Aeronautics: Cogs and Clouds

The Definitive 1.21.1 Create: Aeronautics Experience

Welcome to the next generation of modded Minecraft. Aeronautics: Cogs and Clouds is a meticulously curated modpack designed to showcase the full potential of Create: Aeronautics alongside advanced industrial engineering, massive exploration, and a living, breathing world.

Whether you are a master engineer building physics-defying dreadnoughts or a wandering adventurer raiding colossal dungeons, this pack has been tuned for performance and mass appeal.

Key Features

Industry & Flight (The Core)

• Create: Aeronautics: Construct true physics-based airships, cars, and mechanical wonders.
• Nuclear Power: Harness the atom with Create: Nuclear to provide massive energy for your high-tier machinery.
• Ballistics: Defend your fleet with Create: Big Cannons—autocannons, heavy artillery, and more.
• Refined Logistics: Optimize your ground-to-air resource management with specialized Create additions like Connected and Power Loader. 
  
  Combat & PVE (The Challenge)

• Better Combat: A complete overhaul of weapon animations and mechanics.
• Colossal Raids: Explore breathtaking structures from When Dungeons Arise and Immersive Structures that serve as the perfect targets for your airship fleet.
• Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks: A high-quality magic system for those who prefer staves over wrenches.
• Bosses of Mass Destruction: Strategy-heavy, cinematic encounters that require high-tier gear and industrial preparation.

Exploration & Life

• Stunning Worldgen: Terralith and Tectonic create beautiful terrain that makes flight a necessity, not just a luxury.
• Alex's Mobs: Hundreds of unique creatures with complex AI to make every biome feel alive.
• Gourmet Automation: Fully integrated Farmer's Delight ecosystem with various "Delight" expansions for a total culinary overhaul.
• Multiplayer Ready: Lootr provides instanced loot for every player, making this the perfect choice for community servers.

Performance & Optimization

Built for the widest audience possible, this pack includes a heavy suite of optimizations to keep your skies smooth:

• Sodium & Iris: The gold standard for FPS and shader support.
• Apple Silicon Support: Optimized configurations for Mac M-series (M1-M4) chips to prevent common rendering crashes.
• Memory Efficiency: ModernFix, FerriteCore, and Lithium work together for lightning-fast load times and reduced RAM usage.

Installation & Setup

• RAM: We recommend allocating 5GB - 8GB of RAM for the best experience.
• Stability: If you experience "Relocation" crashes on Mac or Linux, use the Shenandoah GC arguments provided in the pack's documentation.
• Graphics: For maximum compatibility with high-speed airships, set Graphics to Fancy.

Built for the Create community. Launching into the skies of 1.21.1.

Credits & Attributions

This pack wouldn't be possible without the incredible work of the following creators:

The Simulated Team for Create Aeronautics.

satisfy for the "[Let's Do]" series (Vinery, Brewery, and Farm & Charm).

James Seibel & Team for Distant Horizons.

Codybot & JellySquid for Iris and Sodium.

xaero96 for Xaero's Minimap and World Map.

All other mods are included under their respective MIT/LGPL/Open Source licenses.