Create Beyond the Skies

Create: Beyond the Skies is a sprawling, automation-first modpack built around the Create mod and its vast addon ecosystem. If you've ever wanted to spend hundreds of hours designing contraptions, riding physics-simulated airships, running a culinary empire, or exploring radically overhauled worlds — this is that pack. More than 50 Create-adjacent addons layer on top of the base mod, touching every dimension of gameplay: electricity, trains, jet propulsion, hyper-speed travel, cannon warfare, and far more.

Automation & Machines

The heart of the pack is Create 6.0 — the mechanical engineering mod that turns gears, belts, shafts, and fluid pipes into a living, breathing factory. Every machine is fully animated and physically simulated in 3D. Build a windmill to generate rotation, a water wheel for reliable power, or an intricate steam engine for high-throughput industrial output.

On top of Create, the pack ships an extraordinary array of official and community addons:

Power & Energy

• Create: Crafts & Additions — bridges Create's rotational power with Forge Energy (RF/FE): the Alternator converts rotation into FE, the Electric Motor converts FE back into rotation, and the Tesla Coil charges electric items placed beneath it (and zaps nearby mobs when activated via redstone).
• Create: New Age — adds large copper coil generators, electric motors, nuclear reactors (multiblock structures that generate heat for Create's boiler system), and solar panels that also supply heat to the boiler system.
• Create: Diesel Generators — combustion engines running on petrochemical fuel, with a full petroleum processing chain via Create: Petrolpark (distillation, cracking, blending).
• Create: Encased — expands the casing and shaft system with new structural blocks and connectors.
• Create: Transmission — adds a Transmission Chain block that connects conveyor belts at angles and corners without gearboxes, simplifying compact belt layouts.
• Create: Ender Transmission — wireless transfer of rotation, items, and fluids across unlimited distance and dimensions via linked transmitter blocks.
• Create: CROWNS (Creating Rotation Operated With Nuclear Science) — nuclear thermal power generation for Create. Build a reactor-style closed-loop thermal cycle: heat water into steam, drive turbines to produce large quantities of Stress Units, compress the steam back to water with a Compressor, and dissipate waste heat in a Cooling Tower. Intended for high-SU demands that boiler-based generation alone can't meet.

Production & Processing

• Create: Mechanical Spawner and Create: Mob Spawners — both automate mob farms with mechanical precision. Mechanical Spawner uses biome-based spawning driven by rotational power with optional fluid inputs; Mob Spawners requires capturing a specific mob first with its Soul Catcher tool, then spawns that type using rotational force.
• Create: Mechanical Chicken — a kinetic block that generates eggs using rotational power plus a fluid input (plant oil by default) as a consumed ingredient; fluid type, output rate, and stress impact are all configurable.
• Create: Deep Dark — adds deep-dark-themed materials (Echo Ingots, Sculk Flour, Molten Echo fluid), a full armor set and weapon, and dozens of Create-integrated recipes centred on Echo Shards and Sculk blocks from Ancient Cities.
• Create: Compressed — compress raw crushed ores and similar materials into space-saving high-density blocks via Mechanical Press or crafting table.
• Create: Cobblestone — rotation-powered stone generators for cobblestone, stone, basalt, deepslate, and Create's own stone variants (Limestone, Scoria); output scales with RPM.
• Create: Ore Excavation — adds hidden infinite ore veins attached to world chunks (not physical blocks); a Drilling Machine multiblock powered by rotational force extracts from those veins indefinitely, with an Ore Vein Finder item to locate productive chunks.
• Create: Metallurgy — expanded metals and alloys via a dedicated Foundry system (Industrial Crucible, Foundry Unit, Foundry Basin) for casting Aluminium, Lead, Nickel, Silver, Tin, and alloys like Invar, Electrum, Bronze, and Void Steel.
• Create: Recycling — break down tools, armor, and building blocks back into raw materials using Crushing Wheels; introduces diamond shards, netherite shards, and feather fluff as intermediate outputs.
• Create: Compact Experience — adds a compressed experience block that stacks Create's XP nuggets into a denser, space-saving form, craftable via Mechanical Press or crafting table.
• Create: Enchantment Industry — full liquid XP system; disenchant items into Liquid Experience, automate enchanting via the Blaze Enchanter (uses a book template + liquid XP), repair items via a spout, copy books and enchanted books with the Printer, and automate anvil work with the Blaze Forger.
• Create: Enchantable Machinery — lets you apply standard enchantments (Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch, and more) directly to Create machines like drills, saws, and harvesters; enchanted machines display a glint, and Engineer's Goggles show what enchantments a machine carries.
• Create: Stuff 'N Additions — adds a suite of powered equipment: brass jetpack, brass exoskeleton (grants Strength or Haste), portable brass drill, and a nozzle fan that pushes entities; also adds new crafting methods for items like chainmail and coral.
• Create: Aquatic Ambitions — adds Conduit Channeling as a new fan processing type using an active conduit (channeling flint yields prismarine shards, revives dead coral, and more), along with a Conduit Cage block for streamlined setups and prismarine, coral, and renewable copper automation.

