Create: Cosmonautics is an industrial-aerospace addon for the Create mod. It allows players to build realistic, physics-based rockets, launch them into space, and control them with precision.
Unlike many space mods where rockets are just scripted "elevators", this mod utilizes the Sable physics engine (Create: Aeronautics), turning ships into real physical objects. Thrust, center of mass, orbital mechanics, and stage separation - it's all here, similar to Kerbal Space Program!
Classic Liquid Rocket Engine (LRE).
- Fuel: Lava. The engine can store a small amount internally but primarily draws from adjacent Fluid Tanks.
- Control: Thrust is controlled via the kinetic energy system (Create). You must provide rotation to its built-in pump. Higher RPM results in stronger thrust and faster lava consumption.
- Physics: Provides a constant Linear Impulse directly to the rocket's center of mass.
Advanced version of the LRE with Thrust Vector Control (TVC).
- Fuel & Power: Same as the Rocket Thruster (Lava + Rotation).
- Main Feature: The nozzle can tilt! By providing analog redstone signals to the block's sides, you can physically tilt the nozzle (Gimbal).
- Physics: Tilting the nozzle changes the thrust angle, creating torque that allows the ship to maneuver, roll, and turn during flight.
Powerful Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) for overcoming thick atmospheric layers.
- Fuel: Coal Blocks. The booster takes solid fuel from attached inventories or nearby blocks.
- Control: Activated by a simple redstone signal.
- Features: Like real boosters, it cannot be turned off or throttled. Once ignited, it roars at full power until all fuel is consumed.
Mechanism for creating multi-stage rockets.
- Principle: Installed between rocket stages.
- Activation: When triggered by redstone, this block instantly "explodes" (disappears), breaking the physical connection between parts of the ship.
There are no separate "space dimensions" or loading screens. Space is reached seamlessly by flying high enough! By overcoming gravity and leaving the thick layers of the atmosphere (above Y=1000), players enter orbit where different rules apply: vacuum, microgravity, and the ability to build real space stations using Create mechanisms.
- Java 21
- NeoForge 21.1.228+
- Create 1.21.1
- Create: Aeronautics (Sable)
- Clone the repository.
- Run
./gradlew genSourcesto set up the development environment. - Use
./gradlew runClientto test the mod.
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 - see the LICENSE file for details.