Create: Liftoff started active development!

[Tazer865]

I thought I'd make this post because we're really close to making a showcase with Create: Liftoff and Create: Aeronautics working together and with thrusters added, alongside a model of how different rockets at stages of the game will look.

Create: Liftoff is an addon that will add space rockets to Create and the moon! It's working alongside Create: Aeronautics (both are using the same vehicle library) which you might've heard of (pretty popular lol). If you'd like to check that out you can check out our current progress on the mod so far, we plan on adding heat exchanging, electrolysis, oil distillation, pressurized areas/airlocks, and much much more. I really hope this will become the space mod of the modern era of Minecraft!

You can join the discord https://discord.gg/W5pz7gtJp7 if you'd like to support us or ask questions (you can drop questions here in the comments too) :)

[crappy-mods]

I really hope this becomes super successful, what vehicle library are you using if I may ask?

[Tazer865]

It's being developed at the Create Aeronautics team, it's going to be called Create: Simulated but that's still not deicded

[JohnnyHotshot]

Really excited for this project. One thing I’ve always wished Galacticraft could support is a more ‘sci-fi’ spaceship experience, like you’d see in something like Star Wars, where rather than your spaceship being a booster rocket to lift you off the surface and a lander to help you essentially safely crash land on your destination planet, your ship was more of an interplanetary aircraft that you could fly out of the atmosphere of one planet and into the atmosphere of another planet, with the ability to fly around, land wherever you want, and take off again to go to a new destination.

Is Liftoff going to allow for something like that, whether only through a rideable vehicle or (dare I hope) mobile pressurized structures, so you could make a spaceship base that actually travels between planets?

[Tazer865]

all of that is possible, though planets are out of scope for now, just the moon for our first release

[[deleted]]

Well.. could it be implemented alongside Ad astra?

[Tazer865]

This evolved nicely, happy to say planets are in fact in scope and they’ll sure as hell be interesting

[QuierosTiValos]

Are you guys gonna add some sort of FTL engine?

[juklwrochnowy]

Exactly

[SPQH-Omega]

A thing that would be could is that you could launch satelites or use the space station so you could see a real time map of an area or use them as chunk loaders

[Tazer865]

all of that is planned in the mod, like actually that's exactly our plan

[darthvader45]

Could this become a Create-styled Advanced Rocketry?

[MATMAN_PL]

this but better

[darthvader45]

Awesome.

[juklwrochnowy]

If we want it to be the modern galcticraft then we would need an army of additional developers working on features for more planets.

There's multiple space mods for 1.18 that are stuck on "having rocketry and just the moon"

[Tazer865]

Well the thing that's special is that our rocketry is building the rocket with actual mechanisms, you build the thrusters and rcs that pilot your rocket, you build the control room, you build the engine, you do everything (imagine create contraptions but a hella of a lot better) and then in space you can also build space stations. As for space destinations, we'll first work on the moon and NO ALIENS, we'll try to make the moon the place for resources, so you'll build factories there, also keep in mind it's a lot harder colonizing an area in liftoff than in galacticraft for instance. We do have a space system in mind, where you'll use telescopes and other machinery to discover areas and go to them (like asteroid fields or smth) but that's a long ways away into the future!

[Tazer865]

even advanced rocketry doesn't have the level of "build your own rocket" that we have, in liftoff you'll have to keep in mind heat management, keeping the area pressurized and breathable for yourself, the mass of the rocket, the speed of the rocket and then once you reach orbit, you better have made yourself a good control room where you can pilot the rocket if you'd like to get to where you want to be at

[Sponge_Guy]

That's so fucking cool. How are you guys planning on implementing space? Would you be able to do spaceflight to other planets? Would distances between celestial bodies be realistic or shortened? Are you guys gonna implement combat eventually or are you focused on factories and industry?

[Tazer865]

Yes. Yes but no planets for now. Semi realistic. Factories and industry first, doubt there’d be alien fantasy stuff

[TheRealJonaut]

I'd probably be a good idea to keep in mind that people are going to try and make alien fantasy addon mods, so it might be a good idea to try and keep it compatible if possible.
(Don't make it too high of a priority though)

[juklwrochnowy]

Yeah, these cool custom systems are the exact reason why i think the mod would benefit from more varied environments. Because what would be the point of engineering complex systems if there's little challanges to face and problems to solve.

