Brass & Ballast

🎈 Brass & Ballast ⚙️

Build airships. Automate everything. Climb from dirt to the stars. 🚀

A heavy Create: Aeronautics kitchen-sink: 161 mods, 7 gated ages, and a 948-quest journey that actually pays you for the work.

Love Create, deep automation, and a progression with a real destination? Buckle in. 🎈

💬 Join the crew on Discord: https://discord.gg/Rt5beRgmsc

🎈 The Whole Point: Airships

• 🎈 Anchored on Create: Aeronautics, build real, physics-simulated airships — balloons, blimps and cargo haulers with true weight, lift and thrust
• 🔥 Lift from hot-air balloons or levitite; climb and descend right on the burner
• 🌀 Thrust from real propellers spun on Create power, and steer by differential thrust — climb aboard and go, no fiddly flight stick
• 📦 Haul cargo, chase loot, and explore a whole sky only an airship can reach
• 🚀 And past the clouds, launch rockets to other planets

⚙️ Automate Everything (Dirt ➜ Netherite)

• 🏭 If it's an item, you can build a machine that makes it
• ⛏️ Create farms plus Mekanism 5x ore processing plus Mystical Agriculture crops
• 🤖 Mob factories (Woot, Mob Grinding Utils) for every drop
• 🧠 Full AE2 autocrafting so the base runs itself
• 🧪 Store XP as a liquid with Enchantment Industry
• 🔗 Everything threads through Create: Mekanism, Mystical Agriculture, Aeronautics, Ad Astra, boss drops and even magic need Create-made parts

🗺️ Seven Ages of Progress

SevTech-style gating: each age ends in a gate quest that unlocks the next.

• 🪨 Age I, Stone: tools, food, first base
• ⚙️ Age II, Cogs: your first Create contraptions
• 🔩 Age III, Brass: Mekanism metallurgy and ore processing
• 🔋 Age IV, Current: power, AE2 storage, logistics
• 🎈 Age V, Flight: airships, cannons, combat gear
• 🏭 Age VI, Automation: hands-free megabases
• 🌌 Age VII, Stars: rockets, planets, and the nastiest bosses

🎒 What's Packed In

⚙️ Tech & Power

• Create and a mountain of add-ons
• Mekanism, Applied Energistics 2, Powah, Flux Networks, Laser IO, Modular Routers
• Create: The Factory Must Grow (oil, diesel, steel) and Mekanism Generators (fission and fusion)

💎 Resources & Farming

• Mystical Agriculture and Agradditions (high tiers gated for balance)
• Woot, Mob Grinding Utils, Farmer's Delight, Croptopia, Aquaculture

🔮 Magic

• Ars Nouveau, Occultism, Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks

⚔️ Combat & Bosses

• Simply Swords, Spartan Weaponry, Apotheosis, Champions, L_Ender's Cataclysm

🌌 Dimensions & Exploration

• Twilight Forest, The Aether, Deeper & Darker, and Ad Astra planets
• ☁️ The Overworld sky (new in 0.4): floating islands from y 420 up, sky villages with forges, taverns, bakeries, libraries, chapels, markets and airship docks, derelict aerodromes, airship wrecks, lighthouses, helium groves, glimmerite quarries, and at the top of the sky, storm and sun arenas
• 🏴‍☠️ The Brass Corsairs: sky pirates with bases, flyable blimps and five crew types, plus sky variants of the night's mobs
• Terralith, Biomes O' Plenty, and Tectonic worldgen, with Waystones and Xaero's maps

🏗️ Storage & Building

• Sophisticated Storage, Building Gadgets, Framed Blocks, Copycats+, the Macaw's series

📜 The Quest Book

• 📖 948 quests: a step-by-step walkthrough through all seven ages, six Power Growth chapters from water wheels to fusion, three Skyward chapters for the sky, its bosses and your own airbase, and Side Quests for mining, farming, Mystical Agriculture, and every mob and boss
• ✅ Every quest verifies you actually crafted it, killed it, or reached it. No free checkmarks
• 🎁 Every quest pays XP, with hand-picked item rewards where they help
• 🧭 Doubles as your tutorial and your to-do list

⚡ Runs Better Than It Should

• 🚀 Ships with Sodium, ModernFix, ImmediatelyFast, FerriteCore, Entity Culling, Dynamic FPS
• 🎯 161 mods, tuned to boot clean

📋 System Requirements

• 🧩 Minecraft 1.21.1 • NeoForge • Java 21
• 🧠 8 GB RAM minimum • 10 to 12 GB recommended

⚠️ Before You Install

• 🟢 Best on the CurseForge app, everything auto-installs
• 🔧 On Prism / MultiMC / ATLauncher, 7 mods need a manual download (Create Aeronautics, Structory, Better Weaponry, Design n' Decor, Corail Tombstone, Entity Culling, The Skylands)
• 🌈 No shaders yet: the compatible loader clashes with the renderer Aeronautics needs. Coming in a later update!

🙏 Credits

• 💛 Every mod belongs to its author, please support them on their own pages
• 🛠️ This pack just brings them together and tunes them into one ride

🎈 Version 0.4.0 (Beta). Feedback and bug reports welcome in the comments!