After playing the Create mod for a long time, I’ve noticed that most addons that expand automation either use very unbalanced recipes or focus heavily on progression.
Catworks takes a different approach by allowing you to automate most building blocks, adding quality-of-life features—such as a Blaze Burner recipe—and reducing lag by letting certain farms be fully automated with Create, like Blaze Rod production. It also introduces a few progression tweaks, such as a new Precision Mechanism recipe.
Notable changes:
- Zinc from limestone crushing
- Copper from smooth stone or basalt crushing
- Blaze rods from lava and coal
- Ore blocks can now be created via compaction
- Stone variants can be crafted without ore duplication
- Netherrack duplication
- Precision Mechanism now requires electron tubes and wrench deployment
- Air now passes through funnels, chutes, hoppers, and tunnels
- Edited Quartz Crushing Recipe from Stuff and Additions
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- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as catworks-1.0.6-neoforge.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 29 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.