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Airship Fleet (Mule)

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khanaris
Level 66 : High Grandmaster Pirate
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Sort of named after and inspired by the small loader from Firefly. I needed a light civilian vehicle for a farm island I am working on (which you can see in the background of two of the pictures). The Skyfish didn't work because I need something that could haul produce to market. I also wanted something that looked slower and a bit clumsy. It also had to fit in a hanger hollowed out of the rock, which meant I couldn't make it very wide.

It started off sitting on a balloon, but the 3-wide wool shape just didn't look like an envelope, so I scrapped it and made it a true flyer like the Skyfish and Aerwhale classes.

It raises an issue that invariably comes up whenever you start trying to design vehicles in minecraft. You need a lot more blocks to define the shape of a vehicle than you do something like a house, but the vehicle is supposed to be smaller than the house. Even a relatively simple vehicle like this one or the Skyfish can end up the size of a two-story building, dwarfing the structures you intend to use it with.

I haven't been keeping up with the Zeppelin mod, but this should work pretty well with it as long as it doesn't have issues with any of the individual block types.
CreditTexture back is Dokucraft (Fall Edition), by Doku and Meizme.
Progress100% complete
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erisawesome
09/30/2012 10:25 am
Level 8 : Apprentice Modder
i call it a farmer ship :D
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zonate12
02/05/2012 2:33 am
Level 36 : Artisan Engineer
!!!!!!!!!!!

yay
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zonate12
02/05/2012 2:33 am
Level 36 : Artisan Engineer
thanks
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zonate12
02/04/2012 3:10 am
Level 36 : Artisan Engineer
can i use this in my new steampunk powerplant/suplly station im building (ill give full credit to you)
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khanaris
02/04/2012 11:32 am
Level 66 : High Grandmaster Pirate
Sure, go ahead. Just note down where you got it.
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Domo46
11/11/2011 2:21 pm
Level 22 : Expert Blacksmith
How longs this sereis gonna go on for? next you need to make something big.

Nice job!
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khanaris
11/11/2011 2:36 pm
Level 66 : High Grandmaster Pirate
Until I get bored with it, probably. I have a much harder time with the big projects. All of these are built in roughly the same way. I start off with the balloon framework, then rough out a coarse hull shape, then move around on the inside adding decks and rooms. The challenge with the really large ships is in keeping up a good level of detail. You want something that covers a very large area, but still doesn't have large expanses of empty space in the design.
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MarginallyDwarven
11/04/2011 9:31 am
Level 1 : New Miner
Nice Firefly reference, but at first I honestly thought it was a reference to a certain game for the Atari 400/800...

Also, what's that big complex on the left of the 3rd picture? Is it the rumoured Khanaris megaworld and/or an updated Red Tern Island? Hmmmmmm...
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khanaris
11/04/2011 8:38 pm
Level 66 : High Grandmaster Pirate
That is the fortress as it is in the world I use for construction. It just looks a bit larger than normal because of how the current renderer treats things close to the sides. Red Tern looks pretty bad right now, as I only have buildings roughed out in wool. I finished the mines a while ago, but there is still a lot more to do.

But that does raise a good point. Originally I kept the floating islands separate because I wanted enough dock space for the entire fleet, but at the moment I already have way more ship designs than docks anyway. So it would be easy enough to join up the individual islands, with or without adding the much larger Red Tern Island.
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AHaddon
11/04/2011 8:09 pm
Level 35 : Artisan Dragonborn
:D Firefly is the best sci-fi show ever, EVER, too bad they stopped filming after the movie.
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