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Towards Rocket Science

Modpack

by Marvin_Eckhardt

Build a factory, research rocket science, discover new planets and terraform the moon!

Type

Modpack

CurseForge Downloads

667,123

CurseForge ID

1016279

Last Updated

Jul 25, 2026

Description

With this modpack you will explore immersive engineering, research and build rockets, travel to other planets and build a space station! Your goal is to terraform the moon - but it will be a long journey...

Recommended seed: "9202807894049704349

note: Minecolonies is full of bugs but it is enough to use the builder. if he refuses to build, try restart him from the builders hut menu or fire him and hire a new one.

  • chapter 1: Minecolonies / tektopia, Buildcraft, TConstruct - basic resource gathering and processing
  • chapter 2: Immersive Engineering (and related projects) - mass production and heavy industry, in preparation for chapter 3 & 4
  • chapter 2.5: Refined Storage basics
  • chapter 3: Basic Rocket Science - satellites, asteroid mining, .... (Advanced Rocketry)
  • chapter 4: Advanced Rocket Science - Warp travel, Gas mining, Terraforming (Advanced Rocketry)

Discord link: https://discord.gg/MUvYY5XYek

 

 

Main Mods List:

Advanced Rocketry

Immersive Engineering

Immersive Petroleum

Immersive Tech

Refined Storage

Minecolonies 1.12.2 beta

tektopia

Buildcraft

Many quality-improvement mods

 

Optifine and Shaders

Optifine is always recommended. It will improve visuals with and without shader.

Optifine and shader installation:

  1. get Optifine from here: OptiFine Downloads (download optifine for 1.12.2)
  2. run the jar file
  3. click on "extract"
  4. move the optifine_MOD.jar to the mods folder

 

Important: The included shader is modified to turn off in space dimensions and on other planets. Any other shaders will have rendering errors!

When using shaders, go to config/advRocketry and set "overworldSkyOverride" to false in the main config file so you have no sky errors.

 

Full Planet List:

TON-system:

  • Nitra
  • Tana ( +Endor (TwilightForest) )
  • Hiara

Solar system:

  • Earth ( +Moon )
  • Polis Massa Field

PAL binary system:

  • Mustafar (AR:volcanic)
  • Tatooine (dessert-like biomes)

Dagobah system:

  • Dagobah (TheBetweenLands)

Coruscant:

  • Coruscant (LostCities:all)
  • Obo Rin Asteroid Field
  • Covey Asteroid Field

Hoth system:

  • Planet Hoth (AR:crystalchasms) ( +Little Star )

Yavin Star:

  • Yavin (AR:deepswamp)
    • Yavin 4 (LostCities:ancient)
    • Yavin 8 

The dark system:

  • Kashyyyk (AR:stormland)
  • Trandosha (AR:stormland)

 

 

 

 

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Forge

Game Versions

1.12.2

Recommended Gear

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