VS Shields

Energy shield systems for Valkyrien Skies 2 ships.

Minecraft 1.20.1 · Forge · Requires VS2 + Architectury API + Embeddium

Wrap your VS2 warship in a procedural energy shield that stops projectiles, absorbs explosions, and pulses with a honeycomb glow. Add a battery multiblock for emergency regen, an electronic warfare jammer to burn out enemy shields on collision, a gravity field generator to grant your crew flight and fall immunity, and deploy gravitational mines to send enemy ships into a spin.

Features at a glance

• Dynamic shield bubble — automatically conforms to the full size of your ship; grows as you add blocks
• Honeycomb visual — slowly rotating hex-grid that shifts from blue → yellow → red as HP drops, with violent flicker at low energy
• Three tiers — Iron / Diamond / Netherite with escalating HP, recharge, and FE costs
• Capacitors & emitters — stackable addon blocks for more HP and faster recharge
• Shield Battery multiblock — 3×3×3 structure that silently absorbs 20% of every hit, then dumps an emergency HP restore when you're near death
• Shield Jammer — 3×3×3 electronic warfare station that burns out enemy shield energy when your ships collide
• Gravity Field Generator — grants creative-style flight and fall protection to your crew inside the shield radius
• Ship Analyzer — handheld scanner that highlights ship systems through walls and shows a tactical HUD
• Tactical Netherite Helm — always-on analyzer HUD built into a helmet
• Gravitational Mine + Launcher — deployable space-mines that apply massive physical torque to enemy ships on detonation
• Redstone output — Shield Generator pulses a redstone signal when struck; wire it into your own alert systems
• Forge Energy & Create SU — power from any FE cable, or directly from Create rotation shafts
• Mod compatibility — full damage tables for Create: Big Cannons (all shell types including Nuke Shell) and Create: Gunsmithing (projectile + hitscan weapons)
• JSON config — every damage value, energy cost, and recharge rate is configurable in config/vs_shields.json

Blocks & Systems

Shield Generator

The core block. Place one on your VS2 ship, supply FE, and right-click to activate. The shield wraps the ship's bounding box with a 10-block padding on all sides.

• One generator per ship — a second shows a Duplicate warning
• HP scales with energy level (50% HP at 0% FE, 100% at full charge)
• Recharge starts after a cooldown (5–10 sec depending on tier); if the shield is fully depleted, a longer cooldown applies
• Outputs a redstone signal when struck — wire a comparator to trigger alarm systems or backup logic

Shield Capacitor

Adds +50 max HP to the ship's shield. Stacks: four capacitors = +200 HP.

Shield Emitter

Adds +0.5 HP/tick recharge. Stacks. Each emitter costs +50 FE/tick while the shield is recharging.

Shield Battery — 3×3×3 Multiblock

A massive energy buffer that automatically restores shield HP in two modes.

Building:

1. Place a Shield Battery Controller facing outward — it becomes the center of one face
2. Fill the remaining 26 positions with Battery Cell and/or Battery Input blocks
3. Use Input blocks where you want to connect FE cables (each has its own 50k FE buffer)

One battery per ship. Passive absorption disables itself at ≤1% HP so the shield can shatter normally.

Shield Jammer — Electronic Warfare Station

A 3×3×3 EW station that punishes enemy ships for getting close.

How it works: When ship bounding boxes overlap, the Jammer activates — it burns 50,000 FE/tick from the enemy shield while consuming 5,000 FE/tick from its own reserves. If the enemy shield runs dry, the Jammer deals 3 HP/tick directly to their generator. Sonic boom particles fill the air.

• Capacity scales with the number of Jammer Frame blocks used (up to 3,900,000 FE)
• When the Jammer's own reserves hit 0, it hard-locks and reboots until it reaches 2,500,000 FE
• Disable/Enable button in the GUI for manual power management
• Reload button for a clean 60-second cooldown dump
• One jammer per ship

Gravity Field Generator

Creates a ship-wide artificial gravity zone covering the same area as the shield bubble.

• 1,000,000 FE buffer; accepts up to 50,000 FE/tick
• Auto-shuts off when empty; immediately removes flight from players who leave the field
• One generator per ship

Tools & Equipment

Ship Analyzer

Hold right-click to scan ships in front of you. A tactical HUD appears showing shield HP, energy, crew count, turret positions, and detected gravitational mines. Scanned blocks glow through walls.

Tactical Netherite Helm

Wear it for a passive, always-on HUD readout — no right-click required. Built by upgrading a Netherite Helmet with Ship Analyzer circuitry.

Gravitational Mine

A deployable space-mine that hangs in midair after arming and applies massive physical torque to any ship it touches — sending it spinning and drifting.

