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(1.10.10) Flying Skipper | Steampunk Airship

"Wait a minute... that's not how ships are supposed to work!" said the person who actually cares about realism. This boat with a balloon mostly just upsets scientists who actually know how things are supposed to work. It features a whole mess of nonsense such as autocannons, ferryboats that don't boat, overcomplicated refueling, and enough hissing steam to put a brit's teapot to shame! And a meeting room too, I guess.


-Length: 50.5 Meters
-Width: 20.75 Meters
-Height: 19.75 Meters
-Top Speed: 50-55 Knots
-Coal Capacity: 5,508
-Accommodations for:
2 Crew
8 Passengers
-Max altitude: roughly 2000 Meters above sea level (I didn't bother checking exactly what the new max height is)
-2 Autocannons
-2 Machine Guns
-6 Kegs (bombs)
-2 Boilers (now with autocoalers!)
-3 Separate engines
-2 Ferryboats
-6 Whistles with 3 different pitches
-Working anchors with simulated steam driven windlasses
-Overcomplicated refueling system
-Simulated oscillating steam engine and gears
-Simulated atmospheric density (which means the higher you go, the less it's able to go up)
-1 Crummy map
-Steam flight controller (makes no sense)
-Full interior


1: Turn the dampers all the way up
2: Light boiler
3: once steam pressure is up, you should be good to go

Make sure the boilers have plenty of coal, or turn on the autocoalers


Check boilers regularly, make sure they have plenty of coal
Although it looks like the ship is being steered by the rudders, in reality it's almost entirely being steered by the blade pitch of the main propeller, so you can't really steer with the main engine off.
For parking in mid air, the anchors work really well.
CANNOT COMFORTABLY HANDLE WINDS ABOVE 40%
Altitude is controlled from the bridge, as well as toggle buttons on the flight controller


This build CAN operate with low physics setting, with the updated flight controller.
You CAN have infinite fuel on.
The coal buckets on the refueling system will automatically unload coal when it's connected to the port.
The kegs are dropped manually.
Can be spawned in the default docks, but I highly recommend spawning it on land using the addon editor.
Yes, I am aware of the ships' tendency to lazily turn to the side when at high speeds. I tried using control fins to counter it, tried balancing the ship's weight better and tried adjusting the rudder trim but nothing worked.

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