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Mechanical Mixer
The Mechanical Mixer dips a whisk into a Basin and stirs whatever is inside. It automates every shapeless crafting recipe, Create's own mixing recipes (Andesite Alloy, brass, dough, chocolate…) and even potion brewing. With a Blaze Burner under the basin, it unlocks heated recipes, including the all-important Brass Ingot.
Quick facts
- Category
- Processing
- Stress
- 4 SU per RPM (128 SU at 32 RPM)
- Position
- Two blocks above a Basin (one block of air in between)
- Rotation
- Like a cogwheel: a cogwheel next to it or a Large Cogwheel diagonally (no shaft)
- Rate
- ≈ 5 s per recipe at 32 RPM, ≈ 4.3 s at 64, ≈ 2.8 s at 256
- Heat
- Brass, chocolate, honey: heated · lava: superheated
- Version
- Create 6.0.8 · Minecraft 1.21.1
Crafting table recipe
→ 1 Mechanical Mixer
One mixer, one basin
The mixer does nothing alone: it works with a Basin placed two blocks below, with one block of air in between for the whisk to come down. Careful: it does not connect to a shaft. Its head meshes like a small cogwheel on a vertical axis, so place a cogwheel right next to it at the same height, or a Large Cogwheel diagonally, like the column of gears in the animation. As soon as the basin holds the ingredients of a recipe, the head lowers, spins and rises again: the result appears in the basin and leaves through its output.
Which recipes?
The mixer accepts every shapeless crafting recipe (server setting allowShapelessInMixer, on by default): two dyes make a mixed dye, like the purple in the animation, a pumpkin, sugar and an egg make a pumpkin pie… It also handles Create's own mixing recipes: Andesite Alloy (andesite plus an iron or zinc nugget), dough (flour and 1,000 mB of water), cardboard pulp, mud. Finally, it can brew potions from fluids, which is a great way to mass-produce them.
Heated recipes
Some recipes need heat, which means a fed Blaze Burner under the basin. With normal heat: the Brass Ingot (one copper ingot and one zinc ingot make two brass ingots), chocolate and melted honey. The lava from cobblestone recipe needs a burner superheated with a Blaze Cake. Without heat, those ingredients just sit in the basin.
Picking the recipe with the filter
When two recipes share the same ingredients, the mixer might make the wrong one. Put the item you want in the basin's filter slot: only the recipe producing that item will run. It is also useful to stop a stray crafting recipe from eating your ingredients.
Speed and throughput
A cycle is the way down, the mixing and the way back up. Mixing time depends on speed: roughly 5 s per recipe at 32 RPM, 4.3 s at 64 and 2.8 s at 256. Going past 128 RPM gains little, while the stress cost doubles every time the speed doubles: 4 SU per RPM, so 512 SU at 128 RPM. To produce a lot, several mixers at medium speed beat a single very fast one.
Example: a small brass line
The most requested setup: a basin on a fed Blaze Burner, a mixer above it, funnels bringing in copper and zinc, and a depot or a belt at the basin's output. Each cycle uses one ingot of each and gives back two brass ingots. To keep the burner from going out, feed it regularly with a Mechanical Arm or a Deployer.
Common mistakes
- The whisk will not come down: there is no basin two blocks below, or the ingredients do not match any recipe.
- No brass comes out: the burner is out or missing. It has to be fed, not just placed.
- Nothing leaves the basin: the output is blocked or missing. See the Basin page.
Related pages
Sources for the numbers (Create 6.0.8 code)
- Stress: AllBlocks.java, MECHANICAL_MIXER, CStress.setImpact(4.0)
- Rate: MechanicalMixerBlockEntity.tick (20 ticks down, processingTicks = clamp(log2(512 / speed) × ⌈duration / 100 × 15⌉ + 1, 1, 512), 20 ticks up)
- Recipes: CRecipes.allowShapelessInMixer = true, allowBrewingInMixer = true; data/create/recipe/mixing/*.json (andesite_alloy, brass_ingot heated, chocolate, honey, tea heated, lava_from_cobble superheated, dough_by_mixing, cardboard_pulp, mud_by_mixing)
- Block recipe: crafting/kinetics/mechanical_mixer.json
- Scene: ProcessingScenes.mixing
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