Advanced Rocketry

Advanced Rocketry
Name	Advanced Rocketry
Creator	zmaster587
Type	Space
Latest Version	1.2.6-48
Minecraft Version	1.12.2
CurseForge	CurseForge
Root Mod	LibVulpes
Modpacks	Age of Engineering Feed The Beast Continuum Feed The Beast Interactions

Advanced Rocketry is a space exploration mod by zmaster587 that adds rockets, space stations, planet discovery, and a full pipeline of material processing to support them. Unlike Galacticraft, every planet beyond Earth and its moon is hidden until the player gathers data on it with satellites, so progression is driven by exploration and science rather than fixed tiers.

Planets and Space

The mod adds a dimension system covering moons, planets, and asteroid fields. Each world has its own gravity, atmosphere, biome list, and day length, and most are unreachable until the player launches a Satellite equipped with a Composition Sensor, a Mass Detector, and an Optical Sensor and processes the data through an Astrobody Data Processor to unlock its Planet Id Chip. Earth's Moon and asteroid fields can be reached without data, so they double as the first stops for collecting Dilithium Crystal and other off-world resources.

Rockets and Stations

Rockets are built one block at a time inside a Rocket Assembling Machine and fueled at a Fueling station. Short flights use a Monopropellant Rocket Engine, longer trips use a Bipropellant Rocket Engine, and the longest use a Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine. Once a rocket can reach orbit, the player builds a Space Station in a Space Station Assembler and adds a Warp Core driven by a Warp Controller for travel to discovered planets.

Suit and Survival

Most of these worlds have no breathable air, so the player has to build a full Space Suit (Helmet, Chest-Piece, Leggings, and Boots) at a Suit Workstation and pair it with a Suit Jetpack and a Pressurized Tank of oxygen. Slot-installable upgrades such as Padded Landing Boots, Bionic Leg Upgrades, and Anti-Fog Visors mount into the suit at the same workstation.

Material Processing

The mod introduces multi-block machines for every step of the material chain. An Electric Arc Furnace handles alloying, a Rolling Machine produces plates and sheets, a Lathe turns rods, a Precision Assembler builds circuits, and a Crystallizer grows gems and dilithium. The output feeds back into rocket parts, satellite modules, and suit gear.

Other Features

An Atmosphere Terraformer gradually changes a planet's atmosphere using cartridges crafted at a Chemical Reactor. An Orbital Laser Drill mines asteroids from orbit. An Observatory reveals nearby star systems. A Black Hole Generator taps singularities for power. A network of Microwave Receivers and orbital Solar Arrays lets the player beam energy down from orbit.