Automating Fluid Logistics with Create Factory Logistics
This guide explains how to automate fluid transportation and processing using the features of Create Factory Logistics. This mod introduces the Jar for fluid transportation, integrating liquids into your logistical network similar to how packages work for items.
Key Components
The Jar
The Jar is a central component for fluid transportation. It functions as a package for liquids, allowing fluids to be moved within your logistical system.
Bottler
The 
Bottler is a machine designed for handling fluids. It operates similarly to a regular packager but specifically for liquids.
To craft a Bottler:
- 3x
Copper Ingot - 1x
copper_casing - 2x
Redstone Dust - 1x
Iron Ingot
Fluid Gauge
The Fluid Gauge extends auto-crafting workflows. It allows for the use of fluid ingredients or outputs in automated crafting processes.
To craft a Factory Fluid Gauge:
- 1x stock_link
- 1x
Fluid Mechanism
This recipe yields 2 Factory Fluid Gauge items.
Crafting Fluid Mechanisms
A Fluid Mechanism is an ingredient required for crafting the Factory Fluid Gauge.
To create a Fluid Mechanism:
- 1x
copper_sheet
This is done through sequenced assembly.
Additional Crafting Recipes
The mod includes several other crafting recipes:
barrel_packager:- 3x Copper Ingot
- 1x copper_casing
- 2x Redstone Dust
- 1x Iron Ingot
- 3x
Network Link:- 1x stock_link
- 1x
brass_casing
This recipe yields 2 Network Link items.
- factory_chemical_gauge:
- 1x stock_link
- 1x #forge:circuits/advanced
- 1x
steel_casing
This recipe yields 2 factory_chemical_gauge items.
The mechanism comes from sequenced assembly
The Fluid Mechanism is the mod's one sequenced-assembly recipe, built up from a copper sheet through Create's assembly line rather than crafted in a grid. That means a working sequenced-assembly setup — a depot, a mechanical arm, and the belt to run them — is a prerequisite before any of the fluid gauges can be made.
It is also the only sequenced recipe in the mod, so once that line is built you will not need another.
What the mechanism goes into
Each Factory Fluid Gauge takes a stock link and a Fluid Mechanism, and the recipe returns two gauges, which halves the mechanism cost per gauge. The chemical gauge follows the same shape with an advanced circuit and a steel casing instead.
Building gauges in pairs is therefore the efficient route: one mechanism covers two monitoring points.
The bottler
The Bottler is a plain crafting recipe — three Copper Ingot, a copper casing, an Iron Ingot and two Redstone Dust. No mechanism and no stock link, which makes it the one block here you can build before the logistics network exists.
Version note
Only five crafting recipes exist on 1.21.1 and three on 1.20.1. The fluid side is the part that differs, so verify your version before hunting for a gauge that may not be in your build.
Covers the mod’s in-game guide topics: Factory Fluid Gauge Fluid Mechanism Crafting