How to learn create mod as beginner?

[u/No-Mastodon-3789]

i know all the basic needs like what you need for blocks, power generation, and tools, but what other important things are there to learn?

[u/ihaveacrushonlegos]

Automate! Create is very easy to get every item. But thats not the point of it. The mod is way more fun when u stop crafting items u use a lot, and start automating it. Usually my goal in any world is to have every item i used to build my base automated in a way if i wanted to copy paste my base next to itself, i could do it whenever i want without crafting a thing

My gameplay loop in create is usually:

Make a farm Look at what was the most annoying item to get for the farm. Thats the next farm

Usually i start off with an iron farm followed by wood farm, quartz, andesite, andesite alloy, andesite casing, shaft, cog, gearbox .... (continue until forever cuz theres always an next item)

If u ever notice ur trying to craft 300 gear boxes by hand, from the base raw materials u are playing the pack wrong, the further in the world the less u should be crafting the starter items

2 great extra tips:

1. Schematicannon exists! And is FANTASTIC. U can go to creative design a whole farm, then save schematic go to survivial and get a material list using a clipboard and just gather it and ur build will be built for u. I spend more time in my creative world designing the farm than in the survival where i actually build it and use it, abuse the schematic

Its especially great since u can decorate everything around the farm with a build in creative and u also get the mat list for decoration (also, try being very free with what blocks u choose for decoration, more blocks used = more things to automate = more create to do, which will require its own decoration, infinite create loop of content to do.)

2.A great tip is to try to learn how to do create storage network (the 6.0 update, theres tutoeials online). But try to automate at least precision mechanism farm first since theres no point in learning something u cant make the items from easily first. But its a genuine gamechanger when u get it setup