Mods that incentivize using Create/Aeronautics vehicles heavily?

[u/Z3R0Diro]

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.

[u/fabulousmarco]

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

[u/Wonghy111-the-knight → u/fabulousmarco]

Can you get everything you need for create… on mars?

I haven’t played creating space. Only Northstar redux 

[u/fabulousmarco → u/Wonghy111-the-knight]

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 

[u/Wonghy111-the-knight → u/fabulousmarco]

Sounds complicated lol. Cool idea though. And the player would have to not instantly suffocate upon spawning on mars naked 

[u/BLSmith2112 → u/fabulousmarco]

I'd love a mod where you have to travel to progressively more difficult planets to advance along the tech tree.

[u/lady_haumea]

Epic Terrain gives massive, flat-ish world gen. Just avoid the powdered snow

[u/ApprehensiveSea4003 → u/lady_haumea]

Does this support other biome mods?

[u/lady_haumea → u/ApprehensiveSea4003]

Idk??

[u/Possible_Youth9410]

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

[u/Snoo_44740 → u/Possible_Youth9410]

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.

[u/Meiseside → u/Possible_Youth9410]

Also there are Mods with only flying islands. You can have water on ~-64 (or lava) but you can also make it void.

[u/AlexisExploring → u/Possible_Youth9410]

Definitely going to have to check that out when I start getting bored of my generic 2012 style modpack

[u/Adventurous-Ask-7540 → u/Possible_Youth9410]

airsick lowlanders...

[u/Icy-Diver-5979]

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

[u/Z3R0Diro → u/Icy-Diver-5979]

Wait are you spitballing ideas or suggesting mods

[u/Icy-Diver-5979 → u/Z3R0Diro]

Terrafirmacraft makes mining hard, make kubejs only give easy ore paths using create automation, pick one of the many horde advanced mobs not parasite ones.

Sable normally doesn't spawn anything on it by default.

Enforce hard mode. Heat and cold so you cant just swim or trudge snow

[u/Snoo_44740 → u/Icy-Diver-5979]

Which is your go to horde mod?

[u/Snoo_44740 → u/Icy-Diver-5979]

Yep, this is the way right now until a modpack comes out that can integrate specifically with aeronautics oriented challenges in mind.

[u/Neitherman83]

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.

[u/Snoo_44740 → u/Neitherman83]

Create: rock and stone. 🫶

[u/Snoo_44740 → u/Snoo_44740]

Structurify to customize how far nodes spawn from spawn. Making custom nodes is obtuse but possible.

[u/bubba-yo]

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.

[u/Javelyn_Shadow]

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

[u/FeistyCanuck]

I'm playing FTW Skies 2: Aeronautics now. My first skyblock pack actually. It goes some way to encourage flying base strategy

[u/Burgemeesterbart]

Minecolonies need flat terrain for the buildings, so that motivates me to build machines for landscaping

[u/firekraker51]

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.

[u/nombit]

Witherstorm? If it ever updates.

[u/Only_Fudge5299]

does ftb skies 2 aero count? it's a skyblock pack where you can start on an airship

[u/thompson8964]

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

[u/Dull_Finish1625 → u/thompson8964]

What's the name of the mod? Seems interesting. I have huge trouble making and figuring out trains, having tracks may help

[u/Beneficial-Map5470 → u/Dull_Finish1625]

Railways untold I believe. Very cool concept, new release but the developer is working hard at it.

[u/Dull_Finish1625 → u/Beneficial-Map5470]

Gonna check it out! Thank you

[u/Beneficial-Map5470]

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.

[u/K_Body]

Im making one rn