☁️ Enter a world of floating islands in the sky! ☁️

With lovingly-selected mods and a homegrown world generator crafted by hand over two years, Aeroscapes is a relaxing survival experience with a vanilla-plus feel.

Features

All of the mods in this pack are heavily configured to provide an accessible, balanced, and immersive Minecraft experience. Check the full modlist for more details.

🏝️ Beautiful floating islands world generation!

🏕️ A challenging survival experience!

🌽 Expanded agriculture!

🐤 Immersive wildlife!

🪁 Gliders and traversal options!

🌱 Enhanced vanilla biomes!

🏺 Vanilla-friendly ruins to explore!

🎶 Immersive sound overhaul!

💽 Original music by Elephants!

✨ Gorgeous visual enhancements!

💡 Performance optimizations!

Taiga biome with redstone ores disappears into the mist.

Installation Guide

Download the latest release.
Download and install a Minecraft launcher of your choice. You can use the Modrinth app, or a third-party one like MultiMC or PrismLauncher.
For the official Modrinth app, check out this support page. The rest of these instructions are for either of the other listed launchers!
Ensure you have Java 17+. If you don’t, or you’re not sure, download it from Oracle and install it.
Make sure that your launcher of choice is using Java 17+ by either pointing it at your Java 17 executable during setup, or going to Settings > Java and pointing the Java Path at your Java 17+ executable.
In your launcher's settings, make sure the max RAM is high enough; 4096MB should be more than enough.
In your launcher, click the Add Instance button in the top left.
Select the Import from zip option in the left menu.
Select Browse and open the .mrpack file for Isabel’s Aeroscapes that you downloaded. If you don't see it, you might have to set the file type in the browse window to ".mrpack".
After import has completed, double-click the new instance that was just created to launch. Done!

Forested islands descend to aquifers far below.

FAQ

❓ Can this pack be used in multiplayer?

Absolutely! Check out this support page for more info.

❓ Are there any vanilla features missing from this pack?

The only missing features are certain structures that are incompatible with Aeroscapes world generation, like Ancient Cities and Ocean Monuments. I plan on adding alternative methods for getting the blocks and items exclusive to these structures in a future update. Elytra have been intentionally removed.

❓ Will this pack be updated to newer Minecraft versions?

The pack is on 1.19.2, the version that was the latest available when I started working on it. I might update it in the future if the majority of the mods in the pack (or suitable alternatives) become available. For now, there is not enough mod support for me to want to update it (nor has the vanilla game added anything that I think would really make the Aeroscapes experience better).

❓ Will this pack be made available through CurseForge?

Nope!

❓ Whoa, my performance is terrible!

Hey, that's not a question! First, make sure your launcher has enough RAM. The default configuration is usually not enough. Then try disabling shaders, then LambDynamicLights, then Sound Physics Remastered: those are the most performance-impacting mods in the pack.

❓ What's next for the pack?

I want to add a bunch of things! More ruined structures to find and explore, nether improvements, world generation details and support for biome expansions like Terralith, guidebooks and advancements, customized Bounties, and more.

❓ When will the pack be "finished"?

I plan on cleaning everything up and releasing it in a "complete" form alongside the release of Create Aeronautics, an in-development addon for the Create mod that adds fully-drivable, physics-enabled airship parts. You can follow the development of that mod on their Discord server!

A village house in a field of wheat at sunset.

Full Modlist

Content Mods
Aeroscapes Companion	Adds tweaks and fixes to make the game play nicely with Aeroscapes world generation. Also adds aerolite ore, aerolite charms, and an original music disc.
Better Ladders	Makes ladders 3D and not require a supporting block.
Comforts	Adds sleeping bags & hammocks, which perform the function of beds without setting your spawn.
Connectible Chains	Allows horizontal chains to connect to fence posts and walls.
Crate Delight	Adds storage blocks for Farmer's Delight and vanilla crops.
Dramatic Doors	Adds a crafting recipe for 3-block-high doors.
Farmer's Delight	Adds deeper cooking mechanics and new crops.
Farmer's Respite	Adds tea-brewing to Farmer's Delight.
Gliders	Adds a Breath of the Wild-style glider.
Global Packs	Adds Aeroscapes world generation to the default datapacks when creating worlds.
Immersive Weathering	Adds naturalistic entropy like moss growing, bricks cracking, leaves falling, and other details.
Map Atlases	Adds a vanilla-friendly minimap powered by vanilla map items.
Naturalist	Adds various unobtrusive ambient mobs like insects and birds.
Philips Ruins	Adds ruins and dungeons to the world.
This Rocks!	Adds fallen sticks and rocks to the ground in some areas.
Sawmill	Adds a job block that processes wood similarly to a stonecutter with stone.
Wall-Jump TXF	Adds climbing mechanics.
Waystones	Adds objects which can be used for teleportation between islands.
Waystone Towers	Adds randomly-spawning towers with small amounts of loot and waystones at the top.
Wind Chimes	Adds windchimes.

