Create: Better Utils

Create: Better Utils

A Create addon that adds utility blocks, inverted logistics components, and diving helmet upgrades.

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Overview

Create: Better Utils extends Create with kinetic lighting, redstone-inverted logistics machines, and night-vision diving helmets that work with Create's backtank system. Several quality-of-life improvements are also included for Create's packagers.

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Blocks & Items

Mega Light

A kinetic lamp powered by rotation from below.

• Brightness and radius scale with RPM — faster spin means a brighter, wider light area
• Hostile mob clearing — monsters inside the light radius are destroyed periodically
• Spawn protection — hostile mobs cannot spawn inside an active Mega Light's radius
• Engineer's Goggles show stress, RPM, and the current light radius in blocks

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Double Sided Display Board

A Display board that displays on both sides

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Contraption Controls

A redstone link panel with 12 programmable buttons. Each button stores a frequency pair (like a Redstone Link) and can display a glyph item as a label.

• 12 buttons per block, each with 3 slots (2 frequency, 1 display)
• Edit frequencies and display items even while the contraption is moving
• Glyph items can be placed in the display slot for custom button labels
• Items are hidden from Jade/Waila overlay

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Inverted Packager

A Packager with inverted redstone behaviour.

| State |Vanilla Packager |Inverted Packager | | --------- |---------------- |----------------- | | Unpowered |Active |Idle | | Powered |Idle |Active |

Useful when you want packaging to run by default and pause on a redstone signal.

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Inverted Re-Packager

Same inverted redstone logic as the Inverted Packager, but based on Create's Re-Packager.

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Inverted Clutch

A Clutch with inverted redstone behaviour.

| State |Vanilla Clutch |Inverted Clutch | | --------- |--------------- |--------------- | | Unpowered |Passes rotation |Blocks rotation | | Powered |Blocks rotation |Passes rotation |

The block texture updates to match its state (engaged vs disengaged).

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Copper Diving Night Vision Helmet

A Create Copper Diving Helmet upgraded with night vision.

• Grants Night Vision while worn with a Backtank that has pressurized air
• Consumes a small amount of air over time while active
• Shows a backtank air overlay next to the breath bar when the effect is active
• Retains normal diving helmet behaviour underwater

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Netherite Diving Night Vision Helmet

The netherite tier of the diving night vision helmet.

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Glyphs

Label items for Contraption Controls buttons and frequency filters. Each glyph letter/digit is a separate item.

• 3 tiers available: Brass (gold), Zinc (blue), Andesite (grey)
• 37 glyphs per tier: A-Z, 0-9, and an empty/blank glyph
• 111 glyph items total across all tiers
• Place in a Contraption Controls display slot to label a button
• Organized in their own Creative Tab with brass/zinc/andesite section banners
• All glyphs visible in JEI/EMI item browser

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Quality-of-Life Improvements

Nametag Packager Addresses

All Create Packagers and Re-Packagers (including vanilla Create ones) can be assigned a logistics address with a named nametag:

• Right-click the machine with a renamed nametag to set its destination address
• Use an empty nametag to clear the address
• Engineer's Goggles show when an address was set via nametag

Nametag Editor

A custom nametag editing screen is available so you can rename nametags for packager addressing without needing an anvil.

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Enchantments

Diving Night Vision Helmet Enchantments

Both diving night vision helmets now support enchantments.

| Item |Enchantability | | ------------------------------------ |------------------- | | Copper Diving Night Vision Helmet |9 (iron-tier) | | Netherite Diving Night Vision Helmet |15 (netherite-tier) |

Applies to Protection, Respiration, Aqua Affinity, Unbreaking, and other helm-compatible enchantments.

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Processing Data Components

Every Create processing machine now stamps its output with a data component marker and a matching item attribute for use in Create's filter system.

| Component |Machine | | -------------- |----------------------------- | | just_pressed |Mechanical Press | | just_compacted |Mechanical Press (Compacting) | | just_haunted |Fan + Soul Fire | | just_splashed |Fan + Water | | just_crushed |Crushing Wheels | | just_milled |Millstone | | just_mixed |Mechanical Mixer | | just_cut |Mechanical Saw | | just_polished |Sand Paper | | just_deployed |Deployer | | just_filled |Spout / Filler | | just_emptied |Drain / Emptier | | just_smoked |Fan Smoking | | just_blasted |Fan Blasting |

The just_* item attributes can be used with brass funnels, filtered belts, depots, and other Create filter components to sort items by how they were processed.

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Dependencies

| Mod |Version | | --------- |-------------- | | Minecraft |1.21.1 | | NeoForge |21.1.233+ | | Create |6.0.10 – 6.1.0 |

_Better Utils — less clutter, same logistics power._