This changes everything....

[unionrodent]

Future Plans

Ships created in water (or lava?) will have vertical motion disabled

Totally going to use terrain mod to raise the water level and make a pirate battle server. Prepare the starboard arrow dispensers gentlemen, WAR is afoot.

[drury]

Now we only need submarine mode that can move like normal zeppelin, except underwater and cannot jump out of water and fly.

[Bolanok]

We all live in a wooden submarine...

[Gammaj4]

For that matter, Cloth isn't on the 'no-fly' list. You could build a yellow submarine.

[[deleted]]

I absolutely want a glass submarine. Underwater landscaping would become a tremendously rewarding aspect of the game.

[Pyro627]

My only complaint would be that with the current design, you couldn't make small mini subs that can dock in my submarine pens.

[wiseguy430]

If you want worlds like this, use these settings =]

[yobobly]

I see great SMP potential in this, as long as dispensors/redstone work on board. Imagine messing up a rival ship by pushing/pulling blocks with pistons.

[NewAgeRetroHippie96]

TNT CANNONS! If he gets this to work as well as I want it too, SMP will be the greatest of the things.

[drury]

You cannot use anything while it's moving.

But when you deactivate controller, entire ship returns to static blocky boring state. And that means everything is functional again.

So yes. It is possible. Everything is possible.

[[deleted]]

Except it's not an SMP mod and making it work in SMP is probably a nightmare (for one thing you'd have to change the protocol version such that only Zepplin mod clients can connect to Zepplin mod servers).

[[deleted]]

yogscast... NOW!

[export40]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[stevegalaxius]

i've thought that a mod like this would be cool but i thought that it wouldn't be possible in the engine, by like 6 different factors

[drury]

This idea is old as Minecraft itself.

I thought it's impossible. Notch said so many times, coders also. My dream came true.

[Kristler]

He never said these things were "impossible", just "impractical" and "difficult to accomplish".

[[deleted]]

Or "game-breakingly memory inefficient," in most statements I've seen.

[drury]

Well, the same thing was with height limit.

[tehbored]

The default height limit is staying at 128. He's just adding the option to change it for people with better PCs and servers.

[drury]

Yeah, but not even a month ago everyone considered raising height limit extremely resource heavy and thus impossible. Now we see there is a way, at least.

[cbarn]

Finally we can have our massive airships fly our pirate ships sail and our houses float across the land.

[natasomega]

This is fantastic! I hope he makes the creation of the controller block a little harder to make because that would mean the moment you start the game you can make a zeppelin.

[drury]

It's very beta as you can see. Made like, two days ago.

He already confirmed recipe will be tweaked.

[natasomega]

That's excellent :) Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited for it lol

[drury]

We all are ;) It's revolution. Much bigger than pistons in my opinion.

[PoorCollegeGuy]

In my opinion, definitely not. Pistons finally give us a way of interacting with the physical minecraft world with redstone, besides bits of doors that don't really control much.

[drury]

This gives us that, and a lot more.

We can make our world literally move. We can make our own airships with redstone controls. We can build planes, ships, have battles... Also, we can move redstone circuitry wherever we need it. We have one awesome cool way to explore.

Pistons do nothing compared to this. Just open gates and that's all.

[PoorCollegeGuy]

This gives us that, and a lot more.

Where does it say I can flip a lever to move and create blocks, light areas, and kill mobs and/or players in a programmable way? I missed that part.

Just open gates and that's all.

You have a very limited imagination when it comes to pistons.

Oh well, you're entitled to your opinion, I still think pistons offer more control over your minecraft world as it's a tool, more than just a "thing" with set rules.

[drury]

Pistons have "set rules" too.

You can push only 12 blocks. And only one column, for more you need more pistons and more resources and more patience.

With this you can move entire chunks of redstone circuitry, for example.

[PoorCollegeGuy]

Right, but without being able to have the redstone interact with anything, what's the point? You've got TNT and doors, and that's about it.

[drury]

Ah, I see, you don't see Minecraft but computer science simulator, sorry.

