - Lite
- By
If you've built a steam boiler in Create to drive engines, this mod makes it look and feel like a real, working piece of industrial machinery: smoke rises from it while it's running, just like a real boiler or chimney would.
# Create: Smoke Stacks
Adds smoke to running Create steam boilers, plus a set of connectable chimney blocks to route that smoke wherever you want.
If you run steam power in Create, your boilers currently just sit there silently. This mod gives them a visible sign of life: while a boiler is actually running, smoke rises from it, and how much smoke you get scales with how hard the boiler is working.
## What it does
- **Boilers smoke while running.** Any Create fluid tank set up as a steam boiler (heat + water + attached engines/whistles) puffs out campfire-style smoke from its open top while it's active.
- **Smoke intensity matches boiler level.** This uses the same effective boiler level Create's own goggle overlay shows (the minimum of heat, water, and boiler size). A high-level boiler (9+) puts out a tall "signal" plume; a boiler that's only just getting by gives off a light wisp.
- **Smoke Stack block.** A flue pipe segment that auto-connects to neighbouring segments in any direction, including corners and T-junctions. Build a duct network from the top of a boiler and the smoke exits at the open ends of the pipe instead of the bare tank — vertical ends get a flared chimney cap, horizontal ends puff smoke out sideways. A stack can also be mounted flush against the side of a boiler, whistle-style, and a copper mounting plate renders automatically wherever a segment meets a tank.
-
- **Large Smoke Stack block.** A full-width industrial chimney that stacks with itself and can connect to regular Smoke Stacks. An open large-stack end puts out a wider, heavier column of smoke (double the normal share); multiple open ends split the smoke between them.
-
Compatibility
- Works with **Sable / Create Aeronautics**: smoke correctly follows moving Sable structures, so a flying steam-powered airship smokes properly in flight.
- If a redstone-enabled Aeronautics steam vent is mounted on a boiler, that boiler's chimney smoke is suppressed automatically (the steam is being vented there instead). This is a soft dependency detected at runtime Aeronautics is not required for the mod to work.
## Before you download
- **Requires Create 6.0.0 or newer** and NeoForge on Minecraft 1.21.1. It is an add-on, not a standalone mod Create must be installed alongside it.
The Create: Smoke Stacks - Lite Team
