Create Mod Server Hosting

Gears, conveyor belts, trains, and mechanical contraptions. Create turns Minecraft into an engineering sandbox, and your server needs the CPU power to keep every machine spinning.

Create is a mechanical engineering mod for Minecraft developed by simibubi. Unlike tech mods that rely on abstract energy systems and GUI-based machines, Create uses visible, physical components. You build rotating shafts, connect them with cogwheels and belts, power them with waterwheels or windmills, and use the mechanical force to drive crushers, mixers, presses, and conveyor systems. Everything you build is visually animated and physically simulated.

The mod is known for its train system. Players lay tracks, build custom train cars out of blocks, and schedule routes between stations. Trains move through the world in real time, loading and unloading items at stations automatically. On a multiplayer server, you can build shared rail networks that connect different bases, which gives the world a sense of infrastructure that most Minecraft mods do not achieve.

Create also includes fluid handling, item filtering, mechanical saws for tree farms, deployers for automated crafting, and schematics for blueprinting and pasting structures. It is a mod that rewards creativity and engineering thinking. The community regularly shares builds that automate entire production chains using nothing but gears, belts, and clever redstone.

Create by itself is not especially heavy on RAM. It is a single mod, not a 400-mod kitchen-sink pack, so the baseline memory footprint is modest. A server running only Create on top of Forge or Fabric needs about 4 to 6 GB of allocated RAM for a small group. The Starter plan with 8 GB handles this with room to spare.

The picture changes when you add companion mods or run a Create modpack. Create: Above and Beyond is a full progression pack built around Create with additional mods for quests, world generation, and resource management. Packs like that push memory usage to 8 GB or more. Create: Astral and other community packs with 50 to 100 mods land in the same range.

If you are running standalone Create with a handful of utility mods like JEI and JourneyMap, the Starter plan is enough. For Create-focused modpacks with 50+ mods, aim for the Standard plan at 12 GB. Check our RAM guide if you are unsure which tier fits your setup.

Create is more CPU-intensive than most mods because of how contraptions work. When you assemble a contraption, a group of blocks that moves as a single unit, the server has to calculate collision detection, block placement, and interaction logic for every block in the structure on every tick. A small contraption with 10 blocks is trivial. A train with 200 blocks running a scheduled route is a real workload.

Multiply that by several players, each with their own automated factories, train networks, and water-powered processing lines, and the CPU load adds up. This is not a problem that more RAM solves. It requires actual processing power. Dedicated vCPU cores ensure the tick loop has enough cycles to process all active contraptions without dropping TPS.

Our plans include 4 to 18 dedicated vCPU cores depending on the tier. For a Create server with 5 or fewer players, 4 cores is usually enough. For larger groups where multiple players run complex train networks and factory setups simultaneously, 6 to 8 cores keeps things running at full speed. The features page lists the exact specs for each plan.

Create was originally developed for Forge, and the Forge version remains the most feature-complete. Most Create modpacks, including Above and Beyond, use Forge. If you are following a modpack guide or using a pre-built server pack from CurseForge, it will almost certainly be Forge-based.

A Fabric port called Create Fabric exists and is actively maintained. It offers the same core features, cogwheels, belts, trains, processing, but some addon mods may only be available for one loader or the other. Fabric tends to have faster startup times, which is a nice quality-of-life improvement when restarting the server for config changes.

Both loaders work on all Astroworld plans. Upload the correct server JAR for your loader, drop Create and any addons into the mods folder, and start the server. If you need help choosing between the two, the Forge hosting page and Fabric hosting page cover the differences in more detail.