Flying Anglia

An enchanted flying car with a mind of its own. A fully detailed 1960s-style car you can build, drive, fly and look after, with a cabin to sit in, a dashboard that works, a radio, a mood, and an owl that rides along.

The Car

Craft it, place it on the ground and climb in. It has four seats (driver, front passenger, two in the back), doors you open and lock with a key, and a boot that is bigger inside than out (54 slots). A new car comes with a toolbox and a handbook.

The key and the car are made for each other: a locked car opens its driver's door only to its own key.

On the Ground

Acceleration, braking, reverse with proper reversing lights, indicators, warnings, wipers, washer fluid, fog lights, handbrake and a boost. She climbs a one-block step, slows down in mud and sand, and can drift.

• W / S : accelerate and brake
• A / D : steer
• Right click on the dashboard controls: ignition, gear lever, handbrake, radio
• All other keys (lights, horn, indicators, wipers, boost, reverse) can be changed in the controls menu

In the Air

Take off with the jump key, steer with the mouse, adjust the thrust, roll, barrel roll, or do a full loop at speed. Without the engine she glides like an elytra.

Free look: click the middle mouse button and the car keeps its heading while the camera turns all around the cabin (or around the car in third person).

Altitude has a price. Very high, or at boost speed, she leaves white vapour trails. A thunderstorm shakes her, and if you stay up there lightning will strike. Land in time.

On water she floats like a small boat and can hop onto a jet of spray to take off.

Looking After Her

Fuel, oil, battery, tyres and washer fluid wear down. Refuel at the tank flap with anything that burns, top up with the service kit, and repair the engine at the open bonnet with a wrench by clicking each glowing bolt before it goes out.

• Damage : a hurt car runs rough and her lights flicker; a wreck keeps one headlight out, and at zero she explodes and leaves iron behind
• Dirt and weather : snow on the roof, misted windows, frost, mud, sand, dust, squashed insects, rain on the glass. A sponge wipes it all off
• Ageing : the longer she stays in your world, the more patina, corrosion and decay she shows, in three stages

Make It Yours

• Two steering wheels: the original, or a detailed wooden one
• Four lucky charms to hang under the mirror: pine tree, heart, fluffy dice, golden star
• A roof box with its own lock
• A number plate with the name of your choice

Dashboard and Radio

A tabbed dashboard with gauges (speed, revs, condition, fuel, mood), warning lights, controls for the lights, wipers, horn, doors, windows and heating, a seating plan to swap places, and levels for oil, battery, tyres and washer fluid.

Radio Chaudron FM has 47 stations: the vanilla music discs plus music from forests, caves, the Nether, the End and the deep. An announcer breaks in with the weather and the traffic. The cassette player turns any .ogg file dropped in the flyinganglia_cassettes folder into a cassette, and in multiplayer everybody hears the same tape at the same point.

Engine layers follow the revs, with wind, rain on the roof, horn, doors, handbrake and brakes.

She Has a Mood

She is not a machine, she is a character. Her mood goes from adores you to furious and depends on how you treat her, with a separate score for each player.

• Happy : she greets you, honks and opens her door
• Sulking : long, sad honks
• Angry : slammed doors, and she refuses to let you in
• Furious : she runs away from everyone

Call her and she comes by herself, fast if she loves you. If you are badly hurt with monsters around and she likes you, she rushes over honking. If someone else hits her you get a warning, and after a few hits she defends herself. If you prefer a car without opinions, the Consciousness button on the dashboard switches her mind off.

An Owl for Company

Six wild owl species, one for each habitat. Feed one the special owl meat to tame it, and breed two tamed owls to get a chick with the plumage of a parent.

• In a cage : placed on a back seat, where it sleeps with the engine off and perches in flight
• On your forearm : send it flying with a left click
• It fights for you : a tamed owl that is not sitting or caged attacks the hostile monsters that threaten you

And Also

• A remote control to drive the car from a distance, with a range booster
• Invisibility in three levels: transparent, you too, then silent
• Sleep on the back seat to skip the night, and once in a long while a villager knocks at the passenger window
• A handbook in the game, with a contents page, turning pages and small pictures, one chapter per feature
• A small secret for anyone who says the right word
• Admin commands under /flyinganglia

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47 or later
• Install on both the client and the server, with the same version

Credits

Pixabay and elevenlabs.io.

Fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Mojang, any film studio or any publisher.