🐢 Colossi

Summary:

Giants carrying real, buildable islands on their backs! Explore, build bases, and steer giant tortoises, ocean whales, and flying jellyfish across the world.

Colossi brings ancient, massive creatures to Minecraft that travel the world carrying real, physical pieces of land on their backs! Each colossus holds a fully customizable island featuring hills, trees, ruins, working lifts, and wild creatures, all built from real blocks.

Mine their resources, build your home, and once claimed, take the helm to steer these walking, swimming, and flying fortresses across the world!

🗿 The Three Colossi So Far:

• 🐢 The Zaratan: A calm giant tortoise walking the land.

• 🐋 The Jasconius: A majestic ocean whale carrying a wrecked galleon.

• 🪼 The Aurelia: A translucent flying jellyfish carrying a sky storm observatory.

Requires Sable and GeckoLib on NeoForge 1.21.1.

🏝️ Deck Features & Interactive Structures

• Procedural Islands: Every new colossus spawns with a unique island layout: camps with loot, ruined altars, ponds, groves, thickets, or observatories.

• Working Lifts & Rescue Ropes: Fully functional lifts and lifeboats transport players between the ground/water and the deck. If you fall off or get left behind, use hanging rescue ropes or call the lift!

• Deck Wildlife: Birds, squirrels, frogs, gulls, and fish inhabit the decks. They adapt to weather/seasons and do not interfere with building.

• Safe Building: Mined natural blocks regenerate over time, while anything built by players is permanently protected.

🎮 Steering, Ownership & Whistling

• Core Console: Right-click a wild colossus's console to claim ownership! Access control over steering, lift operations, player permissions (build/drive/lift), renaming, and chunk loading.

• Interactive Helm: Take control to switch to an orbital camera view complete with a custom HUD (speed, heading, altitude/depth):

  • W / S: Accelerate / Brake

  • A / D: Steer left / right

  • Space: Order land colossi to rest/stand up

  • Shift: Exit steering

• Species-Specific Controls (Rebindable):

  • 🪼 Aurelia: Use R / V to climb or descend; press G to auto-land.

  • 🐋 Jasconius: Press G to drop/weigh anchor; press R to command a spectacular ocean breach!

• The Colossus Whistle: Bind it to your colossus (Shift + right-click on deck) and use it anywhere to call your colossus directly to your location!

• Craftable Survival Progression: Craft Core Crystals, Consoles, Species Seeds, Colossus Compasses, Parachutes, and Whistles. Includes a full advancement tree!

🐢 The Zaratan (Giant Tortoise)

• Scale & Presence: Oval deck measuring ~104 x 77 blocks (39,000 blocks of space) standing 30 blocks tall. Its massive legs shake the camera and kick up dust with every step.

• Living Model: Features walking, breathing, blinking, roaring, and head-tracking animations. Glowing shell runes and eyes illuminate the night.

• Resting & Boarding: Periodically lies down to rest. Toss Kelp or Seagrass near its head to make it lie down instantly for easy boarding!

🐋 The Jasconius (Ocean Whale)

• Deep Ocean Swimmer: A massive 130-block ocean giant carrying a wrecked 80-block galleon, complete with gun ports, a captain's cabin, and a lifeboat lift.

• Plows the Shallows: Automatically scrapes soft seabed blocks in shallow waters to cross narrow seas without getting stuck (seabed blocks regenerate shortly after).

• Ocean Mechanics: Features water spouts, bow waves, whale songs, and surrounding dolphins. Drop the anchor to hold position, or trigger a 12-block ocean breach!

🪼 The Aurelia (Flying Jellyfish)

• Sky Observatory: Features a translucent dome, copper observatory tower, lightning rods, and 72 animated trailing tentacles with glowing rune rings.

• Flight Controls: Adjust cruising altitude anywhere from 14 to 140 blocks above the ground, or use console presets to land smoothly.

• Safety System: Features a gondola lift, a parachute item, and dynamic tentacle rescue mechanics—if you fall off the deck, the nearest tentacle will catch you and place you back safely!

📦 Mobile Base Chunk Loading

Owned colossi keep their surrounding chunks loaded—even while you are offline! This ensures your walking, swimming, or flying base keeps moving and machines stay active.

• Server-Friendly: Toggle chunk loading anytime via the console. Server owners can customize chunk radiuses (ownership.chunkLoadRadius, default 5x5). Wild colossi never load chunks.

⚠️ Important Details & Safety

• Stomp Protection: Zaratan feet deal stomp damage to entities underneath (deck passengers and Creative players are safe). Toggable via config.

• Gentle Footprints: Temporary soil compaction and seabed scraping revert naturally after a few minutes.

• Full Visual Toggles: Camera shake, dust, water spouts, tentacle shadows, and particle effects can be toggled per-player or globally.

🔭 Future Roadmap ("Coming Next")

Colossi's architecture makes adding new species streamlined. Planned additions include:

• 🦣 Two-Legged Colossus: A bipedal walker featuring a unique gait and deck structure.

🔌 Requirements & Compatibility

• Required: Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge 21.1.250+, Sable 2.0.6+, and GeckoLib 4.9.3+. Install on both client and server.

Optional Mod Integrations:

• 🌾 Serene Seasons: Moss, ivy, and deck wildlife visually adjust with spring blossoms, autumn leaves, and winter frost.

• 🌩️ Tempest Almanac: Weather phenomena affect colossi! Blood moons turn runes red, storms spark violet lightning, blizzards blow snow, and severe storms cause unguided colossi to land or lie down until the weather passes.

• ⚡ Sodium & Iris Compatible: Fully tested and optimized for performance with modern rendering and shader setups.

📝 Notes & Permissions

• AI Disclosure: Colossi was created with the assistance of AI.

• Modpacks: Feel free to include Colossi in any free modpack hosted on CurseForge or Modrinth!