Graph Assembly

Graph Assembly

Go beyond fixed assembly sequences. Build Create recipes with branching paths, repeatable steps, and workpieces that come together along the way.

✨ What does this mod do?

Graph Assembly connects processing steps into graphs instead of a single fixed sequence. Each workpiece carries its own progress, and the path it follows can determine the item it becomes.

Split production into different routes, repeat an operation, or bring independently processed workpieces together. One recipe graph can lead to several different products.

🔀 Build More Flexible Production Lines

• Branch into different routes: Let players choose the next operation, or use weighted random branches.
• Loop and redirect: Repeat processing steps or use operations that change where a workpiece goes next.
• Merge workpieces: Combine separately processed workpieces, with independent requirements for the primary and auxiliary inputs.

🎯 "Make the Process Matter Again!"

A workpiece remembers more than its current step. Checkpoints record its processing history, while marks track accumulated values that recipes can use as conditions.

• Require checkpoints in a particular order or check how many times they were visited.
• Match mark values against configured ranges.
• Give different exits their own products and failure-output pools.
• Clear or reduce marks, remove checkpoints, or send a workpiece back through an earlier operation.

Different paths through the same graph can produce different results—not just different ways to reach the same item.

🏭 Use Familiar Machines and Crafting Methods

Connect Create processing with supported vanilla crafting and workstation operations.

Compatible vanilla recipe steps can also use Create’s automation: Basin mixing and compacting, Mechanical Saws, Mechanical Crafters, and fan-assisted smoking and smelting.

🚦 Route Workpieces Automatically

The Graph Assembly Filter matches workpieces by their available processing steps. Use it to route items according to what they can do next, rather than matching only their item type.

🔎 Explore Recipes in JEI

Follow the connections instead of guessing the sequence. Interactive JEI previews let you inspect processing steps, ingredients, and output conditions in planar or spherical graph views.

🧩 Create Recipes with Data Packs and KubeJS

Define graph recipes directly with data packs or KubeJS. You can embed upstream KubeJS recipe objects or reference existing native recipes when building your processing steps.

Use these tools to design branching production chains, repeatable processing stages, and assembly recipes that bring multiple workpieces together.

🔌 Addon Compatibility

Addon recipes that use supported native processing types follow the same rules. Custom addon machines may need dedicated execution support; sharing a recipe format does not automatically make every machine compatible.