Core Material Processing in Create: Ultimate Factory
This guide details the core machines for processing materials in Create: Ultimate Factory, an addon that expands automation possibilities by introducing new recipes for resource renewal.
Crushing
Crushing is a process that transforms various blocks and items into different materials. There are 15 distinct crushing recipes available.
Examples of materials produced through crushing include:
Blaze Powder from 
Scoria
Bone Meal (x3) from 
Dead Tube Coral Block
Brown Mushroom (x2) from 
Brown Mushroom Block
Ender Pearl from 
End Stone
Glowstone Dust from 
Soul Sand
Heart of the Sea from 
Tube Coral Block
Nether Brick from 
Nether Bricks
Nether Quartz from 
Limestone
Powdered Obsidian from 
Crying Obsidian
Red Mushroom (x2) from 
Red Mushroom Block
Red Sand from 
Red Sandstone
Wither Skeleton Skull from 
Blackstone
end_stone_powder from End Stone- fragment from Blackstone
limesand from Limestone
Mixing
Mixing combines ingredients, sometimes with liquids, to create new materials. There are 4 mixing recipes.
Examples of materials produced through mixing include:
Dripstone Block is created by mixing 
Calcite with 200 mb of Water.- End Stone is created by mixing cobblestone, End Stone Powder and 25 mb of Water.
Gunpowder (x3) is created by mixing two units of 
Coal with Blaze Powder.
Redstone Dust is created by mixing 
Netherrack, 
Flint and 50 mb of Lava.
The crushing list is where the value is
Fifteen crushing recipes ship on 1.21.1, and most of them turn a cheap block into something you would normally go looking for:
- End Stone into an Ender Pearl
- Soul Sand into Glowstone Dust
- Scoria into Blaze Powder
- Tube Coral Block into a Heart of the Sea
- Dead Tube Coral Block into 3 Bone Meal
- Brown Mushroom Block into 2 Brown Mushroom
- Nether Bricks into Nether Brick
Read that list as a shopping list for renewability. Ender pearls from end stone and blaze powder from scoria replace two of the most tedious mob-farm dependencies in the game, and a heart of the sea from a coral block replaces a buried-treasure hunt.
Feeding a crushing line
Crushing Wheels want a steady belt, not a hopper drip. Because the inputs above are all blocks you can gather or farm in bulk, the limiting factor is usually delivery rather than processing speed — one pair of wheels will keep up with more supply than most players give it.
Mixing
Mixing recipes share the basin with compacting, so the same heated basin can serve both if you sequence what goes in. Where a recipe needs heat, remember that the burner under the basin is part of the recipe, not an optimisation: an unheated basin simply will not run it.
Covers the mod’s in-game guide topics: Crushing Mixing