MCHeli Rework [Modern Port]

MCHeli Rework

Helicopters, planes, tanks and ground vehicles for modern Minecraft on Forge, NeoForge and Fabric.

MCHeli Rework brings back MCHeli 1.0.3 by EMB4, the helicopter mod that stopped at Minecraft 1.7.10. Every system is rewritten for the modern game: flight models, weapons, damage, HUDs, rendering and networking. The original vehicles, models, textures and sounds are used unchanged, from your own copy of the original download (see Installing).

Supported versions

Pick the file for your Minecraft version and loader in the Files tab.

Features

• 112 vehicles: 33 helicopters, 51 planes, 12 tanks and cars, 16 ground weapons, with the original handling, crew seats, moving parts, landing gear, swing wings, VTOL and carriers.
• 229 weapons: guns, rockets, bombs, guided and lock-on missiles, torpedoes, close air support and flares, with armour, damage, crashes and burning wrecks.
• The original HUDs: radar, pitch ladders, heading tapes, weapon and lock readouts, drawn from the original HUD scripts.
• Pilot gunner mode: the AC-130 circles on autopilot while you work the guns.
• Survival crafting with the original recipes, all in your recipe book.
• Multiplayer: works on dedicated servers.

Screenshots

New in 1.1.0

Back up your world before updating. Only the Forge 26.3 file has been started from a launcher so far, and this release is the first time people play the rest, so fixes will follow in 1.1.1. Please report what you find on GitHub.

• Vehicle workshop: build a vehicle in game from a Blockbench or Blender model, with its own textures and sounds, and send it to a server for its operators to approve.
• Content packs: sent to players when they join a server.
• Fuel, cargo and the vehicle screen, along with supply vehicles.
• The rest of the original's equipment, including the thermal view, UAV stations, the drafting table and the team manager.
• Night glow: tracers, rocket motors, flares and explosions light up the night, and a crash keeps burning for 30 seconds. Turn it off per player in config/mcheli-client.toml.
• Steadier vehicles under fire: no more red flash or jolt when a vehicle you fly is hit.
• Server settings and commands: serverconfig/mcheli-server.toml (block damage, fires, vehicle toughness, infinite ammunition, disabled vehicles) and /mcheli to list, give and reload vehicles.

Installing

This mod's file contains only the mod's code. The vehicles are EMB4's original content, which you download yourself from the original project:

1. Install Forge, NeoForge or Fabric for your Minecraft version (see Supported versions) and put this mod in your mods folder. On Fabric, also install Fabric API.
2. Download MC1.7.10_mcheli_1.0.3.zip from the MCHeli Minecraft Helicopter Mod Files tab.
3. Create a folder called mcheli next to mods and put the zip in it. Do not unzip it, and do not put it in mods.

.minecraft/
  mods/mcheli-<loader>-<minecraft version>-<mod version>.jar
  mcheli/MC1.7.10_mcheli_1.0.3.zip

1. Start the game. The first start converts the zip, which takes a few seconds. If the zip is missing, the game still starts and the chat tells you where to put it.

Servers need the same two files.

Controls

Take a vehicle from the MCHeli creative tabs, right-click a block to place it and right-click the vehicle to board. W/S throttle, mouse to fly, Space for hover (helicopters), B for landing gear, use key to fire, G to switch weapons, H for gunner mode. Every key can be rebound under Controls, category MCHeli. The full list is in the controls guide.

FAQ

Why do I have to download the original separately? The original vehicles are EMB4's work and All Rights Reserved. This way nothing of theirs is redistributed, and the original project keeps its downloads.

Does it work with old MCHeli add-on packs? They have not been tried. For new vehicles, 1.1.0 has content packs and an in-game vehicle workshop (see New in 1.1.0).

Other Minecraft versions? See Supported versions above. Each release ships on all of them.

Found a bug? Please report it on GitHub with your logs/latest.log.

Credits

• EMB4 created MCHeli and all of its vehicles, models, textures and sounds (original forum thread).
• Fureniku maintains the original MCHeli project on CurseForge.
• JayMar921 (JHProjects) wrote the rework. More of their projects and plugins are at jhprojects.dev.

MCHeli Rework is an unofficial, non-commercial fan project.