Climbable Ropes for Create Aeronautics
by saunhardy
Climbable Ropes for Create Aeronautics lets players grab vertical ropes and plunger ropes with bare hands and climb, slide or zipline along them.
What it does
In vanilla Aeronautics, the bundled Simulated module lets a wrench-equipped player ride a rope as a zipline, but near-vertical strands cannot be climbed because gravity pulls the rider straight down. This mod adds a separate climb mode: a bare-handed right-click grabs a steep rope, then steering keys move the rider up, down and along it, Sprint with S slides, the camera turn swings the rider, Sneak lets go, and Space jumps off or mantles onto a block at the top.
Plunger ropes also support ziplining. Holding a chain-rideable item such as Create's wrench and right-clicking a plunger rope latches the player on, and a horizontal rope between two pinned plungers can be walked as a bridge. The hanging animation is synced across clients in multiplayer. The mod requires Create, Sable and playerAnimator, with [EMF] Entity Model Features optional, and it runs on the client and the server, so both must install it. Files exist for NeoForge 1.21.1, with 2.1.4 as the latest, and the code is open source under the MIT License.
Key features
Bare-hand climbing
Right-clicking a near-vertical rope with an empty main hand grabs the rope so the player can climb it.
Controlled slide
Sprint with S slides down with smooth acceleration, and the speed scales with the rope's angle.
Plunger rope zipline
A chain-rideable item latches the player onto a plunger rope, and there is no steepness limit on that rope.
Mantle onto blocks
Jumping at the top of a rope with a block above lifts the player up onto that block.
Visible grab point
The vertical rope hitbox highlights when the player looks at it bare-handed, showing where the grab point is.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 3
Optional 1
Questions
Does this mod need Sable?
Does a server need this mod installed?
Which game versions are supported?
In the catalog
Climbable Ropes for Create Aeronautics is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 13,477 Utility mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
In vanilla Aeronautics (the bundled Simulated module), you can grab onto a rope with a wrench and ride it as a zipline, but vertical strands are nearly useless. Gravity pulls you straight down, the assistance force can't fight it, and there's no input that means "go up." Ropes can be hung but not climbed. The Plungerβ¦
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/create-aeronautics-climbable-rope
- Owner
- saunhardy
- Published
- 2026-04-29
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-26
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
