Future Plans

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WARNING: This page needs to be reviewed/rewritten for containing outdated info as a result of the new plans for Galacticraft 4: Venus release!

This page will cover future plans for Galacticraft announced by micdoodle8, radfast and co-developers.

Suggestions for how the mod can be improved are welcomed on the suggestions area of the forum. Don't forget to check the list of Frequently Suggested Ideas to see if your idea was already posted.

The future plans are provided as a general guide to help people who are planning things which depend on Galacticraft (modpacks, servers, add-ons) and anyone else who is interested. But there is no guarantee when things mentioned here will be implemented, and maybe some never will. Like anything in mod development, questions about "when" things will come cannot sensibly be answered, there is no fixed release date so please don't ask.

Plans for Galacticraft 3

Galacticraft is a 'Work in Progress' mod meaning the developers are, over time, adding to it and making improvements. Everything mentioned here is currently planned but plans can change - do not expect to see everything on this list.

Will there be a Boss on the Asteroids?

There will be a new Boss or an equivalent-difficulty task, to obtain a Tier 3 Treasure Chest and the loot it contains. The Tier 3 Treasure Chest is available in Creative mode but is not yet generated in the game. An important treasure item will allow you to craft the Astro Miner.

Will there be an Asteroids Dungeon?

There will not be an underground dungeon like on the Moon or Mars, there is not enough space in an asteroid for that.

Will there be a Tier 4 Rocket Schematic?

No. There will be a Schematic for something else needed in Galacticraft's future. Instead of having Tier 4, 5, 6, ... rockets, the developers are looking at something a little different for future versions, after Galacticraft 3.

Will there be any other new vehicle on the Asteroids?

Yes, there is the Astro Miner.

Will there be any new mob in Galacticraft 3?

Unknown. Keen readers of the source code will see some code for EntityUndeadAstronaut but that is not currently in the game, and it is not known whether it ever will be.

The Space Station movement is difficult

It's intended for it to be a little difficult - certainly different from moving around in gravity. It is not likely there will be any major changes to this, but the developers are looking at minor changes and improvements to make the gameplay smoother and more intuitive.

Some things will remain intentionally hard on Space Stations, including: stairs. It does not make much sense to walk "up" or "down" stairs on a space station which has no gravity.

If you are finding life hard on a space station, two tips:

• Make all the floors level - get rid of the 1 block down "balcony" area in the default space stations
• Always carry a grapple and some string, it's a great way to move around and works really well on a space stations (Galacticraft version 3.0.11.324 and later)

Will there be artificial gravity on Space Stations?

A spinning space station already generates something similar to gravity, in the form of "centrifugal force". It's not a big effect, you would need to be at the outer edges of a large, rapidly spinning space station to really notice it. It moves the player outwards not downwards, so it's not ideal for playing. There are plans to improve this, but they are secret for now and may not materialise until Galacticraft 4.

No block or machine to "generate" gravity is currently planned. If you prefer to live in steady gravity, maybe live on a planet not a space station!

Having said that, it is possible that a small scale "gravity simulator" will be added to the mod in future, the size of a small room. The main purpose of this will be so that players on the Overworld can try out lower gravity environments, for training purposes / fun. But the same device could maybe be used to make a small "gravity room" on a space station. No more details than this are currently available.

I've heard something about 'Hard Mode'

See Game_Balance#Hard_Mode. It is a work in progress, and will be a package of changes to make Galacticraft more challenging for good players, and a little more realistic in terms of space exploration. Future changes may include some of the following:

• some power loss in aluminium wire
• weight limits on player inventory in a rocket or chest rocket
• no 'cheat' type movement when in freefall in space (at the same time as maybe introducing tethers or some other safety device)
• changes to the way water works in Space - no infinite water source
• changes to the way plants grow in Space - they will need a sealed environment or a Terraformer's bubble to grow
• changes to the way Oxygen Collectors work - they will need living crops or trees, not just a bunch of leaves

It is not known whether all these changes will be seen in Galacticraft 3, if they come at all it will be in a very late version of Galacticraft 3.

Other Planets and Moons

Why can I not reach Venus, Jupiter and other planets?

These are not currently 'reachable' planets in the game. They are included in the Celestial Catalog anyhow because (1) they look great and (2) to show that the developers do have future plans for these, or some of them. See also Planets.

Which will be the next planet in Galacticraft?

Most likely either Jupiter, or one of the moons of Jupiter. Europa is a very popular suggestion on the forum, no guarantees that will be next though.

