Airships and Axploration

Project summary

Create-powered airships meet vast exploration, unique structures, dungeons, bosses, dimensions and delightfully strange automation.

Description

Airships and Axploration is a large NeoForge adventure and technology modpack built around Create, Sable and Create Aeronautics. Build working airships, trains and factories, then use them to discover a much richer world full of landmarks, ruins, dungeons, bosses and unusual loot.

Fly, build and automate

• Create, Create Aeronautics and Sable form the technical core.
• Immersive Aircraft, Ornithopter and Glider provide additional ways to travel.
• Ars Creo and Ars Sable connect magic, machinery and moving contraptions.
• Building Gadgets 2, storage tools and inventory utilities make large projects less tedious.

A world worth exploring

• When Dungeons Arise, Integrated Dungeons and Structures, Battle Towers, Philip's Ruins, Dungeons and Taverns, Explorify and Towns and Towers add hundreds of possible discoveries.
• YUNG's structure overhauls turn familiar vanilla landmarks into proper adventures.
• Tectonic, Atmospheric and Regions Unexplored create dramatic terrain and diverse biomes.
• End Remastered makes exploration part of the journey to the End.
• Waystones are deliberately more common, including frequent village spawns and wilderness locations roughly 12 chunks apart.

Dimensions, bosses and danger

Explore the Twilight Forest, the Aether, the Bumblezone, the Otherside and the pocket dimensions of DimensionalDoors. Fight major encounters from L_Ender's Cataclysm and dimension-specific boss progressions. Born in Chaos and Enhanced Celestials make even the overworld dangerous when unusual nights begin.

Comfortable multiplayer

Lootr provides personal dungeon loot. Xaero's maps, Nature's Compass, Explorer's Compass, Comforts and numerous inventory improvements support long expeditions. Chunky and spark are included for server preparation and diagnostics. Ten personal force-loaded claim chunks are allowed by the supplied configuration.

Atmosphere and optional shaders

AmbientSounds, Sound Physics Remastered, Subtle Effects and Falling Leaves add life without changing the pack's core gameplay. Iris 1.8.14 Beta 1, Colorwheel and Colorwheel Patcher provide an optional shader path. No shader is enabled by default; lightweight or low presets are recommended.

Important installation notes

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.249
• Java 21
• Recommended client memory: 10-12 GB
• A new world is strongly recommended.
• Dedicated servers must use NeoForge. Paper and hybrid server software are not supported by this pack.
• Pixelmon is intentionally not included.

Immersive Portals CE is configured conservatively to limit remote chunk work, portal recursion and unrestricted portal creation. It remains the pack's most experimental component, so test portal-heavy builds before committing them to a long-running world.

This is an early public release. The pack and archive have been structurally validated, but a complete long-term multiplayer playthrough is still pending.

Release 0.8.2

• Updated the required NeoForge loader from 21.1.248 to 21.1.249 so clients and dedicated servers use the same version.
• Includes 304 CurseForge-managed mod entries.
• Keeps Create Aeronautics, Sable, exploration, dimensions, bosses, Waystones, quality-of-life features and the optional lightweight shader path.
• Excludes the crashing Create Aeronautics x Curios API Compat 2.2 and I Was Just Joking 2.0 builds.
• Validated manifest uniqueness, archive integrity, required core mods and the supplied server-performance configuration.