AeroStar

AeroStar is a fixed and expanded continuation of the Create: Northstar–Aeronautics Compatibility mod by Vladi-YT-Dev. It keeps the original idea — flying your Create: Aeronautics physics ships to Northstar's planets with a Dimensional Drive — but rebuilds the dimension-travel core so your ship actually survives the trip, and adds new tools for life in space.

Use AeroStar instead of the original compatibility mod — don't run both at the same time.

🔧 What it fixes

The original had several problems when a ship changed dimension (a Sable sub-level being re-created in another world). AeroStar fixes them:

• Lost ship components — redstone links, thruster/gimbal settings and control blocks no longer vanish on the jump. The block entities are now re-applied at the correct coordinates for the destination (accounting for its different build height), instead of landing in the wrong place and being dropped.
• Getting kicked out of the seat — you no longer pop out of your vehicle when you arrive or return. The seat is captured, recreated in the new dimension and you are re-mounted automatically.
• Falling / no zero-gravity on arrival — arriving in orbit no longer makes you drop like a rock.
• Ship rocketing away or spinning on arrival — the ship's velocity is reset on jump, so it settles instead of flinging itself across the world.
• Broken destination name — the drive now shows a proper planet name instead of the raw dimension id.

✨ What it adds

• Real zero-gravity in orbit — your ship floats freely in orbit, while you can still stand on the deck and walk around normally.
• Engineer's goggles overlay — look at the Dimensional Drive wearing Create's engineer's goggles (or the Aeronautics engineer helmet) to read the destination, speed, current altitude and the altitude required to launch.
• Orbital Physics Assembler — a new craftable variant of the Physics Assembler that can assemble/disassemble far from the ground, so you can build proper space stations in orbit (the normal assembler still refuses to disassemble mid-air).

🚀 How it works

Install the Dimensional Drive on a Create Aeronautics ship, insert a Northstar Star Map to choose a planet (or leave it empty for Earth orbit; planets also need an Interplanetary Navigator on the ship), then climb above the launch altitude. The drive saves your whole ship (its Sable sub-level), re-creates it in the destination dimension, carefully restores every block entity's data, brings your passengers and seat along, and preserves momentum — so you arrive with the same working ship you left with.

🛠️ Admin tools

For testing, debugging or creative setups, the mod includes an operator command:

• /drivetransfer <planet> — instantly transfers your ship (and you) to the chosen destination, as long as you are seated on a Create Aeronautics physics ship. Valid destinations: earth_orbit, moon, mars, venus, mercury, earth (earth sends you back to the overworld). Requires permission level 2 (op / cheats).

🧭 Planned / ideas for the future

These are ideas we'd like to explore — not promises, and subject to change:

• Space suit — a dedicated suit for surviving on planets, integrating with Northstar's oxygen / pressure system.
• More space-station building blocks to go with the Orbital Physics Assembler.
• Custom Dimensional Drive model & an armed / unarmed visual state.
• Per-planet antenna / navigator models and more destinations.
• Altitude-based gravity experiments.

Suggestions are welcome!

Requirements

Requires Create, Create: Aeronautics and Northstar (see Dependencies).

Credits & License

AeroStar is a fork of Create: Northstar–Aeronautics Compatibility by Vladi-YT-Dev (https://www.curseforge.com/members/vladi_yt_dev/projects) and is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file in the jar/repository.