Create: New Age - Motors, Extensions, and Energizing

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This guide explains how to use motors, motor extensions, and energizing items in Create: New Age. Create: New Age integrates electricity with the Create mod.

Motors

Motors generate rotation from electricity. You can adjust a motor's speed using a wrench. However, changing the speed does not alter the motor's stress unit (SU) output. Motors can be disabled by powering them with a redstone signal. This redstone behavior can be inverted by right-clicking the motor.

Motor Extensions

Motor extensions help manage stress on your rotating machinery. If your motors are overstressed, use an extension. Extensions allow you to configure a multiplier for the motor's stress capacity. Note that the energy consumed by the motor will increase proportionally to its stress capacity.

Energizer

The Energizer is a block that crafts new items using both electricity and rotation. When the Energizer receives both electricity and rotational power, it will energize items placed in Depots or on Belts directly beneath it.

The Energizer has six distinct recipes:

To obtain a Bottle o' Enchanting, energize a Glass Bottle.
To obtain an Overcharged Diamond, energize a #c:gems/diamond.
To obtain an Overcharged Gold, energize a Gold Ingot.
To obtain an Overcharged Golden Sheet, energize a Golden Sheet.
To obtain an Overcharged Iron, energize an Iron Ingot.
To obtain an Overcharged Iron Sheet, energize an Iron Sheet.

The energising recipe list

The Energiser has six recipes on 1.21.1, and they are the point of the whole electrical system — this is where electricity becomes materials:

Iron Ingot into Overcharged Iron
Iron Sheet into Overcharged Iron Sheet
Gold Ingot into Overcharged Gold
Golden Sheet into Overcharged Golden Sheet
A Diamond into an Overcharged Diamond
A Glass Bottle into a Bottle o' Enchanting

That last one deserves attention. Bottles o' Enchanting are normally a trade-only item, and here they come from a glass bottle and electricity, which turns a power surplus directly into experience storage.

Overcharged metals are wire stock

The overcharged metals are not an end product. Each one draws into its matching wire — Overcharged Iron Wire, Overcharged Golden Wire and Overcharged Diamond Wire — and the wire tier determines how much current a run can carry. Building better wire, not more generators, is usually what fixes a struggling grid.

Basic and advanced

Both the motor and the energiser come in Basic and Advanced versions, and motors extend their reach with Basic and Advanced Motor Extension blocks. Match the tiers: an advanced motor fed through basic extensions is limited by the weakest part of the chain, which is the most common reason a setup underperforms its component list.