Astrocraft

Lunar Eclipse Shadows

The shadow of a lunar eclipse gradually engulfs the moon. Previously, the moon would only darken and change color to red.

Season Mod Compatibility

If either Serene Seasons or Fabric Seasons are installed, Astrocraft will sync to their configs, so seasons can line up.

Sunspots

Sunspots on the sun's surface are smaller and spawn in groups.

Overlays

• Zodiacal Constellations are a different color to others.
• Added the galactic equator, and azimuthal / ecliptic grids.

Other Stuff

• Lower mouse sensitivity when zooming in with a spyglass.
• Axial Tilt / Obliquity angle option.
• You can disable moonlight.
• Objects like nebulae or galaxies can be added using resource packs. Also added many globular clusters.
• Stars are stored in a more compact way, reducing the mod's file size.

Bugs

• Removed the stuck comet that always shows in Live Mode.
• Fixed Lunar Eclipses almost never happening.
• Fixed lighting not being affected by rain.

Lunar Eclipse Shadows

The shadow of a lunar eclipse gradually engulfs the moon. Previously, the moon would only darken and change color to red.

Season Mod Compatibility

If either Serene Seasons or Fabric Seasons are installed, Astrocraft will sync to their configs, so seasons can line up.

Sunspots

Sunspots on the sun's surface are smaller and spawn in groups.

Overlays

• Zodiacal Constellations are a different color to others.
• Added the galactic equator, and azimuthal / ecliptic grids.

Other Stuff

• Lower mouse sensitivity when zooming in with a spyglass.
• Axial Tilt / Obliquity angle option.
• You can disable moonlight.
• Objects like nebulae or galaxies can be added using resource packs. Also added many globular clusters.
• Stars are stored in a more compact way, reducing the mod's file size.

Bugs

• Removed the stuck comet that always shows in Live Mode.
• Fixed Lunar Eclipses almost never happening.
• Fixed lighting not being affected by rain.

Lunar Eclipse Shadows

The shadow of a lunar eclipse gradually engulfs the moon. Previously, the moon would only darken and change color to red.

Season Mod Compatibility

If either Serene Seasons or Fabric Seasons are installed, Astrocraft will sync to their configs, so seasons can line up.

Sunspots

Sunspots on the sun's surface are smaller and spawn in groups.

Overlays

• Zodiacal Constellations are a different color to others.
• Added the galactic equator, and azimuthal / ecliptic grids.

Other Stuff

• Lower mouse sensitivity when zooming in with a spyglass.
• Axial Tilt / Obliquity angle option.
• You can disable moonlight.
• Objects like nebulae or galaxies can be added using resource packs. Also added many globular clusters.
• Stars are stored in a more compact way, reducing the mod's file size.

Bugs

• Removed the stuck comet that always shows in Live Mode.
• Fixed Lunar Eclipses almost never happening.
• Fixed lighting not being affected by rain.

Lunar Eclipse Shadows

The shadow of a lunar eclipse gradually engulfs the moon. Previously, the moon would only darken and change color to red.

Season Mod Compatibility

If either Serene Seasons or Fabric Seasons are installed, Astrocraft will sync to their configs, so seasons can line up.

Sunspots

Sunspots on the sun's surface are smaller and spawn in groups.

Overlays

• Zodiacal Constellations are a different color to others.
• Added the galactic equator, and azimuthal / ecliptic grids.

Other Stuff

• Lower mouse sensitivity when zooming in with a spyglass.
• Axial Tilt / Obliquity angle option.
• You can disable moonlight.
• Objects like nebulae or galaxies can be added using resource packs. Also added many globular clusters.
• Stars are stored in a more compact way, reducing the mod's file size.

Bugs

• Removed the stuck comet that always shows in Live Mode.
• Fixed Lunar Eclipses almost never happening.
• Fixed lighting not being affected by rain.

A lot of code has been rewritten for this update, and this beta version may still be buggy.

Comets

Small icy bodies with highly eccentric orbits. As comets approach the sun, they brighten rapidly and tails start to form. Some comets even exceed Venus in brightness.

Spyglass Zoom

You can now zoom in further, by scrolling with the mouse wheel. This causes issues when Spyglass Improvements is installed, you can disable Astrocraft's zoom in the config.

Star Rendering Rewrite

Star Rendering is 20x faster, and you can set the Magnitude Limit config option up to magnitude 11 (previously only 6).

Planet Configuration

Semi-Major-Axis and Eccentricity options in the planets' orbit config, have been replaced with Perihelion and Aphelion Radii, which should be more intuitive. If you have the semi-major-axis and eccentricity of an orbit, you can convert using the following:

• q = a * (1 - e)
• Q = a * (1 + e)

Highly eccentric or inclined orbits are no longer broken.

The Absolute Magnitude option was replaced with Diameter. Magnitude is calculate from the configured Diameter and Color (albedo).

Custom Star Configuration

Custom stars can have binary systems with exoplanets. Which you can "observe" from, using the Observing Location option. You can also set a star's color to a temperature (K) or spectral class.

Live Mode

Live Mode uses real-life time and planetary positions, though it may not be accurate for things like eclipses. Timezones / Globe Mode is working again now.

Sun and Moon Compatibility

The sun and moon is rendered using vanilla textures, which means many resource packs and mods changing those textures work again. This includes: Cubic Sun & Moon, and Enchanced Celestials.