Aircocraft: Empires ⛏️

Aircocraft: Empires is a massive minecraft mod I created with a friend. The goal of the mod was to create a mod that expanded 4 biomes into real empires and create a server where players would be split among those empires. 

The mod took about 3 months to create and got minor and major updates during the server's runtime.

The overhauled biomes gained unique ores, weapons, structures, creatures, monsters and building blocks. The overhauled biomes were Japanese Mountains, Arabian Deserts, African Jungles and Polynesian oceans.

The creative inventory of all the content:

Each biome had its own team and unique tools weapons and weaknesses. Some powerful items could only be crafted if empires worked together!

Design goal and challenges:

The mod was designed to be a empire war mod. It had many new items to make life easier but also bigger challenges to face. The biggest rewards for those were tools and weapons. This was the project were I learned about the importance of knowing your target audience. The poeple that wanted to play on the server were excited for the mobs, building and just playing minecraft and not a single war broke out between empires. This made many empire-specific advantage items useless. A lot of weapon balancing and development time could have been saved.

The mod was updated weekly with bug fixes, small new content drops and one major update: Coppertech, which added more functionality for copper in the form of helpful drones and a  big new boss.

Community:

During the development, the community was updated through weekly screenshots, live-streams on twitch where they could interact and structure-build days where they could help us build structures for the mod. Sadly, this was all done on a youtube and discord channel that no longer exist today.

I decided to upload the mod to itch.io because this was one of the biggest and effective projects i made to date. Although it is no longer updated and remnants of it's development are scattered across the internet it's still downloadable and playable.

Credits:
Tools used: MCreator, Piskel, Blockbench
Co-design / art: Lisa van der Gevel
Special Thanks: Knippagaming Community

Enjoy ;P