Logistics & Storage

• Create: Factory Logistics — adds fluid Jars: fluid containers that integrate with Create's package logistics network (Frogports, conveyor belts) for transporting liquids like items.
• Create: Logistics — adds the Item Silo, a compact storage container that holds one item type in quantities over 3,200, usable directly from the player's inventory.
• Create: Mobile Packages — wraps items into portable packages that can travel on moving contraptions, delivered by robotic Robo Bees between Robo Bee Ports.
• Create: Compatible Storage — adds block tags to modded storage containers (from Quark, Iron Chests, Farmer's Delight, Handcrafted, and others) so they function as inventories on Create contraptions; Sophisticated Storage has its own separate dedicated integration mod.
• Create: Power Loader — keeps chunks loaded for autonomous contraptions without player presence; the Andesite Chunk Loader covers 1 chunk and the Brass Chunk Loader is configurable up to 5×5; both work on ground, trains, and moving contraptions.
• Create: Pattern Schematics — adds Pattern Schematics, a schematic type that can be mounted on trains or gantry carriages to infinitely tile and build repeating structures using the Schematicannon.
• Create: Wrapped — a holiday-themed Create addon that adds an automatable Wrapping Station, colored Wrapping Paper, and giftable Presents for multiplayer fun.
• Sophisticated Backpacks + Sophisticated Storage — tiered backpacks and storage barrels/drawers with upgrade slots (filter, magnet, feeding, auto-smelting), each with dedicated Create integration mods.
• Tom's Simple Storage — a simple, low-latency storage network accessible from a single terminal.
• Ender Storage — colour-coded ender chests and tanks for cross-dimensional item and fluid transfer.

Building & Contraptions

• Create: Copycats+ — hugely expands the copycat system with new shapes: slabs, stairs, fences, walls, beams, ladders, panels, panes, doors (including sliding and folding), and even mechanical elements like shafts and cogwheels.
• Create: Framed — adds colored and tinted variants of Create's Framed Glass and Tiled Glass, plus matching Framed Doors and Trapdoors — a cosmetic glass expansion for Create builds.
• Create: Deco — decorative Create-themed blocks: display boards, seats, fuel tanks, and structural steel pieces.
• Create: Connected — connected textures and visual improvements for Create blocks.
• Create: More Wrenchables — extends wrench interaction to more blocks from other mods.
• Create: Misc & Things — a collection of Create-themed gadgets including a Spout Gun, Train Station Speaker, Traffic Signs, sticky launchers, Nozzle Torch, Mending Rune, and Magnifying Glass.
• Create: Sound of Steam — adds dozens of playable pipe organ stop blocks (Viola, Vox Celeste, Trompette, Subbass, and more), expanding on Create's existing Steam Whistle aesthetic; supports MIDI playback via a Tracker Bar and punched paper rolls.
• Multi Piston — a configurable block-mover that picks up blocks from a defined input direction and deposits them in a set output direction, with adjustable range (up to 10 blocks) and speed; developed by the MineColonies team for automated construction.
• Extra Gauges — adds redstone logic and arithmetic gauge blocks (Logic, Integer, Comparator, Counter, String, and Passive variants) for advanced automation signal processing and contraption control circuits.
• Create: Ultimate Factory — adds 30 balanced automation recipes making hard-to-obtain materials like diamonds renewable and automatable via compacting processes.

Transport & Exploration

Movement is a first-class feature in this pack — not just fast travel, but genuinely mechanical transport.

