✈️ Brass & Ballast ⚙️

Build airships. Automate everything. Climb from dirt to the stars. 🚀

A heavy Create: Aeronautics kitchen-sink: 156 mods, 7 gated ages, and a 148-quest journey that actually pays you for the work.

Love Create, deep automation, and a progression with a real destination? Buckle in. 🎈

🎈 The Whole Point: Flight

• ✈️ Anchored on Create: Aeronautics, build real, physics-simulated aircraft
• 🎈 Get lift from hot-air balloons or levitite
• 🌀 Get thrust from real propellers spun on Create rotational power
• 🚀 End the game launching rockets to other planets

⚙️ Automate Everything (Dirt ➜ Netherite)

• 🏭 If it's an item, you can build a machine that makes it
• ⛏️ Create farms plus Mekanism 5x ore processing plus Mystical Agriculture crops
• 🤖 Mob factories (Woot, Mob Grinding Utils) for every drop
• 🧠 Full AE2 autocrafting so the base runs itself
• 🧪 Store XP as a liquid with Enchantment Industry

🗺️ Seven Ages of Progress

SevTech-style gating: each age ends in a gate quest that unlocks the next.

• 🪨 Age I, Stone: tools, food, first base
• ⚙️ Age II, Cogs: your first Create contraptions
• 🔩 Age III, Brass: Mekanism metallurgy and ore processing
• 🔋 Age IV, Current: power, AE2 storage, logistics
• ✈️ Age V, Flight: aircraft, cannons, combat gear
• 🏭 Age VI, Automation: hands-free megabases
• 🌌 Age VII, Stars: rockets, planets, and the nastiest bosses

🎒 What's Packed In

⚙️ Tech & Power

• Create and a mountain of add-ons
• Mekanism, Applied Energistics 2, Powah, Flux Networks, Laser IO, Modular Routers

💎 Resources & Farming

• Mystical Agriculture and Agradditions (high tiers gated for balance)
• Woot, Mob Grinding Utils, Farmer's Delight, Croptopia, Aquaculture

🔮 Magic

• Ars Nouveau, Occultism, Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks

⚔️ Combat & Bosses

• Simply Swords, Spartan Weaponry, Apotheosis, Champions, L_Ender's Cataclysm

🌌 Dimensions & Exploration

• Twilight Forest, The Aether, Deeper & Darker, and Ad Astra planets
• Terralith, Biomes O' Plenty, and Tectonic worldgen, with Waystones and Xaero's maps

🏗️ Storage & Building

• Sophisticated Storage, Building Gadgets, Framed Blocks, Copycats+, the Macaw's series

📜 The Quest Book

• 📖 148 quests across all 7 ages
• ✅ Most quests verify you actually crafted it, killed it, or reached it. No free checkmarks
• 🎁 Every quest pays out a hand-picked reward plus XP
• 🧭 Doubles as your tutorial and your to-do list

⚡ Runs Better Than It Should

• 🚀 Ships with Sodium, ModernFix, ImmediatelyFast, FerriteCore, Entity Culling, Dynamic FPS
• 🎯 156 mods, tuned to boot clean

📋 System Requirements

• 🧩 Minecraft 1.21.1 • NeoForge • Java 21
• 🧠 8 GB RAM minimum • 10 to 12 GB recommended

⚠️ Before You Install

• 🟢 Best on the CurseForge app, everything auto-installs
• 🔧 On Prism / MultiMC / ATLauncher, 6 mods need a manual download (Create Aeronautics, Structory, Better Weaponry, Design n' Decor, Corail Tombstone, Entity Culling)
• 🌈 No shaders yet: the compatible loader clashes with the renderer Aeronautics needs. Coming in a later update!

🙏 Credits

• 💛 Every mod belongs to its author, please support them on their own pages
• 🛠️ This pack just brings them together and tunes them into one ride

🎈 Version 0.1.0 (Beta). Feedback and bug reports welcome in the comments!