Envol

Envol

A glider you equip, and three springboards you build that throw you into the sky, from where you glide wherever you look.

Required on the server and on every client, same major.minor version: the mod adds an item, three build pieces and four status effects.

Every in-game text follows your game language: English, or French when your game is in French.

The glider

A utility item (accessory slot, like the strength belt), crafted at the workbench.

| Input | Effect | |---|---| | Jump, while in the air | Opens or closes the sail (at least 3 m above the ground) | | Look | The sail turns towards where the camera looks | | Forward | Dive: you plunge and gain speed, which you keep for a while | | Backward | Pull up: the extra speed turns back into height, you climb; without extra speed, brake |

Speed is earned and kept. Diving, you sink at 17.5 m/s and the height lost beyond the normal sink turns into speed: from 25 to about 48 m/s in 8 s with springboard momentum, up to 50 m/s at most (35 without momentum, 25 with the makeshift sail). Release the key and the speed is kept, easing back to cruising speed: about a third of the extra is left after 6 s. Pulling up first stops the descent (half a second from a dive), then the extra speed pays for the height gained and for the climbing speed (15 m/s at most, never above the maximum altitude); back at cruising speed, it brakes. Each conversion only returns 80 %, and a descending speed is never credited: you cannot climb higher than you were, neither by tapping backward and forward nor by removing and putting back your glider during momentum (during momentum, pulling up only pays above the glider's cruising speed, worn or not), nor when another mod lowers gravity, like Loki's Feather Day (only the climbing speed the flight itself set counts as paid). Checked by the tests (ten minutes of tapping, ten minutes of glider swapping, one minute of pulling up under quarter gravity) and in game (tapping; Feather Day). One exception: when springboard momentum ends in flight, the extra momentum speed can still be turned into height, once (less than 20 m with the default settings: tested, and 11.7 m measured in game). With the makeshift sail (momentum, no glider), on its own speed, pulling back only brakes: its dive never goes above the glider's cruising speed, the only speed above which you climb. The setting VitesseQuiSeGagne = false brings back the previous flight, at fixed speeds (dive × 1.5 forward and × 3 sink, nothing kept).

• It costs stamina while open (3 per second). Out of stamina, it stalls: the sail stays open, you move at 6 m/s and sink at 7 m/s, and the controls stop answering until enough stamina is back to open a sail (10); then normal flight resumes until the next stall. You do not drop like a stone, but you lose height fast.
• No fall damage while the sail is open. If you close it in the air, the fall is counted from where you closed it.
• The sail closes by itself on the ground, in water, on a seat or a ship.
• Protected landing: a player who reappears in mid-air (disconnected while flying, server restarted) takes no fall damage until reaching the ground or water. The same when the momentum ends in the air (the makeshift sail closes, or you were falling with the sail closed), when a springboard climb ends with no sail possible, when an error closes the sail, in the glide or in the flight control, and, with no icon, when the sail closes at the first touch (see "Landing under the sail"). But taking off your glider in mid-flight, without momentum, is like closing the sail: the fall counts from there.

The springboards

Three pieces in the hammer menu (Misc), placed on a roughly flat surface: ground or floor (not on the side of a wall, nor on a steep slope). Jump on one to take off; walking over it does nothing. A springboard does not support other pieces and gives no comfort.

| Springboard | Colour | Height | Built near | Materials | |---|---|---|---|---| | Wooden | green | 100 m | workbench | wood, deer hide, leather scraps, resin | | Iron | blue | 400 m | forge | iron, fine wood, linen thread, tar | | Flametal | red, glowing | 1,500 m | black forge | flametal, refined eitr, celestial feather, black marble |

At the top, the sail opens by itself.

Launch boost (1.0.1): the climb starts at 2.5 times the springboard's speed (63 m/s wooden, 113 iron, 150 flametal, never more) and eases back to the springboard's speed over the first 40 % of the climb; slowing down before the top is unchanged. When the world's ceiling falls within the boost (a springboard built very high), the speed drops at once to the slowing-down one. Setting FacteurDeDepart (World section, enforced by a 1.0.1 server; with a server still on 1.0.0, each player keeps their own): 1 brings back the steady climb.

Sounds (1.0.1):

• the bounce: the same springboard at three sizes, layered from game sounds, a little deeper at each size: a body landing (always there), a bowstring releasing, a catapult release for iron and flametal, the whoosh of a fast start, and a short deep wooden thump for flametal. The jumper hears it follow them; other players hear it where their game sees the jumper leave (it checks four times a second): just above the springboard, up to about forty metres above it at flametal speed.