Minetest 5.4 mod: Airship
This mod implements an airship for minetest. This airship is affected by the wind. The wind better works with Climate API (and with climate API you can stop it using /set_wind 0 0 )
THIS IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL AND HAVE A LOT OF MISSING FEATURES. AND I KNOW IT
THE COLLISION SYSTEM IS VERY RUDIMENTARY
The fuel system isn't exists yet, so I don't recomend giving it to players yet if you put it into a server
Shortcuts: forward and backward while in drive position: controls the power lever left and right while in drive position: controls the direction jump and sneak: controls the up and down movement
- right click into the external stair to enter it
- E + backward while in drive position: the machine does backward
- E + foward while in drive position: extra power
- right click into drive wheel to activate pilot menu
- right click into the internal ladders to go out
- right click into any seat to sit your player
- the anchor only works when the airship is near stoped
Remembering AGAIN, it is affected by winds, so it will need patience to learn to control
Tip: Drive it gently. The captain can leave the drive position to walk too If a player goes timeout or logoff in flight, the airship will "rescue" him if no other player enter it, so is a good idea wait the friend at a secure place far from anyone who wants to enter the airship.
Special functions: /external_attach_menu - it opens the menu to attach a plane into the airship (who watched Indiana Jones and The Last Cruzade will understand) to access the plane during the flight, go to the ladder at the end of the airship and right click it to release the plane during the flight, use /remove_hook (BEWARE: the airship have to be moving fast and the plane power have to be at 1/4 to avoid collision and death (for the plane pilot)) There is an option on pilot menu to activate the rescue mode. So if a plane (Supercub, Camel or Albatroz) wait bellow the ship belly IN FLIGHT, it will be automatically hooked after 3 seconds
Know issues: The walk movement inside the ship is affected by server lag, because the lack of an interpolation method on attach function.
License of source code: MIT (see file LICENSE)
License of media (textures and sounds):
Airship model and textures by APercy. CC BY-SA 3.0
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Great addition to the game
This mod adds an amazing Airship. That alone is impressive but you can move around INSIDE IT! It is kinda like steampunk_blimp with the movment, but thats just how Minetest works. Overall its an amazing mod for sigleplayer and I think would make a great mod for building servers.
So cool
I just tried this out, and it's so cool! You can walk around the whole airship, sit on the seats, climb on the ladders, and the flying and landing is already pretty sophisticated, even though at the time of writing this, this is a WIP!
When this becomes stable and complete, this is a thing you gotta try out in your multiplayer world/server!
perfect for zeppelin lovers everywhere
thank you , this goes perfect with cloudlands enabling exploration straight out of the movie UP. you can walk around in the airship too :D . if encountering a crash related to attachment make sure to update airutils :P