On 30 December 2022, while Season 2 was still running, kira dropped a link to a Create Aeronautics showcase video into chat with a promise: “axolotl season 3 will be modded”. 1
The mod fascinated him. He explained how its contraptions work as both entities and builds: each one gets its own separate dimension, the game simulates it there, and the result is copied back onto the entity model. 2
prop was less sure. His first question was whether everyone’s PC could handle the mod. 3 Then he gave the server’s true history of lag problems: “chumma redstone and villagers itself we are getting tps problems”. 4 He did also dream of building a Death Star airship, so the worry did not last.
The announcement foreshadowed the modded, Create-centred era. The Season 2.5 world, with its trains, came first, and Create later became the heart of the Axolotl worlds.
Primary sources
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axolotl season 3 will be modded: youtube.com/watch?v=AkK2eJdcpAQ
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how they did this is by creating a separate dimension for each contraption entity and taking input on the entity, simulating it in the other dimension and copying the result to the entity model
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but can everyone in the server handle this mod on their PC?
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chumma redstone and villagers itself we are getting tps problems
