Create: Redstone Link Tablet

A smart-home control panel for your Create contraptions.

The Link Tablet is a handheld device with an app-style touchscreen that drives Create's Redstone Links remotely. Lights, doors, trains, farms, the entire factory — name them, give them an icon, and control them from one screen, anywhere in link range.

Apps, not levers

• Up to 32 apps per tablet, each with a name, color, an optional item icon, and its own state — shown as an icon grid or a list of toggle switches, with drag-to-rearrange in both layouts.
• Four app types, cycled right in the editor:
  • Toggle — classic on/off with a persistent state.
  • Hold — transmits only while you hold the button. Doorbells, dispensers, one-shot pulses — a disconnect can never leave the signal stuck on.
  • Slider — the signal follows the slider, 0 to 15. Dim lights, throttle trains, meter item flow.
  • Timer — tap it and it transmits for a set time (0.1 s to 30 s), then switches off by itself. Tap again to restart the clock.
• Scenes — one app can drive up to 8 frequencies at once ("Shut down the factory", "Open all doors").
• Per-app signal strength — when several apps drive the same frequency, the strongest wins, exactly like stacked Redstone Links.

You can see all of them working in the screenshot above — a slider mid-drag, a timer, and toggles side by side.

Real Create frequencies

Apps tune to Create's item-pair frequencies — anything a Redstone Link or Linked Controller can trigger, the tablet can too:

• The app editor includes your real inventory with vanilla drag mechanics: drop an item on the frequency slots (they take a copy — nothing is consumed), or use the searchable all-items picker for things you don't carry.
• One-item frequencies work, matching Create's own links.
• Frequencies carry the full item, components included — frequency-card mods (Create Unique Cards and friends), dyed items, and renamed gear all count as distinct channels, exactly matching what Create's links distinguish.
• Quick-add: right-click any Redstone Link (or anything with a link frequency, like elevator contacts) while holding the tablet — the editor opens with that frequency pre-filled and a name suggested. Just hit Save.

Sliders you can feel

Sliders drag live in the GUI, and on a placed tablet you click-and-slide right on the glass: hold the button on a slider's tile and sweep your crosshair — the value tracks it exactly. Every slider shows its numeric signal level wherever it renders, and you can limit one to a min/max range — set a minimum above 0 and that machine never fully turns off.

Sticky notes for your factory

Every app can carry a free-text note, opened from a little glyph on its tile. Notes are floating windows: drag them by the title bar, open several at once, and they stay with you — over the tablet, over your inventory or any other screen (fully editable there), and pinned read-only on your HUD while you play. Perfect for "flush the sorter before enabling" warnings or a train schedule — you can see two of them pinned in the screenshot up top.

The screen is real

The tablet's physical screen isn't a texture — it renders your actual apps, live, on both the held and the placed tablet. Tiles size themselves to the app count (one app fills the whole glass; a full tablet converges on a dense grid), active apps glow, timers glow for as long as their pulse runs, and each tablet remembers whether you last used it in grid or list view.

And on a placed tablet, the screen is touchable: tap an app right on the glass to toggle it, hold a Hold button, slide a slider — no GUI needed. Tap the bezel for the full interface.

Place it on the wall

Sneak + right-click any surface to mount the tablet on a wall, floor, or ceiling — it becomes a block that transmits from its own position while the chunk is loaded, and its screen glows whenever an app is running. Sneak + right-click with an empty hand picks it back up; everything survives the trip.

Got a Create wrench? Wrench the glass to rotate the screen content 90°, wrench the edge to spin the tablet — wall tablets physically flip between portrait and landscape.

Make it yours

• 8 UI themes — Dark, Light, AMOLED, Brass, Terminal, PurpleFox, Parchment, and Avionics — stored per tablet, recoloring the GUI and the physical screen for everyone. The whole interface is styled in Create's own visual language: wooden rails, parchment plaques, beveled buttons.
• 16 dyed cases — craft the tablet with any dye to recolor it, apps preserved, re-dye whenever. Dunk it in a water cauldron (or an encased fan's washing stream) to strip the dye again.
• A full set of UI sounds — toggle clicks with distinct on/off pitch, a save chime, frequency ticks, and a faint click nearby players hear when someone flips an app.

Getting started

Craft the tablet from brass-age Create parts — a Linked Controller rehoused in a brass shell with a proper screen and a signal amplifier (it's in the vanilla Redstone creative tab too):

Then:

1. Right-click to open the tablet, tap + to create an app.
2. Pick the frequency items (exactly like tuning a Redstone Link) and hit Add — repeat to stack a scene — then Save.
3. Set your receiving Redstone Links to the same frequency.
4. Left-click toggles, right-click edits.

There's also a Ponder scene — hold W over the tablet item — that walks through mounting, linking, and the quick-add shortcut.

While an app is on and the tablet is anywhere in your inventory, you are the transmitter — range and chunk behavior match Create's handheld Linked Controller. Mounted tablets transmit from the block instead.

Compatibility

• Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge · Java 21 · requires Create 6.x (server and client).
• Full multiplayer support: server-authoritative edits, per-player transmitters.
• Plays nicely with other link-network senders — receivers take the strongest signal, like stacked Redstone Links.
• Frequency-card mods (component-based frequency items) work out of the box.
• MIT licensed, free to use in any modpack.

PLEASE MAKE SUGGESTIONS I WOULD LOVE TO DEVELOP THIS MOD FURTHER