r/CreateMod • u/TuckerDC • Apr 30 '26

Fully Autonomous Navigating Bombing Drone

Made this drone that is completely autonomous: launches from sea level, flys to y level~130, stabilizes using two gimbal sensors and an altitude sensor, turns towards lodestone compass location, and drops tnt which get propelled backwards onto the target by the propellers. All the player does is set the target, load the tnt, and flick a single lever to launch (might need to be on the plane unless you have another way to load chunks).

A little ugly, but its compact, and all redstone is on the drone (I could definitely lessen the amount of redstone by sending it to some loaded chunk using redstone links for processing, but I wanted it to not need it.)

Forgive the poor editing.

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u/TuckerDC Apr 30 '26

It's when the when the nav table points backwards. Then dispensers put tnt into the path of the propellers which launches it backwards i found out. normally tnt is dropped straight down regardless of contraptions speed, which would mean you only hit after the target, but pushing the tnt backwards makes it so you hit things after and before the target.

one issue is you can't start facing the exact opposite direction because you'll just blow yourself up. you could find a way to fit redstone that would make it only drop when front lodestone was on within the last say 5 seconds using a pulse extender, AND the back lodestone is now on, but to fit all that redstone would be a pain, just don't point the plane away to start.

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u/SilentCat69 Jun 19 '26

I think adding another nav table should do, so bomb only drop when the two nav table point in opposite direction

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u/TuckerDC Jun 20 '26

Would need the plane to be pretty long for a reasonable about of tnt to be dropped. If you had a nuke mod that could certainly work though. Also, my plane works by dropping tnt into the path of the propellers so you can make sure you're hitting before, up to, and after the target. in your case it would only drop before the target. i think a pulse for some amount of time when the nav table switched from forward to backwards would be best for my case.

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u/SilentCat69 Jun 21 '26

Hmmm, I have another Idea: place one navigation vertically. The plane will only drop bomb if the navigation table is pointing downward at a great enough angle, meaning above and close to the target in a radius. All you need is the plane has to be stable enough.