Machines and Automation
Apricogs recipes use ordinary Create machines, so everything can be automated with belts, funnels, chutes and the mechanical arm.
Which machine does what
| Create machine | What Apricogs uses it for |
|---|---|
| Mechanical Saw | Bottoms, lids, tumblestone plates, tera shards, taking balls apart |
| Mechanical Press | Stencils (with a Basin), ancient lids, steps of many sequenced assemblies |
| Deployer | Joining bottom and lid, fitting mechanisms and stencils, adding parts in sequenced assemblies |
| Spout | Painting with aprijuice, dyeing items with aprijuice, pouring potions, vitamins, molten candy and honey, crystallising Tumblestone |
| Item Drain | Emptying bottles, buckets and bowls back into liquids |
| Mechanical Mixer and Basin | Aprijuice, potions, vitamins, candies, food and seasonings |
| Blaze Burner | Heating the mixer (heated for potions and food, superheated for Molten Exp. Candy; a bucket of Molten Exp. Candy can be used as superheated fuel) |
| Mechanical Harvester | Picking Cobblemon berries, apricorns, galarica nuts, hearty grains, roots and the flowers of the electric, misty, psychic and grassy seeds without breaking the plant |
| Encased Fan | Washing Apricorns, balls and shells, and washing sand, gravel and soul sand for fossils |
| Crushing Wheels | Evolution stone ores and tera shard blocks |
| Sandpaper | Shulker shell lids, blanking mega stones and Z crystals |
| Belts and depots | Carrying the item through a sequenced assembly, step by step |
A sequenced assembly shows its steps in JEI. Put the item on a belt or a depot, then let it pass the machines in the order shown.
Mechanical arm
The Create mechanical arm can be pointed at the Cobblemon TM machine, data monitor, disc shelf, gilded chest and display case, and at any chest or barrel. Funnels and hoppers also work on them. Nothing needs to be set up: place the arm, link an input and an output as usual.
Using the arm on these blocks, and the harvesters on berry bushes, also earns advancements: Insert Coin, Tank, Load the Jump Program, Spin Me Right Round and Don't Break the Bush. A player must be within 16 blocks of the machine to get the credit.
TM machine
| What goes in | Where it goes |
|---|---|
| Blank TMs | The blank TM slot only |
| Any other item | The ingredient slots of the selected TM |
| Finished TMs | Come out of the result slot, and only from there |
Nothing can be inserted while the machine is burning a TM.
Data monitor
The monitor holds one disc.
- A dubious disc or an upgrade starts the Porygon process and is used up, like when a player uses it.
- A TM disc or a music disc stays on the screen.
- A disc taken out by an arm comes out untouched. Cobblemon unlocks a TM for the player who ejects it, and an arm is not a player, so nothing is unlocked this way.
Disc shelf
One disc per slot. Discs go in and come out in the order of the slots, so an arm empties a shelf starting from its first disc.
Harvesters and berry bushes
Create's Mechanical Harvester picks the berries of a Cobblemon berry bush and leaves the bush alive instead of breaking it. The bush goes back to the stage before the fruit, so the berries grow back faster than on a bush that has to be replanted. The harvester of Create: Enchantable Machinery (optional mod) does the same. A bush that has no fruit yet is left alone. The harvesters also play the berry harvest sound. The berries are collected by the contraption, or dropped, like any other harvest.
The flowers of the Grassy, Misty, Electric and Psychic Seeds are harvested the same way once they are fully grown, and the flower is never cut down by the harvester: one seed of what it drops is planted again, as with any crop, and the rest goes into the harvester.
What can be automated
| Topic | Automated with |
|---|---|
| The whole ball line | Saw, Deployer, Press, Spout, Fan |
| Potions, status heals and vitamins | Mixer, Spout, Item Drain |
| Candies and feathers | Mixer, Spout |
| Food with seasonings | Heated mixer, with seasonings put in the Basin |
| Fossils and evolution stones | Fan, Crushing Wheels, sequenced assembly |
| Berries | Mechanical Harvester, see above |
For seasoned food, the seasonings (up to 3) are taken from the Basin, so they must be in the Basin together with the other ingredients.
Gilded chest and display case
Both work like a chest for the arm, funnels and hoppers. A gilded chest also rides on a Create contraption with its items. The Gimmighoul chest has no inventory.
Saccharine leaves
A Create pipe on a full saccharine leaf block drains 250 mB of honey, one bottle, and the leaves start again. A pump pulls it through the pipe. Honey cannot be poured back in.
Potato Cannon
The Create potato cannon can shoot the items of Cobblemon: berries, Poke Food, apricorns, the medicinal leek (regeneration), the galarica nuts (like the sweet berries of Minecraft), the vivichoke (speed), the big root (weakness) and the energy root (haste). Nothing to craft: put them in your inventory and shoot. A berry has an effect on the target, a different one for each berry (Cheri slows it down, Pecha poisons it, Liechi makes it stronger, Rawst sets it on fire and so on). Not tested in game yet.
Pokeshot
An enchantment for the potato cannon, found at level 20 or more in the enchanting table. A cannon with Pokeshot throws the first Poke Ball of your inventory, a real one, much faster and further than by hand, and it catches the wild Pokemon it hits like any thrown ball, without hurting it. The shot leaves no chips or puff of air, only the sound and the recoil of the cannon. Without Pokeshot a cannon cannot use a Poke Ball at all. It cannot be put together with Potato Recovery. Not tested in game yet.
Water wheels
A Create water wheel turns in any flowing liquid, and berry juice, the Medicinal Brew and the aprijuices are water for the game: they turn lava into obsidian or cobblestone the way water does, and they vanish when poured in the Nether. Molten Exp. Candy is not water, it does not react with lava and it does not vanish in the Nether, and a wheel in it turns very slowly (2 RPM, 1 RPM for a large wheel) but gives a huge 1024 stress units. Not tested in game yet.
