Create: Bits 'n' Tracks Community Edition

Create: Bits 'n' Tracks Community Edition

Build working tank tracks in Create. Flanged cogwheels carry a belt or tread around them, and on a Sable vehicle the track grips the ground, drives it along and rides over what it crosses.

This is a community continuation of Bits 'n' Tracks by qwxon, picking up development where the original left off.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge 21.1.228 or newer
• Create 6.0.10 or newer
• Sable 2.0
• Create: Bits 'n' Bobs 2.3.5 or newer, with its own dependencies
• Create Aeronautics 1.3.1 or newer, for assembling vehicles and for the spring in the Suspension Piece recipe

What's inside

• Flanged cogwheels in six sizes, plain and industrial, that carry a track
• Three tracks: Create's own belt, the Industrial Belt and the Tank Tread, plus grousers for the belts
• Suspension Pieces that mount swinging arms and bogies
• Two tools, the Cog Alignment Lever to shape a track and the Suspension Tool to tune its ride

Flanged cogwheels

Six sizes: tiny, intermediate, small, medium, medium-large and large, each in a plain and an industrial style. The industrial models are based on the Industrial Cogwheels from Create: Gears n' Kinetics.

A placed cogwheel drives its track and turns through its axle. Switch physics on with the Cog Alignment Lever and it becomes a wheel of its Sable vehicle: it stands on the ground, blocks players and other entities, and can carry a Suspension Piece.

Tracks

Every track is strung between cogwheels like a Bits 'n' Bobs chain.

• Create's belt: a belt connector makes a track right away, no extra crafting needed.
• Industrial Belt: the mod's own belt, made from belt connectors and iron nuggets.
• Tank Tread: a plated track made in a Mechanical Crafter, which bites into soft ground better and grips a little less on hard ground.
• Grousers: right-click either belt with them to fit them along it. A belt with grousers grips much better on ice, snow and mud and a little worse on hard ground.

A track grips by the weight resting on it, and less on dirt, sand, gravel, clay, snow and mud than on stone. Datapacks can change the grip of any block. The run of track between cogwheels drapes over terrain and carries the vehicle over obstacles. A redstone brake on any of a track's cogwheels brakes the whole track.

Wide wheels

Place a cogwheel beside another of the same size and style along its axle and they join into one wide wheel, with the track widening to match. Sneak while placing to keep them apart. The lever's Width mode narrows a cogwheel a quarter at a time, and a track is always as wide as its widest cogwheel.

Routing

The track wraps around its cogwheels the way a real track sits on its road wheels. A cogwheel inside the loop that the track cannot reach is enclosed by it, and turns freely until the track touches it.

With the lever's Route mode, bring the far run of track around any cogwheel instead. That cogwheel then turns the other way, like a belt crossed over a pulley.

Suspension

A Suspension Piece gives a physics cogwheel a sprung mount.