Trains

Steam 'n' Rails extends Create's native train system with new track variants (wood-type tracks, monorail), semaphore signals, Conductor mobs, train coupling/decoupling, and a rich set of decorative railway blocks (Locometal casing, buffer blocks, bogie steps). Bells & Whistles adds cosmetic and functional details to train builds: headlights, metro-style casing and panel blocks, grab bars, bogie steps, station platform blocks, and train pilot blocks that push entities off the tracks. Create: Escalated contributes mechanical escalators and people movers for stations and transit hubs.

Physics-Based Vehicles (Valkyrien Skies)

Valkyrien Skies 2 is a physics engine that powers movable structures built from regular blocks — ships, airships, and more — with real-time buoyancy and collision. VS2 is the underlying physics API; the actual ship-building tools and vehicle types come from addon mods.

• Eureka! Ships! — adds the Ship Helm, Anchors, and Balloons — the components needed to assemble your own block-built ships and airships into physics objects; place a Ship Helm on your build and shift-right-click to bring it to life.
• VS: Clockwork — the full Create-to-Valkyrien Skies bridge, letting Create's rotational power network drive physics-simulated aircraft, airships, helicopters, submarines, and ships with real lift, drag, and momentum. Use the Physics Infuser and Wander Wand to designate a structure as a physics entity, then wire up Propeller Bearings, Blade Controllers, Wings, Flaps, and Gyros — all powered by standard Create shafts and stress units. The Command Chair lets you pilot the finished vehicle with WASD, with up to five programmable directional actions per key routing rotational force into thrust and control surfaces. Progression is gated behind Wanderlite, a rare deepslate and End ore whose crystals are processed into the Wanderlite Matrices required for most Clockwork blocks.
• Create: Interactive — enhances Create contraptions with support for block entities while in motion, stacked contraptions, improved player/entity collision, and one-way collision with Valkyrien Skies ships.
• Creating Space — a Create addon for rocket construction and space travel; build rockets from Create contraptions, craft spacesuits, and travel to new dimensions including the Moon.
• Valkyrien Logistics — adds Position, Linear Velocity, and Angular Velocity telemetry gauge blocks that read real-time physics data from VS ships; usable with Create's display system for on-ship instrumentation.
• Create: Hypertube — rotation-powered hypertubes for fast player transit across large distances; the Hypertube Entrance draws from Create's kinetic network (cogwheels/stress), and is VS-compatible.

Air & Road

• Immersive Aircraft — rideable aircraft across multiple types: Biplane, Gyrodyne (no fuel required), Quadrocopter, Airship, Cargo Airship, Warship, and Bamboo Hopper (a pontoon-equipped aircraft that can land safely on water); most types require fuel.
• Create: Ornithopter Glider — a mechanical glider crafted using the Mechanical Crafter; press Space to charge and flap for a boost — a steampunk alternative to the Elytra.
• Create: Kart Racing — a coal-fuelled kart vehicle for fast traversal, available in 16 dye colors and craftable via Create processes.
• Mopeds — rideable mopeds as a mid-tier road vehicle.
• Create: Propulsion — a full propulsion and vehicle-control suite for Create + VS2 builds: propellers (wooden for air, copper for water, andesite hybrid), thrusters, hot air balloon components (dyeable envelopes, burners, pumps), a Stirling engine, optical sensors, and redstone magnets.
• Create: Tweaked Controllers — lets you control Create contraptions using a gamepad, mouse, or keyboard-mapped inputs via an advanced in-game controller block.

Navigation

• Waystones — craftable fast-travel stones with a Create-compatible recipe progression.
• Xaero's Minimap + Xaero's World Map — the gold standard minimap and full-screen map, with waypoint support.
• Nature's Compass — locate any biome from your inventory.
• Structure Compass — locate structures in the same way.
• Distant Horizons — renders far terrain as simplified LOD chunks, dramatically extending your visible horizon beyond vanilla limits.

World Generation & Biomes

The world you explore is nothing like vanilla.

