Cogwheel

# Cogwheel > **A node-based visual factory planner for Create and other recipe-driven mods. Plan your factory as a graph before you build it.** !(https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/console-avatars/avatar_558a5515-d41b-4c31-8771-626cb0b59ead.png) Cogwheel is an in-game **factory designer** built on the same wavelength as Satisfactory's blueprint tool. Press a single key, and instead of throwing recipes into a wiki, you wire them up on a canvas — Cogwheel does the throughput math, tracks Create's stress for you, and warns when your kinetic budget can't keep up. It works as a planning notebook for any modpack with recipes, but it really shines next to **Create**. *** ## ✨ Features at a glance * 🎛️ **Visual graph editor** — drag recipes onto a canvas, connect outputs to inputs, watch your factory take shape before you place a single block. * ⚡ **Create stress calculation** — every Create-backed recipe knows its SU draw at any RPM. Mixer at 128 RPM? 512 SU. The math just shows up. * 🔋 **Cross-factory power sources** — define your steam engines, windmills or flywheels once, assign factories to them, get warned the moment your budget tips over. * 🌀 **Sequenced assembly auto-expands** — drop a Precision Mechanism recipe and Cogwheel unfolds it into a locked cluster with all five steps, the loop control, and the right SU sum. * 🔁 **Loop nodes** — gate a chain with a Loop node that runs the contained recipes N times. Connect via the violet bottom-port ports. * 📚 **Multiple factories per save** — separate JSON file per factory in `cogwheel/factories/`, switchable from the left panel, easy to share. * 🔗 **Cross-factory wiring** — export an item from Factory A and import it as a source in Factory B by reference. * 🧩 **Clusters** — group any selection into a sub-graph (USER cluster) or get auto-built ones (LOCKED) from sequenced recipes. Edit clusters in-place. * 🎨 **Fully themeable** — every color, every text scale, every panel size is configurable from a tabbed settings page. * 🔍 **JEI integration** — recipe pickers render JEI's own categories. Right-click any picker row to jump straight to JEI's full recipe view. *** ## 🚀 Getting started Press **K** in-game (or whatever you've bound `Open Factory Editor` to) to open the editor. !(https://media.forgecdn.net/attachments/1697/422/screenshot-2026-05-25-000746-png.png) From left to right: 1. **Categories panel** (left side): browse Recipes, Sources, Sinks, Outputs, Logic, Factories, Power sources, Settings. 2. **Canvas**: pan with middle-mouse, zoom with scroll, drop items here to add nodes. 3. **Properties panel** (right side): right-click any node → Edit, or double-click. Configure parallelism, RPM, recipe variant, port pairing. 4. **Solver overlay** (bottom): live readout of what your factory needs, produces, and wastes — plus RPM and SU draw against your assigned power source. **Adding nodes:** _drag_ an item or logic block from the left panel onto the canvas. Items land where you drop them. *** ## 🔧 Create integration Cogwheel reads Create's stress-impact tables and recipe types directly. Every Create recipe is recognized and contributes its SU draw at the configured RPM: | Recipe type |SU per RPM |At 128 RPM (1 machine) | | ------------------------------ |---------- |---------------------- | | Crushing wheels (pair) |8 |1,024 SU | | Mechanical Press |8 |1,024 SU | | Mechanical Mixer |4 |512 SU | | Millstone |4 |512 SU | | Mechanical Saw |4 |512 SU | | Deployer |4 |512 SU | | Spout / Item Drain |4 |512 SU | | Encased Fan (washing/haunting) |2 |256 SU | ### Per-factory and per-recipe RPM Each factory has a default RPM (1–256). Each Create recipe node and each cluster can either **inherit** that RPM or **override** it with its own value via a checkbox in the properties panel. !(https://media.forgecdn.net/attachments/1697/423/screenshot-2026-05-25-000832-png.png) ### Sequenced assembly clusters Drop a Precision Mechanism, Track, or Brass Casing recipe and Cogwheel builds an entire LOCKED cluster for you — every step in order, the right ingredients flowing through, a Loop node showing the iteration count. !(https://media.forgecdn.net/attachments/1697/425/screenshot-2026-05-25-000938-png.png) !(https://media.forgecdn.net/attachments/1697/426/screenshot-2026-05-25-000957-png.png) *** ## ⚡ Power sources Power sources live **outside** any single factory. Create them once in the **Power** category (left panel) with a name and an SU capacity: * _Steam Engine — 16,384 SU_ * _Big windmill array — 4,096 SU_ Then a