Cogs & Clouds

Cogs & Clouds is a curated NeoForge 1.21.1 modpack built around Create: Aeronautics, blending mechanical engineering with airship exploration, a player-driven economy, and long-term colony building. Every mod was hand-picked to work together into one cohesive progression arc — from your first cogwheel to a fleet of custom-built airships drifting over a growing empire.

✈️ Core Themes

Take Flight — Design, build, and pilot your own airships with Create: Aeronautics and its supporting addons. Balloon envelopes, propulsion, and flight dynamics are all simulated, not scripted — what you build actually has to fly.

Automate Everything — Create's signature kinetic contraptions form the backbone of the pack, extended with a wide net of community addons covering food production, metalwork, trains, generators, and more. 

Build an Economy — A custom economy powered by Create: Numismatics gives currency real weight, whether you're trading with friends or running your own shops.

Grow a Colony — MineColonies is fully integrated, letting you found and manage a thriving settlement alongside your industrial and aerial ambitions. You can also compete using ColonyRank.

Progress with Purpose — FTB Quests ties the whole modpack together with a structured, guided questline, so there's always a clear next goal instead of an overwhelming mod list to figure out alone. (WIP)

🔧 What's Inside

• Create Ecosystem: Create, Create: Aeronautics, and a large selection of addons spanning food, metalwork, trains, generators, and decoration
• MineColonies: Full colony simulation with Structurize, Domum Ornamentum, and colony-management add-ons
• Economy: Create: Numismatics for a physical, tradeable currency system
• Progression: FTB Quests-guided questline from early game through end-game airship engineering (currently WIP)
• World Generation: BiomesOPlenty explorable terrain, also recommended to put the world type to "Large Biomes" to put those airships to good use.
• Performance: Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, and ModernFix — built to run smoothly even on servers
• Quality of Life: JEI, Xaero's Minimap & World Map, Sophisticated Backpacks/Storage, Voice Chat, and more
• Community Integration: Discord chat linking so your server and Discord community stay in sync

🙏 Credits

Cogs & Clouds is an independently assembled modpack. All included mods are pulled from their individual authors' official listings — full credit to every mod author whose work makes this pack possible.