VS Shields

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 an organic reaction-diffusion labyrinth 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, deploy gravitational mines to send enemy ships into a spin, and cloak your ship with a light-bending invisibility field.

Features at a glance

• Dynamic shield bubble — automatically conforms to the full size of your ship; grows as you add blocks
• Living labyrinth visual — animated Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion pattern that continuously restructures itself through erosion and regrowth; shifts from blue → yellow → red as HP drops, with violent flicker at low energy; heavily optimized (distance LOD, Fresnel LUT, reduced mesh, throttled simulation) for minimal FPS impact; shader-compatible depth writing for correct cloud sorting with Iris/Oculus
• 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 Goggles — wearable headgear (helmet slot or Curios head slot) with night vision, ship analyzer HUD (Y toggle), and 4× zoom (Shift+V)
• Gravitational Mine + Launcher — deployable space-mines that apply massive physical torque to enemy ships on detonation
• Redstone I/O — Signal in activates/deactivates the shield; signal out pulses when struck — combine both sides for fully automated defence logic
• Solid Projection Module — turns the energy shield into a physical barrier; access controlled by programmable Frequency ID Cards (up to 8-char codes, Curios-compatible)
• Cloaking Field Generator — renders your ship invisible to other players and radar systems. Crew aboard sees a subtle rainbow shimmer shell; external players see only a faint Predator-like heat distortion. Activating the cloak suppresses the shield (auto-restarts with 10-second cooldown when decloaked). Combat break: after 3 combat hits (shots from or into the cloaked ship), the cloak automatically breaks with a 30-second recloak cooldown. Compatible with Create Radar — cloaked ships are hidden from radar scans and RWR alerts
• Boarding Pod — 2-block multiblock assault craft that assembles into a full VS2 physics ship; aim with the mouse, hold Space to fire the rocket booster, steer mid-flight by looking where you want to go (crosshair-accurate steering at any ship rotation); breaches a 2×2×4 tunnel into the target hull
• Aetheric Anomaly — procedurally generated floating islands that spawn periodically as VS2 ships high in the sky; mesa top with rolling hills, stalactite-like bottom, caves with rare ores; 4-phase lifecycle (ACTIVE → EXTRACTION → WARNING → DISSOLVING); anti-gravity hover with slow drift and gentle swaying; hostile guardians (Enderman/Phantom/Shulker) with custom drops and escalating waves; ship repulsion, projectile absorption, explosion suppression; hold-RMB void deposit extraction with progress HUD; periodic aetheric pulse (knockback + shield damage); resource mining (Raw Aether Crystal, Resonance Fragment, Void Essence); fully configurable timers, sizes, and physics; admin commands for spawning/despawning/info
• Aetheric Compass — handheld item that detects anomaly islands: slow spin (no anomaly), points toward island (>500 blocks), wild erratic spin (≤500 blocks — interference); animated 32-texture needle like a vanilla compass
• Resonance Beacon — scan block that reveals exact anomaly coordinates; requires 500k FE + 1 Refined Aether Crystal per scan; displays position and remaining TTL
• Aetheric Energy Cell — consumable: right-click a Shield Generator to inject 75,000 FE (configurable)
• Attuned Void Shard / Calibrated Oscillator — crafting ingredients for future tier-4 recipes
• Anomaly particle effects — spawn beam (vertical light column), ambient motes, pulse shockwave, warning shimmer, dissolution smoke
• Extraction Timer HUD — shown to all players within 100 blocks of an active anomaly; color-coded countdown
• Crafting component system — 13 custom intermediate items (Charged Redstone Crystal, Copper Coil, Void Shard, etc.) form a three-tier progression (Base → Mid → Advanced); netherite is gated behind Hardened Casing, generators upgrade Iron → Diamond → Netherite
• Energy Cell — consumable item that instantly charges a Shield Generator with 25,000 FE on right-click
• Void Shard — rare drop from Endermen (5%) and Ender Dragon (4–8); required for endgame Void Capacitor
• 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, recharge rate, and visual option is configurable in config/vs_shields.json

Blocks & Systems

Shield Generator