Rocket

A Tier 1 Rocket, on launch pad

The Rocket is a vehicle added by the Galacticraft mod that enables travel to different planets. These planets often contain ore veins and underground fluid veins which are inaccessible in other dimensions and are required for Tier progression.

Rocket Tiers

Rocket Tier	Tier	Destinations
T1	HV	Moon
T2	EV	Deimos, Mars, Phobos
T3	IV	Asteroids, Callisto, Ceres, Europa, Ganymede, Ross128b
T4	IV	Io, Mercury, Venus
T5	LuV	Enceladus, Miranda, Oberon, Titan, Ross128ba
T6	ZPM	Proteus, Triton
T7	UV	Haumea, Kuiper Belt, Makemake, Pluto
T8	UHV	Barnard C, Barnard E, Barnard F, Alpha Centauri Bb, T Ceti E, Vega B
T9	UEV	Horus, Maahes, Anubis, Neper, Seth, Mehen Belt

The T9 planets require a Mothership and Shuttle Rockets to travel to.

Questbook

The Better Questing quest tab for rockets, "Space Race", unlocks upon completing the IV Circuits and HV Assembling Machine quests in the HV quest tab. It contains the progression for rocket tiers, space survival systems, and rocket fuels, starting with a quest to craft the NASA Workbench.

Space Travel

Building Launchpad

The Rocket requires rocket fuel and a launch pad to launch.

• A launch pad is formed by placing a 3x3 square on the ground of Galacticraft Launch Pads. Right click to place a rocket on the launch pad.
• A Galacticraft Fuel Loader can be placed next to the launch pad. It requires 91 EU/s to run. Once a rocket is placed on the launch pad, the Fuel Loader will pipe fuel from its tank into the rocket. A Fuel Loader can be filled with Galacticraft Liquid Canisters or piped in through a tank. Cells will be consumed by the fuel loader. All tiers of rocket hold enough fuel capacity for at least one round trip.

Rocket Controls

• Interact with the rocket to enter it
• Interact again or sneak to leave it
• While on the rocket, press space to ignite the rocket and begin a launch; begins a 20-second countdown to launch, which cannot be cancelled.
• By default, the key to view the inventory/fuel of the rocket is unbound. It can be found as the "Open Spaceship Inventory" key in the Minecraft Controls menu.
• WASD to steer the rocket while it is flying.

Launch Process

During the 20-second ignition period, the rocket produces 10 pollution/sec and will begin to shake and emit white smoke particles. After the launch begins, the launchpads will break, and the rocket will fly straight up without player steering. While the rocket is flying, it will produce 1000 pollution/sec. A GUI indicator on the left side of the screen will display the rocket's height relative to the world. If the rocket hits any blocks, it will stall and waste fuel, requiring player steering. If a rocket runs out of fuel while launching, it will explode.

Upon reaching maximum height (y~1100 for the overworld), the player will be transported away from their current dimension and be shown a catalog of solar systems and planets. Clicking on a planet allows the player to build a Space Station there or launch there as the destination on the upper right hand side. Clicking on the planet again will zoom in on it and display its moons and space stations, which can also be launched to. The tier requirement of a launch is listed on the top of the screen; insufficient tier requirements prevent selecting a planet as a destination.

Upon selecting a destination, the destination will be loaded in, and the player will descend riding some form of a Lunar Lander (Parachute, Lunar Lander, Landing Balloons, etc.). For the Moon, the player must press space to expend fuel and slow down the Lunar Lander to a descent rate slower than -20m/s to prevent an explosive crash landing. Upon landing, the player can exit the Lander by sneaking. The Lunar Lander will hold the rocket (with its fuel) and launchpads, used for a return flight. Punch to break it like a boat.

Moon Travel Checklist

Main Article: Moon Travel Checklist

Crafting a Tier 1 Rocket

NASA Workbench

The NASA Workbench is used to make rockets and other Galacticraft vehicles. Notable crafting components used to make the NASA Workbench include an HV Assembling Machine, 2 IV Circuits, 3 EV Circuits, Energetic Alloy frame boxes, and 6 Nether Star Plates (requiring 9 Nether Stars for a Block of Nether Star).

Implosion Compressor

The Implosion Compressor is required to craft Galacticraft compressed metal plates, which are used in rockets and oxygen systems.

Storage Rockets

In the T1 Rocket craft, there is an optional slot below the rocket control computer to add a copper, iron, or gold chest into (these recipes are also available in NEI). This will add storage space to the rocket, but it will not be detected by the T1 Rocket quest in the Space Race tab. These can be converted to the normal rocket in a crafting grid.

Crafting Tier 2+ Rockets

Entrance to a Moon Dungeon

The NASA Workbench requires new schematics to craft higher tiers of rockets. These schematics are found in dungeons on planets in tier order. Tier 2 rocket schematics, for example, can be found in the reward room of Moon Dungeons. Dungeon entrances are deep holes on the surface that have unnatural brick blocks on the bottom.

Higher tiers of rockets require different kinds of Rocket Fuels.

Rocket Fuels

Fuel	Maximum Rocket Tier	Infrastructure Requirements
Cetane-Boosted Diesel	2	Large Chemical Reactor or HV Mixer
RP-1 Rocket Fuel	2	Chemical Plant HV/Stainless Steel
Dense Hydrazine	4	Chemical Plant HV/Titanium
CN3H7O3	6	Chemical Plant HV/Tungstensteel
H8N4C2O4	9	Chemical Plant HV/Laurenium

Trivia

• In 2.1.1.0 additional rocket fuels were added that could be made in the Large Chemical Reactor as an alternative to the rocket fuels made in the GT++ Chemical Plant. In 2.2.0.0 their recipes were removed, but could still be used as rocket fuels. As of 2.6.1, they no longer appear in NEI and likely have been removed.

Fuel	Maximum Rocket Tier
LMP-103S	4
Monomethlyhydrazine Fuel Mix	6
Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine Fuel Mix	8

• Natura clouds used to be enabled in Overworld generation which could block rockets.

External Links

• https://wiki.micdoodle8.com/wiki/Galacticraft