Getting Started
1. Install the pack
The current pack is Season 3 — version 3.0.2. There are two ways in.
Modrinth (recommended)
Install Coffee’s Create: Aeronautics SMP through the Modrinth App, Prism
Launcher, ATLauncher, or any launcher that accepts an .mrpack.
Launch twice the first time
A few mods (FTB and the mods that depend on it) can’t be hosted on Modrinth, so the pack downloads them itself on the first launch. Start the game, let it finish at the title screen, close it, and start it again. After that it behaves normally.
CurseForge
The Season 3 pack for the CurseForge app is waiting on CurseForge’s review. Until it’s listed, grab the CurseForge pack from our Discord and import it: CurseForge app → Create Custom Profile → Import → choose the zip. It’s self-contained and keeps itself up to date like the Modrinth version.
2. Give it the right amount of RAM
8 GB is the sweet spot. Season 3 handles more if your machine has room.
| Allocation | Result |
|---|---|
| Under 6 GB | Runs out of memory, stutters badly |
| 8 GB | What most people should use |
| 10–12 GB | Fine if you have 32 GB or more in your PC — helps with Distant Horizons and big airship builds |
| More than half your PC’s RAM | Asking for trouble — your graphics driver and Distant Horizons need memory outside Minecraft’s share |
If your game vanishes while loading with no crash report, you’ve given it more than your machine can spare. Come back down. More on this in performance.
3. Join
Press Join on the pack’s main menu, or add the server:
coffeeaerosmp.duckdns.org
No port needed.
4. First login
You’ll arrive in the lobby before you reach the world.
- Offline (non-premium) players register a password on first join with
/register <password> <password>(the same password twice) and use/login <password>afterwards. You have 3 minutes to log in before you’re kicked — just reconnect if that happens. - Premium players are verified automatically.
From the lobby you’re sent on to the survival world.
5. Open your mail
Your Season 3 starter kit — 300 spurs, bread and saplings — is waiting in
your mailbox. Type /mail and claim it. Level-up rewards, /daily and vote
rewards all arrive there too, and you’ll hear a ping when something new lands.
6. Before you build anything
Read claims. Unclaimed builds are not protected, you start with 5 chunks (more as you level), and there’s one rule about ships that will cost you your claim if you get it wrong.
7. Then what?
- New to Create? create-basics — the one idea it’s all built on
- Want to know how you grow? progression — levels, claims and rewards
Updating
The pack updates itself — you’ll be prompted from the main menu, and the game closes to apply the update. Let it finish and relaunch.