Gears & Giants

# Gears & Giants

**Gears, airships, dinosaurs – and guns you have to earn.**

Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge · Create 6 · for solo and small groups

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## What is it about?

Gears & Giants is a Create modpack with a big tech backbone. At its heart is **Create with Create: Aeronautics**: you start with cogs and shafts, grow into full factories and end up building flying airships. Around it you'll find Mekanism, Applied Energistics 2, Oritech, TFMG, EnderIO, Draconic Evolution and RFTools. The tech mods are linked together, so you have to move between them instead of rushing down a single path to the end.

On top of that, the world is alive: dinosaurs in the wild, rivers with real currents, dungeons and bosses, your own colony – and a weapon system that is tied to your factory.

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## Highlights

### ⚙️ Create at the core
- Create 6 with plenty of addons: Aeronautics (airships), Big Cannons, Steam 'n' Rails, Diesel Generators, New Age, Crafts & Additions, Enchantment Industry, Connected, Deco, Hypertube, Jetpack and many more
- **Applied Kinetics:** AE2's inscriber recipes run on Create assembly lines. ME processors are made on the production line.
- **Experience from your factory:** Deployers with swords collect the full experience as nuggets, and the Mechanical Grindstone turns them into liquid experience.

### 🔫 Weapons with real progression (custom system)
Not every gun (Timeless and Classics Zero) is available from the start. Every weapon class has its **own workbench**:

| Tier | Workbench | Game phase |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gun Smith Table – pistols | Early game |
| 2 | SMG Workbench | Early mid game (first Create assembly lines) |
| 3 | Shotgun Workbench | Mid game (getting into Mekanism) |
| 4 | Rifle Workbench (incl. light MGs) | Late mid game (plastic, alloys) |
| 5 | Precision Workbench (snipers, minigun, launchers) | Late game |

- **Real gun parts:** Every gun is built from individual parts – barrels, bolts, magazines, receivers, stocks, springs. Most of them come off **Create assembly lines**; heavy and precision barrels are made in Mekanism's Metallurgic Infuser. Classic guns use steel and wood, modern ones aluminum and polymer.
- **Ammo only via Create:** All 24 calibers are made on their own production lines (cut the casing, add primer and powder, seat the bullet).
- **Attachments fit in:** Extended magazines need magazine parts and springs, scopes from 4× need precision mechanisms, suppressors need steel.
- Plus Create Gunsmithing and Mekanism Weapons for anyone who likes it old-school or futuristic.

### 🔋 Deep tech
- **Mekanism** with Generators, Tools, Additions and More Machine
- **Oritech**, linked with Mekanism: control circuits need Oritech parts and vice versa. The Deep Drill for infinite ores is much more expensive.
- **Applied Energistics 2** with ExtendedAE, AE2 Things, AE Additions and Applied Mekanistics; **Refined Storage 2** as an earlier option
- **EnderIO**, TFMG, Electro Energetics, Draconic Evolution with Draconic Additions, RFTools
- **Almost Unified:** ores and ingots from different mods are merged into one item – no more five kinds of copper in your inventory.

### 🌌 Custom endgame: the Reality Core
At the end there's a custom crafting chain that needs every major tech mod:

1. **Kinetic Matrix** (Create, Mechanical Crafting)
2. **Quantum Lattice** (AE2 and Mekanism)
3. **Antimatter Core** (Mekanism Nucleosynthesizer)
4. **Chaos Stabilizer** (Draconic Fusion, Chaotic tier)
5. **Reality Core**: combines all four and is the ingredient for creative items like the Creative Motor, the Creative Energy Cube or the AE2 Creative Energy Cell.

It's expensive on purpose. If you build a Creative Motor, you've beaten the pack.

### 🌍 World & exploration
- **Flowing rivers:** Streams Reflowing carves real streams and rivers with currents – boats and items drift downstream.
- YUNG's Better Dungeons, Strongholds, Mineshafts, Ocean Monuments, Desert and Jungle Temples, Nether Fortresses, End Island, Cave Biomes
- Biomes O' Plenty, ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village, Structory, Incendium, Deeper and Darker, Dungeons Arise: Seven Seas
- Ad Astra and Creating Space for the road to space
- Sparse Structures: structures aren't packed together, so exploring pays off again.

### 🦖 Creatures & combat
- **Jurassic Reborn:** dinosaurs spawn naturally in fitting biomes. Herbivores are more common, carnivores rarer – but you will meet them.
- Naturalist, Living Things, Waddles, Creeper Overhaul, Zombie Variants
- Undead Revamped for more challenge at night (without the annoying "Leechers")
- **Sons of Sins:** the seven deadly sins as bosses, summoned through a blood ritual – plus your own creatures built from organs
- Bosses: L_Ender's Cataclysm, Block Factory's Bosses
- **Protection Pixel:** armor built on Create assembly lines
- Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks and Ars Nouveau for the magic side

### 🏘️ Colonies, building & food
- **MineColonies:** your own town with citizens, jobs and upgrades
- Macaw's Mods, Handcrafted, Decocraft, Chipped, Chisel, Rechiseled, FramedBlocks, Copycats+
- Farmer's Delight with many addons, Brewin' and Chewin', Create Winery, Central Kitchen

### 🧰 Quality of life
- JEI, Jade, JourneyMap, Waystones, FTB Quests / Chunks / Teams
- Sophisticated Backpacks & Storage (with a controller for automatic sorting), Storage Drawers
- **Inventory Profiles Next:** fill and sort chests with one click, tools and blocks refill automatically
- **Crafting Tweaks:** rotate, balance and clear the crafting grid
- **FallingTree:** fell whole trees instead of breaking them log by log
- Corpse, AppleSkin, Carry On, Easy Villagers and more

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## Who is it for?

- Players who **love Create** but also enjoy diving into Mekanism, AE2 or Oritech
- **Groups of 2–6 players** on a shared server – it works solo too
- Anyone who wants a **long game with a real goal** instead of "everything's done after two evenings"

This is **not** a pure expert pack. Most recipes are normal, but weapons, the endgame and some tech transitions get noticeably harder.

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## System requirements

| | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| **Client RAM** | 8 GB allocated | 10–12 GB allocated |
| **Server RAM** (4–6 players) | 10 GB | 12 GB |
| **Java** | 21 | 21 |

Shaders are supported through Iris. Sodium and ModernFix are already included.

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## Credits & thanks

This pack is based on **Create Ultimate Selection 2** by **The Wizard**. A big thank you for the great foundation ❤️

All mods belong to their respective authors. Please support them if you enjoy their work.

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## Feedback & bugs

Found a bug or have an idea? Leave it in the comments or the issues. A crash log (`logs/latest.log` or `crash-reports`) helps us find problems much faster.

Have fun building, flying and surviving! 🛠️🦖✈️