Create:Advanced Frequency Network

Create: Advanced Frequency Network (AFN)

Video tutorials (Bilibili) · AFN WIKI · MC百科 · CurseForge

Connect everything. Let data flow your way.

AFN expands Create's wireless redstone into a network for machine control, data visualization, logistics, and communication.

• Manage wireless frequencies with readable names, matching rules, and reusable configurations.
• Read data and automate remote control across more than a dozen Create-related mods and hundreds of supported blocks and items.
• Build interactive displays with charts, gauges, maps, switches, and messages.
• Fit wireless control into compact builds with hidden channel terminals.
• Protect your networks with player-based permissions, protected frequencies, tickets, and access control.
• Share information between machines, between players and machines, and between players.

Beyond Standard Create Automation

Read machine properties, change configurations while your setup is running, and build automation around the data flowing through your channels.

Variable-speed gears

Dynamic recipe selection

Programmable mechanical arms

Dynamic weighted ejector targets

Dynamic logistics addresses

Dynamic logistics networks

Targeted warehouse extraction

Dynamic bearing modes

Programmable display boards

A Shared Data Network for Create Addons

AFN's reading and configuration features extend to many popular Create addons. Bring their supported devices into the same channel system, with more integrations planned.

Record Player NetMusic

Navigation Table Create: Aeronautics

Chemical Turret Create Diesel Generators

Electric Motor Create Crafts & Additions

HUD Projector Create: Flight Control

Cannon Mount Create Big Cannons

Create: Aeronautics: Attitude Sensor

Create: Connected: Gauge Board

Create: Radar: Network Controller

Control Your Network with CC:Tweaked

AFN adds UTF-8 support to CC:Tweaked, including Chinese text. Its afn Lua module lets programs manage channels and wireless redstone signals, turning supported devices into parts of a programmable automation system.

See the Lua API documentation in the AFN WIKI for details.

Let a Touhou Maid Run Your Automation

Touhou Maid: Steward gives maid agents access to AFN's signal and channel controls. Use them to execute signal sequences, manage logistics and factories, and deliver notifications.

Maid-controlled signal sequences

Maid-managed logistics

Maid notifications

Maid-managed factories

Connect Synaxis Circuits

The AFN Bridge provides Synaxis with data input and output ports for all AFN-supported data types, alongside signal controls. Use Synaxis as a control hub or exchange data with devices from other mods.

Synaxis wiring with the AFN Bridge

Synaxis circuit board

Wireless Frequencies That Stay Organized

Name Your Frequencies

Use letters, numbers, Chinese characters, and dots to name your wireless frequencies. Readable addresses make networks easier to remember, organize, and automate.

When an AFN Frequency Board is used, the two frequency slots are order-independent. Setups using only ordinary Create items retain Create's original slot order.

Wireless frequency communication

Frequency editor

Input history

Select Devices with Wildcards and Rules

Dots separate address layers. For example, factory.line_1.motor identifies a motor within a factory production line.

For example:

• factory.*.motor selects motors across the factory's production lines.
• factory.** selects addresses at any depth under factory.
• factory.*.!private!test excludes private and test in the final layer.

Receivers also support OR/AND alias matching and cross-layer response. Configure concrete addresses on receivers and use selectors on senders.

Manage Schematic Frequencies for Batch Production

Prepare complex machines and vehicles for repeated production with the Blueprint Channel Editor. Organize and adjust their wireless frequencies before building multiple copies, making it easier to avoid interference between otherwise identical machines.

Blueprint Channel Editor

Batch production from schematics

Visualize, Share, and Control Your Data

The AFN Bridge

The AFN Bridge is the hub for channel management, visualization, and interaction. Its display modes include bar charts, gauges, maps, stock information, logistics, and chat.

Numbers, Text, and Booleans

Numbers and numeric arrays connect sensors to machines and controls. Display channel data as charts, gauges, plain text, switches, or combined instrument panels, and interact with it directly.

Vertical bar charts

Horizontal bar charts

Gauges

Plain text display

Interactive switches

Combined switch controls

Points, Lines, and Areas

Coordinates are essential for navigation, tracking, and remote control. AFN can represent a position as a numeric triple such as 123,-32,56, an array such as [123,-32,56], or a structured JSON message.

Use JSON to send multiple named points, lines, and areas together, including their colors and labels:

{
  "points": [
    {
      "name": "Warehouse",
      "color": "#FF7043",
      "text_color": "#FFE0B2",
      "position": [0, 64, 0]
    }
  ],
  "lines": [
    {
      "name": "Route",
      "color": "#66BB6A",
      "text_color": "#DCE775",
      "points": [[0, 64, 0], [32, 64, 16]]
    }
  ],
  "areas": [
    {
      "name": "Work Area",
      "color": "#42A5F5",
      "text_color": "#B3E5FC",
      "points": [[0, 64, 0], [32, 64, 0], [32, 64, 16]]
    }
  ]
}

Logistics and Stock

Display item quantities on the Bridge and receive stock information in supported data formats.

Chat and Notifications

Use the Bridge as a shared message board for players, devices, and maid agents. Show incoming notifications and browse message history.

Bridge notifications

Bridge message history

Portable Map Channel Terminal

Carry your channels with you. Create and transmit points, lines, and areas; broadcast your position or the live coordinates of other players and entities; and share map edits, names, and colors with other players.

Marking coordinates

Tracking entities

Drawing points, lines, and areas

DashPanels AFN Modules

Build custom control panels with AFN modules for DashPanels, including sliders, LCD bars, joysticks, radar displays, radios, and information panels.

Communication Between Players and Machines

The Channel Pager brings the Bridge's messaging features to a portable device. Exchange messages and receive updates from other players or connected machines.

Hidden Channel Terminals

Add wireless reception and automatic output directly to a block face with a Hidden Channel Terminal. Reduce the space needed for control hardware and keep configuration tucked away inside your build.

Hidden terminals offer the receiving Mailbox's output features without requiring a separate receiver block or a dedicated wired input connection.

Compact wireless control with hidden terminals

Mailbox-style automatic output

Authentication, Protected Frequencies, and Ticketing

AFN uses player UUIDs to identify network owners and enforce permissions. Authenticated frequencies keep access separate even when players use the same visible frequency names, while permissions control who can read or edit protected configurations.

The same authentication system supports tickets, ticket validation, and access control, connecting your wireless network to gates and doors.

Ready to build your network? Explore the AFN WIKI or watch the video tutorials on Bilibili.