Create Fly: Bells & Whistles (Unofficial Port)
If you have ever built a sprawling rail network in Create and felt that your locomotives looked a little plain, the Create Fly: Bells & Whistles (Unofficial Port) add-on is exactly the decorative companion you have been waiting for. This unofficial port of the beloved Bells & Whistles mod by lev and aesefficio brings the full suite of train detailing blocks to a new loader, letting you finish every station, platform, and engine with the small touches that make builds feel alive. All credit for the original design and assets belongs to the original authors, and this port simply makes their work accessible to a wider audience.
What This Add-On Adds to Your Railway
At its core, Create Fly: Bells & Whistles (Unofficial Port) is about detail. Instead of leaving your trains as bare shells, you can now bolt on grab rails, bogie steps, door steps, headlights, pilots, and a whole platform system. The add-on slots neatly into the Create Fly ecosystem, so if you already run Create Fly for its flight and contraption features, this pack feels like a natural extension rather than a separate beast.
Train Detailing Blocks
- Grab bars and steps you can actually climb, in andesite, brass, and copper variants
- Door steps to finish the bottom of a doorway and hide awkward gaps
- Headlights for the front of a locomotive, perfect for night-time depots
- Pilots and cowcatchers for the nose of an engine in andesite, brass, copper, and plain metal
- Fourteen of Create's polished stones to match your existing palette
The Metro Set
Underground stations and modern rolling stock get their own dedicated kit. The metro set includes metro casing, panel, window, and trapdoor, plus corrugated casing and panel and an ornate iron trapdoor. Platforms and a dedicated station platform block round things out, so you can build a convincing subway stop without hunting for a dozen separate mods.
One of the smoothest ways to get this running is through the foxygame.net launcher, whose add-on catalog lets you pull Create Fly: Bells & Whistles (Unofficial Port) straight into a managed instance with matching loader settings, so you skip the usual manual file juggling entirely.
Supported Versions and Loaders
The port targets Fabric 0.19.3 and newer, paired with Create Fly 6.0.9-1 and above. That combination keeps the add-on in step with the current Create Fly releases, so you are not stuck on an outdated branch just to get your cowcatchers. If you run a different Minecraft version, check the add-on page before you download Create Fly: Bells & Whistles (Unofficial Port), since the port tracks the Create Fly line rather than every historical game release.
Recipe Viewer Integration
For JEI support, install Create Fly: Recipe Viewer on both the server and the client. Doing it on only one side is the most common reason players see empty recipe pages, so make sure both ends match. REI and JEI integration means every casing, panel, and pilot shows up in your recipe browser alongside vanilla items, which is a lifesaver when you forget which stone variant produces a specific platform block.
How to Install
Getting started is straightforward, and knowing how to install correctly saves a lot of troubleshooting later.
- Confirm you are running Fabric 0.19.3 or later with Create Fly 6.0.9-1 or later.
- Place the add-on file in your mods folder alongside Create Fly.
- Add Create Fly: Recipe Viewer to both server and client if you want JEI recipes.
- Launch the game and check that the new blocks appear in the creative inventory.
If you prefer a hands-off approach, a launcher with auto-updates keeps Create Fly: Bells & Whistles (Unofficial Port) current whenever the original authors or the porter push a fix, which matters for a port that follows another mod's release cycle.
Why It Belongs in Your World
Create Fly: Bells & Whistles (Unofficial Port) for Minecraft fills a very specific niche: the last ten percent of a build that makes it look intentional. Grab bars turn a flat locomotive wall into something you can climb. Cowcatchers give an engine a face. Metro blocks let an underground station feel like a real transit hub instead of a cobblestone tunnel. None of it is strictly necessary, and that is precisely the point. Decoration is what separates a functional train from a memorable one.
Whether you are detailing a single shunter or laying out an entire metro line, this port gives you the vocabulary to do it. Grab the add-on, match your loader versions, and let your railways finally look the way you imagined them.