How to Host a Create: Arcane Engineering Server (Forge 1.18.2 Setup Guide)
Create: Arcane Engineering is a tech-meets-magic fusion pack on Forge 1.18.2, where Create contraptions power Ars Nouveau spells and Ars Nouveau upgrades Create machines in return. Neither mod stands alone here, which means hosting it right takes a bit more care than a single-system pack — this guide walks through the setup from RAM to first boot to backups.
Start with at least 8 GB of RAM — that's the floor Create: Arcane Engineering needs just to load Create's rotational/contraption physics alongside Ars Nouveau's spell and glyph systems without stalling on chunk generation.
Import the modpack directly from its official server files rather than copying your client's mods folder — Create: Arcane Engineering pins specific Create and Ars Nouveau builds that have to match exactly, or contraptions and spell casting break in incompatible ways.
Watch the console through first boot until both Create's kinetic network and Ars Nouveau's mana/glyph systems finish registering — a clean start here means no mod throws a missing-dependency or config-crash error before the world finishes generating.
Only invite players once you've confirmed a second clean restart — Create: Arcane Engineering's crossover recipes (Create machines upgraded by Ars Nouveau, and vice versa) depend on both mods finishing their registry setup in the same order every time.
Back up the world before any config change, loader update, or world import — losing a save here means losing both your Create contraption farms and your Ars Nouveau spell progression at once, since this pack's automation chains are built to need each other.
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