Homing Missiles - Immersive Aircraft

Homing Missiles - Immersive Aircraft

Homing Missiles expands Immersive Aircraft with a complete aircraft weapon system featuring advanced targeting, realistic missile flight, defensive countermeasures, multiple warheads, tactical warnings, and Minecraft-style equipment.

Install a compatible launcher on an Immersive Aircraft vehicle, load its matching ammunition into the aircraft or pilot inventory, and fire with the normal Immersive Aircraft weapon controls. Guided launchers can acquire visible aircraft in front of the pilot and build a lock before launch.

Features

• Custom four-rail rocket pods and guided missile racks
• Infrared and radar seekers with different strengths and countermeasures
• Red, yellow, and green target acquisition stages
• Forward target selection, line-of-sight checks, signal quality, and seeker memory
• Boost, sustain, and coast motor phases with energy-based turning
• Lead guidance and proximity fuses for guided missiles
• Consumable ammunition from the aircraft or pilot inventory
• Aircraft weapon HUD with ammunition, lock, range, and threat information
• Incoming missile warnings with directional and time-to-impact feedback
• Persistent smoke and flame trails, custom sounds, impact effects, and camera shake
• Survival recipes and creative inventory entries for every item
• Minecraft-style 16x16 item art and compact aircraft-mounted models
• Support for compatible Immersive Aircraft add-on planes and helicopters

Weapons

• Standard Rocket: Balanced general-purpose unguided rocket
• High-Explosive Rocket: Larger blast for structures and grouped targets
• Napalm Rocket: Focused incendiary impact with spreading fire
• Armor-Piercing Rocket: High direct damage against vehicles with a compact blast
• Heat-Seeking Missile: Infrared guidance that can be defeated by flares
• Radar-Guided Missile: Longer-range guidance that can be disrupted by chaff
• Training Missile: Guided practice ammunition without a destructive explosion

Targeting and Controls

• Use the normal Immersive Aircraft weapon control to fire
• Press R to cycle through valid forward targets
• Press V to deploy flares
• Press B to deploy chaff

Targets must be within the launcher's range and field of view. Solid terrain blocks acquisition. A guided missile performs best after the lock indicator turns green.

Countermeasures

Install an Aircraft Countermeasure Dispenser in the aircraft inventory and carry the matching cartridges.

• Flares create bright heat decoys for infrared missiles
• Chaff creates metallic radar decoys for radar-guided missiles

Countermeasures are not guaranteed. Their effectiveness depends on timing, distance, missile type, and seeker state.

Ammunition

Each launcher consumes matching ammunition when fired. Ammunition can be stored in the aircraft inventory or carried by the pilot. Creative-mode pilots do not consume ammunition.

Configuration

Settings are generated in config/homing-missiles.properties.

Server owners can adjust seeker behavior, lock speed, missile guidance, propulsion, maximum range, proximity fuses, explosions, terrain damage, fire spread, countermeasures, ripple timing, trails, warnings, and camera shake.

Requirements

• This is NOT a standalone mod
• Required mod: Immersive Aircraft
• Minecraft: 1.20.1 / 1.21.1 / 1.21.11
• Loaders: Fabric / Forge / NeoForge, depending on the downloaded file
• Fabric releases require Fabric API
• Java: 17 for 1.20.1, 21 or newer for 1.21.x
• For multiplayer, install the add-on on both the client and server

Compatibility

Download the file matching your Minecraft version and mod loader. The add-on is not locked to one exact Immersive Aircraft release and is designed to work with compatible Immersive Aircraft versions made for the same Minecraft version.

Credits

Created by Crabb4n
Discord: crabban1337

Special thanks to the Immersive Aircraft team for the original mod.

License

CC0-1.0

You may include this add-on in modpacks and servers with credit.