XAeronautics is a lightweight compatibility mod for NeoForge 1.21.1 that adds live tracking of Create: Aeronautics / Sable creations to Xaero’s Minimap and Xaero’s World Map.
The purpose is simple: if your modpack treats airships, aircraft, vehicles, or other moving Sable creations as important parts of the world, you should be able to find them again without manually updating waypoints every time they move.
Tracking is optional and uses ordinary vanilla Name Tags.
Rename a vanilla Name Tag in an anvil.
Use the renamed Name Tag on an assembled Sable/Aeronautics creation.
The creation is given that name and becomes visible on Xaero’s Minimap and World Map.
As the creation moves, its marker moves with it.
The marker behaves as a live map element rather than a traditional static waypoint, allowing it to follow the craft continuously through the world.
To stop tracking a creation, sneak and use an unnamed Name Tag on it.
Unnamed creations are ignored entirely, meaning large factories or servers full of Sable contraptions will not automatically clutter every player’s map.
XAreonautics does not attempt to determine whether something is technically an airship, airplane, car, ship, train-like contraption, or mobile industrial catastrophe.
Tracking is performed at the Sable sublevel level.
If a creation exists as a compatible Sable moving construct, it can be named and tracked.
This makes the system suitable for:
Airships
Aircraft
Cars and ground vehicles
Mobile factories
Flying bases
Experimental Create contraptions
Other Sable-powered creations
Tracked creations appear on both:
Xaero’s Minimap
Xaero’s World Map
Each tracked creation displays a marker and its assigned name.
The server periodically synchronizes the position of named creations to clients, while the client interpolates marker movement to keep tracking visually smooth.
This avoids the problems that would come from constantly deleting and recreating ordinary Xaero waypoints.
XAreonautics is deliberately small.
There are:
No new crafting recipes
No tracking blocks
No dedicated tracking terminals
No additional map screens
No complicated configuration process
No automatic markers for every contraption
A Name Tag is the registration system, Sable provides the moving creation, and Xaero provides the map.
The mod simply connects those systems.
XAreonautics currently treats each named Sable sublevel as an individual tracked creation.
Highly articulated vehicles composed of several independent Sable sublevels may therefore require each relevant sublevel to be handled separately. Automatic grouping of connected or articulated craft may be explored in a future release.
XAreonautics was originally created for a heavily modded survival pack centered around Create: Aeronautics, where mobile airships serve as long-term bases and transportation.
It is especially useful in worlds where players may:
Own several vehicles
Leave ships parked far from their current location
Operate mobile bases
Share a world with multiple named vessels
Travel large distances using Aeronautics creations
Rather than asking, “Where did we leave the ship?”, one need only consult the map.
A remarkable application of technology.
XAreonautics is built for:
Minecraft 1.21.1
NeoForge
Create: Aeronautics
Sable
Xaero’s Minimap
Xaero’s World Map
The initial release was developed and tested against the versions used by the development modpack, including Aeronautics 1.3.2 and Sable 2.0.5.
AI tools were used during the development of XAreonautics.
AI was used to generate the project icon - if you would like to replace it, contact me via discord at noxandor
