Create: Astral

Create: Astral is a challenging, tech-focused modpack built around Create, guiding players from a planet beneath a shattered moon into the technology of a lost civilisation and onward to the stars. A quest book with more than five progression chapters explains the pack’s demanding engineering challenges, with a chapter for each celestial body and a progression path that makes planetary exploration part of advancement rather than an endgame destination. Custom recipes integrate the included mods into Create’s crafting and processing systems, including filling, sequenced assembly, mechanical crafting, and Tech Reborn processes, with complex chains designed to automate essential resources and support large-scale factories. Players can build early trains and develop automation for renewable resources, with the pack’s progression also integrating Tinkers’ Construct through liquid metals, Create-based alloying, and basin casting. Shimmer and special items made from moon rock let players create a new kind of portal, opening a route to a customized Moon and its resources, including materials associated with the Nether. Exploration continues to customized versions of Mars and Mercury, where world generation, ore deposits, mobs, structures, and loot are tailored to the pack’s progression; custom datapacks also add blocks and items to discover. The pack includes reworked structure generation and loot to reward exploration, including the Purpur Fortress, a structure added to a later dimension with a chance to contain a Microphysical Probe.