• Oh The Biomes We've Gone — over 50 new biomes spanning all dimensions: lush forests, volcanic wastelands, crystal caverns, marshes, ancient savannahs, and alien nether biomes.
• Oh The Trees You'll Grow — dozens of new tree species with unique wood types, each fitting naturally into their biome.
• Atmospheric — biomes including Rainforests (featuring rosewood trees), Dunes, Aspen Parklands, Scrublands, and Kousa Jungles.
• Autumnity — adds autumn-themed biomes (Maple Forest variants, Pumpkin Fields) with maple syrup harvesting (strip maple logs to reveal sap, bottle it, then smelt to syrup) and warm-toned foliage.
• Environmental — adds Blossom Woods, Pine Barrens, and Marsh biomes that make overworld travel feel varied, plus mobs like the Slabfish and Deer.
• Upgrade Aquatic — expands ocean content with the Thrasher mob, Embedded Ammonite ore, Elder Guardian Spine drops, and renewable sand and gravel generation via bubble columns.
• The Endergetic Expansion — expands the End with the Poise Forest biome, new blocks, and mobs including the ambient Puffbug and the tameable Booflo.
• Caverns & Chasms — adds underground content including Silver ore, Spinel gems, unique mobs (Peepers, Mimes), and atmospheric cave blocks; a dedicated Create compatibility addon is also included in the pack.
• TerraBlender — the underlying API that makes all these biome mods play together without conflict.

Structures

Every vanilla structure has been rebuilt by YUNG's mods: Better Dungeons, Better Mineshafts, Better Ocean Monuments, Better Nether Fortresses, Better End Island, and YUNG's Cave Biomes. Each one is dramatically larger, more varied, and filled with more interesting rooms and loot.

• Integrated Dungeons and Structures (IDAS) — adds strongholds, dungeons, and villages with multi-floor layouts and biome-sensitive construction; dungeon loot tables are expanded with thematic integration across many of the pack's mods.
• Farmer's Structures — windmills, market stalls, and farmsteads scattered throughout the world.
• Savage & Ravage — expands Illager encounters with new mob types (Executioner, Griefer, Iceologer, Trickster) and a revamped raid system, plus enhancements to the vanilla Pillager Outpost.

Modern Minecraft (Vanilla Backport)

Vanilla Backport by ItsBlackGear backports features from six consecutive Java Edition updates — from Java 1.20.3 all the way up to Java 1.21.6 (Chase the Skies) — to Minecraft 1.20.1, keeping everything as faithful to vanilla as possible. It consolidates what were previously several separate backport mods (Nether Backport, Caves & Cliffs Backport, The Wild Backport, and others) into a single coherent package covering over 17 million CurseForge downloads.

New Biome: The Pale Garden

The Pale Garden (backported from Java 1.21.4) is a deeply unsettling grey forest where all ambient music stops on entry and no animals spawn. It generates with Pale Oak trees — a full new wood type with all standard variants — draped in Pale Hanging Moss, floored with Pale Moss, and dotted with Eyeblossoms: a flower that opens at night, attracts and poisons bees, and brews different Suspicious Stew effects depending on whether it is open or closed.

Inside the pale oak trees grow Creaking Hearts — when placed between two same-axis pale oak logs and active at night, a Creaking Heart spawns The Creaking: a hostile tree-shaped mob that is completely immune to all damage while any player is looking at it. Damage it by destroying its linked Creaking Heart; attacking the Creaking causes it to deposit Resin Clumps on nearby logs. Resin Clumps smelt into Resin Bricks, used for decorative construction and as an armor trim material.

New Flora & World Decoration

Throughout the rest of the world, Vanilla Backport scatters new decorative features:

• Leaf Litter — ground cover in forests and dark forests; up to four pieces per block, usable as fuel
• Wildflowers — multi-flower blocks in birch forests and meadows; craft into yellow dye
• Firefly Bush — glows with firefly particles in darkness; found near water in swamps and badlands
• Cactus Flower — generates on cacti in deserts; crafts pink dye
• Bush — small decorative shrubs across many biomes with biome-tinted leaves
• Short & Tall Dry Grass — desert and badlands ground cover, usable as fuel
• Fallen Trees — birch, oak, and other fallen logs that may spawn with mushrooms or vines
• Falling Leaf Particles — all leaf block types now emit falling leaves (previously exclusive to cherry and pale oak)
• Ambient sounds for sand, red sand, terracotta, and dead bushes

New Mobs

• Armadillo — a passive Savanna and Badlands mob that drops Armadillo Scutes every 5–10 minutes or when brushed; spiders are scared of armadillos
• 9 Wolf Variants — each spawning in a specific biome (Pale, Woods, Ashen, Black, Chestnut, Rusty, Spotted, Striped, Snowy); wolf sounds are assigned from 7 variants independently of appearance
• Happy Ghast — a large passive flying mount that carries up to 4 players simultaneously; grown from a Dried Ghast block (found near Nether Fossils in Soul Sand Valleys, or crafted from 8 Ghast Tears + Soul Sand) by waterlogging it over ~20 minutes; equipped with a dyeable Harness and tetherable with a lead
• Ghastling — the baby stage of the Happy Ghast; fed snowballs to mature; follows passive animals
• Cold, Temperate & Warm animal variants — cows, pigs, and chickens have biome-temperature-based visual variants; cold chickens lay Blue Eggs (hatching cold chicks), warm chickens lay Brown Eggs; sheep wool colour is temperature-influenced

