Dragons are a resource now.
Dragonworks plugs Ice and Fire CE into Create. Every dragon you bring down feeds your factory, your airship and your arsenal. Everything runs on Create machines, and every recipe shows in JEI.
What it adds
- Dragon blood by Mixer. One dragon flesh plus two glass bottles makes two bottles of blood. Fire and lightning need a superheated Blaze Burner. Ice needs packed ice and no heat.
- Dragonsteel by Mixer. Two iron ingots plus one dragon blood make two Dragonsteel ingots.
- Heart-fed burners. A fire dragon heart superheats a Blaze Burner for about 26 minutes. Feed it by hand, Deployer or funnel.
- Roost salvage. Wash charred, frozen and crackled ground with an Encased Fan. You get flint, charcoal, snowballs, lapis, redstone or quartz, plus a shot at that dragon's scales (about 1 per 10 blocks), a diamond (1%) and, on fire ground only, Netherite Scrap (0.1%). Washing never turns one block into another.
- Bone and gems. Mill dragon bone into bone meal. Crush sapphire ore into 2 to 3 sapphires.
- Three dragon jet fuels for airship engines and thrusters.
- Dragonfang Shells for Create Big Cannons.
- Dragon rounds for Create Gunsmithing revolvers and gatlings.
Dragonfang Shells (Create Big Cannons)
Built in one pass on a Create sequenced assembly line: High Explosive Shell, then a Spout adds 250 mB of matching jet fuel, two Deployers each add a matching dragon scale, and a Mechanical Press finishes it.
| Shell | Fuel and scales | On impact |
|---|---|---|
| Emberfang Shell | Dragonfire Jet Fuel, fire scales | Fiery blast. Sets everything within 7 blocks alight and starts fires. |
| Frostfang Shell | Rimefire Jet Fuel, ice scales | Freezes and slows targets, ices water, turns lava to obsidian and snows the ground. |
| Stormfang Shell | Stormfire Jet Fuel, lightning scales | Calls a lightning strike, then arcs to up to 5 nearby targets. |
Dragon rounds (Create Gunsmithing)
A Spout fills a revolver or gatling round with 100 mB of matching jet fuel. One dragon blood makes 10 rounds. In game, hold N to open the ammo wheel, pick the dragon round, then press R to reload.
| Round | On hit |
|---|---|
| Emberfang Round | Sets the target on fire. |
| Frostfang Round | Freezes and slows the target. |
| Stormfang Round | Pierces and arcs to 2 nearby targets. |
Every shell and round deals 50% more damage to dragons, and double damage to the opposite element: fire against ice, ice against fire.
Dragon jet fuels
Mix one dragon blood with 500 mB of kerosene to get 1,000 mB of fuel and the bottle back. Any kerosene works, for example from TFMG or the More Propulsion centrifuge.
| Fuel | Mixer recipe | Create Propulsion | Create Thrusters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dragonfire | Fire blood + kerosene, superheated | 1.5x thrust, 0.6x burn | 1.75x push |
| Rimefire | Ice blood + packed ice + kerosene, no heat | 1.25x thrust, 0.35x burn | 1.4x push, lasts twice as long |
| Stormfire | Lightning blood + copper + kerosene, superheated | 1.9x thrust, 1.0x burn | 2.1x push |
All three run More Propulsion jet engines as top-grade fuel.
Requirements
- Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge
- Required: Create 6 and Ice and Fire CE
- Optional: Create Big Cannons (shells), Create Gunsmithing (rounds), More Propulsion, Create Propulsion and Create Thrusters (fuels)
Optional content only loads when its mod is installed, so Dragonworks runs fine without the cannon and gun mods.
Modpacks
You are welcome to include Dragonworks in any modpack. It was built for Create Aeronautics: Ice and Fire.
Credits
Dragonfang Shell textures are adapted from Create Big Cannons by the Cannoneers of Create, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Round textures and the logo are original.

