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Dead Air is a survival-driven radio network mod made for ZombieCraft that turns radio towers into broadcast nodes and walkie-talkies into exploration tools.

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PLENTY MORE CONTENT COMING SOON!
-Radio Panel Recipe, and crafting method so players can add them to their own bases.
-More Radio Panel Upgrades
-Dimensional Relays (for music in other dimensions) 

Dead Air:

Turns radio towers into broadcast nodes. Each tower can broadcast a different station. Examples include Bedrock Radio, Creatopia Radio, Jukebox FM, Remix Radio, optional internet streams, and dynamic stations from other mods when autoDiscoverModMusic is on.

You can create custom stations, and playlists:

Put .ogg files in config/dead_air/custom stations/<Station Name>/ (one subfolder per station; restart).

Extra tracks for built-in stations: set customMusicPath to a folder with assets/dead_air/sounds/music/custom/*.ogg.


How it works:

Dead Air finds Radio Panel blocks from Apocalypse Structures and treats them as broadcast towers.

Emergency Broadcast (88.5 MHz) can come from any powered tower.

Signal is shown as 0–5 bars (distance, line-of-sight, weather). Bars use 75-block steps: 5/5 within 75 blocks, 4/5 at 150, 3/5 at 225, 2/5 at 300, 1/5 at 375, none beyond that.

Discovery: with the walkie on, being in range of a tower unlocks its station; unlocked stations stay available.

Tower types: Standard towers work immediately. Fenced and Overrun need one Radio Panel right-click to activate; that state saves.

Audio: music plays when the walkie is on you (hand, hotbar, or inventory—configurable). Volume follows signal. Weak signal or bad tuning adds static.


How to use it:

Hold any walkie-talkie and press N (default) or right-click to open the tuning screen.

The screen has a retro dial (88.0–108.0 MHz). Tune with the slider or by picking a station. Ping Location sends your name and coordinates to chat.

Further options: dead_air-common.toml and the in-game config (ranges, volume, overlay, radioAlwaysOn, etc.).


Server commands:

/dead_air spawntower <type> [x] [y] [z] — spawns a tower at your position or the given coords. Types: standard, fenced, overrun. Spawned towers are active immediately.


Current expansions:

  • Dead Air - Wayfarer Radio — extra adventure/RPG-style game music tracks; works standalone or plugs into Dead Air as Wayfarer Radio.
  • Dead Air - Frontline FM — extra high energy battle/combat game music tracks; works standalone or plugs into Dead Air as Frontline FM.
  • Dead Air - After Hours FM — extra Lo-Fi/chillout game music tracks; works standalone or plugs into Dead Air as Frontline FM.

Dependencies:

  • Required: Apocalypse Structures: Radio Towers and Airdrops, Walkie-Talkie, [ESC]
  • Required by Walkie-Talkie: Architectury API, Simple Voice Chat
  • Optional: Berezka's library, Berezka's Zombie Waves API, and [ESC] (for full panel GUI, airdrops, waves, etc.)

Dead Air does not replace RadioTowers or your walkie—it adds broadcasts, stations, signal, and music on top.


ALL CUSTOM MUSIC TRACKS ARE OWNED BY ME, AND MY TEAM, YOU MAY USE THESE IN ANY MODPACK, AND PLAY THESE TRACKS IN YOUTUBE VIDEOS/TWITCH STREAMS, AND SUCH, BUT DO NOT DISTRIBUTE THE MUSIC FILES INDEVIDUALLY! 

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