Why not Venus?

Venus is one of the most inhospitable places to life in the Solar System, with an insanely hot surface temperature of 462 °C, atmospheric pressure 92 times that on Earth, a poisonous atmosphere, and sulphuric acid rain. You do not want to go there.

Actually I do want to go there!

Good luck with that. See previous answer.

How about Moons of Saturn, like Titan?

Yes, those are another very popular suggestion on the forum.

Will there be Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars?

Perhaps one day, though probably not - really there is nothing at all there, they are not much more than large rocks in space.

Any plans for Ceres?

Your knowledge of the Solar System is good! Ceres is a dwarf planet in the Asteroid belt. It has received surprisingly little attention from space agencies prior to 2015, but as you may know, a current (April/May 2015) space mission mission is exploring it. It may turn out to be quite an interesting place: it is a proper, spherical planet (though smaller than the Earth's moon and with much lower gravity). It is thought to have a large amount of water ice - possibly the same amount of water as in all of Earth's oceans put together. It would not be too hard to reach in a rocket, and could be a useful destination if you needed large amounts of water in space.

How about Cruithne?

Now you are really showing off! 3753 Cruithne is a large asteroid in an Earth-like orbit, occasionally (incorrectly) referred to as Earth's "second moon". Like the moons of Mars, though, there's probably not much to see once you get there. It's not likely it will ever be included in Galacticraft.

The future of Galacticraft

Will there be Galacticraft for Minecraft 1.8?

Maybe, though nothing is certain and it will take a good amount of time, so not any time soon. (And yes, we are aware that Forge for Minecraft 1.8 is out now.) Meanwhile most mods are still standardising on Minecraft 1.7.10. The 1.7.10 versions will be where all the modpack action is at, for some time to come!

Will there be Galacticraft 4?

We hope so, though nothing is certain. Of course a key element of "Galacticraft 4" will be an additional destination or destinations beyond the Asteroids. Do not ask when this will come. Do not expect to see anything any time soon.

Will there be more mobs in future?

Yes.

Will there be Evolved Endermen?

No. The Endermen already have their own special dimension, The End. They are not space mobs.

Will there be aliens?

You mean apart from Alien Villagers? There will be more mobs in future, which will certainly be extra-terrestrials - so from places other than Earth. But they might not be exactly what some people have in mind as "aliens". Each person's idea of what an "alien" should look like can be quite different!

Future power systems

Now that the Astro Miner is available, players are going to need a decent source of power in the Asteroids dimension. That is currently difficult, because solar panels do not generate there, and there is no coal in the Asteroids dimension. (Coal comes originally from organic matter and huge geological pressure, and neither of those things exists in the Asteroids.)

radfast has advised this:

>For now, I think you should set up a solar panel power plant in orbit or on the Moon, and have a system of cargo rockets + launch controllers to bring charged batteries to the Asteroids dimension. Launch controllers act as chunk loaders, so keep the solar panels + wires in the same chunk as the Launch Controller and you should be golden.

But, we don't like the idea of players only having one option to do something. In the short term, we will be looking at:

• charcoal in Coal Generators - charcoal is just a different form of coal in vanilla Minecraft (look at the item IDs, its the same), so we should make it so that the generator accepts it

• adding a higher capacity "Tier 2" battery or other energy storage system which Cargo Rockets can carry

• adding back some generating power for Solar Panels in the Asteroids dimension, indeed in all dimensions based on existing in-game data which gives the distance from the sun - solar panels in the Asteroids should actually be a good source of power because, like the Overworld orbit, they have constant sunlight and no weather or atmosphere to get in the way.

In the longer term, we will look at:

• some form of nuclear power generator in a block, likely to be long life + low power (but a rich player can have lots of these blocks)

• a special "space" version of solar panels, also for use on space stations - probably not until Galacticraft 4.

• possibly, an inter-dimensional power beaming system, but definitely not until Galacticraft 4

It is not likely that we will ever have, in Galacticraft, systems for complex nuclear reactors, or for burning biofuels. There are other mods for that. And burning chemical fuel of any kind is not a good idea in a space environment where oxygen comes from tanks or has to be made. Maybe in Galacticraft 5/6/7 whatever we will have things like antimatter or power generated from black holes etc, but don't expect anything like that any time soon, the science of Galacticraft is not so advanced!

See Also

• Galacticraft 2
• Galacticraft 3
• Whats New