There are 46,913,768,005,632 different drone combinations you can create!
Are companions with 2 legs and 2 arms too boring?
Are you sick of having just 36 inventory slots, but TOO MANY ITEMS TO CARRY?
Are you tired of not knowing if there are monsters around you when you are digging for 'em diamonds?
Do you want to have
A FLYING ROBOT COMPANION THAT CAN SHOOT kind-of-LASER????
Then you need a
CustomDrone! GO GET ONE NOW!!!
This mod aims to add fully functioning drones to aid the lovely players (that's you) with all kinds of stuffs, from simple tasks like
collecting dropped items,
carrying items around like a flying backpack, and
shooting at monsters to bizarre tasks like
scanning the environment for ores and monsters,
picking up mobs or even picking up yourself and
fly around, and maybe one day
teleport like an Enderman.
Or maybe you can start a race with your fellow friends to see who can fly a drone better and faster?
The possibilities are almost endless with drones. In fact, it goes around
46,913,768,005,632 possible drones, down to the very specific abilities that you can install to each of your drone. And that number will continue to rise.
So why not get yourself a drone and fly 'em
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Me and my drone flying!
Screenshots
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My drone picking up items
My drone scanning the area
My drone following me when I'm flying
My drone scanning monsters and ores in a mine
My drone shooting down a bad spider
My drone picking up a cow
My drone bringing such cow up high
Teehee!
Guide
1. Getting started - making your first drone
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Let's get started by making the utmost sophisticated material of a drone - the
Composite Fiber Plate
Craft one by combining diamond, iron, and ender pearl (it helps things fly).
"How can iron, diamond, and ender pearl turns into Composite Fiber?" - I dont know. Nothing makes sense in this game. It just means that plate is very expensive. Live with it.
Now after you've had the basic material, let's craft the 4 parts of your drone. The
casing, the
chip, the
core, and the
engines
Job well done! Now let's craft the
drone itself
Viola! Now right click the item on a platform and there you have your first drone. Congratulation!
2. Controlling your drone
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Now you have a drone, it's time to make the
controller.
Without the controller you can do virtually nothing.
Do you have your controller with you? Now right click the air!
And you'll be seeing the following screen.
Here you can edit your controller's frequency - choose a number that no one may intefere with.
Note that controllers and drones interact by being of the
same frequency
You see that the controller is not bound to any drone. Which means you are not controlling anything yet.
Now
hold the controller, and
right click your
drone (the drone must be unassigned to anther frequency or controller)
Now open the
controller screen again
You see that the controller is assigned to "
Mah drone"
You can right click that drone with the exact controller to unbind them
Note that if you
sneak-right click a drone you are controlling, then the drone will also be
unassigned from the frequency, which makes other controllers with different frequency able to control it. Good when you are lending your drone to your friend and his controller is of a different frequency.
Now did you notice the button "
Status screen" in the "
Controller screen"?
Press it and you will see a remote-controlled version of the previous
Drone screen. This is where you can change the parameters of the mods, see the inventory of the drone from afar, and so on.
Note: EFT means
Estimated Fly Time
3. Getting to know your drone
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With your hand
not holding a
controller (we'll talk about controllers later), right click a drone that you are controlling.
Question: Which drone am I "
controlling"?
Answer: Any drone that is of the
same frequency as one
controller (or you can say "
Drone flyer") in your
inventory.
You will see a
Drone's screen where you can access its
inventory (if it has any), install
mods, see the
parameters like the parts' ranks, assigned frequency, battery, health, maximum flying speed, eft,...
Note: Estimated Flying Time (or EFT) is a raw calculation of how long your drone can continue flying under the same condition (same engine level, same mods enabled, same sunlight if it is solar powered, same inventory weight (yes the more it carries the more energy it costs to fly),...) and it is not 100% accurate. Hence "estimated".
4. Making things easier with a Crafter
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There are 256 drone recipes, more than 30 module recipes, dozens more parts recipes. You won't remember them all. That's why there is a
Crafter block that will help you.
Place it down, right click it, and the magic appears.
First select the category of the crafting, next select the item that you want to craft, then in the "Ingredient" panel will show what are the requirements and how sufficient you have them. Lastly, type the amount you want to craft and press Craft.
Done! No need for remembering recipe patterns or wondering whether you have enough items to craft.
5. Installing a module
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Modules are what you install to your drone that give the drone
functions.
Simple functions like flying and inventory also need module.
To make a module you can get them from the
Crafter or craft traditionally.
But first you need a module
Place holder
It depends on the rank of the module that you are trying to make that you need the corresponding
Place holder rank
Next, craft the module from the crazy list of recipes down this post.
When you have the module, you can install it to your drone.
You do that by opening your
Drone's screen, place the module into the lonely slot at the middle of the screen, and press
Install module, hoping that the drone can install the module.
Open the controller's
Status screen and you will see the same module installed
Currently there are 34 modules to be installed. A lot more to come in the future.
