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I just thought of a nice addition. Dispensers always become useless while the ship is assembled, but if you added an option for them to become some sort of entity where they still worked and had some kind of hotkey to drop items, that would be cool. You could fill it with tnt and make a bomber or fill a few with resources and become a supply drop. It could also just be a form of cannon that shoots arrows.

I am not sure how doable that is but it sounds easier than a cannon for now.

Yeah, what are we thinking? This is minecraft, we need to use ingenuity, we already have dispensers so we could just park our ship and use dispensers to fire stuff at things.

I'm not against a cannon-actually I like it. But dispensers have limited functionality right now, especially in singleplayer. Making them work while the ship is assembled would be much easier to code than an aiming mechanic and much cheaper in game than a cannon (unless you're dropping stacks of tnt from the skies). This would be in addition to cannons.

Hello i have a question/idea lot's of people would like to walk around the ship and do stuff like redstone which the way this mod is now is impossible but i would like you to look at a mod called metaworlds which is now abandoned if you could make this mod work in a similar fashion to metaworlds mod that would add cannons guns redstone the ability to walk on the ship and more although i know this would be VERY hard please consider it

I had no idea that was even possible in Minecraft. If Archimedes ships had the ability to walk on ships and use redstone, I'd demand for it to be adopted into vanilla Minecraft. But I would agree that sounds very hard to code.

well metaworlds mod worked by simply creating a world in a world and moving that world inside your minecraft world but that also means that collision is impossible you would just fly through walls

yes true but the reason i mentioned metaworlds is because it was in 1.7.2 which is much closer to minecrafts current code so if darkevilmac was to make it work in a similar fashion it would be easier to do it like metaworlds you see well metaworlds mod worked by simply creating a world in a world and moving that world inside your minecraft world but that also means that collision is impossible you would just fly through walls but you could shot tnt and make redstone using this

so do you plan on adding ways to attack with ships like cannons or something and a health system?

also it would be cool to add something like thrusters so that you can have a ship without a massive amount of float blocks and still have it balanced also wing blocks would be cool and other blocks that could be used instead of float blocks just some ideas

Something I imagine this would benefit from greatly, is to expand from just ships. If you look at Keralis, a popular member of the Hermitcraft Server, you'd see many videos by him on the "Minecraft Vehicle Tutorial Series", where he makes cars, trucks, planes, ect.

What I'm suggesting you add, is a function ships can have, the ability to climb up blocks. Right now, if a ship drops down one block, it cannot get back up, unless it's an airship. It would be cool to make a jeep from blocks, and then drive it, with this mod.

I'm not sure about land vehicles, we have horses that seem to do the job. Water is straightforward, and ships just make sense on them, but Minecraft land is way too rough for any semblance of a real vehicle. I can imagine a car charging up a 45 degree incline with no trouble, and then getting stuck in a cave. And then there's the problem of theme- Why would we have modern vehicles in a game that at the latest is set in the early industrial revolution, and an unexplored and undeveloped land at that?

yes i like the idea of land vehicles but i would imagine that would be hard but i would think worth it

hey sorry to burst your bubble darkevilmac but i found this http://www.cuchazinteractive.com/ships/ i'm about to test it to see if it's real but if it is they say that you can build a ship walk around on it ships have collision with players the world and more and many more features seems a little fishy i'm gonna put my anti hacking anti virus anti anti and stuff at max and test this i will post after i test it

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hey sorry to burst your bubble darkevilmac but i found this http://www.cuchazinteractive.com/ships/ i'm about to test it to see if it's real but if it is they say that you can build a ship walk around on it ships have collision with players the world and more and many more features seems a little fishy i'm gonna put my anti hacking anti virus anti anti and stuff at max and test this i will post after i test it

There is however, I feel, one HUGE downside to this mod. Ignoring the fact there are no airships.. yet.

Smart moving is not compatible! For me, smart moving is minecraft staple.

true but he is working on adding airships but yeah if you like smart moving oh well but the fact i can move around have doors open them and smelt things while the ship is moving is a big thing for me but thats up to you

in addition to my last post i also found this http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/wip-mods/1444954-1-6-4-warpdrive-mod-ships-space-lasers it seems very cool shipvsship combat and lasers but this mod moves your ship by leaps and is based on the theory of warp drive which is a real theory that i won't go into now but you can find some interesting youtube videos on it also the mod should work with pretty much all mods and is pretty balanced but it seems to be abandoned but if you look at the last few pages someone says they are going to pickup the mod so i am keeping a eye on the thread