Aircraft and copycat blocks
Since 0.5.2-birch-12 the pack has two new mods. Immersive Aircraft is the easy way into the sky: you craft a plane, place it and fly. Create: Copycats+ adds copycat blocks for detailed building, and a lot of shared Create Aeronautics planes need it.
Want to build your own flying machine block by block instead? That is still Create Aeronautics, and Building planes with Create Aeronautics walks through it.
Immersive Aircraft: craft it, place it, fly it
Section titled “Immersive Aircraft: craft it, place it, fly it”Every aircraft is an item. Craft it, right-click it on the ground where there is room, climb in and go. There is nothing to glue or assemble, and no physics to fight with.
| Aircraft | What it is good for |
|---|---|
| Biplane | Fast and fairly reliable. Needs a long, clear runway to take off. |
| Airship | Slow but very easy to handle. A good first aircraft. |
| Cargo Airship | Slow and thirsty, but it carries a whole storage of items. |
| Warship | A slow flying fortress with room for weapons. |
| Gyrodyne | A muscle-powered copter: give it a good push and off it goes. |
| Quadrocopter | Great for building up high, and not much else. |
| Bamboo Hopper | A chunky three-seater with pontoons, so it can land on water. |
Parts and recipes. Aircraft are built from crafted parts: hulls, sails, engines, propellers and boilers. JEI shows every recipe, so look up the aircraft you want and work back from there.
Fuel. Engines burn fuel from the aircraft’s fuel slot. Ordinary furnace fuels like coal work, and so does blaze powder. You get a warning when you are running low.
Upgrades. Open the aircraft’s inventory to fit upgrades: better engines and propellers, boilers, gyroscopes for steadier flying, a reinforced hull and better landing gear. There are slots for a banner and dye too, so you can paint it.
Controls. Immersive Aircraft has its own section in Options, Controls, Key Binds: throttle, steering, boost, free look, mouse steering and dismount. Check it once before your first flight.
Weapons do not break builds
Section titled “Weapons do not break builds”Some aircraft can carry a rotary cannon (uses gunpowder), a heavy crossbow (uses arrows) or a bomb bay (drops TNT). On Indigo they hurt players and mobs but never break blocks or start fires, and a crash does not blow a hole in the ground either. That is how the mod comes, and the server pins it that way, the same as the guns. PvP works the same as any other weapon: kills count toward the 3-kill cooldown.
Create: Copycats+
Section titled “Create: Copycats+”Copycats+ adds dozens of copycat blocks: slopes, slices, layers, beams, boards, panes, stairs, doors and more. Place one, then right-click it with any block and it takes on that block’s look. They are how people make smooth curves, thin trims and detail that full blocks cannot.
Recipes are in JEI. If you already use Create’s copycat panel and step, these work the same way.
Shared plane schematics. Many Create Aeronautics planes on sites like createmod.com use Copycats+ blocks for their hulls. With Copycats+ in the pack those blocks paste in too, so check a schematic’s required mods and you will know what to expect. Copycat blocks also carry sensible weights when they fly, so a copycat hull is light.
Good to know
Section titled “Good to know”- Fly well clear of town and of other people’s builds, and land on open ground.
- If an aircraft is destroyed it drops back as an item, along with what was in its inventory.
- The usual rules apply.