Mods/Airship

This mod gives you the ability to craft Victorian style balloons and airships, and fly in them. Additionally, airships allow you to store things like a chest, and can shoot arrows.

Dependencies
ModLoader

Incompatibilities
Unknown. Does not seem to present any incompatibilities yet. Generally any non-modloader mods that affect rendering could cause issues. However there has been a couple of issues on the demo game where it is impossible to make the airship.

Additional Installation Procedures
This mod comes packaged with two different sets of textures for the airship you will need to move the "gui" and "item" directories in the "16" or "32" directory into your jar. If you haven't installed a High Def texture mod, then use the ones in the "16" directory.

Common Problems

 * Not reading the install instructions, and forgetting to properly install the gui and items directory in the jar.
 * If the game crashes when you placed the airship, your minecraft.jar does not contain a balloon.png and/or airship.png. Please make sure you installed everything right.

The Airship
Once you have crafted your airship and have it in your inventory, make it the active item and place it (right click). This will drop an airship at that location and works similar to a boat. You can right click to enter it. At this point the airship needs fuel, so open your inventory and put in some wood, coal or logs in the fuel slot. Then you can use your directional keys, and space and left shift to control it.

The Airship Inventory
Each airship comes with its own inventory. This inventory is used to feed the airship fuel, ammunition, and provide you with extra storage. There is no separation however between what is used for the ship, and what is in storage, so be careful if you are transporting Logs, Wood, Coal, or Lava buckets.

Airship Fuel
The following items can be used as fuel, and will be consumed in this order:
 * Coal
 * Lava Buckets
 * Wood
 * Planks

Gunpowder provides a small amount of fuel and gives the airship a "turbo boost."

Airship Controls
The airship is controlled similar to other movement (i.e. use the forward key to go forward..) Here are the additional controls for the airship:

The Onboard Weapon
If you put arrows in the airship's Arrows slot, you can press left control to fire them.

Item IDs used
Airship ID#: 4498

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Copy of FAQ and Readme.txt pasted here for reference. Material here should be rewritten and moved into the page

Name: Pchan3's Airship Version: 1.3_01 V3 Date: 26/2/2011 Category: Minecraft Mod Author(s): Pchan3 Source: Forum: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=178612 Homepage: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=178612

Details

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Boiler. the boiler and chimney + smoke can be disabled. in the properties file there is a "boiler=show" change this to "boiler=hide" and save.

Weaponry

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(its current state is sort of like: better than nothing)

Press the FIRE! button and aim at your ghast enemies.

Warning: there are a few bugs i haven't quite worked out. -the starting point of the arrow is offset to the left of the crosshairs. -due to the speed of the arrows, its not reccomended firing at short range. -firing up can make the arrow land on you. :|

You now have an Arrow launcher! its not as accurate as your regular bow. and you can't fire as fast. but its arrow velocity is pretty fast.

LOOK OUT FOR PIRATE AIRSHIPS IN A NEW MOD! :D COMING SOON TO THE SKIES NEAR YOU!

Install

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1a. BACKUP YO SAVES! 1. Extract the files to a temporary location. 2. Examine the folder structure and make corrections where necessary. 3. Copy .class files to the root directory of your minecraft.jar opened using WinRAR or similar tool 4. Choose either the 16px or 32px files from the archive. copy the whole subfolders (gui and items) into the jar 5. Run Minecraft :)

Note: must be run once to generate properties file or you can use provided file and put in the .minecraft folder easier to run MC and then find it.

BALLOON.png AND AIRSHIP.png

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============= There are many different versions of the balloon. so please pick one and rename that to balloon.png there should be just one airship.png these go in the ITEMS folder of your minecraft.jar if there is not an items folder. create one. 65% of errors are cause by not having these installed properly the other 34% are caused by not having the icons installed properly

wait. what about the 1%. unforseeable and or errors caused by my notch's coding. my code is perfect.*RAWR* :D

Uninstall

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1. Open Minecraft.jar and Delete the following Class file: -mod_airship -RenderAirship -ModelAirship -EntityAirship -ModelBalloon -ItemAirship -FuelTask -FuelTimer

DO NOT DELETE: -CustomModelRenderer -CustomTexturedQuad (These Belong to Steamboat as well as Airship only delete if you intend to uninstall both.or only have Airship installed.)

Archive\ClassFiles - .Class Locations Archive\gui\16 - 16x16 Icons Location Archive\gui\32 - 32x32 Icon Location Archive\items - Balloon and Airship textures

Upgrade

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1. Uninstall the old mod. 2. Install the new mod. 3. Start Minecraft and play. There should be no effect on saves. But As i have not extensively tested it. things could go bad. backup before you install. :)

You should be able to copy all the class files and overwrite the previous ones. but i list this just in case.

