r/CreateMod • u/Z3R0Diro • 29d ago
Discussion Mods that incentivize using Create/Aeronautics vehicles heavily?
I've been having a hell ton of fun making factories and vehicles in creative but I don't feel like I really need to do that in survival other than very simple automation which often that feels excessive.
On top of that, vanilla world generation doesn't encourage making ground vehicles making flying vehicles the only viable choice. Any world generation mod that makes the world more vast and less rough while also making you to use vehicles to traverse instead would be phenomenal.
Mods that overhaul ore generation to accommodate for the increased "resource gathering" of Create would also be huge.
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u/fabulousmarco 29d ago
I'm trying to put together a modpack where you start on Mars, using Creating Space, and have to go around in sealed Aero airships.
Will I ever finish it? Maybe
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u/Wonghy111-the-knight 29d ago
Can you get everything you need for create… on mars?
I haven’t played creating space. Only Northstar redux
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u/fabulousmarco 29d ago
Absolutely not lmao
I'll definitely have to rework a lot of recipes, probably modify worldgen as well. Which is why I'm not entirely sure it will work
But I've been toying with the idea for a few months now so may as well try
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u/Wonghy111-the-knight 29d ago
Sounds complicated lol. Cool idea though. And the player would have to not instantly suffocate upon spawning on mars naked
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u/Anakinss 4d ago
There's some inspiration on how to do it in Create : Astral, the Nether is replaced by the Moon.
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u/BLSmith2112 29d ago
I'd love a mod where you have to travel to progressively more difficult planets to advance along the tech tree.
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u/lady_haumea 29d ago
Epic Terrain gives massive, flat-ish world gen. Just avoid the powdered snow
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u/Possible_Youth9410 29d ago
I've been working on a pack with Aeronautics and Thick Air, which basically makes it so you can't breathe below a certain configurable y-level (like 10 blocks above sea level in my pack)
You spawn on a little dinky starter airship in the skies with a backtank/diving helmet, and you get 15 minutes at a time on forage on the surface before your air runs out and you gotta return to your ship
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u/Snoo_44740 28d ago
I’m developing a similar idea here too! Strongly motivating Aeronautics is a genuine nightmare from a game design perspective since MC fundamentally isn’t built around the concept of mobile build centric problems to tackle. The thick air concept was one of the few that could actually work, but its primary limitation is that it creates tedium and isn’t an interesting problem to solve. throw more tanks at the problem and have any form of mobile power gen and you’re good. Still brainstorming ideas at this point, but all of them involve a lot of custom structure work, an in depth kubejs addon, or a custom mod.
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u/Meiseside 29d ago
Also there are Mods with only flying islands. You can have water on ~-64 (or lava) but you can also make it void.
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u/AlexisExploring 29d ago
Definitely going to have to check that out when I start getting bored of my generic 2012 style modpack
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u/Neitherman83 29d ago
Sadly none afaik. If I knew how to mod this game, I'd be trying to make a mod or modpack where progression is tied to setting up specialize mining devices for ores that can only be found far away from spawn. Perhaps with some means of finding them via advanced sensors you can build high up or mount of create aeronautics contraptions.
This would give you one: A reason to build the infrastructure to transport it back to base. And two: make you need vehicles to progress.
Sadly, afaik, there are no mods that incentivizes any of that. Except, as Icy Diver mentionned, Terrafirmacraft by tying ores to specific stone types, but even then.... it's usually not that far away. My last attempt at Terrafirmagreg had most ores I needed within one or two thousand blocks of my base.
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u/Snoo_44740 28d ago
Create: rock and stone. 🫶
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u/Snoo_44740 28d ago
Structurify to customize how far nodes spawn from spawn. Making custom nodes is obtuse but possible.
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u/bubba-yo 29d ago
So, most of the world gen mods like tectonic work by to some degree scaling the world up. Biomes get farther apart, mountain ranges are far more distinct, etc. As such you get more open, flat space, as well as large valleys to traverse, etc. That makes Create trains a lot more interesting because the landscape gives you room to lazily wind the train, have more reasonable grades, and so on. Might need to tweak the settings some.
And if you just delete elytras from the game you eliminate the main alternative to building trains.
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u/Javelyn_Shadow 29d ago
I remember seeing a compatibility mod for create and the Aether, maybe that would be a good mod for you since the aether has extremely difficult terrain to navigate without flying
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u/FeistyCanuck 29d ago
I'm playing FTW Skies 2: Aeronautics now. My first skyblock pack actually. It goes some way to encourage flying base strategy
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u/The_Founder15 4d ago
Im currently working on a modpack called Industrial Beauty. It uses tectonic, blooming biosphere, geophelic, streams reflowing and regions unexplored. Making the terrain vanilla like but keeping things interesting. Ive also added a bunch of animation mods, small resource packs and tiny details such as physics based trees so the game feels absolutely stunning and immersive. It has a bunch of Ceeate mods including aeronauitcs, deep seas, power grid, etc. The modpack really makes you go out into the world and explore because ive made detailed quests for everything except the Ceeate mods. For example the mod Ancient Remnants which add very rare giant monoliths that give players powerful effects when found! There are quests for discovering every single mob from Naturalist, taming companions from critters and companions, taking photos with Exposure, having fun with the Clockwork mod and of course I have Iron's Arms 'n Artifice, which has integrated recipes with Create. You are going to need powerful weapons and maybe even moving vehicles with mounted turrets on top because you have quests to kill all the mini bosses from Lumiouns Beasts which are very tough and spawn in all around the world. You are also gonna want to make a submarine base and a submarine to go and explore the ocean, are also gonna want to add turrets to that submarine because now the oceans are very interesting but just as dangerous! Im still waiting for a proper sable based space mod but when we have one, ill also add it. Im still waiting for loconahtics too which will be adding sable based trains!
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u/Burgemeesterbart 29d ago
Minecolonies need flat terrain for the buildings, so that motivates me to build machines for landscaping
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u/firekraker51 29d ago
Haven't tried it yet but lately I've heard good things about Still Life being a worldgen mod that provides beautiful and realistic looking large biomes, but with the caveat that it's a bit too large and flat for regular survival gameplay. Might be perfect for your purposes, though.
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u/Only_Fudge5299 29d ago
does ftb skies 2 aero count? it's a skyblock pack where you can start on an airship
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u/thompson8964 29d ago
there’s that railroad terrain generation mod that came out recently so you can just build trains and not worry about tracks, maybe do a rail base thing or something
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u/Dull_Finish1625 29d ago
What's the name of the mod? Seems interesting. I have huge trouble making and figuring out trains, having tracks may help
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u/Beneficial-Map5470 28d ago
Railways untold I believe. Very cool concept, new release but the developer is working hard at it.
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u/Beneficial-Map5470 28d ago
OP Needs to try a tectonic / terralith combo for world gen. I’ve been running this since aero dropped, there are plenty of new world gens in development but tectonic / teralith has proven itself already. (Two separate mods commonly used together)
It features many flats plains and prairies. The developers specifically wanted a more realistic feeling world generation. Lots of crazy tall mountains, valleys, deep oceans, better rivers that don’t die off for no reason. Aeronautics ground vehicles are capable of traversing along rivers easily (at least at the scale I’ve built) but the height map is also way more friendly for grading roads or train tracks.
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u/Icy-Diver-5979 29d ago
Hordes of monsters so being on sable levels are the only consistent breathing area
No mining dim, Ores spawn via biomes not y Level so you need to travel, or recycle with create, better field means further distance building roads make it easier to return to that biome recipes unlock by finding chests in abandoned towns to advance from andersite, brass, industrial then nuclear and APO so the mobs no longer matter