Published Nov 1st, 2011, 11/1/11 5:39 pm
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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.
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.
Credit | Texture back is Dokucraft (Fall Edition), by Doku and Meizme. |
Progress | 100% complete |
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Nice job!
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...
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.