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Swarm Drones

A one-tap swarm airdrop. Call in a heavy carrier that sweeps overhead and drops a swarm of **attack drones** and **ambient drones** — black clouds blot the sky, droning from every direction.

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Game version 1.20.1
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# Swarm Drones — Swarm Airdrop (Minecraft 1.20.1 / Forge)

A one-tap swarm airdrop. Call in a heavy carrier that sweeps overhead and drops a swarm of **attack drones** and **ambient drones** — black clouds blot the sky, droning from every direction.

Author: **HE666zz** · License: **MIT**


## Features

  • **One-key call-in**: Use the「Swarm Drones」phone item. An 8-second countdown, then the carrier passes overhead and the swarm pours out of its tail like bees leaving the hive, then disperses.

  • **Attack drones**: Prioritize the hostile target nearest to the player, lock on, dive at speed and detonate in a hand-written realistic explosion. Kills count to the player.

  • **Ambient drones**: Tens-to-hundreds patrol across multiple altitudes, filling the sky with a "black clouds pressing on the city" pressure.

  • **Carrier**: Turbofan engine sound, night navigation lights, flare jettison before deployment, and a rumbling sky-thunder before the drop.

  • **Sky-wide audible drone hum**: after deployment, the whole sky drones continuously (procedurally synthesized low-frequency swarm sound).

  • **6 call-in announcement voices**: English / Chinese / Cute Girl / Cool Girl / Classical Chinese Male / English Female — configurable (default English).

  • **Head markers**: billboard diamond markers above attack drones; color (red/blue/yellow/purple/white/custom) and size configurable.

  • **In-game config screen**: adjust everything without editing JSON.

## Requirements

| | |

|---|---|

| Minecraft | 1.20.1 |

| Forge | 1.20.1-47.4.x |

## Installation

  1. Install Forge 1.20.1-47.4.x.

  2. Drop swarm_drones-1.0.0.jar into .minecraft/mods.

  3. Launch, hold the「Swarm Drones」phone and right-click to call in the swarm.

## Configuration (in-game)

Mod Options → Swarm Drones:

  • Show BossBar (on/off)

  • Attack drone count (10–50, default 20)

  • Head markers on/off, marker color / size

  • Sky thunder before deployment (on/off)

  • Announcement voice (6 options)

## Assets & copyright (important)

  • **Sounds**: all procedurally synthesized (numpy) or AI-synthesized voices. No third-party samples.

  • **Models**: drone / carrier / phone models are original self-built geometry — no imported third-party assets.

  • **Textures**: all self-made / generated.

  • The mod depends only on Forge and the vanilla Minecraft framework; no third-party copyrighted resources are embedded.

## License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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