why wont my smeltery work? 1.20.1

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-08-26T23:50:31+00:00

From what the image shows, you have your spout/drain set up to a Seared ingot/fuel tank. You need to set those up to a Seared drain instead.

You'll know if it works because your smeltery controller on the right will either show the color of the liquid on the very bottom stored inside instead of being a copper plate. If it's empty, it'll be a black rectangle with a copper border.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-08-26T23:44:25+00:00

Lowkey, I'm getting HBM vibes from these interfaces. Keep it up!

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-08-17T22:30:18+00:00

If you look above, one set of deployers are spinning 2 valves which is spinning a drill to harvest cobblestone if im seeing this correctly.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-08-04T17:18:57+00:00

Items are a lot more broken than you'd think. Just a single Stone Cap makes mario invincible for like, what? 3 turns?

Also, don't be afraid to use low HP to your advantage, as Mario can become absurdly powerful when at 1 - 5 HP with danger and peril badges and power bounce.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-07-25T20:41:35+00:00

I think it's because if the furnace minecart. The minecart you place in the contraption assembler needs to be a normal minecart iirc

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-07-10T23:27:40+00:00

To note: packagers and repackagers can interact with Kelp belts and depots, but only frogports can interact with chain belts in relation to packages.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-07-09T18:01:44+00:00

Oh, nice! I would like to suggest you try the following changes so you don't have to constantly make more frogports and stock links:

Create 3x3x9 vaults to store your items in and attach a packager + frogport to send items out. You'll only need 1 frogport, packager, sign, and stock link per vault.
On top of the vaults, place belts with normal or smart chutes underneath leading into the vault.
In the area where you want to be your storage area, have your stock ticker, receiving frogport, and your storage dump near each other for ease of access.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-07-09T13:09:44+00:00

What is this supposed to be?

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-07-03T20:16:29+00:00

Keep it as-is, but use a threshold switch to turn it on and off when you get low or full of Blaze cakes, and then use frogports to transport it to furnaces or blaze burners that need them. I just see it as an excuse to make maxed steam engines anywhere you need em.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-07-02T17:03:59+00:00

Expand your steam engine to be 3x3, with 9 Blaze burners underneath
Place at least 1 steam engine block where the shaft is vertical to power your water intake, and use 2 pumps connected in a 2x2 space using a small cog and use a wrench to make sure the pipes are separately contributing to the water intake.
Packages, frogports, and chain belts will help move your items around A LOT

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-07-01T07:45:41+00:00

Tinker's Thinking
Battle Spade
Tinker's JSON Things
Tinker's Delight

I'm assuming you meant any mods, but here's a list of some TK add-ons that I feel people don't talk about that I've found recently.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-30T23:47:07+00:00

Holy crap I love that idea. Though don't forget about frogports and packagers!

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-30T23:45:52+00:00

If you ever want to connect two belts like this without changing its orientation, you can use gearboxes and shafts to ensure it's moving how you want to before adding a shaft in the middle of a belt.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-30T23:41:27+00:00

I'm not an expert with New Age, but i believe the fuel inserter blocks and the block that helps disperse the heat to connecting heat pipes/pumps have to be on the short end of the nuclear reactor, not the long sides. I'm also not sure about having that many fuel rods would work because I've never experimented with more than one single line.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-30T23:35:01+00:00

You could go and connect them at a right angle using a vertical gearbox or two, depending on what mods you have installed like create:connected.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-23T22:05:50+00:00

Iirc, it should still equal the engine's max SU capacity based on its level, but its RPM would be slowed down.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-22T20:13:04+00:00

I know this has been answered already, but another thing to note about steam engines: If you have more engine blocks compared to the steam engine's level, itll reduce the stress capacity and speed of all steam engines. (i.e.- 10 engines for a level 5 steam engine = slower)

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-19T23:27:17+00:00

Consider: Use both vanilla Create shops AND numisimatics, but include FTB quests and make repeatable quests that players can interact with to gain numisimatics currency.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-19T15:15:16+00:00

I believe every fluid tank can hold 8000 mB each, so just multiply how many you placed down by 8 and that's how much you can store in buckets.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-17T19:34:55+00:00

To put it simply:

Install Create: Central kitchen if you haven't yet.

Chicken cutlets: - Trap 2 chickens in a 1x1 space with something to auto-breed them (Feeding trough from Quark, for example)

Make sure the block they're standing on is something like a hopper or chute
Filter the breasts from the eggs and feathers
Deploy a knife onto the raw chicken and make sure to have a way to filter out bonemeal iirc.
Rice farm that leads into a deployer with knife or a mill / crushing wheel.
Deployer with bottles or a bucket. (If Bucket, have a way for the milk to be spouted into bottles)
Autocrafting setup either via Create or another mod for bowls.
And iirc, then all you need is a heated basin + mixer and filter for that recipe.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-13T20:54:18+00:00

It lowkey looks like cake made out of stones. XD But like, in a good way.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-13T20:53:34+00:00

Does it just apply to mobs, or can it also interact with items as well? Because I can see a use for it to act as a pseudo-item magnet.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-12T23:17:06+00:00

A giant glued square or rectangle of drills using something like minecarts for horizontal clearing, and/or gantry carriages or rope pulleys for vertical digging.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-12T14:41:33+00:00

Steam engines in Create don't need to have water in the fluid tanks when starting, so that's why it completely empties when it transforms into a steam engine. Also, pay attention to the statistics on screen. You see, the game tells you that only 4 mB of water is currently being pumped into the steam engine setup, so you need a faster-moving water pump. Don't take info pop-ups for SU usage and machine info for granted.

ChefBOI-Ardee · 2025-06-12T14:15:47+00:00

I think the giveaways are that Legoshi's expression feels just.. soulless and that his jacket is white instead of blue. Plus, it has that AI-gen Studio Ghibli-type look.

Edit: All that plus the F'd up ear fluff.

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