Skip to content

Buildcraft Mod for Minecraft 1.12.2

Extending Minecraft with pipes, auto-crafting, quarries, engines and much more!

downloads
38 downloads
views
91 views
Updated
Updated 22.10.2026

About the Buildcraft mod

The port to newer versions of minecraft is well underway - however it's not available yet. For now we'd recommend using the 1.12.2 release of BuildCraft, although some features are missing (notably robots and the builder and filler). If you'd like to use either of those then you can use the 1.7.10 releases instead. For somewhat regular updates please see the roadmap page on buildcraft's website.

A backport to 1.10.2 (or 1.11, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, or 1.19) is not currently planned. The reasons for this are outlined here, here, here, here, here, here and here.. Asking us is unlikely to make us reconsider - however, BuildCraft is open source and you're welcome to do it yourself if you really need buildcraft for any of those versions.

Feel free to join our discord if you want to chat/hangout or have an issue with BC: https://discord.gg/v4geqgA

Pipes The major feature of BuildCraft is the pipes. Pipes are used to transport items, fluids, and mechanical energy between inventories/machines. There are many different types of pipes all with unique functions, including Wooden, Cobblestone, Stone, Sandstone, Iron, Gold, Diamond, Emerald and Obsidian. Pipes can be combined with Pipe Sealant to allow them to make Fluid Pipes that can transport liquids or with Redstone to make Kinesis Pipes to allow them to transport mechanical energy.

BuildCraft 7 is a great BuildCraft release, bringing additions and improvements in almost every area of the mod. Here are some highlights:

  • Modularization is back, for those pack developers who need a smaller subset of our functionality.
  • A fresh, new look by CyanideX! (Excluding robots. Those have, sadly, been delayed - due to time issues - but will make it to a later Stable release.)
  • Optimizations to fillers, builders, pipes, robots and other parts of the mod.
  • Pipes: round robin sorting in diamond pipes, weighting in diamond fluid pipes, massive stripes pipes powers, improved pipe rendering and colors!
  • Recipes: more expensive lists, less expensive pipe plugs
  • Silicon: New Assembly Table and Integration Table, ACT replaced by a CraftPacket-inspired Packager+Stamper system
  • Factory: Tanks get comparators now!
  • Robotics: New Zone Planner, improved trigger/action logic, fancy robot animations.
  • Paintbrushes! For some reason.
  • Tons of other little improvements and additions that would take up too much space.

BuildCraft 7 has some changes you might want to watch out for:

  • Generally, your world and map will work fine and upgrade properly bar a few exceptions. However, downgrading is impossible.
  • If you have any custom config options, the config format and filename changed for both BC and Compat, so look into those.
  • The Quarry is now in the Builders module, as opposed to BC 3.x and below when it was in the Factory module.
  • Robots now only pull items and fluids out from wooden or emerald pipes.
  • Drop Items in Pipe has been combined with Accept Items.
  • The Crafter robot has been removed as it was deemed to be useless.
  • Flower harvesting from Robots has been removed due to bugs it caused.
  • Lava in the Combustion Engine doesn't burn (!?) anymore. Use the Stirling Engine.
  • The Advanced Crafting Table is deprecated, but not removed yet. You might want to upgrade your setups.
  • You can no longer put Lists inside Lists. Listception.

Important Links

  • Mod-BuildCraft.com: Website + Blog + Videos
  • GitHub: Repository + Issue Tracker
  • Discord invite

How to install Buildcraft

With Millida Launcher

  1. Install Millida Launcher

    The launcher is free: download it at millida.net/launcher and sign in with any nickname.

  2. Click “Install” on this page

    The launcher opens and installs the mod for Minecraft 1.7.10–1.12.2 on Forge automatically.

  3. Launch the game

    A profile with it appears in the launcher: click “Play”.

Manually

  1. Install Forge

    The loader must match the game version of the mod file, for example Minecraft 1.12.2. After installing it, a separate profile appears in your launcher.

  2. Download the file for your version

    In the version list above, pick the file buildcraft-all-8.0.0.jar (5.3 MB) for your game version.

  3. Put it in the mods folder

    The folder is inside .minecraft (Windows: %appdata%\.minecraft\mods). If it does not exist, create it.

  4. Launch the loader profile

    Open “Mods” in the main menu: Buildcraft should be in the list.

Minecraft 1.12.2 runs on Java 8: with a different Java version the game may close right after launch.

Versions

With dependencies

MinecraftLoaderFileDateActions
1.12.2Forge8.0.05.3 MB 38
1.12.2—buildcraft-all-7.99.24.8.jar4.7 MB
1.12.2—buildcraft-all-7.99.23.jar4.5 MB
1.7.10—Buildcraft 7.1.232.6 MB

FAQ

Which Minecraft versions does Buildcraft work on?

There are files for 1.12.2, 1.7.10. The newest is 1.12.2.

Is Buildcraft for Forge or Fabric?

Only for Forge: 1.12.2. There are no files for Fabric or NeoForge: a mod for another loader will not start.

Does Buildcraft need other mods?

The author lists no required dependencies: the Forge loader is enough.

Which Java does Buildcraft need?

Minecraft 1.12.2 runs on Java 8. If the game closes right after launch, the usual cause is the wrong Java version in the profile settings.

Where can I download Buildcraft safely?

On this page: the file buildcraft-all-8.0.0.jar (5.3 MB) is stored on Millida’s server, with no link shorteners. SHA-1 checksum: dba9b2f4560b6482affc85a535a13406f4a999ab.

Reviews

Be the first to rate Buildcraft

Comments 0

Sign in to commentSign in

Similar mods

All mods

More on this