⚙️ Welcome to AeroStratum: Integrated Engineering

AeroStratum: Integrated Engineering is a heavily customized, tech-focused progression modpack built for NeoForge 1.21.1. It merges the mechanical beauty of steampunk automation, the vast scale of diesel-powered aviation, and the immense raw power of nuclear energy into a unified, story-driven progression system.

Defend your industrial empire against an escalating RPG world, manage a complex, coin-based corporate economy, and launch massive warships into the sky to conquer the deepest dark.

📈 The Four Technological Eras

The pack is divided into distinct, hard-coded progression tiers controlled via KubeJS and guided by FTB Quests:

🪵 Era 1: The Andesite Age (Kinetic Digitalization)

The Challenge: Your journey begins with basic kinetic generation.
The Twist: Digital storage via Refined Storage is available early, but its power grid consumption has been exponentially increased.
Logistics: Forget simple fixes—you must build dedicated, large-scale waterwheel and windmill networks using Create Crafts & Additions just to keep your digital item index online.

⚙️ Era 2: The Brass & Petroleum Age (Heavy Machinery)

Automation: Unlock advanced factory logistics, mechanical crafting, and automated smithing.
The Industry: Discover oil deposits and construct massive, stationary refineries using The Factory Must Grow.
Military Power: Build heavy railway infrastructure and cast massive artillery cannons via Create Big Cannons to secure your territory.

⚛️ Era 3: The Nuclear & Aviation Age (The Great Energy Leap)

The Reactor: Simple alternators are no longer enough. To power global autocrafting networks and long-range wireless networks, you must build and stabilize a nuclear reactor using Create Nuclear.
Aviation: Take your industry to the skies! Construct massive, custom-built airships and pocket-battleships using Create Aeronautics, powered by highly efficient, roaring mobilised diesel engines fueled by your ground refineries.

💀 Era 4: Endgame (The Deep Dark Expedition)

The Threat: The ultimate tech matrixes, mythical materials, and end-game corporate licenses are locked behind the most hazardous environments in the world.
The Mission: Prepare your airships, lock in your Silent Gear modular armor, socket your mythical Apotheosis gems, and fly into Alex's Caves and the Deep Dark to fight souls-like bosses from Cataclysm.

💎 Key Features Included

Fully Integrated Recipes: Hundreds of customized recipes linking Create, Refined Storage, Silent Gear, and Create Nuclear together.
Corporate Economy: A completely overhauled trading system via MoreJS. Villagers and trading floors operate strictly with physical currency (Numismatics).
Server-Friendly Optimization: Powered by Sodium, ModernFix, and Chunky pre-generation to guarantee high FPS and stable server TPS even with massive automated factories.
Balanced Loot Distribution: No more empty dungeons. Thanks to Lootr, every player on the server gets their own instanced loot from custom structures.

💡 Inspirations & Credits

Inspired by: This pack draws heavy inspiration from Chosen's Create Integrated modpack, expanding upon its ideas of heavily integrated automated systems and localized progression loops.
Mod Authors: A massive thank you to all the incredibly talented developers in the NeoForge and Create ecosystem. Without your hard work, this project would not be possible.
Complete Mod List & Attributions: You can find the full manifest of included modifications, along with links to their respective source pages and creators, in the official Relations -> Dependencies tab right here on CurseForge.

📄 License & Permissions

Server Use: You are free to download this pack and run it on private servers with your friends.
Content Creation: You are fully allowed to stream, record videos, or create screenshots showcasing your progress in AeroStratum, provided you link back to this official CurseForge page.

AeroStratum - Integrated Engineering