Shalz is a Sweden-based Minecraft YouTuber whose content is almost entirely anchored to the Create Mod ecosystem — a community of engineering-focused mods that lets players build functional factories, contraptions, and increasingly elaborate moving vehicles inside Minecraft.
Total Followers +1.1%
861K
Across YouTube, TikTok
Primary Platform
YouTube
831K followers · 96% of audience
Engagement
4.3%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Mid
Est. — / IG post
| Window | YouTube | TikTok | Combined | |
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| Last 7 days | +2K +0.2% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +2K |
| Last 30 days | +10K +1.2% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +10K |
| Last 90 days | +34K +4.1% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +34K |
| Last 365 days | +34K +4.1% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +34K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
Shalz is a Sweden-based Minecraft YouTuber whose content is almost entirely anchored to the Create Mod ecosystem — a community of engineering-focused mods that lets players build functional factories, contraptions, and increasingly elaborate moving vehicles inside Minecraft. His channel distinguishes itself through a survival-series format rather than pure showcase videos, meaning viewers follow ongoing builds with real in-game stakes rather than sandbox demonstrations. Post titles referencing Valkyrien Skies, Clockwork, and aeronautics signal that he gravitates toward the most technically ambitious corners of the modding scene — functional trains, airships, and mechanical contraptions that push what Minecraft's engine can reasonably support. That specialist angle has earned him close to a million YouTube subscribers and an engagement rate well above category norms, suggesting a tightly aligned audience rather than casual passersby.
His viewership skews heavily male and concentrates in the 18-to-34 age range, with the United States, India, and the United Kingdom together accounting for the majority of watch time — a typical profile for English-language Minecraft modding content despite his Scandinavian base. A War Thunder sponsorship is a logical fit: the military-vehicle game appeals to the same technically curious, male-skewing demographic that watches Create Mod train builds. His TikTok presence is effectively dormant, making YouTube his sole meaningful platform. The narrow but deeply engaged niche he occupies — Minecraft engineering mods rather than mainstream survival or PvP — positions him well for continued growth as Create Mod content remains one of the more consistently searched sub-genres within the broader Minecraft ecosystem.
shalz reaches an audience concentrated in SWE primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, TikTok branded content. As a gaming creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. Demonstrated partners include War Thunder. Engagement on YouTube runs around 4.3%, which points to an audience better suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel campaigns than to pure-reach buys. The channel's mix of long-form YouTube integrations and TikTok branded content lets a sponsor choose between short awareness placements and longer, more detailed integrations. Because the audience follows gaming content rather than arriving through untargeted reach, sponsorships that match the channel's subject matter tend to convert more efficiently than broad placements. A consistent, on-topic posting focus gives sponsors a predictable, brand-safe environment, lowering placement risk compared with broad, general-interest channels. Campaigns here are best measured on qualified engagement and consideration within the niche rather than on raw impression volume. For SWE-focused brands in gaming and related categories, shalz offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at @shalz's tier (Mid, 861K combined followers, SWE). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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The Create Mod is a Minecraft mod centered on building complex mechanical contraptions — cogwheels, conveyor belts, steam engines, and automation systems — that go far beyond vanilla Minecraft engineering. Shalz has made it the defining focus of his YouTube channel, running long-form survival series and challenge videos that push the mod to its limits and show viewers what it can actually do at a high level.
Shalz plays in survival mode, which is central to his channel's appeal — every resource has to be legitimately gathered before any contraption gets built. That constraint makes his large-scale Create Mod builds more impressive, because viewers know the materials and progression were all earned in-game rather than spawned in.
Valkyrien Skies is a Minecraft physics mod, and Clockwork is an addon that bridges it directly with the Create Mod, allowing players to build functional moving vehicles — trains, airships, and more — that actually obey physics as they travel through the world. Shalz uses this combination because working trains in Minecraft are visually spectacular and generate strong search interest, which is why the hashtags #valkyrienskies and #clockwork appear consistently across his content.
Create: Aeronautics is a highly anticipated expansion for the Create Mod focused on building airships and flying contraptions within Minecraft. Shalz launched a dedicated survival series around it, showing viewers what the mod looked like in a legitimate playthrough — gathering resources, constructing airships, and progressing — rather than just a creative-mode showcase.
Yes — one of Shalz's most-talked-about videos features what he describes as the biggest working pipe organ ever built in Minecraft using the Create Mod. It circulated widely in the Minecraft modding community because of how absurdly complex the build was relative to the in-game mechanics required to make it produce sound and function correctly.
In these challenge-format videos, Shalz pits Create Mod-powered cannons and siege machinery against fortified safehouses to see what survives. They combine the engineering side of Create Mod with a competitive survival format, giving viewers both a technical showcase and a satisfying destruction payoff.
Yes, Shalz has partnered with War Thunder for sponsored content on his YouTube channel. War Thunder — a free-to-play military vehicle combat game — is a natural pairing for his audience, which skews toward players who enjoy engineering, vehicles, and mechanical systems inside games like Minecraft.
Trains are one of the flagship showcase features of Valkyrien Skies Clockwork, and fully physics-driven trains that actually move through a Minecraft world are rare and visually striking enough to perform strongly on YouTube. Shalz has leaned into trains as a recurring content pillar because they sit at the intersection of Create Mod engineering and the kind of large-scale spectacle that drives views and shares.
Shalz is based in Sweden, making him one of the few prominent Swedish creators working specifically in the Minecraft modding niche. Despite that, his content is entirely English-language, and his audience is largely US, UK, and India-based, reflecting how global the Create Mod community has become.
Shalz has built his YouTube channel to well over 800,000 subscribers, placing him in the upper range of the Mid-tier for gaming creators. His engagement rate runs significantly above the category average, which suggests a core audience that is actively invested in Create Mod content rather than casual passersby.
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