Create: Steel armor blocks Recipes

Steel Armor Blocks Recipes: TFMG

This is a compatibility mod that adds crafting recipes for every block in Create: Steel Armor Blocks using materials from The Factory Must Grow (TFMG). Without this mod, Steel Armor Blocks has no crafting recipes by design — this mod fills that gap using TFMG's industrial steel production chain as the source material.

What this mod adds

Every single block variant in Create: Steel Armor Blocks can now be crafted using TFMG's Heavy Plate as the core ingredient. There are four armor tiers, each requiring progressively more plates and more heat to produce:

• Light Steel Block — crafted with 1 Heavy Plate in a Mechanical Press. The simplest tier, suitable for hull plating and structural frames on ships and tanks.
• Steel Block — crafted with 2 Heavy Plates compacted in a heated basin. Standard armor plating for vehicles and fortifications.
• Double Steel Block — crafted with 3 Heavy Plates compacted in a superheated basin. Layered plating for high-priority areas like turrets and engine rooms.
• Hard Steel Block — crafted with 4 Heavy Plates compacted in a superheated basin. The heaviest tier, designed to absorb direct cannon fire from Create: Big Cannons.

Coloring and variants

All 16 standard Minecraft dye colors can be applied to any armor block by placing the base block and a dye together in a Create Mixer. This means a player building a warship can paint the hull grey, the deck brown, and the turret black without ever leaving the Create automation pipeline.

Beyond dye colors, mixing recipes are provided for every special variant the mod includes:

• Camouflage patterns — forest, snow, desert, mesa, swamp, jungle, taiga, sky, red desert and plains camo are each crafted by mixing the base block with the matching natural dye combination. Forest camo uses green and brown, snow camo uses white and light grey, desert camo uses yellow, brown and white, and so on.
• Military and historical patterns — Panzergrau (tank grey) uses black, white and blue dye. Rotbraun (red-brown) uses red and brown. Luftwaffe yellow uses yellow, grey and white. AMT-7 (the black and yellow hazard stripe pattern) has four mixing variants — 2 yellow + 1 black, 2 black + 1 yellow, 3 yellow + 1 black, and 2 yellow + 2 black — so players can control the stripe density.
• Special finishes — Ship bottom (red and black), Colonial (blue and white), Warden (black and cyan), Macragge Blue (double blue and black), Profiled Sheeting (grey and light grey), and Nickel Alloy Steel (grey, white and cyan) all have dedicated mixing recipes.
• Terrain variants — grass, dirt, podzol, deepslate, mycelium, stone, slate, and biome-specific grass patterns like savanna, jungle, badlands and taiga each have mixing recipes using the dye colors that match their natural appearance.Stonecutting

Every block can be cut into steps (2 per block) and plates (4 per block) using a vanilla stonecutter. Colored and special variant blocks can also be cut into their matching step and plate forms, so a player building decorative trim on a tank hull or ship deck can convert bulk armor plating into detail pieces without waste.

What this means in practice

A player building an armored warship in a Create + TFMG world can now:

1. Set up a TFMG steel production line to produce Heavy Plates automatically
2. Feed those plates into Mechanical Presses and heated basins to produce armor blocks at scale
3. Run colored blocks through a Mixer to apply camouflage or paint schemes
4. Cut finished blocks into steps and plates for hull detailing

The entire process runs inside Create's automation systems with no manual crafting table work required.

Requirements

• NeoForge 1.21.1
• Create (NeoForge 1.21.1 build)
• The Factory Must Grow — TFMG (NeoForge 1.21.1 build)
• Create: Steel Armor Blocks (s_a_b-1.4.1-neoforge-1.21.1 or newer)

This mod contains only JSON recipe data. It does not add any new blocks, items, or game mechanics of its own. All credit for the armor blocks goes to minucios (Create: Steel Armor Blocks) and the TFMG team for their respective mods.