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@AlexSmith49

Errr... well it would be possible, assuming they were piloting it right before dying / logging out. But that seems a little harsh to me. Could you explain your use case in a little more detail? What are you trying to do?

@AlexSmith49

Actually this is something I think I will start working on. It wouldn't be a movecraft thing per se, but rather it would use commandblocks and cbwrapper with worldedit to make the "rewards shipyard" work. I would also like to make an arena for simple pvp, as well as co-op pve missions. IE: "Sink the destroyer before it bombs the city and you get x reward currency". It seems to me all this should be possible with a clever use of the existing plugins.

So, my question for you is: what should the reward currency be? I want a rating system, to allow bragging rights on the server and to restrict the really nice rewards to the top airship pilots on the server. But I also want a basic "grinding" reward currency. The obvious choice would be emeralds. But then someone could just make a wheat farm and trade for a ton of emeralds and buy whatever ship he wants. Or is that not a bad thing? What do you guys think I should use for currency to purchase airships and other rewards?

@GodsDead The reload thing would be difficult, but perhaps not impossible. Remind me, Godsdead, what was the trouble you had with the bukkit /reload? I can't remember at the moment. I'll put trap doors and a release sign on the list. They shouldn't be too hard.

@AlexSmith49

There is, mwkaicz implemented a hover / car system. Here are the attributes you want to use in your .craft file:

1. canHover - For Hovercraft, which follow the contours of the land
2. canHoverOverWater - Same as above, but over water
3. hoverLimit - if set to a number (say... 2), is the distance above the ground the craft will hover to. Keep this number low.
4. harvestBlocks - list of materials through which the hovercraft will move (IE: grass and flowers). Does not affect non-hovercraft.

I need to get those documented in the advanced features. I'll work on that today. Hopefully mwkaicz is reading and can check my description and make sure its accurate.

I have a quick update. I've started work on the next set of features / fixes. Here is what I have done so far:

1. canFly has been replaced with blockedByWater. The new name is more descriptive of the attributes actual purpose. If true, the craft can't go through water. If false, it can. Don't worry about fixing all your old .craft files, though. If it sees canFly, it will continue to use that. So its backwards compatible.
2. it now notifies the player of permission failures. Mainly to cut down on support inquiries.
3. signs are no longer case sensitive. For the same reason.
4. torpedoes or other "moveEntities: false" crafts will no longer trigger a release event from pilot movement. Basically you no longer have to rush to fire them before they release themselves
5. sinking crafts with water onboard no longer leave huge fountains hanging mid-air

I also did some tests with Minecraft 1.8's "relative teleport" system. It looks very promising. Hopefully this will mean it won't jerk the pilot around when you move anymore. This will matter most for fighter jocks, currently its nearly impossible to execute rapid maneuvers because it keeps changing where you are facing.

Alot depends on how bukkit implements the relative teleport system. I haven't been able to find out yet, my tests were on the standard server. Even if Bukkit fails in this regard, though, I have a backup plan to get fighter control smoother. It would involve direct control of the fighter rather than through the stick. We'll see what happens, I'd rather just have smooth motion all around.

Sorry for the late replies, I have been out of town.

@Rickolo Yes you certainly can, depending on what you mean by plane. You can control most aspects of craft components and speeds, although you could not make a craft that has to keep flying forward to maintain altitude if that is what you are looking for.

@tonidu28 Sadly, the dev.bukkit.org staff has been removing any links to outside downloads, and the .craft files can't be uploaded to this site. The best I can do is point you at youtube video that has the .craft download link in the description. Like this one from the Minecraft Airship Pirates series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2JOyoCndlM

@Hmmcrunchy When I was playing around with the sink feature, it surprised me how much of the ship you had to destroy to get it to sink. I see you use wool as your "lift" block, just like I do. So, as the wool burns it often knocks off other parts that are laying on it. Like redstone wiring, trapdoors, carpet, etc. As the non-wool parts of the ship fall away or are blown up, the ship gets lighter. So, for example, if you blow off all the armor on a warship it actually flies better than before you fired a shot. My recommendation is to set SinkPercentage to as high as possible, I use 99%. The rest comes down to aiming. You have to land your shots so it destroys flyblocks, while keeping the heavy parts of the ship attached so it sinks.

Fire almost always blocks movement, regardless of if fire is on the flyblocks. This because the fire spawns adjacent to a block. So if your nose is on fire, the fire spawns in front of the nose, blocking the ship. I actually like this behavior. Once you set a ship on fire, its in some serious trouble. Also, it allows you to stop an enemy warship so you can catch up to it, by shooting fireballs across its armor. The fire won't burn the ship through the armor, but it will stop it from getting away. Since all my ships go the same speed, that's the best way to make it so you can every actually catch someone.

On things turning to stone, I couldn't speak to that. You may be right on the ore obfusticator causing the issue. I would love to hear if you could confirm that.

@rimrot

The phrasing must be exactly correct, including capitalization. The sign should read exactly:
Cruise: OFF
on the first line. The other lines could be anything. For example, "Torpedo Launch" or something.

EDIT: also, make sure its a sign on another block, not a free standing sign.

If anyone is interested, I finally finished episode 2 of the Minecraft Airship Pirates series. This episode includes, among other things, some excellent shots of underwater torpedo use. Not to mention a really big airship fleet...

Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2JOyoCndlM

Also included in the description is schematics for several of the airships and the submarine involved.