• Phases: Flight → Pre-Armed (3 sec clicking sound) → Armed (hovers, slowly rotates)
• Detonation: Collision with a ship or shield applies a large force impulse (configurable)
• Fragile: Can be destroyed mid-flight by projectiles; mines that strike a ship during the Flight phase break without detonating
• WAILA-style name tag shows arming progress and status
• Explosion effects: portal vortex, electric sparks, smoke, and a custom detonation sound

Gravitational Mine Launcher

Heavy-duty launcher that fires Gravitational Mines.

• Cooldown: 5 seconds between shots
• Variable Range: Shift+Scroll to cycle deployment distance (15 / 30 / 50 / 70 blocks); the mine arms at exactly that distance from the launch point
• Consumes one mine from the inventory per shot (free in Creative)

Mod Compatibility

Create: Big Cannons

All CBC shell types are intercepted at the shield boundary:

Create: Gunsmithing

Projectile weapons intercepted at the shield boundary:

Hitscan weapons intercepted server-side (raycast cancelled at shield surface):

Alex's Caves

Nuclear bomb and torpedo are fully intercepted (500 HP and 80 HP respectively).

All damage values are configurable in config/vs_shields.json.

Energy Sources

Forge Energy (FE)

Connect any FE-producing mod to a generator or battery input: Thermal Expansion, Mekanism, Flux Networks, or any mod implementing IEnergyStorage.

Create (SU → FE)

Place a Create rotation shaft adjacent to a Shield Generator, Battery Input, or Gravity Field Generator. Rotation is converted at 1 FE/tick per 1 RPM from all 6 sides.

Crafting Recipes

Shield System

Iron Shield Generator

[Iron Block]  [Redstone]  [Iron Block]
[Iron Block]  [Glass]     [Iron Block]
[Iron Block]  [Redstone]  [Iron Block]

Shield Capacitor

[Iron Ingot]    [Gold Ingot]     [Iron Ingot]
[Redstone Block][Redstone Block] [Redstone Block]
[Iron Ingot]    [Gold Ingot]     [Iron Ingot]

Shield Emitter

[Iron Ingot] [Redstone Torch] [Iron Ingot]
[Gold Ingot] [Glass]          [Gold Ingot]
[Iron Ingot] [Redstone Torch] [Iron Ingot]

Shield Battery

Shield Battery Cell (yields 4)

[Iron Ingot] [Redstone] [Iron Ingot]
[Redstone]   [Glass]    [Redstone]
[Iron Ingot] [Redstone] [Iron Ingot]

Shield Battery Input

[Gold Ingot]  [Diamond]       [Gold Ingot]
[Iron Ingot]  [Battery Cell]  [Iron Ingot]
[Gold Ingot]  [Diamond]       [Gold Ingot]

Shield Battery Controller

[Echo Shard]    [Battery Input]    [Echo Shard]
[Battery Input] [Netherite Ingot]  [Battery Input]
[Echo Shard]    [Battery Input]    [Echo Shard]

Electronic Warfare Station

Shield Jammer Frame (yields 4)

[Iron Block] [Obsidian]   [Iron Block]
[Obsidian]   [Iron Block] [Obsidian]
[Iron Block] [Obsidian]   [Iron Block]

Shield Jammer Input

[    ]     [Iron Block]    [    ]
[Obsidian] [Jammer Frame]  [Obsidian]
[    ]     [Iron Block]    [    ]

Shield Jammer Controller

[Diamond Block]  [End Crystal]      [Diamond Block]
[Redstone Block] [Netherite Block]  [Redstone Block]
[Diamond Block]  [Obsidian]         [Diamond Block]

Gravity Field Generator

[Ender Pearl]    [Netherite Block] [Ender Pearl]
[Netherite Block][Nether Star]     [Netherite Block]
[Ender Pearl]    [Netherite Block] [Ender Pearl]

Tools & Weapons

Ship Analyzer

[Ender Eye]       [Amethyst Shard] [Ender Eye]
[Netherite Ingot] [Spyglass]       [Netherite Ingot]
[Redstone]        [Compass]        [Redstone]

Tactical Netherite Helm

[Echo Shard]      [Spyglass]      [Echo Shard]
[Ender Eye]       [Neth. Helmet]  [Ender Eye]
[Netherite Ingot] [Ship Analyzer] [Netherite Ingot]

Gravitational Mine (yields 4)

[Ender Pearl]  [Phantom Membrane] [Ender Pearl]
[Blaze Powder] [Iron Ingot]       [Blaze Powder]
[Gunpowder]    [Iron Ingot]       [Gunpowder]

Gravitational Mine Launcher

[Ender Eye] [Dropper]         [Ender Eye]
[Quartz]    [Netherite Ingot] [Quartz]
[Redstone]  [Piston]          [Redstone]

Installation

1. Install Minecraft 1.20.1 with Forge 47.4+
2. Install Valkyrien Skies 2 (2.4.0+)
3. Install Architectury API (9.1.12+)
4. Drop vs-shields-<version>.jar into your mods/ folder

Optional but supported

Authors

LennyPane — programming, design

PaleBeta — 3D models & textures

License

Custom License