Create: Smoke Stacks
Adds smoke to running Create steam boilers, plus a set of connectable chimney blocks to route that smoke wherever you want.
If you run steam power in Create, your boilers currently just sit there silently. This mod gives them a visible sign of life: while a boiler is actually running, smoke rises from it, and how much smoke you get scales with how hard the boiler is working.
Show Case - https://youtu.be/hABhWaCKPrU?si=TWtR8foSVJivEpUA
What it does
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Boilers smoke while running. Any Create fluid tank set up as a steam boiler (heat + water + attached engines/whistles) puffs out campfire-style smoke from its open top while it's active.
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Smoke intensity matches boiler level. This uses the same effective boiler level Create's own goggle overlay shows (the minimum of heat, water, and boiler size). A high-level boiler (9+) puts out a tall "signal" plume; a boiler that's only just getting by gives off a light wisp.
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Smoke Stack block. A flue pipe segment that auto-connects to neighbouring segments in any direction, including corners and T-junctions. Build a duct network from the top of a boiler and the smoke exits at the open ends of the pipe instead of the bare tank — vertical ends get a flared chimney cap, horizontal ends puff smoke out sideways. A stack can also be mounted flush against the side of a boiler, whistle-style, and a copper mounting plate renders automatically wherever a segment meets a tank.
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Large Smoke Stack block. A full-width industrial chimney that stacks with itself and can connect to regular Smoke Stacks. An open large-stack end puts out a wider, heavier column of smoke (double the normal share); multiple open ends split the smoke between them.
Compatibility
- Works with Sable / Create Aeronautics: smoke correctly follows moving Sable structures, so a flying steam-powered airship smokes properly in flight.
- If a redstone-enabled Aeronautics steam vent is mounted on a boiler, that boiler's chimney smoke is suppressed automatically (the steam is being vented there instead). This is a soft dependency detected at runtime Aeronautics is not required for the mod to work.
Before you download
- Requires Create 6.0.0 or newer and NeoForge on Minecraft 1.21.1. It is an add-on, not a standalone mod Create must be installed alongside it.
added new crafting recipes for the Smoke stack and Large Smoke stack
Steam engines now produce smoke while running and must be managed using smokestacks.
Connecting a smoke stack to the top of a steam engine redirects the smoke and vents it safely into the sky.
Create Smoke stacks is compatiable with Both create aeronotics and create deep sea, once the correct exhoust is setup, steam ships will now smoke when running,
The Small Smokestack can be attached to the side of steam engines and can be used to vent smoke both horizontally and vertically.
The new smoke stack blocks can be placed ontop of create steam engines