Dark Matter - Create Aero

Welcome to Dark Matter: Create Aero — Your Floating Factory Awaits

Picture this: you're not digging holes in the dirt like some ordinary miner. You're piloting a sprawling, cog-driven fortress that hovers hundreds of blocks above the Overworld, chugging along on brass gears and steam while the world scrolls by beneath your boots. That's Dark Matter: Create Aero, and it's built from the ground up (or should we say, the sky down) around Create and its absolutely staggering library of community addons.

This pack throws you straight into a mobile base concept where Create Aeronautics, Create Sky Village, and dozens of Create expansion mods work together to let you build, fly, and automate a base that never has to touch solid ground. Whether you are into contraption logistics, kinetic power chains, or just want your factory floor to double as an airship, this pack was engineered for exactly that fantasy.

What's Actually Under the Hood

The core spine of the pack is unmistakably Create 6.0.10, but that's just the seed. Layered on top is a jaw-dropping amount of Create-adjacent content, including:

• Create Aeronautics (bundled), Aero Radar, Aero Structures, Ornithopter Gliders, and Copycat Wings — your actual flight and mobility toolkit for building airborne platforms

• Create Sky Village, Create Structures Overhaul, and Create Structures Arise — for populating your floating world with points of interest

• A staggering roster of Create production and logistics addons: Factory Metrics, Complex Recipes, Item Drawers, Vibrant Vaults, Ultimate Factory, Power Loader, Enhanced Schematicannon, Recycle Everything, and Create Radar for keeping tabs on your sprawling contraptions

• Flavor and food-focused Create spins like Create Cafe, Confectionery, Chocolate Fountain, Ratatouille, Ice Creams, and Central Kitchen (yes, you can run a bakery in the sky)

• Combat and defense flavor from Create Big Cannons, Pillagers Arise, and Dragons Plus

Beyond Create, this pack layers in Applied Energistics 2 with a huge web of addons (Crystal Science, Lightning Tech, Advanced AE, Applied Mekanistics, ExtendedAE, and more), giving you a proper digital storage and automation backbone to sit alongside your mechanical Create systems. Mekanism-adjacent compatibility mods tie the two production philosophies together seamlessly.

Quality of Life and Exploration

You're not left to figure this out cold. FTB Quests, FTB Chunks, FTB Essentials, and FTB Ranks handle progression and claims, while JEI/EMI-adjacent tools (EMI, EMI Loot, EMI Ores, AE2 JEI Integration) keep your recipe lookups sane despite the sheer volume of content. Apotheosis, Apothic Attributes, Apothic Enchanting, and Apothic Spawners deepen the RPG progression loop, and mods like Curios, Artifacts, and Baubley Heart Canisters round out your accessory and equipment slots.

Performance-wise, the pack is stacked with Sodium, Iris, ModernFix, FerriteCore, ImmediatelyFast, BadOptimizations, and EntityCulling — because running a base of this scale needs every frame you can get.

The Vibe

This isn't a "survive the night" pack. This is a build an empire in the clouds pack — one where mechanical ingenuity and vertical ambition matter more than punching trees. Every system, from AE2's digital storage to Create's kinetic contraptions, is aimed at helping you construct something that feels genuinely alive, floating, and yours.

Originally crafted with love for the Dark Matter Community, this pack is now stepping into the spotlight for everyone to enjoy. If you crash, get stuck, or just want to talk shop about kinetic ratios and airship logistics, reach out to Mavarik — happy to help with this pack or any other Dark Matter modpacks you're running.


*Quests are still WIP*


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