Steam & Stratosphere Skybound

⚠ NEW MAP: Season 2 is played on a fresh world. Old season 1 single-player worlds are not compatible (island generator and fuel mods removed).

🚀 THE ASCENSION

• The sky now goes up to Y500, in 5 tiers: Start (Y70-130), Copper (Y130-200), Brass (Y200-280), High Altitude (Y280-400) and Stratosphere (Y400-500).

• New island generator (Aero Islands): islands at every altitude, more spread out and more varied.

• New "The Ascension" questline: one chapter per tier, and the first quest of each chapter completes when you reach that altitude.

• Season 1 quests were updated (altitudes, ores, cold, pressurizer).

⛏️ NEW ORES AND ALLOYS (SS Core)

• Vaporite (Brass tier), Orichalcum (High Altitude) and Aetherite (Stratosphere). Their veins glow in the dark.

• Alloys: Orichalcum Brass, Steam Steel and Aetheric Alloy. Making them takes materials from several tiers.

• Tier pickaxes (Vaporite, Orichalcum Brass, Aetherite): each ore needs the pickaxe of its tier.

• Drill heads for the Portable Drill (Create Stuff 'N Additions): they let it mine the tier ores and enlarge its tanks. Create mechanical drills don't break these ores.

• Aerolite in the Stratosphere, and a little diamond from the Brass tier up.

❄️ COLD AND ALTITUDE

• Above Y280: cold (Frostbite, stronger the higher you go) and hypoxia.

• Insulation: Basic and Advanced Insulation Pads, combined with any armor piece.

• Cabin Pressurizers (Brass, Orichalcum Brass, Aetheric): Create kinetic blocks that keep a bubble of warm, breathable air around your ship. You can set the bubble size, show its edge with an empty-hand right click, and watch a Ponder scene that explains how it works.

✨ NEW

• Armor Plating: an Armor Plate + almost any full block = an armored version of that block. It keeps its look, resists explosions, comes back with the Create wrench and keeps its real mass.

• "Aerial Leap" enchantment (boots): one extra jump in mid-air, recharged on the ground. The book is crafted (book + aerolite shards + feathers).

• Levitation Core and Aerolite Buoyancy Block for high-altitude ships.

💨 TRUE STEAMPUNK

• No more thrusters: those from Gadgets & Gizmos and Create Propulsion are disabled. Ships run on steam and propellers (andesite propellers are enough early on).

• Create: Diesel Generators and Create: Liquid Fuel are removed. The "Life Aboard" quests now use steam.

⚖️ BALANCE

• Monsters: fewer spawns, and no more packs of monsters on small islands.

• Hostile Skies raids moved to match the tiers (T1 from Y140, T2 from Y210, T3 from Y410).

🔧 FIXES

• Your starter island no longer spawns under another island.

🎨 TEXTURES

• SS Core x32 and x64 HD resource packs included (x64 is on by default for new installs; otherwise turn it on in Options > Resource Packs).

📦 ADDED

• SS Core (season 2 content), Aero Islands, Lithostitched (library).

• What Are They Up To (player animations: typing, idle, open screen) + CoroUtil (library).

⬆️ UPDATED

• FTB Quests, FTB XMod Compat, Corpse, Traveler's Backpack, Blocks You Need, Envelope + Create: Envelope, Just Enough Resources, Starlit, Sound Physics Remastered.

❌ REMOVED

• Sky Archipelago (replaced by Aero Islands), Create: Diesel Generators, Create: Liquid Fuel.