Create: Multiplanar Crafters

0.4.18 — Performance & compatibility pass

Mostly invisible in single player. If you run this on a server with big crafter arrays, this is the update you want.

⚡ Performance

• A grid's orientation is now worked out once per array instead of once per crafter. A single neighbour update next to a 9×9 array used to trigger 81 full scans of all 81 blocks — every time a crafter was placed, broken or wrenched. It now triggers one. This was the main cause of tick lag on large builds.
• Grid scans no longer allocate memory on the hot path; the search buffers are pooled.
• Create's kinetic network no longer pays for this mod. Rotation propagation runs for every kinetic block of Create and of every Create addon; the mod used to allocate an object on each of those calls. It now allocates only when a Mechanical Crafter is actually one end of the connection.
• Loading a chunk settles a whole array in one pass and no longer sends one redundant block-entity packet per crafter.
• Cheaper wrench detection on right-click, and cheaper ordering of merged input slots.

🧩 Compatibility

• No more mixin on vanilla Block. The mod no longer touches any vanilla block class.
• No more @Overwrite on Create. Every hook now cancels at HEAD instead of deleting Create's method body, so other mods hooking the same methods keep working rather than being silently overridden — and two addons doing this no longer crash the pack on load.

🐛 Fixed

• Placement inheritance actually works now. Placing a Mechanical Crafter against a floor or ceiling array that had been set with the wrench never inherited its orientation: the hook sat on a method Create's kinetic blocks do not call. You had to wrench every new block by hand. It has been broken for as long as the feature existed.
• The wrench mode sent by the client is now range-checked before being written to the item.

⌨️ Controls

• The Shift used with the scroll wheel is now rebindable: Wrench Mode Modifier, Left Shift by default, in Options → Controls.
• Removed the separate "Cycle Wrench Mode" keybind. It did the same job as the scroll gesture and took up a second slot in the controls screen for one feature.
• Out of the box the new binding shares Left Shift with Sneak, so the controls screen shows both in red. That is harmless: it is only read as a held modifier, it never consumes the key, and sneaking still works normally. Rebind it if you would rather it be its own key.
• Leaving the binding unassigned is a supported setup: the wheel then needs no modifier at all, but is only read while you are aiming at a crafter, so it can never eat a normal scroll.
• With wrenchScrollInput = DISABLED the mode can no longer be changed at all, since there is no fallback key any more. The wrench tooltip says so and points at the config.