Create: Ancient Collecting

The addon adds an Ancient Collector that runs on rotational power from Create and extracts unique shards from the layers of the world instead of standard raw minerals. Positioning the collector over chosen blocks scrapes away their layers, and a flat, small chance per scrape yields a rare shard. Process cores let the collector gather harder resources such as diamonds and netherite. The shards are also used to craft andesite through recipes, with more recipes planned for a later update.

The machine needs lava, which can be pumped directly into its tank so the surface is weakened before scraping begins. It consumes lava quickly and must be kept supplied with a steady rotational speed, which the author describes as 64 times 16384 stress units at 256 RPM. When the output slot fills, production stops while the machine keeps consuming stress units, so items must leave the collector right away. Items can be fed to the collector through a feature system placed on top of the core block.

Ancient Collecting is built to work with Create's belts, chutes and packaging systems, so it fits into a wider factory line. It is released for NeoForge only, with files for 1.21.1, under the MIT License, and it is not open source. Client and server both need the mod.