First public **alpha** of Nerospace, for Minecraft 26.1.2 on NeoForge. This pre-release carries
the full 1.0.0 feature set (see below) for early testing — expect rough edges and balance changes
before the stable release. Please report issues on the
[tracker](https://github.com/Neroland/nerospace/issues).
### Added
**Materials & machines**
- Nerosium ore (stone + deepslate) with the full chain: raw → ingot, dust, storage blocks,
and the nerosium pickaxe.
- The **Nerosium Grinder** — powered ore-doubling via nerosium dust.
- Planetary materials with their own chains: **Nerosteel** and **Xertz Quartz** (Greenxertz),
**Cindrite** (Cindara), **Glacite** (Glacira).
- Generators: **Combustion Generator** (burns fuel) and **Passive Generator** (trickle charge).
- The **Fuel Refinery** — turns coal + blaze powder + energy into pipeable rocket fuel.
- Common `c:` tags on all ores/ingots/dusts/gems/storage blocks, and tag-based recipe inputs,
for clean cross-mod and recipe-viewer compatibility.
**Logistics**
- The **Universal Pipe** — energy, fluids, gas, and items in one tube, with per-face ×
per-layer modes, visible travelling items, and coloured flow streams.
- The **Configurator** tool + pipe config panel, item filters, and speed/capacity upgrades.
- Storage endpoints: Battery, Fluid Tank, Gas Tank, Item Store (+ creative endless variants).
- NeoForge capabilities exposed on every sensible block face (hopper/pipe automation works
everywhere, including feeding rockets through the launch pad).
**Rockets & travel**
- Four rocket tiers with per-tier models: **Tier 1** (Orbital Station) → **Tier 2**
(+ Greenxertz) → **Tier 3** (+ Cindara) → **Tier 4** (+ Glacira).
- The **3×3 Launch Pad** with formation gating, plus the **Heavy Launch Complex** — a 5×5 pad
with a **Launch Gantry** (right-click to board) that Tier 4 requires and Tier 3 accepts as
an alternative to its Station Wall ring.
- The **Fuel Tank** pad module — auto-fuels the deployed rocket (up to 480 mB/t on a Heavy
complex), with canister auto-feed.
- A rocket UI with painted panel, segmented fuel gauge, trajectory arc, and destination cycling.
**Dimensions**
- **Greenxertz** — a green planet with its own ores and creatures.
- **Cindara** — a volcanic moon with a heat hazard.
- **Glacira** — a frozen moon with a cold hazard.
- The **Orbital Station** — and **player-founded stations**: rename a **Station Charter** in an
anvil, fly there, and found your own named station anchored by a **Station Core** (up to 64
stations per world, selectable as rocket destinations).
**Oxygen & survival**
- Airless dimensions with a per-block **oxygen field**: sealed rooms fill, leaks drain,
doors/trapdoors/glass count as boundaries.
- The **Oxygen Generator** — grid-powered electrolysis producing pipeable O₂ — plus airlock
refilling from Gas Tanks.
- The **Oxygen Suit** in two tiers, plus hazard variants: the **Thermal Suit** (Cindara heat)
and **Cryo Suit** (Glacira cold) — unprotected exposure quadruples oxygen drain.
- An O₂ HUD gauge with suit/hazard badges.
**Terraforming**
- The **Terraformer** — expanding terrain conversion with staged maturation:
**Rooted → Hydrated → Living**, including a water cycle fed by the **Hydration Module**
(glacite), per-planet mature biomes with real weather, and the **Terraform Monitor** readout.
- Three breedable livestock species on terraformed ground: **Meadow Loper**, **Ember Strutter**,
**Woolly Drift** (food + fleece drops).
**Creatures**
- Native mobs with bespoke models, animations, and glow layers: Xertz Stalker, Quartz Crawler,
Greenling (Greenxertz), Cinder Stalker (Cindara), Frost Strider (Glacira).
**Progression & polish**
- The **Star Guide** — a pedestal block + guidebook opening an interactive 7-chapter
progression tree (31 steps), backed by a full advancement tree.
- A creative `/nerospace gallery` showcase command with live demos of every system.
- Bespoke art across the board: shaped machine models, per-tier rocket geometry, per-creature
textures, animated GUI gauges, fluid/gas visuals.
- Config: five clamped multiplier keys (`oxygenDrain`, `oxygenCapacity`, `energyRate`,
`fuelCost`, `machineSpeed`) over internal base values — modpack-friendly tuning.
- Optional, anonymous crash reporting (Sentry, EU servers) with full disclosure in
[PRIVACY.md](PRIVACY.md) and a `telemetryEnabled = false` opt-out.
Optional dependencies
Just Enough Items (JEI)
Any compatible version
Developer information
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