Do you love the Aeronautics mod?

do you feel like there needs to be more uses for it?

do you like hanging out with friends, or forming an actual community with people?

looking for a server to play on, with people who actually want you around?

EcoNautics™ is a modpack designed around those very principles: to give purpose where there is none, to forge links not only between natural ressource deposits and machines, but also between people!

find a molten vent and make a base around it, sell your own metals and import other people's metals, make and trade food, chemicals, energy, engineering skills and whatever else comes to mind!

no one needs to do everything by themselves, but together everyone can specialize. here are some key features to make this work:

molten vents: creates infinite ressources in random locations on the world. the usual method of getting infinite iron in create has been removed, so for large-scale ressource demands, you actually need to find multiple kinds of vents.
spice of life: eating different kinds of food raises your max HP, and eating the same food over and over again has diminishing returns. sure, you could survive on bread and potatoes alone, but you can also give your friends extra hearts by building up a giant food factory! after all, the hearts reset upon death, so you better have a stockpile of varied food prepared!
NeoOrigins: what better for a community is there than to encourage RP with origins? can't go into the nether for blaze burners? ask a friend!
better nether and end: now they're actually decent places to live and build an airship in! a nice world invites to explore!
tons of hidden features, fun mechanics and easter eggs!

This modpack is still under development, but playable at it's current state.

i'm also not a professional minecraft modder, so expect cursed things and issues. i do try my best to fix them when i know of them.

planned things include (but are not limited to):

further recipe changes
maybe more mods
SPACE!
Questbook with pointers and guidance

i'm trying to regularly update this pack and it's attached server each saturday.

the creator describes the use of AI like this:

one contributor (not the creator of this pack) has asked an LLM for pointers in datapack creation. any subsequent code following this endeavour has been peer reviewed, deemed unusable, deleted and replaced by 100% human work.
everything else is 100% human created.