FAQ'S

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Q.My screen goes black at startup. A.This could be due to something funky in the minecraft.exe F.Use Notch's NEW Minecraft Launcher that he released on twitter/tumblr

Q.The previous F didn't help. A.This could be due to images not being the in the right place. (ICONS!) Don't use 32x Icons if you don't have Xau's patcher in place. F. Use 16x Icons. if you used 16x icons and it broke. use 32x icons. :|

Q.It crashes when i place the Airship A.The Items folder in the Minecraft.jar does not contain a balloon.png and/or airship.png F.Follow the instructions and put those images in the folder.

History

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Alpha: -Flies -Textured

Beta: -Flies -Textured -Balloon Separate (and seperately textured) -Icons -Full Recipe

Beta V3: -Arrow Shooting (not perfect) -Viewing bug fixed -gui and items are now BOTH in 16 and 32 for their respective sizes. -Inventory -Fuel -Probably more but i forget. D:

Contact

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Pchan3 on Minecraftforum.net Pchan3 on youtube.com

Credits

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Thanks to Notch & Mojang for creating Minecraft Thanks to Glimmar for creating awesome sauce textures & icons to go with thismod Thanks to Gestankfaust for creating a chuthulu Thanks to ShaRose, which i finally managed to decipher his code and make the arrow launcher. :D Thanks to Maud'Dib for creating the original steamboat mod (i got inspiration/idea from it). Thanks to YOU! for downloading this mod and supporting me :) Thanks again to you for reading the DAMN readme. A lot of people don't and it can help a lot. and save me several hundred posts on the forums...

Tools Used

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7-Zip GIMP Paint.NET Readme Generator - http://lhammonds.game-host.org/obmm/tools_readme_generator1.asp Eclipse Minecraft Coders Pack 2.9

Licensing/Legal

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You must contact me and obtain my permission before re-packaging any part of this mod. If I do not respond within 4 weeks, feel free to do whatever you like with this mod.

If you wish to ask for artwork, they are owned by Glimmar please contact him if you wish to use them in your own work.

Accepted KEYS(others will prolly crash the game) THEY MUST BE COPIED EXACLY AS IS: YEN NOCONVERT CONVERT F1 CAPITAL SPACE LMENU MULTIPLY RSHIFT SLASH PERIOD COMMA M KANA N B V C X Z BACKSLASH LSHIFT GRAVE APOSTROPHE F15 F14 F13 SEMICOLON L K J H G F D S A LCONTROL RETURN RBRACKET LBRACKET P O F12 I F11 U Y T DECIMAL NUMPAD0 NUMPAD3 NUMPAD2 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ESCAPE NONE R E W Q TAB NUMPAD1 BACK ADD EQUALS NUMPAD6 MINUS NUMPAD5 0 NUMPAD4 9 SUBTRACT NUMPAD9 NUMPAD8 NUMPAD7 SCROLL NUMLOCK F10 F9 F8 F7 F6 F5 F4 F3 F2

Changes & Features n stuff: Balloons Have their Own Texture Recipes are completed Temporary 'unpowered' Balloon (remove engines from recipe) its the same thing as normal without the iron cost Icons Implemented and in their own folders Properties file for changing KEY's. Can Toggle (in prop file) The Boiler/chimney etc. Inventory Fuel (Coal, Wood Blocks, Planks, Lava Buckets) Airships will now Float to the ground when run out of fuel or no ones in them. Rendering bug were you look up has been fixed. Fires arrows. put in airship inventory. default key is left control Gunpowder as fuel = Turbo mode. use with caution(fast don't lie). you will need to remove all other fuel from your airship's inventory for this to work. (there is a set order which the airship consumes fuel) Coal,Planks,Wood,Lava Bukkets, Gunpowder.

Q: I get a black screen when I try to run the game! Why? A: There are several reasons why this might be, typically caused by not following the instructions exactly. Please check the following steps: 1: Did you delete the META-INF folder? 2: Did you put the icons into the GUI folder? 3: Did you use the correct sized icons for your texture pack (16x16 vs 32x32)? 4: Did you put the airship balloon .PNGs into the item folder? 5: Do you have any other mods installed that might be conflicting?

Q: The game runs fine, but when I try to craft the pieces, nothing shows up. A: You probably have the wrong icons installed. Make sure you put the right resolution icons into the GUI folder.

Q: The game runs, but as soon as I try to place the airship, it crashes. A: Make sure you installed the airship.png and balloon.png files into the item folder.

Q: WHY CAN'T I MOVE???!?!1?ONE?!1! A: Get into the airship (right click), then open the airship's inventory (right shift). Place some fuel into the inventory (coal, wood, lava, gunpowder) and close out of the inventory with either I or ESC. It should give you a message that a certain amount of fuel has been used. You can now move around (standard keys are SPACE to rise, SHIFT to fall, and normal movement keys for normal movement.

Q: How do I destroy it? A: The same way you destroy anything else, punch it. You'll have to punch it for a while because the HP was increased to 300, so it'll take upwards of 15 seconds to destroy it. Also, it might not appear to do anything because the destruction animation was disabled due to a glitch associated with it.

If there are any other commonly asked questions, I'll probably add them on later. Also, if anyone can think of any that should be added, feel free to add them below (preferably with the question AND the answer).

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