XAreonautics

XAreonautics is a lightweight compatibility mod for NeoForge 1.21.1 that adds live tracking of Create: Aeronautics / Sable creations to Xaero’s Minimap and Xaero’s World Map.

The purpose is simple: if your modpack treats airships, aircraft, vehicles, or other moving Sable creations as important parts of the world, you should be able to find them again without manually updating waypoints every time they move.

How It Works

Tracking is optional and uses ordinary vanilla Name Tags.

1. Rename a vanilla Name Tag in an anvil.

2. Use the renamed Name Tag on an assembled Sable/Aeronautics creation.

3. The creation is given that name and becomes visible on Xaero’s Minimap and World Map.

4. As the creation moves, its marker moves with it.

The marker behaves as a live map element rather than a traditional static waypoint, allowing it to follow the craft continuously through the world.

To stop tracking a creation, sneak and use an unnamed Name Tag on it.

Unnamed creations are ignored entirely, meaning large factories or servers full of Sable contraptions will not automatically clutter every player’s map.

Works With More Than Airships

XAreonautics does not attempt to determine whether something is technically an airship, airplane, car, ship, train-like contraption, or mobile industrial catastrophe.

Tracking is performed at the Sable sublevel level.

If a creation exists as a compatible Sable moving construct, it can be named and tracked.

This makes the system suitable for:

• Airships

• Aircraft

• Cars and ground vehicles

• Mobile factories

• Flying bases

• Experimental Create contraptions

• Other Sable-powered creations

Live Map Tracking

Tracked creations appear on both:

• Xaero’s Minimap

• Xaero’s World Map

Each tracked creation displays a marker and its assigned name.

The server periodically synchronizes the position of named creations to clients, while the client interpolates marker movement to keep tracking visually smooth.

This avoids the problems that would come from constantly deleting and recreating ordinary Xaero waypoints.

Design Philosophy

XAreonautics is deliberately small.

There are:

• No new crafting recipes

• No tracking blocks

• No dedicated tracking terminals

• No additional map screens

• No complicated configuration process

• No automatic markers for every contraption

A Name Tag is the registration system, Sable provides the moving creation, and Xaero provides the map.

The mod simply connects those systems.

Current Limitations

XAreonautics currently treats each named Sable sublevel as an individual tracked creation.

Highly articulated vehicles composed of several independent Sable sublevels may therefore require each relevant sublevel to be handled separately. Automatic grouping of connected or articulated craft may be explored in a future release.

Intended Use

XAreonautics was originally created for a heavily modded survival pack centered around Create: Aeronautics, where mobile airships serve as long-term bases and transportation.

It is especially useful in worlds where players may:

• Own several vehicles

• Leave ships parked far from their current location

• Operate mobile bases

• Share a world with multiple named vessels

• Travel large distances using Aeronautics creations

Rather than asking, “Where did we leave the ship?”, one need only consult the map.

A remarkable application of technology.

Requirements

XAreonautics is built for:

• Minecraft 1.21.1

• NeoForge

• Create: Aeronautics

• Sable

• Xaero’s Minimap

• Xaero’s World Map

The initial release was developed and tested against the versions used by the development modpack, including Aeronautics 1.3.2 and Sable 2.0.5.

AI Disclosure

AI tools were used during the development of XAreonautics.

AI was used to generate the project icon - if you would like to replace it, contact me via discord at noxandor