Create: Pipe Connector

Create: Pipe Connector

Plan and place complete Create fluid pipe routes in seconds.

A building utility addon for Create, available for Forge and NeoForge.

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What Does It Do?

Create: Pipe Connector replaces block-by-block pipe building with a simple workflow: select a start, preview the route, adjust it, and confirm. The addon routes Create fluid pipes around obstacles and can include pumps, casing, and glass sections.

Main Features

• Live preview and smart routing: See a valid path around obstacles before placing anything.
• Anchors: Add waypoints to guide turns and complex routes.
• Pumps and styles: Add automatic pumps, glass sections, or copper casing.
• Manual tool: Add anchors, pumps, or casing marks with the same contextual control.
• Survival checks: See required materials and prevent incomplete placement.
• Shulker support: Use materials stored inside vanilla shulker boxes without unpacking them first.
• Construction animation: Place routes progressively with an adjustable delay, or instantly.
• Radial menu: Change route, pump, casing, style, and manual tool options in-game.
• Context-aware interactions: Keep routes active while using inventories, machines, or other held items.

Quick Start

1. Hold a create:fluid_pipe and press B to enable Pipe Connector mode.
2. Right-click a reachable block or pipe face to start the route.
3. Aim at the destination and review the preview.
4. Use C for the selected manual tool or N for route options when needed.
5. Press V to undo the latest anchor, pump, or casing mark.
6. Right-click to confirm, or left-click to cancel the current route.
7. Press B again to return to normal gameplay.

Main Controls

All keyboard shortcuts can be changed under Options → Controls → Key Binds → Create: Pipe Connector.

| Action | Default control | What it does | | ------ | --------------- | ------------ | | Toggle Pipe Connector mode | B | Enables or disables all Pipe Connector interactions. | | Start or confirm route | Right-click | Starts on a targeted block while holding a fluid pipe. During a route, confirm in the air or while holding the selected pipe. | | Cancel current route | Left-click | Clears the active route without disabling Pipe Connector mode. | | Open Pipe Connector options | N | Opens the radial menu for route, pump, casing, style, and manual-tool options. | | Use selected manual tool | C | Places the selected anchor, mechanical pump, or copper casing mark. | | Undo last manual placement | V | Removes the latest anchor, manual pump, or manual casing mark, regardless of its type. | | Lock route preview | Left Alt | Fixes the current preview target so the player can move and look around freely; press again to unlock it. | | Reverse pump direction | R | Reverses automatic and manual mechanical pumps in the planned route. | | Cycle manual tool | Unassigned | Cycles between anchor, mechanical pump, and copper casing. | | Toggle manual copper casing | Unassigned | Adds or removes a casing mark at the preview position; hold Shift to remove the latest casing mark. | | Remove last manual copper casing | Unassigned | Removes the most recently placed manual casing mark. | | Toggle manual mechanical pump | Unassigned | Adds or removes a pump at the preview position; hold Shift to remove the latest manual pump. | | Remove last manual mechanical pump | Unassigned | Removes the most recently placed manual pump. | | Cycle automatic pump placement | Unassigned | Cycles through disabled, efficient, and safe automatic pump spacing. | | Cycle automatic casing mode | Unassigned | Switches between no automatic casing and casing across the complete route. | | Cycle pipe style | Unassigned | Switches between default pipes and glass straight sections. |

Interactions While Routing

• A fluid pipe is required only to start a route. After that, changing the held item does not clear the preview.
• Chests, shulker boxes, Create machines, AE2 terminals, and other inventory blocks keep their normal right-click interaction.
• Placeable items such as shulker boxes can still be placed while a route is active.
• Right-click in the air to confirm without targeting a block.
• Hold the selected fluid pipe and right-click a normal block to confirm as before.
• Use Shift + right-click to force route confirmation over an interactive block.
• Opening an inventory or configuration screen pauses route input without discarding the current route.

Pipe Connector Options

• Route: Automatic, horizontal first, vertical first, X first, Z first, or avoid vertical.
• Pumps: Disabled, efficient spacing, or safer shorter spacing. Press R to reverse pump direction.
• Casing: None or the complete route.
• Style: Default pipes or glass straight sections.
• Manual Tool: Anchor, pump, or casing. In its inner radial control, right-click advances and left-click goes back.

Animation, shulker-material, and manual-anchor settings are available under Mods → Create: Pipe Connector → Config. Shulker access can be disabled. Manual pumps and casing create route anchors by default, but this can also be disabled without removing their manual placement behavior.

Compatible Versions

| Edition | Minecraft | Loader | Java | Create | Mod | | -------- | --------- | ------------------- | ---- | ---------------- | ------- | | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | NeoForge 21.1.219 | 21 | 6.0.6–6.0.10 | 1.2.0 | | Forge | 1.20.1 | Forge 47.4.20 | 17 | 6.0.6–6.0.10 | 1.2.0 |

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