MilitaryCraft

Vehicles · Aircraft · Emplacements · Air support · Infantry gear

One Paper plugin. 16 modules. No client mod, no dependencies.

MilitaryCraft adds drivable vehicles, aircraft, placeable weapon emplacements, air-support strikes and a full set of infantry equipment to Minecraft 1.21.4.

Everything is built from vanilla display entities and standard server API calls, so your server needs no client mod and no extra plugins.

Requirements

Server: Paper 1.21.4+ Verified on versions 1.21.4–1.21.8
Java: 21
Dependencies: none
Folia: not supported

Ground vehicles

Tank — articulated hull, independently rotating turret, elevating barrel, ballistic shells, reload timer and barrel overheat. Survives 4 creeper blasts. Command: /tank
Kamaz "Pushinka" — heavy armoured truck, driver + 6 passengers, huge mass, throws entities aside at speed. Command: /kamaz
Pickup — light truck with driver, passenger and gunner on a roof-mounted MG with its own aiming camera. Command: /pickup
Motorcycle — driver, pillion and sidecar seats, camera steering, fall damage, persistent spawn index. Command: /moto
Train "Desert Express" — steam locomotive + 3 carriages on vanilla rails as one rigid formation. Command: /train

Aircraft

Jet — fixed-wing fighter, camera steering, afterburner with heat gauge, rockets + bombs, stalls and crashes. Command: /jet
Helicopter — true hover, collective boost, spinning main and tail rotors, rockets + bombs, pilot + 3 passengers. Command: /helicopter
Airship — lighter-than-air, holds altitude on its own, gas burner lift, wide-blast bombs. Command: /airship
Drone (UAV) — first-person flight, camera-only steering, 4 rockets and a detonating warhead. Command: /drone

Emplacements

Anti-air turret — CIWS with traversing radar dome and rotary cannon, furnace-fuel powered, mob or player targeting modes. Command: /pvo
Artillery "Belochka" — indirect fire from a top-down camera. Use /shoot x z to fire at real coordinates. Fires 3-shell salvos with range-based dispersion. Command: /artillery
Trap bus — placeable bus with two hostile worker NPCs that stun and snatch players into the bus. Command: /tck

Air support

Airstrike — beacon item or command calls a bombing run: 12 charges over a 50-block carpet, with warning radius and cooldowns. Command: /airstrike
Nuclear strike — bomber drops a single large bomb: crater, rising cloud, wide-radius damage, blinding flash and lingering radiation zones. Command: /nuke

Infantry equipment

Roughly 40 items for round-based or battle-royale gameplay:

Medical: medkit, painkiller, ration, combat stimulant, repair kit
Armour: vest, kevlar helmet, exosuit, gas mask, impact pads, camo cloak, visor helmet
Firearms: rifle, pistol, grenade launcher, AA launcher, heavy MG, flamethrower, chemical sprayer
Thrown: frag, smoke, flash, impulse, molotov, sleep gas
Deployables and traps: barbed wire, tripwire, proximity mine, sentry gun, firing wall, demolition charge, suicide vest
Utility: marker, grappling hook, jump jet, recon scanner, trench shovel

Use /warkit giveall to receive everything.

Installation

Drop MilitaryCraft-1.0.0.jar into your server's plugins folder.
Start the server once. A default plugins/MilitaryCraft/config.yml file will be generated.
Adjust the configuration if needed, then use /mc reload or restart the server.

The resource pack is optional. Without it, items keep their vanilla appearance and everything still works.

First steps

/mc menu — open the graphical command menu
/mc modules — list every module and whether it is enabled
/tank give — receive a tank, place it and right-click to board
/mc cleanup — remove every tracked vehicle and stray entity

Configuration

Every one of the 16 modules can be toggled individually in the modules: block and has its own movement, weapon and model settings.

Vehicle durability is expressed in creeper blasts for readable tuning.

Full documentation is available on GitHub.

README is available in English, Русский and Українська.