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Welcome to 🌤️ Ocean of Clouds 🌤️

Are you prepared to sail through the skies with a complete modpack built around Create: Aeronautics ?

You spawn into a heavenly realm that stretches endlessly above the clouds. This world is composed of a myriad of flying islands, making a sedentary lifestyle unsustainable. Such a topology makes flying machines something far more essential than a grounded house.

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Ocean of Clouds is a modpack with 200 mods and plenty of custom content that aims to reimagine Minecraft from the ground up by deeply tying progression around Create: Aeronautics. A radically different world generation puts vast sky archipelagos as the backdrop of your adventures. The entire gameplay loop is built to incentivize building your own Aeronautics contraption and exploring the skies aboard your peaceful leisure ship or over-engineered killing machine. The main philosophy of this modpack is that all types of players should be able to find their fun, no matter if you are a 22h/day hardcore grinder, a cozy game addict or a 300 IQ engineer.

Know the Ropes:

Most of Create Aeronautics components (outside of rudimentary ones to allow you to make an extremely basic flying machine) can't be crafted. Instead, they are purchased through the Trading Terminal, with prices that scale to how useful each piece is, and that fluctuates over time. If you really want to buy a piece, it might be worth it to wait and see if the price goes down.

But the beauty of the free market doesn't stop there. The Trading Terminal is your gateway to a wide array of hobbies and activities to ~~drain your money~~… keep things lively between and during expeditions! Play music, complete your field guide, build your own electric grid, become a photographer, create your own program that will pilot your ship and might evolve into sentience or even become the first person in the whole sky to catch every breed of fish !

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Three Ways to Stay Afloat:

Bounties: Take on contracts through the Bounty Board. This is the most steady and reliable way of making money, and is also a great excuse to explore.
Dungeon Loot: Plenty of ruins are hiding in the skies, some abandoned ~~reminders of a past before he bega…~~, some still hosting flourishing communities, all being part of the history of this realm. Although taking money from those might be ethically questionable, it's also very efficient!
Theft: Your "friends" have money too, and I’m sure you know how to use it better than they do. Just saying~ ;)

Before You Take Off:

This modpack was designed to be best experienced in multiplayer, but it still is fully enjoyable in solo.
Shaders are optimized for lower-end PCs by default, but if your configuration allows it, enabling Euphoria Patches at the default settings is highly recommended for the full visual experience.

On the Horizon:

Multi-language support
Richer bounty objectives
More Trading Terminal content
LORE
Retextures
Optimization & custom loading tips
Icon remake
Ongoing updates tracking for different mods

Ocean of Clouds currently primarily exists for playtesting. Expect rough edges, and don't hesitate to give me feedback to help improve this modpack