Getting started

1. Install

   Install the pack from the CurseForge app. It sets up Minecraft 1.21.1 and NeoForge for you.

2. Give it memory

   Allocate at least 8 GB of RAM in CurseForge under Settings, Minecraft, Java settings. Less than that and large bases will stutter.

3. Open the quest book

   Start with the Welcome chapter, The disciplines of the Horizon Guild. It points you at every other chapter.

4. Turn your first shaft

   Make andesite alloy in the Create chapter. That one item unlocks the first page of the Horizon Logs.

Your first few hours

• Create first. Everything early runs on rotation: shafts, cogwheels, andesite casing, crushing wheels. The Create chapter walks you through it.
• Then leave the ground. Once you have a working kinetic setup, the Create Aeronautics chapter shows you how to turn a build into a flying vessel.
• Earn coins early. Coins pay for land claims and protection, so open the Lightman's Currency chapter before you settle down. Claimed land is not protected until you pay for it (see Land and claims).
• Pick a tech path. Immersive Engineering, Powah, Modern Industrialization, Oritech and AE2 each have their own chapter. You don't need to finish one before starting another.

Quest chapters

Each chapter is one school of the old Horizon Guild. Progress in any of them unlocks pages of the Horizon Logs, the story chapter. The last five are the allied schools: optional, but each adds its own corner of the story.

Airships

Create Aeronautics turns anything you build into a physics-simulated vessel. A ship needs four things: a structure, lift, thrust and a way to steer.

Anything properly built may leave the ground. Here is how.The Wind Charter

1. Build the hull

   Build your ship as normal blocks. Anything you place can fly, so keep it light at first.

2. Add lift

   Hot air (a burner under an envelope), steam lift, or levitite. Levitite is mixed, poured and heated, and solid levitite floats by itself.

3. Add thrust

   Propellers to start. Smart propellers steer as they push. Later, Create Propulsion thrusters and ion drives.

4. Add controls

   A helm or navigator's table to start. Aeroworks adds control desks, yokes, joysticks and throttle levers.

5. Assemble

   The physics assembler turns the build into a vessel. This is where a structure becomes a ship.

6. Fly and dock

   Go up slowly. Watch the altimeter. Tie the ship to something solid when you land.

Instruments worth building

The altimeter and speedometer tell you where you are. The gimbal sensor reads whether you're level. Distance and docking sensors hum louder as you close on another ship, and magnets hold two ships together in a docking line.

Other ways to fly

• Immersive Aircraft: small ready-made planes for quick trips.
• Create Jetpack: personal flight once you have the air supply.
• Create Big Cannons and Create Radars: arm your ship and track other vessels.

Coins and shops

The economy runs on Lightman's Currency. Coins are physical items, but you can also keep them in a bank account and pay with a card. Every coin is worth ten of the one below it.

Land and claims

Land is claimed with FTB Chunks and paid for from your Lightman's Currency bank account, or your team's account if you're in an FTB Teams party. Claims are always visible to everyone on the map.

Claiming

Your team's first 20 chunks cost 1 diamond coin each. After that the price rises 5% for every 20 chunks you already own. The price depends on how many chunks you own right now, so unclaiming moves you back down a tier. Unclaiming refunds 80% of the price.

Prices are in copper. If a claim is refused, deposit more coins at an ATM and try again.

Protection costs upkeep

A claim on its own doesn't protect anything. Each protection you switch on costs upkeep for every chunk it covers, charged every 5 minutes while at least one player is online anywhere on the server. Set protections from the claims menu. Its key is listed under LC FTB Hook in Controls.

War

Teams with claimed land can declare war on each other from the claims menu. Declaring war costs 2 times the target team's base upkeep, every period, for as long as the war runs. Each war declared against a team also raises that team's own upkeep. If the attacker runs out of money, the war pauses until their account is topped up.

Mod list

The highlights by category. The full list of 387 mods is on the pack's Relations tab on CurseForge.

Troubleshooting