Space (Ad Astra)
Since 0.5.2-birch-14 the pack includes Ad Astra. Build a rocket, fuel it, and launch to another planet. Each planet is its own world with new ores, structures and dangers, and every planet has an orbit you can build a space station in.
The planets
Section titled “The planets”| Planet | Rocket tier | Air | Gravity | Temperature | What is there |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 1 | none | low | very cold | Desh ore, cheese, Lunarian villages, moon dungeons |
| Mars | 2 | none | low | cold | Ostrum ore, canyons, polar caps, Martian temples |
| Venus | 3 | none | heavy | scorching, acid rain | Calorite ore, Pygro towers and villages |
| Mercury | 3 | none | low | hot | Mercury deltas |
| Glacio | 4 | breathable | low | freezing | Ice peaks and snowy barrens, in another solar system |
Every planet also has an orbit dimension, an empty sky for building stations. None of the planets has an ocean: they are rock, dust and ice.
Getting there
Section titled “Getting there”- Rocket. Start with a Tier 1 rocket. Each tier unlocks the next planets.
- Fuel. A launch takes 3,000 mB of fuel (or 1,000 mB of an efficient fuel like cryo fuel).
Make fuel in the Fuel Refinery from oil:
- Crude oil from Create: Diesel Generators works (pumpjacks on oil chunks).
- Oil wells also appear in oceans in newly explored chunks. Existing land is untouched.
- Cryo fuel comes from freezing ice in the Cryo Freezer. Diesel and biodiesel from Diesel Generators count as fuel too.
- Launch. Sit in the rocket, pick a planet, and fly up to height 600 to leave.
Staying alive
Section titled “Staying alive”- Oxygen: wear a full space suit and keep it filled, or seal a base and run an Oxygen Distributor. If a sealed base breaks its seal, an air vortex pulls everything inside out.
- Temperature: Venus and Mercury are hot, the Moon and Glacio are cold. Upgrade to the netherite or jet suit for the extremes.
- Gravity: you jump higher and fall slower on low-gravity planets. A Gravity Normalizer fixes it inside a base.
Plant a flag on a new planet. Flags can show a picture from i.imgur.com: the picture is downloaded by the game of everyone who looks at the flag, so keep it to something you would show the whole server.
Learn more
Section titled “Learn more”- Ad Astra on Modrinth
- The in-game guide: the Astrodux book.
Looking for an ocean world?
Section titled “Looking for an ocean world?”The Indigo Sea is not a planet: you reach it through a prismarine portal on Earth. See Indigo Sea.