Create: Backtank Trims & Dyes

Create: Backtank Trims

Smithing-table/render armor trims and dyeable visors for Create's diving gear.

Create's diving helmets, diving boots and backtanks are armor, but the Create devs never implemented trimming properly and disabled it as a bandaid fix. This mod properly integrates them and adds a little visual flair on top.

✨ Features

Trim every piece

All six of Create's diving items are now valid smithing-table inputs. Trims are now rendered using minecraft's trim renderer (which may make some trims silly)

Dyeable visors

Visors! Colour em'! Drop a helmet into a crafting grid with any dye - combine several dyes for blended hues, just like leather armor, and clean it off with a cauldron.

Pulsating visors

Craft a dyed helmet together with an amethyst shard and the visor slowly breathes and pulses!

Plays nice with Create: Jetpack

The netherite jetpack from Create: Jetpack uses Create's same custom render path as the netherite backtank, so its trim used to be invisible. This mod renders trims correctly on both jetpack variants too.

Create Stuff 'N Additions is partially supported: its jetpacks and exoskeletons use custom models that don't fit Minecraft's trim layout, so trims are intentionally disabled on those pieces — the mod keeps them out of the smithing table and tells you why if you try.

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🛠 Quick guide

| Want to | Do this | | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Trim a piece | Smithing table: piece + smithing template + trim material | | Dye the visor | Crafting grid: diving helmet + any dye(s) | | Make it pulse | Crafting grid: dyed helmet + amethyst shard | | Wash a helmet | Right-click a water cauldron while holding the helmet |

📦 Compatibility

• Requires: Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge / NeoForge) or 1.21.1 (NeoForge), with Create 6.0.0+
• Optional cross-mod support: Create: Jetpack (full); Create Stuff 'N Additions (partial — trims disabled on its jetpacks/exoskeletons)
• Client + server: install on both sides of a multiplayer setup

🐛 Issues & suggestions

This mod exists because Create issue #6213 sat open forever. If you find anything else broken or have an idea, file it on the GitHub repository.

📜 License

Apache 2.0. Create is a separate project with its own license; this mod only depends on it at runtime.