DEADHOUR

This project is a part of DEADHOUR.

Handmade Guns Overdrive

Advanced Firearms for Minecraft 1.7.10

Handmade Guns Overdrive (HMG) is a heavily expanded firearms framework for Minecraft Forge 1.7.10, designed for everything from survival and military modpacks to large-scale faction warfare and PvP servers.

HMG is built around external content packs rather than a fixed weapon roster. Guns, ammunition, magazines, attachments, models, animations, sounds, recipes, projectiles, and weapon behavior can all be customized, allowing individual packs and servers to build completely different firearm ecosystems on top of the same mod.

Modern Weapons & Animation

HMG Overdrive introduces a modern animation system alongside full support for traditional HMG weapons.

Weapons can use native Blockbench .bbmodel models and animations, allowing animated firearms to be imported directly from Blockbench without converting them to legacy OBJ/MQO models or recreating their animations with AddParts.

Blockbench weapons support animated firing, tactical and empty reloads, inspection, magazines, bolts, weapon components, first-person hands, ADS positioning, and third-person positioning. The underlying animation system supports layered animations, smooth transitions, interpolation, priorities, interruption, looping, and independent animation state for individual weapons.

Existing OBJ, MQO, AddParts, and legacy HMG content packs remain supported.

Advanced Firearm Mechanics

HMG provides a large configurable weapon framework including:

• Semi-automatic, burst, and fully automatic firearms
• Magazine-based and specialized reload systems
• Multiple ammunition and magazine types
• Weapon attachments and configurable compatibility
• Recoil and advanced ADS behavior
• Fire selectors and weapon zeroing
• Animated magazines, bolts, hands, and weapon components
• Weapon mobility and weight mechanics
• Improved projectile tracing and headshot detection
• Mounted and placed weapons

Weapons can range from simple pistols and rifles to machine guns, launchers, explosives, and specialized military equipment.

Projectiles & Explosives

HMG supports far more than standard bullets, including armor-piercing ammunition, fragmentation rounds, rockets, grenades, explosive projectiles, incendiaries, lasers, torpedoes, and other custom projectile types.

Explosion behavior includes configurable damage and block destruction, improved distance falloff, and physical cover detection so substantial blocks can protect entities while vegetation and other non-solid blocks do not act as unrealistic blast shielding.

Content Packs & Survival

Content packs can define nearly every part of a weapon independently, making HMG suitable for both combat-focused servers and full survival progression.

The mod includes support for gun crafting, ammunition production, industrial materials, Gun Smithing Tables, custom recipes, attachments, and pack-specific progression systems.

Modern packs can use a cleaner organized asset structure for models, textures, animations, sounds, and attachments, while older HMG pack layouts remain compatible.

Multiplayer & Server Support

HMG Overdrive is designed with multiplayer and dedicated servers in mind. Gameplay-critical systems such as ammunition, reloads, projectiles, damage, and administrative settings remain server-authoritative while visual animation and presentation are handled client-side.

Server owners have extensive configuration and balancing controls, including projectile behavior, recoil, explosives, mobility, rendering options, pickup behavior, and a persistent global infinite-ammunition mode.

The required vecmath runtime is bundled with HMG Overdrive, so dedicated servers should not require a separate vecmath installation.

Mod Compatibility

HMG Overdrive includes compatibility and integration work for many major 1.7.10 combat and immersion mods, including:

• MCHeli
• MCHeli Overdrive
• Combatives
• Real First Person 2
• Flan's Mod armor systems
• FMU+
• Guide-API
• LittleMaidMobX
• GVC / WW2 ecosystem mods

Additional integrations can also be provided through content packs and server configurations.

Built for Minecraft 1.7.10

Handmade Guns Overdrive is actively maintained for Minecraft Forge 1.7.10, bringing modern weapon animation, improved combat mechanics, better server support, and significantly more flexible content creation to the original HMG platform.

Whether you're building a survival modpack, modern military experience, faction-war server, or custom PvP environment, HMG provides a highly configurable foundation for firearms and combat.