Aeronautics: Connection Plus

Aeronautics: Connection Plus

Aeronautics: Connection Plus is an add-on for Create: Aeronautics that adds a practical universal docking connector for Sable physics contraptions. It doesn't just lock two structures together — it keeps stress, FE, items, and fluids flowing across the connection.

The Universal Docking Connector reuses the docking behavior of Simulated's connector: magnetic pairing, piston and claw animations, Sable physics constraints, comparator output, and sounds. On top of that, it adds features designed for Aeronautics gameplay.

Features

• Universal Docking Connector: Redstone-controlled extension and retraction, automatic alignment with a paired connector, and a rigid Sable constraint while locked. Retracting either side releases the connection.
• Stress Transfer: Once locked, the connector bridges the adjacent Create kinetic networks and transfers signed speed and stress capacity. Nothing is transferred when both sides are powered or both are unpowered.
• FE Transfer: Supports FE transfer between docked connectors. On a physics structure, it can also distribute FE wirelessly to FE consumers on the same structure and pull energy from chained FE blocks.
• Create Crafts & Additions Support: Works with CCA connectors and wires. FE input is available on five faces; the top face is reserved for the docking head.
• Smart Docking: Placing the connector automatically turns its stress port toward an adjacent kinetic component. Placing a kinetic component next to the connector's stress port also rotates the component to face the connector.
• Ponder Scenes: Includes three Ponder tutorials created with Ponderer, covering docking, FE transfer, and stress transfer.
• Independent Visuals: Textures, models, and the block entity renderer are fully independent from Simulated and can be redrawn freely.

Who Is It For?

Players building aircraft, airships, mobile platforms, or other Sable physics structures with Create: Aeronautics, and modpack authors who need to connect multiple structures while keeping power and energy flowing between them.