The pondering feature is something more games should have!  Why make a tutorial when you could leave it to the player to learn anything whenever they are ready?

Also worth mentioning, valuable for earlygame: When placing casings on cogwheels, the casing isn‘t actually consumed, meaning you don’t „waste“ them. If you have one casing in your inventory, you could theoretically place it on 500 cogs and you would still have it in your inventory.

"Don't get caught up in efficiency" It seems like I have done the exact opposite XD. This video was actually pretty fun to watch. While I already knew all these facts, I never looked at create mod as a vanilla+ experience. The last 5 minutes of the video was great and the inspiration I needed to keeping creating.

"Expertly built windmill"
Sir that is actually an industrial strength Q-tip

Interesting and helpful fact : in JEI, if in the filter you type "@create" it will show up all the assets of Create mod, and only it. Useful for looking at the mod content. Works for any mod oc.

i love making a rather nice looking home, then immedietly rip down all the walls, rooftops and floorboards to make a gearpunk nightmare

Fun fact for anyone watching in 2025 - when using list filters or attribute filters or any of those, you can just drag in the item from the JEI menu instead of having to craft the item and put it into the filter slot

That small detail about being able to encase things to stop interference is a lifesaver and i had no idea you could make gear conversions more compact like that

1:25 - Fun fact: If stress units are intended to represent power (which I believe is what you mean by "energy"), then you can calculate torque by dividing SU by RPM (and there should be a proportionality constant in there as well, but let's hide that in the units rather than carrying around an extra 2*pi everywhere). That may not sound very interesting, but it turns out that every Create component that consumes SU can be described as consuming a fixed amount of torque (the game shows this number as the kinetic stress impact). For encased fans, that number is 2 SU/RPM.

Is that realistic? Eh, probably. Torque describes a force, not an amount of work or power. A fixed torque means that the object has a fixed amount of resistance to turning, regardless of how fast you spin it. Objects with a higher torque requirement have a greater resistance to turning, so we should expect a crushing wheel to have a much higher torque requirement than (say) a cuckoo clock. And indeed that is the case - a crushing wheel takes a whopping 8 SU/RPM of torque, and a cuckoo clock only needs 1 SU/RPM.

Want of Symmetry works for breaking. You can use it to quarry areas 8 times faster manually!

The only use for small waterwheels is to chain them to the big ones to double the speed with a small bonus

Create is one of those subjects that just melts my brain when somebody tries to explain how it works, it's like watching advanced redstone tutorials. Even knowing how stress units and RPM generally work still it just sounds so complicated when somebody starts going into detail about it. Fortunately create does an amazing job of explaining how everything works in game, hands down one of the best in game wiki formats of any mod, for me I actually found it easier to just get in there and start messing around, I take it one step at a time and ponder new blocks when want to know what they do

At 11:52 I have my own little tip: if you’re trying to create a precision mechanism and it keeps trying to craft a steam engine instead, it’s not a bug. It’s because you entered the brass age but didn’t notice it’s a gold sheet and not a brass sheet as the base material. I now have two partially completed steam engines in storage, lol.

17:25 this is insane behavior,  I love having a mess of belts and gears and water wheels and contraptions

Stress units = how strongly the shaft turns
Rotations per minute/rpm = how fast the shaft turns

Honestly create is one of the few tech mods where being less efficient is actually more fun.
Like sure I could build everything I need right next to eachother and transport everything with the shortest possible belt chain but I could also build a train station and unloading setups and a special refinery building and big crop fields.

I love the fact that near the end you start realizing details you hadn't noticed before and got excited about them!  That really shows how helpful these tips can be; if even someone who's so used to the mod they made a whole video about it can benefit from these tips, I can't even imagine how useful this knowledge will be to a newbie like me!

6:17 - OH MY GOD! I never thought of that! I've been playing modpacks with Create for over a year and have always just done a big circle of cogwheels, which has always aggravated me with how much space it takes up. This one tip will be a lifesaver!
13:37 - This is the first I've heard of the Threshold Switch. Absolutely going to start using it.

5:00 but 2 water wheels (2 shafts, 16 planks) is cheaper than a large water wheel, large cogwheel and small cogwheel (3 shafts, 19 planks) and takes up less space and they have the same su and rpm

Small water wheels are infact more space efficient, so when you get to the point of making tree farms, ditch those large wheels for small again