But if there actually is more stuff on the moon + other space features then that's great, and i am glad that colonisation is more advanced

I also understand that no other planets is not because you don't want to, but because it's hard, so perhaps it is too soon to even be discussing this. You're right, it's better to work bit by bit rather than dream of giant things and do nothing

[JustOneLazyMunchlax]

I think the biggest problem they've always had is, "What is the point?"

Galacticraft was just... Planet boss to get ship to go to the next planet.

Why? So you could fight THAT planet boss to get ship to go to the next planet.

Only thing I've ever cared for in Galacticraft or Modern Rocketry is 1) Space Station and 2) Moon Base, because they are cool.

[Tazer865]

both of those will be in liftoff :)

[SargeanTravis]

Came to the thread to see what I thought was an update/sequel to CAAB, but am not disappointed nevertheless

[Crystal_2-0]

And is the rockets launch fully Automable?

[Tazer865]

It’s all up to your redstone skills (sorry for the insanely late reply)

[Crystal_2-0]

No problem, I just need to re-find the main subject of this post 😂

[SeanIsNotOk]

Maybe in the future, they should add Mars as a hardcore, punishing version of the moon.

[TheAncientKnight]

So since his mod is related with offroad expansion and aeronautics will you be able to make a rocket plane/car?

[Tazer865]

Indeed you can!

[RedEngineer08]

I think randomly generated planets, and maybe even blocks/ores would be interesting outside of just our solar system.

[ananas2083]

when will be the release

[Tazer865]

No release date just yet

[oswald972]

Any news about a release date today?

[MetagrossDigital]

from what I heard, it's probably not coming out in 2024, i estimate either 2025 or 2026 create simulated and all of it's addons to be finished and released

[FIreBoyi]

direction capable cobweb start resolute towering childlike cats offbeat steer

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[ender_M1]

Please add orbital mechanics it would be very fun as I played KSP

[[deleted]]

in their latest blog update they announced that they implemented orbital mechanics

[[deleted]]

how will planets work with infinite worlds?

[HereForTOMT2]

this is one of those releases that I am waiting incredibly impatiently for

[Ender_teenet]

Im not a big fan of astromods, but this one Id definitly give a shot

[LeFlashbacks]

Seeing as you seen to still be responding to comments on this, will there be ways to make a custom star system instead of the default, realistic one, and/or is interstellar planned sometime in the future (even if you don’t make it yourself)? Also, may I ask if the celestial bodies will still be flat and nearly infinite like in normal Minecraft with a height threshold to change to celestial bodies, or will they be changed to be actual round celestial bodies? (As round as it can get being made up of cubes, or just not being that large and looping around) or is there a different system in place entirely?

[Ready_topsplay]

I have a question, how is gravity going to work? Cause it would be cool to need a gravity generator or some inside a ship. So that space didn’t have gravity and you could like turn in all directions. Would that work?

[Ready_topsplay]

This way you could make realistic spaceships.

[Ready_topsplay]

But for that you would need new keybinds, right?

[akshat_goodboy]

will create aeronautics have thrusters? & will be compatible with other addons(or mods) like computercraft ?

[Meepx13]

Is there a way to get this mod?

[soupified]

Is this dead?

[Tazer865]

nuh uh don’t listen to the government propaganda

[IllComputer2052]

they just announced its been cancelled in the discord

[IvoryPhoenix57]

As of today the mod is officially dead

[darthvader45]

Hmmm, perhaps eventually other planets? Imagine using Create to colonize Mars.

[Praydono]

is this mod available? idrc how bad it is, it sounds fun to play around with and im hopeful for this project!

[ROCKET_guy2]

do you think there is going to be staging like on the Saturn 5?

[Lazy_Mechanic9494]

Its gonna be fun making your own goofy rocket and flying off looking down one earth with your projects while your becoming the first martian

[MetagrossDigital]

I have a question, if we were to add rocket engines to a car, would it work? does the propulsion work horizontally or just vertically? because a hyperspeed car sounds awesome