Vehicles

Since 0.5.2-birch-4 the pack includes Create Aeronautics (with the Sable physics engine under it). You build a vehicle out of Create blocks, and it becomes a real moving thing with weight and momentum: cars and trucks on the ground, planes and airships in the sky. It is the same Create you already know, so if you can make a contraption you can make a vehicle.

Pasting in a plane someone shared? Read Building planes with Create Aeronautics first. Just want to fly? Immersive Aircraft planes are crafted, not built.

Where this comes from

The basics on this page come from the mod’s own documentation; the mining-machine and claims notes were checked in Indigo’s lab on 2026-10-31. The mod’s guide, linked at the bottom, has every block and control.

Getting started

1. Build the body from Create blocks like any contraption: casing, frames, seats. Keep the first one small and boxy; physics punishes a lopsided build.
2. Add power and movement. Wheels for a car, propellers and wings for a plane, balloons or lift for an airship, driven the Create way (engines, rotation, the usual). Recipes are in JEI.
3. Assemble it with the mod’s assembly block, sit in the seat, and it is yours to drive. Steering and throttle are shown on screen; the mod’s guide lists the controls.
4. Practice outside town. A truck in a village street is a bad day for everyone.

Mining machines

Put Create drills or rock cutting wheels on the front of a vehicle and drive it into the hill: it cuts a proper tunnel the size of the cutting face and keeps going. Add chests or a Create storage setup behind the cutters so the blocks have somewhere to go. This is the fastest way to dig on Indigo, and the land west of Birch Brook is reserved for exactly this kind of thing.

What claims still protect

Vehicles obey claims. A mining machine cannot cut into someone else’s claimed land, and you cannot drive one through their house. Claim your own quarry before you start cutting, and remember that unclaimed land is first come, first served.

Good to know

• Vehicles are heavy. Bridges, roofs and other people’s builds are not for landing on.
• A crash can scatter the vehicle’s blocks. Build where you can pick them up.
• Keep aircraft clear of town, and of the rail land west of it.
• The usual rules apply: no griefing, be a good neighbour.

Learn more

• Create Aeronautics on Modrinth
• Sable on Modrinth (the physics engine; nothing to set up)