Lamborghini Aventador

V12 Apex

A drivable V12 hypercar for Minecraft Forge 1.20.1.

V12 Apex adds a fully drivable, server-authoritative supercar with a custom 3D model, a layered engine sound, drifting, and arcade-style handling. The design is inspired by Italian V12 hypercars, but it is an original model and brand.

Features

Driving

• Server-authoritative physics, so it works properly in multiplayer.
• 7-speed automatic gearbox with a reverse gear.
• Top speed of 355 km/h.
• Hold the handbrake to drift. Wheel slip and grip change as you slide.
• Climbs one-block steps automatically.
• Drives straight through grass, flowers, snow layers, carpets and other passable blocks.
• Crashing into walls bounces you back with a screen shake and impact sound. It never throws you out of the seat or damages the car.

Combat and damage

• The car has 100 HP, shown on the dashboard.
• Anyone who attacks the driver hits the car instead of the player.
• At 0 HP the car doesn't explode. It drops back as a key item and keeps its colour.
• Hitting a living entity knocks it forward, and the faster you go, the harder it is hit.
• Items and XP orbs are ignored.

Look and feel

• Custom detailed 3D model with level-of-detail rendering for performance.
• Scissor doors that swing open when you enter or exit. The inner door panel hides while the door is open.
• First-person cockpit with a steering wheel that turns as you steer.
• Speed-based field of view, camera shake, launch squat and braking dive.
• Speed lines on screen when you are very fast.
• Tire smoke and dug-up ground at the rear wheels while drifting.
• Explosion-style bursts and a boom sound as you cross speed thresholds.
• Digital HUD showing speed, RPM, gear, engine state and car health.
• 9 paint colours.

Sound

• Engine audio built from several RPM layers (idle, mid, high, top end).
• Ignition sound on start-up.
• Tire-skid sound while drifting, plus crash and boom sounds.

Controls

The car seats 2: the driver and one passenger.

Getting started

Craft the V12 Apex Key.

Right-click the ground with the key to place the car, and right-click the car to get in. Dye the key to choose the paint colour.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47.3.0 or newer
• Java 17

The empty spray can is already in the mod, so you don’t need to build anything new. It’s crafted at a crafting table like this:

That’s 8 iron nuggets around 1 glass bottle, and it gives one Empty Spray Can. This comes from the recipe file in your project. I haven’t run the game to try it.

The compressor GUI also has an “Empty Spray” slot, so the can is part of the colour-fill step. I haven’t traced exactly how the compressor fills it with dye. The item text says painting a whole car needs a full spray can, and I haven’t traced the painting code either. I can walk through both if you want to adjust them.

The compressor is the block that turns an empty spray can into a coloured one, using water and dye.

Crafting the compressor (crafting table)

Making a coloured spray can

1. Place the compressor and right-click it to open the screen.
2. Fill the three input slots:
   • Top slot: Empty Spray Can
   • Bottom-left slot: Water Bucket
   • Bottom-right slot: any dye. The dye’s colour becomes the spray colour.
     
     
     
     
3. The coloured spray can appears in the result slot on the right. Taking it uses up 1 empty can and 1 dye, and the water bucket comes back as an empty bucket.
4. If you close the screen, any items left in the input slots go back to your inventory

Painting a car

• Hold a coloured spray can and right-click the car to repaint it. Sneaking (Shift) while clicking skips the painting.
• The can must be full. Otherwise you get the message “Not enough paint: painting a whole car needs a full spray can.” and nothing is painted. Holding right-click also sprays blocks, which uses the can up.
• The car’s colour is saved on its key, so picking the car up and placing it again keeps the colour.

The tank

• The tank is a gauge from empty to full. A new car starts full.
• The “E … F” fuel dial sits to the left of the speedometer, and its low end turns red below 15%.
• The fuel level is saved on the car’s key. That works when you pick the car up and now also when it’s destroyed.

Using fuel

• Fuel only burns while the engine is on.
• The rate is a small amount at idle, more as speed rises, and a bit extra while you hold forward.
• Calculated at 20 ticks per second, a full tank lasts about 46 minutes at idle and about 5 minutes flat out.
• At 0% the engine shuts off and you get the “out of fuel” message. You can’t restart it until you refuel, and the restart attempt shows a “no fuel” message.

Refuelling

• Right-click the car with a Gasoline Bucket. Each bucket adds half a tank, and you get an empty bucket back. In creative mode the bucket isn’t used up.
• If the tank is already about 97% full or more, you get a “tank full” message and the bucket isn’t used.
• You can’t refuel while sneaking, because sneaking-click picks the car up instead.

Getting gasoline

• Smelt an Oil Bucket in a blast furnace. It takes 200 ticks (10 seconds) and gives 0.35 XP, and the result is a Gasoline Bucket.
• The mod has oil and gasoline as fluids. I haven’t checked where oil comes from in the world, so I can’t say how players find it yet.

Credits

Created by deadong_kim.

V12 Apex is an original fan-made design and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any car manufacturer.

Before you publish, check three things against the actual build:

• Recipe: it follows what you described (iron block / glass / redstone) with the layout from v12_apex_key.json. Check the row 2 and row 3 order against the file.
• Key behaviour: I wrote "right-click the ground with the key to place the car" and "dye the key to choose the colour" from how I remember the design. I haven't played this build, so please confirm both.
• Sound rights: the engine, drift and boom sounds came from recordings you supplied. Make sure you have the right to redistribute them, or publishing could be a problem