Dead Air - Pip-Boy Radio Conversion

 A post-collapse Pip-Boy-style radio that sits on your wrist — not an official Fallout product.

Adds T1 and T2 Pip radios (five colours) alongside stock Dead Air radios — it never replaces them.

Dead Air is optional. Without it you still get the Pip shell, wrist equip, placeable decor, and the on-model CRT (STAT mini character). With Dead Air installed, the RADIO tab becomes full tuning / Link, and the CRT can show live radio HUD while music plays.

What you get:

• Off-hand wrist equip — right-click wears the Pip on the left wrist; main hand stays free for tools (F also swaps to off-hand).
• Live CRT — Fallout-style phosphor screen on the model: idle STAT silhouette (your character), plus Dead Air radio HUD while listening when Dead Air is present.
• PipBoyScreen — ESC-styled tab shell. Opens on STAT; tabs: STAT | INV | MAP | RADIO | SPECIAL.
  • STAT — walking player silhouette (armor + Pip).
  • RADIO — Dead Air power / tune / ping (T2 also Link/Unlink). Without Dead Air, this tab prompts you to install it.
  • INV / MAP / SPECIAL — reserved for future companion mods (“Coming soon”).
• Five colours — Light Green, Dark Green, Grey, Dark Blue, Dark Brown (recolour any Pip with dye).
• Placeable desk Pip — decorative block version of the unit.
• Own creative / JEI tab — Pip-Boy; T2 listed only when Dead Air is present.

How to get one:

Craft patterns:

T1 (Light Green):

L = leather, R = redstone, N = Static Note (Dead Air)

T2 (any colour): same layout as Dead Air T2.Radio, with W = that colour’s Pip T1.

Dye map:

How to use it:

Hold a Pip and press N (default Dead Air tune key) or right-click to open the PipBoyScreen. Raise animation brings the wrist unit toward the camera.

With Dead Air: use the RADIO tab like a stock walkie — dial, stations, Ping Location; on T2, Link/Unlink a Signal-Upgraded tower.

Dependencies:

Required: GeckoLib 4.x, ExtraSpecialCore (ESC)
Optional: Dead Air 2.1.0+ (RADIO tab, Link, live radio HUD, crafting/airdrop paths that use Static Notes / Relays)
Optional with Dead Air: Apocalypse Structures: Radio Towers and Airdrops (RadioTowers) for panel/airdrop acquisition

Stock Dead Air T1/T2 radios keep working as usual. This mod is an alternate radio skin + Pip shell, not a replacement for Dead Air or RadioTowers.