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Create: Ambush Safezones

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Create: Ambush Safezones

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Creates safezones to prevent damage to your base

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# Ambush Safe Zone

**An unofficial addon for Create Aeronautics: AMBUSH** (linked under Relations).
Not affiliated with or endorsed by the AMBUSH author.

Tired of getting shelled in your own living room? Place a **lodestone** in your base, and AMBUSH ship cannons will not target you anywhere within **32 blocks** of it. Standing in an active **beacon's** range works too.

## How it works

- **Place a lodestone.** You'll get a chat message confirming the safe zone is active.
- **Break it** and the safe zone is gone.
- Stand anywhere within the radius and no AMBUSH ship cannon will pick you as a target — big cannons, autocannons, swivel turrets, all of them.
- **Beacons count too:** anywhere an active beacon gives you its effects, you're safe (turn this off in the config if you like).
- **No shots from ships you can't see:** a ship cannon only targets you if nothing solid is between the ship and your eyes. Hills, walls, roofs and **leaves** hide you; glass and water don't.
- **Ships lose track of you:** within 64 blocks, a ship that hasn't seen you for 10 seconds stops following you and holds where it is - go underground and it won't park above you. Further out, ships still head for your general area.
- **TNT that can't reach you fizzles:** TNT dropped by an AMBUSH ship only explodes if a player is within 10 blocks of its height, so ships can't crater the surface above your tunnels. Your own TNT is never touched.
- **Goat horn = come and get me:** blow any vanilla goat horn and every hostile ship is alerted to your position for 2 minutes. Safe zones and line of sight still protect you.
- Ships still fly, fight each other, and shoot at you the moment you step outside. This protects *you in your base*, not the whole world.

## Commands

Command What it does
`/safezone` Tells you whether you're protected right now, and whether the mod hooked into AMBUSH correctly
`/safezone debug` Toggles an on-screen notice whenever line of sight stops a ship from targeting you (shows the blocking block)
`/safezone scan` Registers lodestones that were placed **before** you installed the mod (within 16 blocks of you)

## Configuration

Edit it in game (**Mods → Ambush Safe Zone → Config**, with Catalogue or any config-menu mod; changes apply instantly) or in `config/ambush_safezone-common.toml`.

Setting Default  
`radius` `32` Protected radius around each marker, **1–50 blocks**. The zone is a **sphere** — it reaches the same distance up, down and sideways
`markerBlock` `minecraft:lodestone` Any block ID can be the marker
`beaconsAreSafeZones` `true` An active beacon's effect range also counts as a safe zone
`requireLineOfSight` `true` Ship cannons only target you with a clear line of sight (terrain, solid blocks and leaves block it; glass and airship hulls don't)
`trackSightRange` `64` Within this many blocks, a ship stops following you if it hasn't seen you for 10 seconds. `0` = off
`tntHeightWindow` `10` Ship TNT only explodes within this many blocks of a player's height (64 blocks sideways). `0` = off
`hornAlertSeconds` `120` How long a goat horn alerts every hostile ship to you. `0` = off

## Requirements

- Minecraft **1.21.1**, **NeoForge**
- **Create Aeronautics: AMBUSH 1.1.6 or newer**

**Server-side only.** On a multiplayer server, only the server needs it; players can join without installing it (install it on the client too if you want the in-game config screen). In singleplayer, just drop it in your mods folder.

## Good to know

- Covers AMBUSH **ship cannons and TNT ships**. Crossbow and musket crew aboard the ships use normal mob AI, so close the windows.
- If a future AMBUSH update changes the code this hooks into, the game **won't crash** — `/safezone` will simply report `Hook: NOT APPLIED` until the addon is updated.

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MIT licensed. Contains no AMBUSH code.