Create: Orrery

A data-driven planet addon for Create: Northstar Redux, expanding the solar system with new explorable worlds.

Orrery builds on top of Northstar's rocket and survival systems to add new celestial bodies — dwarf planets, moons, and more — using a flexible, data-driven planet framework. New worlds can define their own gravity, sky appearance, temperature, atmosphere, and ore deposits, all integrated seamlessly with Northstar's existing telescope, rocket, and life-support systems.

✨ Features

🌑 Eris — Land on the distant dwarf planet Eris. Experience a pitch-black, star-filled sky with a faint, distant Sun, extremely low gravity (~0.084g), and a surface of moon sand over stone.
⛏️ New ores — Eris brings its own deposits of copper, zinc, tungsten, and titanium, with progression-appropriate pickaxe tier requirements.
🪐 Telescope integration — Eris appears correctly in the Northstar telescope, including a fix for a Pluto rendering bug.
☄️ Curated worldgen — AE2 meteorites still spawn on Eris, while unrelated structures (igloos, villages) are disabled for a clean, alien surface.
🧩 Data-driven planet framework — Orrery's internal PlanetData system means new planets can be added largely through JSON, with shared generic logic for gravity, fall damage, and sky rendering.

🔭 Coming Soon

More worlds are planned, including additional dwarf planets, moons, and Kuiper Belt objects — all built on the same framework introduced with Eris. Stay tuned!