New Items & Mechanics

• Wolf Armor — crafted from 6 Armadillo Scutes; equippable on tamed adult wolves by their owner; 11 armor points; dyeable and removable with Shears
• Bundles — holds one stack's worth of mixed item types; crafted from string and leather; available in 16 dye colours
• Craftable Saddle — 3 leather + 1 iron ingot; recipe unlocks on first leather pickup
• Lead rework — simplified string-only recipe; can now chain multiple mobs together in a caravan; Shears cut leads
• Lodestone — now craftable (iron ingot + 8 chiselled stone bricks); also added to ruined portal loot
• Player Locator Bar — a UI element showing the direction and relative elevation of other players on screen; crouching hides your position
• Two new Music Discs — "Tears" (from a Ghast killed by a deflected fireball) and "Lava Chicken" (from killing a baby zombie chicken jockey)

Food & Cuisine

This pack contains one of the largest food ecosystems assembled in a Create-focused modpack.

Farmer's Delight is the foundation: a gentle expansion of farming and cooking with cutting boards, cooking pots, straw bale decoration, and a crop roster including cabbage, tomato, onion, and rice. The following mods extend it:

• Create: Central Kitchen — a Create-native cooking system that integrates mechanically with Farmer's Delight recipes.
• Slice & Dice — Farmer's Delight crops can be processed through Create's mechanical saw, basin, spout, and fan.
• Create: Food — additional Create-compatible food automation blocks.
• Alex's Delight — Farmer's Delight-style recipes for Alex's Mobs drops (iguana eggs, moose steak, mimicream).
• Abnormals Delight — cooking integration for Atmospheric, Autumnity, and Environmental's unique drops.
• Chef's Delight — adds Cook (Skillet workstation) and Chef (Cooking Pot workstation) villager professions with food-based trades and village structures in Savanna and Snowy biomes.
• Cuisine Delight — a skillet-based cooking mechanic where each ingredient has both a cook-level and a burn meter; hitting the ideal doneness (not just avoiding burning) and using varied ingredient types (carbs, meat, vegetables, seafood) both provide bonuses.
• Create: Arm-made Cuisine — a Create automation bridge that lets a Mechanical Arm place food into a heated Cuisine skillet, stir with a spatula, and retrieve finished dishes with a plate.
• Create: Winery — viticulture, fermentation, and a bottling pipeline for red and white wine, rosé, and cider made from world-generated grapes and apples.
• Create: Confectionery — chocolate and confectionery production lines with cocoa processing (crushed cocoa, cocoa butter, cocoa powder), caramel, and marshmallow products; chocolate varieties grant status effects.
• Create: Sweets & Treats — a sweets addon with muffins, donuts, pies, rock candy (in block, chiseled, polished, and on-a-stick forms), and chocolate building blocks, all craftable through Create's processing.
• Create: Café — café furniture and drinks: boba milk tea, iced coffee, and over 40 flavor combinations, all processable through Create machines.
• Create: Deep Fried — fryer vats for crispy variants of many existing foods.
• Create: Gourmet — elaborate Create-powered food recipes — cheese, butter, croissants, bacon, fried chicken, and more — built through interconnected farms and factories.
• Create: Factory — Create-compatible food recipes including rolls, waffles, and apples, all automatable through Create's mechanical processing.
• Garnished — a nut-focused food mod adding almonds, cashews, pistachios, macadamia nuts, pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, and peanuts, harvested from tree leaves.
• Delightful — adds new crops and food types that slot naturally into Farmer's Delight recipes.
• Delightful Creators — Create integration specifically for Delightful's recipes.
• Storage Delight — kitchen furniture including drawers and glass display cabinets in multiple wood types.
• Incubation — adds chicken nests for passive egg collection, egg-based foods like fried and scrambled eggs, and village nest buildings.