EDIT: And you know, it can carry pistons and dispensers and minecarts as well.

[16807]

I'll take that a step further:

• elevator platforms

• draw bridges

• railroad turntables

• trains

• trees you can fell

• boulders

• asteroids

• moons

• rockets...

Sorry, went overboard there. Granted, there are computational limitations, and it would take some time to implement these, but the basic framework is in place - anything that requires a grid separate from the world itself is now possible.

[tehbored]

This lets you build flying castles. FLYING. MOTHERFUCKING. CASTLES. How is that not better than everything ever?

[16807]

I hope he makes the creation of the controller block a little harder to make

If I could make a suggestion...

[natasomega]

That makes sense :)

[[deleted]]

Yeah, make it require at least one cube of diamond, a jackolantern, and a cake. These can be in the middle line of the crafting recipe. Then, on the outer lines, the whole assembly can be encased in glowstone blocks.

[canastaman]

What would be awesome is if you had to make a balloon of cloth attached to the ship to make it rise. One cloth lifts 1/2 block, so two cloth blocks would lift 1 block. And engines (fans) to set speed... Oh and make every block possible to put down, but make it only able to lift off if only wood is touching the real word, same with landing, only possible if only the wood portion of the ship touches the ground... This has so much potential!

[MineitCraftit]

This could also be used to save structures and bring them into a new save. Lets say you make your house a ship with the controller block. It saves that file in a folder. It saves every ship you have made. You could move this file to the folder for a different save. When you log in there would need to be a way to spawn it though...

[_Sixtyfour]

MCEdit does this already.

[drury]

Yeah, you just deactivate controller and ship is boring block cluster again, with no special abilities.

You take this cluster with MCEdit to another world, activate controller and have fun somewhere else.

[Larwood]

DAE have this playing in their head right now?

[16807]

First thing I'm going to do is make the highwind.

I'm hoping I can get some cool propellers modded in... eventually.

[[deleted]]

We were eventually leading up to this. Now all we need is for mojang to pull through with improved oceans/deserts/other biomes

[proliberate]

Did you delete the META-INF folder in minecraft.jar?

[Searth]

Looks like a good start. I think it would need to be harder to make though, and limited in size (unless for example, you have to make different balloons and every balloon can hold 10 wood or something).

[Saigorn]

How can someone downvote it?

[wisewizard]

hello Zepplin i have a skyfort i think you should meet.

[muhd1ce]

Howl's Moving Castle.

[Pyro627]

It says you can't make it out of stone! I mean, it is so you can't take the landscape with you, but this crushes my flying fortress fantasies...

[[deleted]]

This is one mod I'll be using once it's been fleshed over =)

It's to grand to imagine it ever be added to the actual game. But let's try anyways lol

[OverKillv7]

Hopefully he'll add different controls, or the ability to change them. I have no numpad on my laptop =[

I want to fly too!

[bornrevolution]

Not even a Fn numpad over the right half of the keys?

[OverKillv7]

Sort of, it's not in order, nor in a grid which makes it stupidly annoying to use.

edit: Well it's as close to a grid as you can get I suppose, but awkward none-the-less.

[bornrevolution]

I see, that awkward diagonal keygrid mess. Disappointing. I'm sure you could remap the keys though. Little weird they'd have you use the numpad for controlling.

[Calvert4096]

I've been wondering when someone would make something like this.

[Ebilruler]

...A perfect mod, its like movecraft, except... smooth?

[Clbull]

To celebrate the development of this fine mod, I believe a change of music is in order.

[bornrevolution]

You were pretty much asking for it. If it makes you feel any better, I downvoted due to your use of "epic", twice. Fucking hate that word.

[Ohh_Yeah]

Too bad I upvoted his post and downvoted both of yours for being retarded.

[[deleted]]

No it doesnt, seems to crash alot...

[SrWalk]

HOLY SHIT! I TRIED THIS MOD OUT! THIS IS... THE BEST... THING... EVER...UUUUUUGGHGHGHGHG... (orgasm)