Skyfront

🛩️ Skyfront

Modern drone warfare for Minecraft. Recon quadcopters dropping grenades, FPV kamikaze drones with RPG rounds, interceptors hunting incoming strike drones, Shahed-136 launches with route planning, radar and air-raid sirens — all built as an add-on for Superb Warfare, and built from the ground up to run on multiplayer servers.

🌐 Made for servers

The mod was built for multiplayer from day one:

• No input lag — the drone reacts to your controls instantly, while the server keeps everything fair.
• Smooth on bad connections — flight stays in sync even with high ping.
• Fly up to 1000 blocks away — the world around the drone loads as you fly, no edge of the map in front of the camera.
• Light on the server — explosions and debris are drawn on each player's side, not sent piece by piece.
• Same rules for everyone — config changes reach all players, live with /skyfront config reload.
• Version check — players with a different mod version can't join and break things.

🚁 Drones

Mavic 3 Pro — recon quadcopter

• Camera-app style interface with battery, compass and telemetry
• Smooth gimbal and smooth zoom up to 8×
• Carries and drops ordnance: RGO grenade, M18 smoke grenade, C4 charge (Superb Warfare items)
• Control range 500 blocks

Mavic 3T — thermal quadcopter

• Everything the Mavic 3 Pro has, plus a thermal camera: bodies, engines, explosions and fresh smoke glow hot
• Works with Iris shader packs
• Control range 1000 blocks

P1-SUN — interceptor

• A missile-shaped interceptor with its own warhead, built to bring down Shaheds and Molniyas
• Acro flight model based on Betaflight rates: rate-controlled sticks, real thrust, ground effect — hard to fly, very rewarding
• Betaflight-style OSD with a live battery model (voltage sag, mAh, amps, flight timer, link quality)
• Contact-fused warhead, configurable blast power and damage to Superb Warfare vehicles
• Also available with a thermal camera

FPV drone — kamikaze

• Carries an RPG round (PG-7VM or Yasin TBG) or a mortar shell as its warhead
• Betaflight OSD with GPS: altitude, speed, distance home, home arrow, coordinates, satellites
• Analog video: the picture breaks up with interference the farther you fly, and drops to static when the link is lost
• First-person view shows the props and the warhead in frame, like real FPV footage
• Set down on two bricks so the slung round clears the ground; the bricks disappear after take-off
• Without a round it does no damage at all

Molniya — fixed-wing strike drone

• Launched from the launch rail, flown like a plane with an INAV-style OSD
• Rocked by wind gusts, nose-fused warhead, 30 hit points
• When shot down it spirals in and goes off on impact

Flying them

• Fly every drone through Superb Warfare's drone monitor
• RC transmitter and gamepad support — plug in a radio (for example a Radiomaster in USB joystick mode), calibrate it in the built-in setup screen, map your switches and fly
• Arming switch (Tab), thermal toggle (T), self-destruct (bindable)
• Downed drones fall realistically — planes spiral, quads tumble — and come apart into burnt pieces that fly up to 100 blocks from a high blast

🎯 Shahed-136

• Placed on the launch rail, launched from the UAV control terminal
• Route planning on a terrain map: set waypoints, a target and the dive mode
• Two dive modes: low and high approach
• Massive explosion with fire, smoke, debris and optional block damage
• Comes apart into burnt debris when it blows up

🧱 Blocks & items

Everything is in the mod's own creative tab, together with Superb Warfare's drone monitor.

🔊 Sound

• 3D positional sound for every drone, rising in pitch as it is driven harder
• Distinct motor sounds for the FPV, the P1-SUN and the Molniya
• 5 explosion sounds, delayed by distance like the real speed of sound
• Air-raid siren with distance-based volume

🎮 Commands

All commands need permission level 2 (operator).

⚙️ Configuration

Config file: config/sfw-common.toml. Almost everything can be tuned. The main sections:

• Target zones — blacklist and whitelist areas
• Explosion effects — particles, block damage, sounds
• Flight limits — Shahed range, radar range, waypoints, altitude
• Siren — audible range
• Camera drone / Thermal drone — flight time, control range, speed, zoom, hit points, chunk radius, ram damage
• Interceptor — speed, range, hit points, blast power, vehicle damage, battery, OSD, acro rates and thrust
• Molniya — hit points

📋 Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1+
• Superb Warfare 0.8+ (required)
• GeckoLib 4.6+ (required)

Install on both the server and the client.

👥 Credits

Developed by Lexik and Krutnet for KrutEvent.

Mavic 3 Pro / Mavic 3T model: "DJI Mavic 3" by llirikslon, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Reduced and converted for Minecraft.