Elbow Grease

This modpack turns Minecraft into a massive industrial sandbox built around Create and its huge ecosystem of addons. Design intricate factories, automate production lines, transport resources with belts and pipes, build mechanical systems, and construct rail networks that connect your growing empire. With addons such as Create: Steam 'n' Rails, Create: Big Cannons, Create: Diesel Generators, Create: Ore Excavation, Create: Enchantment Industry, Create: Integrated Farming, Create: Copycats+, Create: Connected, and Create: Power Loader, there is always another machine, system, or factory to engineer.

Create is at the heart of the pack, emphasizing physical, animated machinery instead of complicated interfaces. Gears, shafts, belts, mechanical arms, deployers, pumps, trains, and other components can be combined into enormous automated systems. 

Whether you're constructing a compact workshop or an enormous industrial complex, the goal is to design the machines yourself and watch your factory come alive.

Create Aeronautics takes Create's mechanical contraptions beyond the ground, letting you construct and operate flying machines and other vehicles. Build everything from airships and hot-air balloons to planes, helicopters, cars, and other mechanical creations.  This is an addon for the create mod that aims to extend the contraption system to include flying machines. For example: airships, hot air balloons, airplanes, helicopters and more. 

With additional Aeronautics addons for engines, wheels, controls, cameras, fuel, and compatibility, the pack lets you turn your creations into fully-fledged vehicles rather than simply decorative builds.

With MineColonies, your base can become much more than a collection of buildings. Establish a functioning settlement, recruit workers, construct specialized buildings, manage production, and expand your colony as it grows. Builders, farmers, miners, guards, cooks, couriers, and many other workers give your town a sense of life and progression. 

Create's automation systems and MineColonies' workforce also complement each other, giving you plenty of opportunities to build infrastructure that actually serves a growing settlement.

For players who want something a little more explosive, Create Big Cannons adds large-scale artillery and advanced cannon technology, while the TaCZ ecosystem brings firearms and modern combat into the world. Historical War Uniforms and additional compatibility mods help reinforce the military theme.

Build factories that supply your army, construct fortified settlements, manufacture ammunition, and put your engineering skills to the test on the battlefield.

Create's train system, expanded by Steam 'n' Rails, Create: Tracks, Create: Blocks & Bogies, and numerous transportation addons, gives you the tools to build a real industrial transportation network.

Connect mines to factories, factories to colonies, and colonies to distant settlements with custom rail lines. Then take your logistics even further with Create's extensive pipes, belts, storage, and automation systems.

Exploration is supported by Tectonic, Distant Horizons, Nature's Compass, Xaero's Minimap, and Xaero's World Map, giving the world more dramatic terrain while making it easier to navigate and discover new places.

From deep oceans and dangerous caves to distant mountains and sprawling landscapes, there's plenty of room for your industrial empire to expand.

The pack isn't just about machines. Handcrafted, Chipped, Rechiseled, Macaw's building mods, Supplementaries, Beautify!, Create Deco, Create: Interiors, and numerous furniture and decoration addons give you the tools to build detailed homes, factories, towns, warehouses, stations, and colonies.

Add Immersive Paintings, Immersive Melodies, Sound Physics Remastered, Simple Voice Chat, and atmospheric improvements for a more immersive experience.

A large engineering pack can become demanding, so the pack includes a substantial collection of optimization and performance-focused mods such as ModernFix, FerriteCore, Sodium, AI Improvements, Concurrent Chunk Management Engine, Noisiumed, FastSuite, FastFurnace, FastWorkbench, BadOptimizations, and more.

Shader support through Iris and Complementary Shaders also lets you push the visuals further when your hardware allows it.