Create Aeronautics - Ice and Fire

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Build an airship. Arm it. Hunt dragons.

Create Aeronautics: Ice and Fire is a steampunk adventure where Create engineering meets a world ruled by dragons. Brass gears, steam and cannon fire on one side. Fire, ice and lightning dragons on the other. Your job is to build something that can fly into their sky and win.

🐉 The Goal

Forge a flying warship and bring down a full-grown, stage 5 dragon from the sky. Then go further, past the end of the world, to face the Chaos Guardian, the hardest fight in the pack. Getting there takes you through six dimensions, a gauntlet of boss fights and an industrial empire you build with your own hands. A 15-act quest book guides you the whole way.

⚙️ Early Game: Grounded

You start small in a world that wants you dead. Seasons change, the weather bites, and you have to manage thirst and body temperature. Villages and taverns offer shelter and trade. Your first Create machines (water wheels, mills and belts) turn survival into production.

Dragons already roost out in the world. When you see scorched or frozen ground, turn around. You are not ready. Yet.

🎈 Mid Game: Take to the Skies

• Master brass and steam, then build your first airship with Create Aeronautics and give it propellers and thrusters.
• Arm it with Create Big Cannons, and power your base with oil, diesel and electricity.
• Raid ruins, sky fortresses and dungeons from the air.
• Open portals to the Twilight Forest and the Aether, and fight through their boss chains: the Naga, the Lich, the Hydra and beyond.
• Steal a dragon egg and raise a dragon of your own.

🔥 End Game: Dragon Slayer

• Harvest dragon blood and forge Dragonsteel, the strongest Ice and Fire metal.
• Take on the Cataclysm bosses: Ignis, the Netherite Monstrosity, the Harbinger, the Leviathan and more.
• Break through the Deep Dark into the Otherside, then face a rebuilt End and a tougher Ender Dragon.
• Then go after the one you came for: a full-grown dragon, fought from the deck of your own warship.
• Final act: power up with Draconic Evolution, forge Wyvern, Draconic and Chaotic gear, and bring down the Chaos Guardian.

📖 The Quest Book

• Over 500 quests, from your first crafting table to the final boss.
• Main Story: 15 acts that move through the dimensions in order. Every boss sits inside the story in its own dimension, and the Ender Dragon gets its own quest.
• Side Pursuits: Kitchen, Brewery, Railway, Jet Engines, Modular Golems, Sophisticated Backpacks, Sophisticated Storage and Traveler's Backpack.
• Armory: armor, guns and relics, including your first trident and mace.
• Terminal List: bounty boards for 220 monsters across every dimension.

🎵 Soundtrack

• Lo-fi music in the Overworld, with a short quiet break between songs.
• Combat music kicks in when a mob targets you, then fades back out after the fight.
• Bosses and the other dimensions keep their own music.

📦 What's Inside

• Engineering: Create 6 with Create Aeronautics, Create Big Cannons, The Factory Must Grow, Create New Age, Diesel Generators, Create Propulsion, Create Thrusters, Create Nuclear, Create Radars with missiles, shield generators and dozens of add-ons for trains, food, farming and storage.
• Endgame: Draconic Evolution, with fusion crafting, energy cores and the Chaos Guardian.
• Dragons and myth: Ice and Fire with fire, ice and lightning dragons, hydras, cyclopes, sirens, sea serpents, death worms and more.
• Dimensions: the Twilight Forest, the Aether, Deeper and Darker, BetterNether and BetterEnd.
• Bosses and monsters: L_Ender's Cataclysm, Mowzie's Mobs, Aquamirae, Born in Chaos and The Graveyard.
• Exploration: When Dungeons Arise, Dungeons and Taverns, IDAS, overhauled villages, YUNG's structures and Oh The Biomes We've Gone.
• Survival: Tough As Nails, Serene Seasons, body-part first aid and graves that keep your gear.
• Combat: Better Combat, Simply Swords, Expanded Combat, Artifacts and Relics.
• Multiplayer ready: land claims and parties, teams, and one-click world sharing with friends.

✨ Looks Great, Runs Smooth

• Shaders (Complementary Unbound with Euphoria Patches) and Distant Horizons come set up and tuned out of the box.
• Graphics presets on the title screen: pick Low, Default, High or Extreme with one click. Hover each button to see what it changes.
• Press O at any time to turn shaders on or off.
• Sodium, Entity Culling, ModernFix, FerriteCore and ImmediatelyFast keep the frame rate up.
• A custom Ice and Fire title screen, loading screen and themed hotbar, plus glowing ores.

💾 World Backups

• Automatic backups (Simple Backups): your world is backed up every 2 hours while you play. The last 10 backups are kept, up to 10 GB per world. To find them, click the ⋮ next to Play in the CurseForge app, choose Open Folder, then open simplebackups. To restore one, close the game and copy the world from the backup into your saves folder.

🖥️ Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge. The CurseForge app installs everything for you.
• At least 8 GB of RAM allocated to Minecraft. 10 GB recommended.
• Tested on an RTX 3060 and Ryzen 7 3700X at 1440p: about 75 FPS on the Default preset and about 115 FPS on Low.
• Weaker PC? Pick the Low preset on the title screen and restart.
• The first launch takes a few minutes while the pack loads and the shaders are prepared.

🙏 Credits

Made by itzLAFFERTY. Tested by ChiefKapuha.

Music: Sin & Sensitivity, eepy, Bittersweet Village Theme, Sear The Time Vortex, Dash Thru The Afterworld and Silent Ambush © 2024 by Aila Scott, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Converted to OGG and volume matched for the pack. Additional tracks were composed for this pack.

Huge thanks to every mod author whose work makes this pack possible. Please support them on their own project pages.