# 📻 Static Radio

**Bring realistic radio communication to your Minecraft world!**

Static Radio is a feature-rich communication mod that introduces colored network towers, password-protected rooms, and a tower chaining system - perfect for survival multiplayer servers, roleplay communities, and team-based gameplay!

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## ✨ Key Features

### 🌈 Colored Network System
Choose from **4 different colored Giver towers** to create completely isolated communication channels:

- 🟡 **Yellow Network** — Bright signals like end rods
- 🔴 **Red Network** — Burning flame particles  
- 🩷 **Pink Network** — Loving heart particles
- 🟢 **Green Network** — Happy villager particles

**Different colors NEVER interfere with each other**, even when placed side by side! Perfect for keeping ally and enemy communications separate.

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### 🔗 Tower Chaining Technology
Build chains of same-colored Giver towers to **extend your network across the entire world**:

- Towers automatically link with same-colored neighbors
- Maximum chain distance: **64 blocks** between towers
- Tower coverage: **32 blocks** for players
- No limit on chain length - build as far as you want!

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### 🚪 Advanced Room System
Take communication to the next level with the built-in room system:

- ✅ **Create custom rooms** with unique names
- 🔒 **Password protection** for private channels
- 🔓 **Public rooms** for open community chat
- 👥 **See member counts** in real-time
- 📡 Each network color has its **own separate room list**
- 🎯 Beautiful in-game GUI with hover effects

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### 💬 Smart Chat System
The mod completely overhauls Minecraft's chat with intelligent routing:

| Range | Method | Requirements |
|-------|--------|--------------|
| **0-20 blocks** | Local chat | None |
| **Unlimited** | Radio chat | Tower + Room + Same color |

Messages are **color-coded** to show network and room information!

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### 🎨 Visual Effects
- **Network-colored particles** rise from active towers
- **HUD indicator** shows your current network & room
- **Beautiful Giver block model** with dynamic color tints
- **Smooth animations** and atmospheric effects

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## 🛠️ Crafting Recipes

### 📻 Radio

[ ][ R][ R]
[ I][ G][ I] R = Redstone Dust
[ I][ R][ I] I = Iron Ingot
G = Glass


### 🗼 Giver Tower (4 colored variants)

[ R][ R][ R]
[ B][ D][ B] R = Redstone Dust B = Iron Block
[ I][ I][ I] D = Dye (color) I = Iron Ingot


Available dyes: **Yellow, Red, Pink, Green**

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## 🎮 How to Use

1. **Craft a Radio** and keep it in your inventory
2. **Build a Giver tower** in your color of choice
3. **Power it with redstone** (lever, button, or redstone block)
4. **Right-click the Radio** to open the menu
5. **Create or join a room**
6. **Chat with your team across the world!** 📡

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** Build tower chains across your base to expand coverage, and use different colors for different teams!

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## 🌟 Perfect For

- 🏰 **Survival Multiplayer (SMP)** servers
- 🎭 **Roleplay communities** (RP servers)
- ⚔️ **PvP and faction servers**
- 🏗️ **Build teams** needing coordination
- 👥 **Small groups** of friends playing together
- 🎮 **Adventure map** creators

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## 📦 Installation

### Requirements
- **Minecraft 1.20.1**
- **Minecraft Forge 47.1.3** or higher
- **Java 17** or higher

### Steps
1. Install **Minecraft Forge** for 1.20.1
2. Download the latest **Static Radio JAR** from the Files tab
3. Place the JAR in your `.minecraft/mods` folder
4. Launch Minecraft with the Forge profile
5. Enjoy! 🎉

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## 🔮 Planned Features

- 🔊 **Radio static sound effects** when transmitting
- 🎵 **Custom radio music broadcasts** through towers
- 📊 **Signal strength indicator** based on distance
- 🔋 **Battery system** for radios (durability)
- 👑 **Room admin tools** (kick, mute, invite)
- 📱 **Mobile radio** with hand-held animations
- 🌐 **Cross-dimensional** communication (Nether, End)
- 🎨 **More colors** (Blue, White, Black, Orange)
- 🗃️ **Persistent rooms** (save across server restarts)

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## 🤝 Community

Have feedback, suggestions, or found a bug?

- 💬 Leave a comment below
- ⭐ Give the project a follow for updates
- 📤 Share with your friends!

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## ⚖️ License

This mod is licensed under **MIT License** - free to use, modify, and include in modpacks! Credit appreciated but not required. ❤️

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## 💖 Credits

Created with passion by **Lomininca**

Special thanks to the Minecraft Forge community for the amazing modding tools!

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**Happy radio-ing! 📻🎉**