Mobs & Combat

• Alex's Mobs — 89 new wildlife species across all biomes and dimensions: capybaras, komodo dragons, bald eagles, void worms, and more. Each has custom drops and behaviours.
• L_Ender's Cataclysm — adds powerful, visually spectacular bosses with multi-phase fights, unique arenas, and exclusive loot.
• Integrated Cataclysm — connects L_Ender's Cataclysm bosses into the broader dungeon and loot table ecosystem.
• Create: Big Cannons — multiblock cannons built from tiered materials (Log, Bronze, Cast-Iron, Steel, and Nethersteel) powered by Create's kinetic system; includes Autocannons, a variety of projectiles and fuze types, and kinetic loading/aiming mechanisms.

Decoration & Building

• Handcrafted — furniture mod: sofas, tables, chairs, shelves, clocks, and display cases in every wood type.
• Supplementaries — vanilla-adjacent decoration: rope, sacks, jars, wind vanes, blackboards, and over 40 other functional decorative items.
• Create: Interiors — Create-themed seats in colored wool and Seatwood variants, plus tray tables, designed to furnish contraptions and stations.
• Amendments — small vanilla block additions: hang lanterns on walls, place carpets on stairs and slabs, mix potions in cauldrons, mount candles on skull blocks, stack double cakes, and more.
• Chimes — craftable wind chimes with ambient sound in different materials.
• Gallery — framed paintings and displays with custom artwork support.
• Quark — over 100 small additions to vanilla: item pipes, dungeon blocks, matrix enchanting, and quality-of-life tweaks that all feel like they could be in the base game.

Civilization & Settlement (MineColonies)

Beyond building a personal factory, you can found and grow an entire colony of NPC citizens — assigning them jobs, constructing buildings, managing supply chains, and defending against raids.

MineColonies is the core: a full colony management system where citizens take on roles (builders, miners, farmers, guards, couriers) and operate autonomously inside their assigned buildings. Every building must be physically constructed in the world; citizens then move in and do their jobs in real time.

The full MineColonies ecosystem included in this pack:

• Structurize — the underlying schematic and blueprint system that MineColonies uses to place and upgrade colony buildings.
• BlockUI and Domum Ornamentum — UI framework and ornamental block library required by MineColonies.
• MineColonies Compatibility — compatibility patches for other mods in the pack, including Create integration.
• MineColonies Tweaks — balance and quality-of-life tweaks to the base colony system.
• MineColonies JEI Fix — patches JEI recipe display issues specific to MineColonies, ensuring colony crafting recipes appear correctly in the recipe viewer.
• Create: Colonies — direct integration between MineColonies and Create; citizens can operate Create machines and your factory can supply colony production lines.
• Colony Curios — Curios API integration, adding colony-themed equipment to the Curios slot system.
• TownTalk — a chat and announcement system for colony events; citizens report milestone events in the chat.
• Supply Lines — routes goods from Create production networks into colony stockpiles via a Stock Keeper building; a MineColonies + Create crossover addon currently in beta.
• Bits and Bobs for MineColonies — a medieval-style decoration pack for colonies, adding furnishings, shelves, crates, and decorative items.
• Multi Piston — a configurable block-mover (developed by the MineColonies team) that picks up blocks from a defined input direction and deposits them in a set output direction with adjustable range (up to 10 blocks) and speed; used for automated colony construction.

Style Packs

Style packs define the visual theme for colony buildings. Multiple are included so you can choose an aesthetic that fits your world:

• DireColonies — a dark fantasy / dungeon-tech aesthetic.
• Easy Build Colony — simplified, beginner-friendly building styles.
• Small Colonies — compact building styles for tight or sky-island builds.
• Style Colonies — a broad collection of additional architectural styles.

Additional Colony Content

• MineColonies Questline — a dedicated quest chapter guiding you through founding and expanding your colony.
• MineColonies Modernization Update — additional buildings and fixes that modernize older colony content.

Questing & Progression

FTB Quests provides a full quest book with chapter-based progression, guiding players from basic Create mechanics through advanced automation, trains, airships, and end-game factory design. Quests reward milestones and explain mechanics that would otherwise require external wikis. Create: Questing adds Create-specific challenge quests and rewards.

