Create Control Panels

Your contraptions deserve a control room. Create Controlling adds a sloped Control Console you can cover in chunky 3D buttons, switches, knobs, sliders, lamps, gauges and glowing nixie tubes. Every part talks over Create’s own Redstone Link frequencies, so a console can start a train yard, throttle a mill, open a gate across the base, or tell you how full the tanks are, all without running a single line of redstone dust.

Requires Create 6.0.8 or newer · Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge) and 1.21.1 (NeoForge)

• One block, any angle. A console is a single wedge you place on a floor, wall or ceiling. Tilt it anywhere from flat to 45°, with quick presets at 0°, 15°, 30° and 45°.
• 16 hands-on components. Buttons, latching buttons, a big red button, toggle and guarded switches, knobs, sliders, lamps, needle gauges, bar meters, nixie readouts, nixie strips, display boards and labels. You click the real 3D part in the world, no menu in between.
• Wired with Redstone Links. Give each part two frequency items, exactly like a Redstone Link. Outputs send a signal and inputs display one, with full 0–15 analog strength.
• Live text from Display Links. Point a Create Display Link at a console to show stress, speed, stock counts or anything else a Display Link can read, including sources from other mods, on nixie strips and two-line display boards.
• Built in a designer, not a spreadsheet. Sneak-use with an empty hand to open the Console Designer, then drag parts onto a 16×16 face on a half-pixel grid.
• Parts cost parts. Each component is paid for with items from your inventory and refunded when you remove it. There are no tiers to grind; a bigger control desk just needs more parts.
• Fits right into a Create base. Re-dress a console in any Create casing, line consoles up into one long desk, read them through Engineer’s Goggles, and learn the basics in a Ponder scene.

Sliders come in horizontal and vertical versions, which makes 14 types in all. Out parts send a signal on their frequency; in parts listen to one and show how strong it is. A knob or slider at 9 sends strength 9, and a nixie readout listening on that frequency shows 09.

A few details worth knowing:

• Guarded switches are a toggle switch under a lid that flips up on brass hinge posts. They take three clicks: lift the lid, flip the switch, then close the lid again. They only send a signal while the switch is on, so nobody shuts down the reactor by accident.
• Knobs and sliders step up by 1 when you use them and down by 1 when you sneak-use them. Sneak and scroll over one to nudge it too.
• Bar meters have an adjustable length, from 3 to 14 pixels, set per meter in the designer.
• Nixie readouts are all-glass tubes with the digits floating inside, readable from both sides. On a wall console they face straight out from the wall.
• Nixie strips have 2 to 5 tubes showing one line, a character per tube. Numbers drop decimals, then their unit, to fit, and show dashes rather than a wrong value.
• Display boards look like Create’s own and always have two rows, each showing its own line. They are 12 to 14 pixels wide, and long text shrinks to fit.
• Labels don’t block clicks, so you can put a caption right next to the control it names.

1. Craft a Control Console from three iron sheets above a transmitter, an andesite casing and a Redstone Link. Place it like a lever, on a floor, wall or ceiling.
2. Set the angle. Sneak-use a wrench on a floor or ceiling console to step through 0°, 15°, 30° and 45°, or use the angle slider in the designer for anything in between.
3. Open the designer by sneak-using the console with an empty hand. Pick a component on the left (hover it to see what it costs), drag it into place, and click it to set its frequency and options.
4. Link it up. Put a Redstone Link with the same two frequency items next to whatever you want to control or watch. Then just use the console: press, flip, turn, slide.

Showing live text. Mount a nixie strip or display board, and pick its line in the designer. Right-click the console with a Display Link, place the link on a display source, then open the link and choose that line.

Casings. Right-click a console with an andesite casing, brass casing, copper casing, train casing or industrial iron block to re-dress its body. Consoles of the same shape, angle and casing placed side by side join into one continuous desk.

Blueprints. Breaking a console keeps its design, so you can pick it up and move it. To build the same layout again, craft a Console Blueprint (two paper, lapis lazuli and a brass sheet). Use it on a console to copy the design, then on another console to paste it. Pasting only charges you for parts the new console doesn’t already have, and refunds the rest.

Goggles. Look at a console while wearing Engineer’s Goggles to see its linked components, their frequencies and their current values.

• Consoles use Create’s own Redstone Link network, so they work with every Redstone Link, Linked Controller setup and contraption you already have.
• Display Link readouts use Create’s own display system, so any mod’s Display Link source should work with no extra setup.
• Fabric: not supported yet. Might in the future but for now it will only be the versions listed above.

How far does a console reach? As far as a Redstone Link does. Consoles join Create’s link network, so the range and rules are Create’s own.

Can I use it in creative? Yes. Components are free in creative mode, and parts placed there refund nothing when removed.

Can I use it in my modpack? You’re welcome to include Create Controlling in any modpack.

• Built on and for Create by the Creators of Create.
• The sloped-console idea is inspired by Control Engineering by malte0811, the Immersive Engineering addon. Create Controlling is its own mod, built from scratch for Create based on Control Engineering.

Found a bug or have an idea? Please comment or you can share the bug with me on my Discord.

Licensed under the MIT License.