QoL Mods
Couplings	Makes double doors and stacked fence gates open together.
CleanCut	Allows tools to swing through grass and other similar blocks.
CraftTweaker	Removes some unneccessary or duplicate recipes from other mods.
Custom Spawns	Adjusts mob spawn caps & rates to suit Aeroscapes world generation.
Dark Loading Screen	Makes the loading screen dark mode.
Diagonal Fences	Causes fences placed diagonally to snap together.
Diagonal Windows	Causes glass panes and iron bars placed diagonally to snap together.
Mod Menu	Adds a helpful menu for managing mods.
Here Be No Dragons!	Removes the warning message for customized worlds.
Just Enough Items	Adds a helpful ingame item and recipe browser.
Mouse Tweaks	Minor improvements to some mouse shortcuts for inventory management.
Saplanting	Causes saplings left on the ground to automatically replant themselves after a time.
Shulker Box Tooltip	Adds a tooltip that shows the contents of a shulker box when you mouse over it.
Snow Under Trees	Causes snow to form under trees in snowy biomes.
Spyglass Improvements	Adds a keybind to let you use a spyglass to zoom if you have one anywhere in your inventory.
Status Effect Timer	Adds a helpful timer to status effect bubbles.
Tips	Adds Aeroscapes-specific loading screen tips.
Trade Cycling	Adds a button to the villager UI to randomize their initial trades.
Village Spawn Point	Adjusts spawnpoint in world generation to always spawn you in a village.

Sound Mods
AmbientSounds	Adds a large library of immersive ambient sound effects and biome-dependent background noise.
Drip Sounds	Adds sound effects for dripping fluids.
Presence Footsteps	Adds more accurate and detailed footstep sounds.
Sound Physics Remastered	Adds realistic, physics-based audio attenuation to all game sound.

Visual Mods
Aeroscapes Addons	Datapack that adds compatibility for Aeroscapes content.
Biome Moss	Adds biome-dependent coloration for moss.
Blur	Blurs the game screen behind UI like crafting benches and chests.
Camera Overhaul	Makes the game camera more dynamic and cinematic.
Cave Dust	Adds atmospheric particles to caves.
CIT Resewn	Adds custom item texture features from Optifine.
Clear Void	Visual improvements for the void.
Complementary Reimagined	Gorgeous shader pack.
Continuity	Adds connected textures.
Entity Model Features	Adds support for custom entity model features from Optifine.
Entity Texture Features	Adds support for custom entity texture features from Optifine.
Fabric Skyboxes	Adds skybox support.
Falling Leaves	Adds atmospheric particles to trees.
FancyMenu	Adds a custom main menu.
Fluid Void Fading	Makes fluids fade into the void rather than just disappearing.
Fresh Animations	Adds plenty of improved animations for entities.
Head in the Clouds	Stops weather above cloud level.
Iris	Adds support for shader packs.
Lamb Dynamic Lights	Adds dynamic lighting for dropped or held light sources.
Make Bubbles Pop	Adds a popping animation to bubbles.
Not Enough Animations	Adds third-person animations.
Raised Clouds	Adds configuration to cloud height.
Seamless Loading Screen	Makes world loading more immersive.
SleepWarp	Accelerates time when sleeping instead of skipping to day.
Smooth Swapping	Adds animations to items in the inventory.
Visuality	Adds atmospheric particles to mobs, rain, armor, and ores.

Optimizations
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine	World generation and loading optimizations.
Cull Less Leaves	Leaf block rendering optimizations.
Entity Culling	Rendering optimizations.
Indium	Adds rendering optimizations to Sodium.
Lithium	Game logic optimizations.
Memory Leak Fix	Game logic optimizations.
Sodium	Rendering optimizations.
Starlight	Lighting optimizations.

Libraries
Balm	Waystones dependency.
Bookshelf	Tips dependency.
Collective	Village Spawn Point dependency.
CreativeCore	Ambient Sounds dependency.
Fabric Skyboxes Interop	Fabric Skyboxes dependency.
Geckolib	Naturalist dependency.
Ingredient Extension API	CraftTweaker dependency.
Koncrete	Fancy Menu dependency.
Melody	Fancy Menu dependency.
Moonlight Lib	Immersive Weathering dependency.
Patchouli	Fancy Menu dependency.
Puzzles Lib	Diagonal Fences dependency.
Trinkets	Gliders dependency.
Yet Another Config Lib	Cull Less Leaves dependency.