Laendli Transport

with the upcomig update, expect a bunch of improvements to QoL and a heap of new all-steel hardware and nifty gadgets. Prep yourself for farming, exploration or all out destruction.

 

vehicle mechanics

• new fuel gauges and vehicle status GUI
• drive/speed selector lever with 'R'-key (land and air vehicles are now generally much faster)
• land vehicles are now slow in reverse
• all water vehicles now refill water automatically
• special abilities are now all controlled individually (previously, settings like 'armed' or 'coupled' for airship weapons or the cargo sleigh were set to the same state for all players when changed)
• existing vehicle's special abilitues (police airship's rockets, ghastship-fireballs were overhauled to be more effective, reliable and less buggy)
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new items and vehicles to explore and farm

• new underwater vehicle 'submersible'
  • right-click to start diving. If you load up some lanterns, you can shoot them to light the sea floor (right-click with an item in hand)
  • automatically refills your oxygen
  • place a backseat cushion next to the submersible to let a friend ride with you.
• new wearable item 'parachgute backpack'
  • never take fall damage again - provided you have enough time to deploy your chute (right-click with an item in hand to deploy)
• update to the diving suit
  • unlimited oxygen level
  • use oxygen to jump or boost upwards (crouching/senaking or swimming)
  • mining is now actually practical underwater
• update to 'roller engine'
  • 'pave' mode: if you load up planks, you can deploy them with right-click to build inclines/stairs into your roads
  • 'plow' mode: if you load up seeds/crops, you can plant them automatically
  • if no seeds/crops are loaded, the roller engine will act as a huge lawnmower or harvester and collect all plants and crops it catches.
  • select between modes 'roll' (working the ground) and 'drive' (just moving) with the drive lever 'R'
  • new animations for plowing
  • slight changes to many models and textures

new items and vehicles to fight off enemies or wage all out war against other players

• 'old' guns - making the link to vanilla combat options with simple firearms from (even more) days gone by
  • musket pistol - use iron nuggets and gunpowder from your inventory or craft paper bullets
  • musket rfile - more puch and accuray. If you can deal with the reload times, this might actually prove really effective. It can also severely stun enemies with a sprint attack
  • cannon - load upo cannonballs and gunpowder (or cannon cahrges is you feel like it) and bombard enemies with splash damage
• artillery: cannons, cannon- and machine gun turrets
  
  • even more puch and range.
  • craft turrets to add them to vehicles like the tank or the track crawler and let another passenger dash out additional damage.

new combat vehicles

• 'cloud viper' - a weaponized variant of the 'cloud-coupé'
  • fires a fast barrage ofmachine gun bursts. It only climbs subtly when targeting enemies. use an empty hand when making sharp manouvers.

• 'war airship' - a bomber variant of the regual ariship
  • slower, but can dro devestating payloads of either tnt blocks or special bombs
  • comes with a machine gun turret for defense
• tank
  • slow but dangerous. The autocannon makes quick work of multiple targets
  • simplay drive into/over any obstace to deal considerable damage to blocks (most materials softer than stone stone) and enemies
• steam warship
  • 3 player vehicle. You can even stand on the deck around the turret.
  • to acces the captain's helm from the deck, look up and right click on th outlined block above the turret! From there, use the R-key like you would use 'right-click' in other vehicles

 in for Halloween(as of 1.7.5c): Ghastship - claim the nether with this new, cursed flying machine!

- includes warped and crimson fungus color variants (right-click with either fungus)

User Manual - Vehicles:

• Ride vehicles by right-clicking them and get off with sneak(like other mountable mobs). To ride as passenger in a vehicle with multiple seats, craft the backseat cushion and place it near the vehicle. After that sit on the cushion.
• Some vehicles have special abilities! Check if their inventory has special slots or buttons and follow the instructions or hover over the '?' symbol. While riding, simply right click with any kind of item in hand to activate the ability. If you right click with an empty hand, you will sound the horn instead.

• All motor vehicles need coal and water to run. Access a vehicle's inventory and coal/water storage with sneak+right click. After that its fuel supply will be displayed while riding and above the vehicle when close to it. If you happen to find a lonely gas station on the way, make sure to refuel and pay the clerk a visit.

• An airship's climb and descent rate are controlled by looking upwards or downwards while flying. They consume fuel to stay in the air - even without a crew - so make sure to not leave them hovering for too long.
• The war airship does not ascend or descend and keeps it's altitude if you have an item in hand. Use this to look down while flying to drop your bombs!

• Vehicles provide a good amount of protection from shots and hits but they can be damaged and eventually get destroyed. You can repair them with iron ingots. Simply sneak+right click on it with Iron ingots in hand. If you can't safe your vehicle anymore try to get away from the spot because it will go with a hefty bang.

• normal roadgoing vehicles like the motor coach are faster on paved ground (stone, wood, dirt paths etc.) and slower on natural terrain like snow, grass, sand or gravel. The track crawler is slower overall but isn't affected by different terrain and can climb inclines of one block while the others need slabs to scale hills and uneven terrain.

• The track crawler can be equipped with a cargo sleigh that can carry a huge load of items and one passenger. It can be linked and disconnected from the crawler to be stored elsewhere.
• alternatively to crafting them separately, you can upgrade a basic motor coach to a passenger/freight motor coach if you sneak+right click on it with either a minecart or a chest in hand.
• Some vehicles have additional cosmetic team or color variants. To get the cosmetic/team variants right click or sneak+right click (depends on the vehicle) on the vehicles with either a dye item (blue, green, red, black, cyan, purple) or a gold block for one special vehicle.

User Manual - Weapons&Tools:

• Weapons have descriptions to show which type of ammunition they use. Pistols and automatic weapons use magazines while rifles and shotguns need individual cartridges. The tnt-launcher uses blocks of tnt as magazines (not tnt-bundles! They are just for throwing).
• The marksman rifle requires you to zoom in before firing. Press R to aim. Using the carbine or the shotgun you can reload after each shot with R.
• The diving suit lets you breathe and work underwater. Of course the whole set must be equipped for it to function. It also provides a decent amount of armor but at the cost of visibility and movement. If you sneak or swim with the suit on, you are propelled back to the surface but at the cost of air.
• The hose gun equipment can be used to put out fires. Equip the hose gun and the hydrant backpack and get back into the water when your tank runs empty. You can also use it to make quick work of lava slimes and blazes if you come across them.

issues as of version 1.7.5b

bugs/ functional issues:

• [1.7.5a/ b] airship animations are partly missing when running server-side

solution: take the coal and water items out of the vehicle and put them back in a second time - this can happen due to client and server not synching the first time

• [1.7.5a/ b] occasionaly, an 'emtpy' tag makes off-hand held items unusable(their nbt-data gets changed) after equipping them while using a firearm

suggestion: try to not use stackable items in off-hand while using the guns

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• [1.7.5a] boat death animations only trigger while on land instead of when in water
• [1.7.5a] cruise steam boat's backseat floats slightly too high above vehicle

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• [1.7.4a/ b] 'empty' tags on items - items that are handled by a player will have their item category tag removed and replaced with an "empty" tag which causes them to not be stackable with existing items of the same type.

planned tweaks:

• adding config files for version 1.7.5x

for structure generation; mob spawns; etc.

- vehicle passengers - the back seat cushion is a crude and unrefined mechanic that will be replaced with an easier system if my resources and knowledge allow it. 

•   track crawler passenger damage - when riding as passenger on the track crawler's sleigh/trailer players recieve an huge amount of damage when they fall from the height of 1 block or more.