Creating an aircraft

Creating an aircraft

This applies to any craft that flies (e.g. Airship, Airskiff, BigAirship). How to know if the craft flies? Navigate to your plugins/Movecraft/types folder and open up the .craft files and find if they contain the tag canFly: true. At the moment of writing this guide, the version used was Movecraft 8.0.0 Beta 4 on Minecraft 1.21.

Quick start example: Airskiff

Requirements

To quickly set up a craft with the default settings, you would need to fulfill the craft requirements. Airskiff has the following default requirements:

1. 50% of the craft must be wool, as wool represents lift.
2. 8% of the creaft must be redstone blocks, as it represents engines.
3. Minimum craft size needs to be 10 blocks and maximum 80.
4. Furnace for fuel (Coal or other items that are considered fuel).
5. A stick in hand to pilot the craft, or using the optional control signs below.

To modify or create your own requirements, modify the plugins/Movecraft/types/Airskiff.craft file and see craft file flags for more information.

Creating the craft (with imgur images)

1. Create a craft foundation: Airskiff foundation example

2. Create the pilot and release control signs: Pilot and release signs

3. Add fuel into Furnace: Add fuel

4. Right click the Craft (Airskiff) sign to pilot the craft: Pilot the craft message.

5. Use stick in hand and right click at the desired move direction to move the craft.

6. Release the craft by right-clicking the Release sign: Release craft message.

Control signs (see Control Signs for more information)

NOTE: DO NOT RIGHT CLICK THE SIGNS WITH STICK IN HAND.

Imagine this empty field to represent a sign block in Minecraft:

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|     LINE 1     |
|     LINE 2     |
|     LINE 3     |
|     LINE 4     |
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Once the requirements are fulfilled, you may add in the following SIGN BLOCKS for life improvements (right-clicking on signs) and not requiring to constantly type commands to pilot the craft.

1. CRAFT-Type sign: The first line of this sign should contain the name of the craft. In this example, we will use "Airskiff". A sign usually has 4 lines and should be structured as follows:

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|      Airskiff       |
|                     |
|  [Your craft name]  |
|     [Your name]     |
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The first line HAS TO BE the name of the craft. Anything else below are optional.

2. Release sign: Releasing the craft after you are done with it.

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|      Release      |
|                   |
|                   |
|                   |
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Optional, but recommended control signs:

1. Helm: to rotate the craft.

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|      [Helm]       |
|                   |
|                   |
|                   |
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2. Ascend/Descend:

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|    Ascend: OFF    |
|                   |
|                   |
|                   |
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or

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|    Descend: OFF   |
|                   |
|                   |
|                   |
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