Nerospace Wiki

Nerospace is a space-exploration / tech-progression mod for Minecraft (Java Edition), for NeoForge, Fabric and Forge on Minecraft 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3. Mine alien materials, build machines, craft rockets, travel to other worlds, survive their airless atmospheres with oxygen gear, found your own orbital stations, and eventually terraform a dead planet into livable, rained-on ground.

🆕 Nerospace 2.0 is an alpha and adds Luna, Mars and Nyxara, gives every world its own blocks, ores, sky, clock and weather, and turns orbital stations into habitats with classes, members and modules. Coming from 1.x? Read Upgrading to 2.0 first, and back up your world before testing.

💬 Questions, builds, feedback? Join the Discord or open a GitHub issue.

Getting started#

🚀 New player? Start with the step-by-step Getting Started guide. Machine stuck at 0% power? See Powering Machines.

1. Mine Nerosium Ore in the Overworld — and craft a Star Guide Book

   (Book + Raw Nerosium) right away: it's the in-game version of this wiki, a live 16-chapter progression tree that always shows your next step.

2. Mine Nerosteel Ore deep in the Overworld (below y 16) and build a generator — every machine needs power. Then build a Nerosium Grinder to double your ore yield via Nerosium Dust.

3. Craft a Tier 1 Rocket and a Launch Pad (Tier 1 needs just one pad block; Tier 2 needs a full 3×3) and fly to the Orbital

   Station; progress to Nerosteel and Xertz Quartz on Greenxertz.

4. Pack an Oxygen Suit and set up Oxygen Generators — every world out there

   is airless. Bring the Thermal/Cryo variants for Cindara and Glacira.

   • Automate the digging with a Quarry Controller: mark an area with

     landmarks (or outline it with hand-placed frame blocks) and it strip-mines the whole rectangle to bedrock on its own. New to it? Follow the Quarry Setup Guide.

5. Late game: build the Heavy Launch Complex, found stations with a

   Station Charter, and run a Terraformer until a dead planet grows, rains, and fills with livestock.

The worlds#

In the order you usually reach them:

• Luna: grey, airless moon; titanium (Ilmenite), Helium-3, Crater Glass. Tier 1.
• Mars: rust-red dunes, canyons and a Dry Ice cap; Hematite, dust storms, rover wrecks. Tier 2.
• Cindara: volcanic ash world under a red giant; Cindrite, Sulfur, ash fall, the Ember-kin. Tier 3.
• Glacira: ice plains, methane shores and spires; Glacite, diamond dust, auroras, the Frostbound. Tier 4.
• Greenxertz: bioluminescent jungle under twin suns; Nerosteel, Xertz Quartz, spore blooms, the Xertz. Tier 2.
• Nyxara: tidally locked; Dayside, Twilight Band and Nightside; Voidglass, Void Crystal, flares, the Duskborn. Tier 4 after Deep Space progress.
• Orbital Stations: your own habitats in orbit, with classes, members and modules.

Every world keeps its own time and weather: see Planet Clock and Weather. Rockets land centred on a pad, or on an automatic Landing Pod: see Landing Pads.

Contents#

• Blocks — see the sidebar for a page on each block (ores, storage blocks, machines, station

  building blocks, launch infrastructure).

• Items — materials, tools, the Oxygen Suit family, rockets & fuel, charters, and

  the Star Guide.

• Creatures — the native mobs of Greenxertz, Cindara and Glacira, the terraform

  livestock, and the Moon Hopper, Dust Strider and Dusk Moth of terraformed Luna, Mars and Nyxara.

• Alien Villagers — wary alien NPCs you befriend to trade and grow villages,

  with the Village Core, alien structures, decoration blocks and exclusive gear.

• Meteor Events — rare meteor crashes that seed the world with alien materials

  and off-world ores; track them with the Meteor Tracker.

• Rockets — the four crewed hulls, their lit cockpits and windows, and what they do on the pad and during launch.

• Cargo Pad and Cargo Rocket — automated freight between pads and stations: load a hold, pick a destination, and cargo flies with nobody at either end.

• Star Guide — the in-game progression guide.

• Public Integration API — for mod developers: the supported surface for querying planets, environment and visits, contributing oxygen, and applying reversible terraforming overlays.

• Mod Compatibility — what Nerospace shares with the other mods in your pack: energy, fluids and items cross the mod boundary; gas stays Nerospace-side.

• Planet Gravity — each world's own gravity, biome variation, and how terraforming restores it.

• Neroland Core — the required foundation library Nerospace is built on: one cross-mod power network, shared progression milestones, a unified privacy/erasure command, Core-managed config, and the shared storage blocks (Battery, Fluid Tank, Gas Tank, Item Store, Trash Can) that moved into Core.

• Configuration — server and modpack tuning; the planet clock, weather, particle and HUD keys are listed in Planet Clock and Weather.

• Saved-Data Backups — automatic last-known-good backups and crash-proof recovery of Nerospace's world data.

• Roadmap — what shipped in 1.0 and what's next.

• Future Features — the longer-term wish list.

Dimensions at a glance#

Full skies are drawn on NeoForge for Minecraft 26.3; every other version shows each world's sky colours.

All Nerospace dimensions are airless — without a breathable zone (an Oxygen Generator, a Launch Pad, terraformed ground, or a full Oxygen Suit) you will run out of oxygen and suffocate. They also each have their own gravity — lighter than home out on the moons, near-weightless in orbit — which terraforming restores to normal as you reclaim the ground.