Quality of Life

• Jade — an information HUD mod (the modern successor to WAILA/Hwyla) that displays detailed tooltips for any block, container, or mob you look at: fluid levels, inventory contents, mob health and effects, beehive status, and much more.
• Just Enough Items (JEI) — the essential recipe viewer, extended with JEI Enchants, Just Enough Resources, Just Enough Professions, and Just Enough Breeding for full game-wide recipe and mechanic coverage.
• Sophisticated Backpacks — tiered backpacks with upgrade slots reduce inventory management friction dramatically.
• Waystones — fast travel without breaking immersion.
• Mouse Tweaks — drag-to-fill, right-click dragging, and scroll-wheel stack moving in any inventory.
• Crafting Tweaks — rotate, balance, and clear the crafting grid with key shortcuts.
• Client Crafting — preview what items you can craft before opening a full workbench.
• Polymorph — handles recipe conflicts gracefully by letting you choose which output you want.
• Easy Anvils and Easy Magic — removes the too-expensive limit from anvils and the enchanting system.
• Enchantment Descriptions — shows what every enchantment does on mouse-over, no wiki required.
• Xaero's Minimap + World Map — always-on minimap with death point markers and full world map with waypoints.
• Corpse — drops a body on death that preserves your inventory. No more desperate sprint to your death point.
• Comforts — sleeping bags and hammocks let you skip the night or set a temporary spawn without claiming a bed.
• Curios API — adds dedicated equipment slots for rings, amulets, and back items, used by the Create jetpack and several other gear mods.
• Create: Goggles — lets you combine any helmet with Create's Engineer's Goggles, giving full goggle readouts and backtank support while keeping your armour's full defence stats.
• Personality — adds sitting and crawling player animations along with gamefeel improvements.
• Open Parties & Claims — chunk claiming for multiplayer servers to protect your factory from griefing.
• Building Gadgets 2 — long-range placement gadgets: build walls, floors, and surfaces in seconds.
• Construction Wand — extends block placement in straight lines and surfaces with a single click.
• Build Guide — a client-side tool that projects geometric shapes (circles, spheres, ellipses) into the world as a visual guide for precise curved and spherical builds.
• Item Highlighter — shows an animated star icon on newly picked-up items in your inventory so you can instantly spot new loot after a fight or chest loot.
• Extreme Sound Muffler — lets you selectively mute or reduce the volume of any individual sound in the game without touching the master volume.
• Bad Wither No Cookie * Reloaded — suppresses the server-wide wither spawn, ender dragon death, thunder, and other ear-splitting global sounds, so automated farms don't broadcast noise to everyone online.
• Tips — displays rotating helpful tips on loading screens; the pool is extended by the modpack with Create-specific and pack-specific hints.
• Server Browser — embeds a configurable server list in the multiplayer screen, allowing the modpack author to feature servers for players to connect to with a single click.
• Luna — integrated reverse-proxy world sharing, allowing players to share their singleplayer world with others without port forwarding or a dedicated server.

Visual & Performance

• Xenon — a Forge performance mod forked from Embeddium (itself a Forge port of Sodium) that provides significant chunk rendering improvements; compatible with Oculus shaders.
• Oculus — the Forge port of Iris Shaders, fully compatible with Create's rendering. Use any Iris-compatible shader pack.
• Create: Better FPS — specifically optimises Create's rendering pipeline when shaderpacks are active, using backface culling and Sodium API hooks for up to 50% FPS improvement with Oculus shaders.
• Distant Horizons — LOD rendering extends the view distance far beyond server render distance, making the world feel genuinely vast.
• Entity Model Features + Entity Texture Features — custom entity models and per-biome/per-variant mob textures (CEM/CTM for entities).
• 3D Skin Layers — renders player skin layers in 3D for a more polished look.
• Not Enough Animations — player animations for item inspection, rowing a boat, and more.
• Fancy Menu + Drippy Loading Screen — fully custom main menu and loading screen visuals.
• Biome Music — automatically assigns fitting ambient music to modded biomes using biome tags; supports per-dimension music categories (cave, nether, end, night, underwater) and prevents sound lag from duplicate instances.
• FerriteCore — reduces Minecraft's memory usage by deduplicating block state data, a meaningful improvement at this mod count.
• ModernFix — fixes dozens of vanilla and Forge memory leaks; significantly reduces startup time and RAM footprint.
• GPU Memory Leak Fix — patches a longstanding OpenGL memory leak in vanilla.
• ImmediatelyFast — batch-renders immediate-mode calls (item frames, signs, GUIs) for a notable frame rate improvement.

Create: Beyond the Skies is a community modpack. All included mods are the work of their respective authors. Check each mod's CurseForge or Modrinth page for individual licensing terms.