🛠️ Create: Maintenance Control

Create: Maintenance Control is a small addon for Create that introduces maintenance mechanics to your train networks.

🛠️ Dependencies

• This mod requires Create
• Using a recipe viewer such as JEI or EMI is recommended

🔎 Features

Maintenance Box block

The Maintenance Box block can be placed next to a Train Station block to mark it as being under maintenance.

While maintenance is active:

• trains will skip that station instead of stopping there
• train schedules do not need to be edited manually
• redstone can be used to temporarily disable the maintenance effect

Example use cases

• Temporarily closing a platform during rebuilding
• Skipping a station during track work
• Toggling maintenance with redstone for operational events

Current behaviour / limitations

• If a disabled station is a terminus, trains may encounter route errors unless the network allows them to pathfind from the previous stop to the next scheduled one.
  • This is currently the intended behavior rather than a bug/limitation.
• The mod currently focuses on skipping maintenance-marked stations rather than rerouting trains to alternative destinations. More advanced routing behaviour may be explored in future updates.
• Best results are achieved on networks where trains can still pathfind from the previous stop to the next one.

⚠️ Known issues

See Issue Tracker

🤝 Compatibility

The mod has been tested in larger Create-based modpacks and appears to work fine alongside many common Create addons.

This includes initial testing with:

• Create: Aeronautics (MC 1.21.1)
• Sable (MC 1.21.1)
• Create Railways Navigator
• Steam 'n' Rails

📌 Planned

Maintenance Box GUI

Planned options include:

• a station name filter field
• a redstone behavior toggle (powered = maintenance / unpowered = maintenance)
• a "Skip unreachable downstream stations" toggle for more advanced network layouts

Documentation / Usability

• a Ponder scene for the Maintenance Box
• expanded documentation and examples on the Wiki page here on GitHub