[SBW] Skyfront

🛩️ Skyfront

Modern drone warfare for Minecraft. Recon quadcopters dropping grenades, FPV kamikaze drones with RPG rounds, fibre-optic FPVs that can't be jammed, interceptors hunting incoming strike drones, Shahed-136 and jet Shahed-238 launches with route planning, EW jammers, drone detectors, radar and air-raid sirens. It's an add-on for Superb Warfare, made from the start to run on multiplayer servers.

Available for NeoForge 1.21.1 and Forge 1.20.1.

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🌐 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.
• Version check: players with a different mod version can't join and break things.

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🚁 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 with a single press: 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 a light warhead, built to bring down Shaheds and Molniyas; it barely scratches vehicles
• 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

KVN: fibre-optic FPV drone

• A bigger FPV quad flown down an optical fibre paid out from a spool on its back: 250, 500 or 1000 blocks of fibre, one model for each
• Can't be jammed and sends nothing over the air, so drone detectors don't see it
• Clean digital picture for as long as the fibre holds
• The fibre is laid out behind it as it flies. When the spool runs out, or someone cuts the line with a hit or a bullet, the link is gone for good

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)
• Batteries run down in flight (can be turned off in the config)
• A drone that falls into water is lost
• Downed drones fall realistically (planes spiral, quads tumble) and come apart into burnt pieces that fly up to 100 blocks from a high blast

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🎯 Shahed-136 & Shahed-238

• 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
• Shahed-238: the jet version. Rocket-boosted launch, turbojet, around 320 km/h in cruise and up to 500 km/h in the dive. It turns wide, so its waypoints have to sit further apart
• Massive explosion with fire, smoke, debris and optional block damage
• At night the blast lights up the ground around it and flashes on the sky, visible from far away
• Comes apart into burnt debris when it blows up

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📡 Electronic warfare

EW Jammer

• A field jammer you set down on the ground, powered by Superb Warfare battery packs (small, medium or large)
• Three power settings: full jamming within 23, 38 or 75 blocks, with a band of interference beyond that
• Inside the radius drones lose both picture and control. Further out an analog picture breaks up and digital video loses quality
• Doesn't affect the fibre-optic KVN
• Armoured case: it takes a beating, but it can be shot up or blown up

Drone Detector ("Chuika")

• Hand-held detector that picks up FPV, Molniya and P1-SUN video and hears Mavics up to 500 blocks away
• Beeps faster as the drone gets closer; right-click switches between the signals it has found
• Shows the intercepted video feed, so you see what the enemy drone sees

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🧱 Blocks & items

Item	What it does
🖥️ UAV Control Terminal	Plans routes and launches the Shaheds
🚀 Launch Rail	Launch platform for the Shaheds and the Molniya
📡 Radar	Detects drones, shows them in a live GUI, outputs a redstone signal by distance
🚨 Air Raid Siren	Redstone-activated siren, audible from far away (range configurable)
📻 EW Jammer	Jams drone links around it, runs on Superb Warfare battery packs
📟 Drone Detector	Picks up drone video and Mavic signals, shows the intercepted feed
🚁 Drones	Mavic 3 Pro, Mavic 3T, P1-SUN, P1-SUN Thermal, FPV drone, KVN (250 / 500 / 1000), Molniya, Shahed-136, Shahed-238

Every drone and item has a crafting recipe. Everything is in the mod's own creative tab, together with Superb Warfare's drone monitor.

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🔊 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
• Shahed-136 engine with realistic sound over distance, plus a rocket booster roar on launch and the Shahed-238's turbojet
• 5 explosion sounds, delayed by distance like the real speed of sound
• Air-raid siren with distance-based volume

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🎮 Commands

All commands need permission level 2 (operator).

Command	Description
/skyfront attack shahed|jet_shahed <start> <target> low|high	Launch a Shahed-136 or Shahed-238 from a point to a target
/skyfront map rescan / status	Rebuild / check the terrain map used by the terminal
/skyfront config	Show the main settings
/skyfront config particles enable|disable	Explosion particles
/skyfront config particles multiplier <0-500>	Particle amount (100 = default)
/skyfront config blockDamage strike|piloted enable|disable	Whether Shaheds / piloted drones break blocks
/skyfront config sounds enable|disable	Custom explosion sounds
/skyfront config batteryDrain enable|disable	Whether drone batteries run down in flight
/skyfront config zone blacklist|whitelist enable|disable	Forbidden / allowed target zones
/skyfront config reload	Reload the config file and sync it to all players

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⚙️ Configuration

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

• Targeting: blacklist and whitelist zones
• Explosions: particles, block damage (Shaheds and piloted drones separately), sounds
• Shahed: hit points, flight range, waypoints, altitude
• Radar / Siren: detection range, audible range
• Drones: chunk radius for long-range flight, airburst chance of ordnance on downed drones, battery drain
• Mavic 3 Pro / Mavic 3T: flight time, control range, speed, zoom, hit points
• FPV flight (P1-SUN, FPV, KVN, Molniya): flight time, control range, acro rates, thrust, battery, OSD
• P1-SUN / Molniya: speed, hit points, warhead power, vehicle damage
• Detector: range and video feed radius

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📋 Requirements

	1.21.1	1.20.1
Loader	NeoForge 21.1+	Forge 47+
Superb Warfare	0.8.8+ (required)	0.8.8+ (required)
GeckoLib	4.6+ (required)	4.4+ (required)

Optional: TACZ, whose bullets can cut a KVN's fibre too.

Install on both the server and the client. Worlds from older versions (mod ID sfw) load as before.

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💛 Sponsor

Huge thanks to **MrCups** for supporting the project! Skyfront keeps growing thanks to him.

👥 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.