Nerospace

Mine alien ore, power up your machines, build rockets — then terraform a dead world until it rains.

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About

Nerospace is a complete, standalone space-progression mod for Minecraft (Java Edition). One ore in the overworld starts a chain that ends with you breeding alien livestock on a moon you personally made breathable: machines, an all-in-one pipe network, four rocket tiers, four destinations, player-founded space stations, oxygen survival with hazard suits, and a staged terraforming endgame — all guided in-game by the Star Guide.

The mod is built standalone — it requires no other mods — but uses conventional c: tags and NeoForge capabilities throughout, so it slots cleanly alongside the wider tech-mod ecosystem.

The gameplay loop

1. Nerosium — mine the new overworld ore; smelt it, or double your yield with the powered Nerosium Grinder.
2. Power & pipes — build generators and the Universal Pipe, which carries energy, fluids, gas, and items in one tube with per-face modes, filters, and upgrades.
3. First launch — craft a Tier 1 rocket, lay a 3×3 launch pad, and fly to the Orbital Station.
4. New worlds — tiered rockets reach Greenxertz (green planet), Cindara (volcanic moon), and Glacira (frozen moon), each with its own ores, creatures, and hazards.
5. Survive — every world out there is airless: seal rooms, pipe oxygen, refill your Oxygen Suit at airlocks, and wear the Thermal/Cryo Suit where heat or cold quadruples O₂ drain.
6. Found stations — rename a Station Charter in an anvil and found your own named orbital station, selectable as a rocket destination.
7. Go heavy — build the 5×5 Heavy Launch Complex + gantry, refine rocket fuel in the Fuel Refinery, and launch the Tier 4 heavy rocket.
8. Terraform — mature dead ground through Rooted → Hydrated → Living stages, complete with a glacite-fed water cycle, weather, vibrant biomes, and three breedable livestock species.

In-game, the Star Guide (pedestal + guidebook) opens a live progression tree — 7 chapters, 31 steps, synced to a full advancement tree. In a creative world, /nerospace gallery builds a live showcase of everything in the mod.

Requirements

Minecraft	26.1.2
Mod loader	NeoForge 26.1.2.75+
Java	JDK 25 (64-bit)

Installing

1. Install the matching NeoForge version for Minecraft 26.1.2.
2. Download the Nerospace .jar from CurseForge, Modrinth, or the Releases page.
3. Drop the .jar into your mods/ folder and launch.

Building from source

This project uses the Gradle wrapper (ModDevGradle); no separate Gradle install is needed.

# Build the mod jar (output in build/libs/)
./gradlew build

# Launch a dev client / server
./gradlew runClient
./gradlew runServer

# Regenerate data-driven assets (models, blockstates, recipes, loot, tags, lang)
./gradlew runData

Models, blockstates, recipes, loot tables, tags, and lang files are produced by data generation (runData) rather than hand-authored. Block/item textures are generated by the helper scripts in tools/ and are additive-only (they never overwrite existing art). Editable Blockbench sources live in art/blockbench/.

Project layout

src/main/java/za/co/neroland/nerospace/
  registry/   central DeferredRegister setups (blocks, items, entities, ...)
  machine/    machine block-entities, menus, and screens
  rocket/     rockets, launch pads, stations
  oxygen/     the oxygen field, suits, and HUD
  terraform/  the Terraformer and staged maturation
  world/      dimensions, worldgen, creatures
  datagen/    data providers for all generated JSON
tools/        texture / Blockbench / logo generators
art/          logo and editable Blockbench model sources
wiki/         source of the GitHub wiki

Privacy

Nerospace ships optional, anonymous crash reporting (Sentry, EU servers) so mod bugs get found and fixed — never IPs, usernames, UUIDs, or world data. Opt out any time with telemetryEnabled = false in config/nerospace-common.toml. Full disclosure: PRIVACY.md.

Contributing & feedback

Bug reports and suggestions are very welcome via the Issues tab — there are ready-made forms for 🐞 Bug Reports and ✨ Feature Requests — or join the Discord. If you'd like to contribute code, please open an issue first to discuss the change; a pull request template is provided.

License

Nerospace uses custom source-available terms — see LICENSE. The short version:

• ✅ Play it anywhere, including monetised servers, videos, and streams.
• ✅ Modpacks are allowed and encouraged — any platform, no need to ask. Use the official files (CurseForge / Modrinth / GitHub releases) and credit Nerospace by Neroland with links to CurseForge and this repository.
• ✅ Read the source, fork on GitHub, and modify for private use; pull requests welcome.
• ❌ No re-uploading builds (original or modified) outside the official channels, and no publishing forked builds under any name.
• ❌ No reusing code/textures/models in other projects without written permission.

Credits

Created by Neroland.

The project logo was made with the help of AI image tools; in-game art is generated by the project's own tooling and refined by hand.