Create Aeronautics: Railguns

Create: Rotary Railgun

Build giant spinning weapons out of blades and power them with a power room full of capacitors, dynamos and Charge Claws. Mount them on the ground or on a Create Aeronautics ship and fire at anything you can see, or at coordinates far beyond it.

The weapons

• Railgun Bearing: spins a hollow blade structure and fires a hypersonic slug that tunnels through blocks and explodes. More blades and more speed mean a harder hit.
• Laser Bearing: a sustained beam that burns everything in its path and drills tunnels.
• Beam Cannon Bearing: charges a glowing orb at the muzzle, then fires a massive beam that ends in a huge blast.

The power room
Weapons draw their energy from a room you build yourself:

• Power Console: the brain, with a live status screen
• Capacitor Cells: store the energy and glow as they fill
• Rotary Dynamo (rotation) or Flux Inductor (FE, works with Create: Electro Energetics)
• Charge Regulator, Coolant Exchanger and Breaker Panel
• Charge Claws on the walls, all aimed at the middle of the room, where an energy orb gathers as the room recharges

Wire the room to a weapon with Power Conduits and the weapon spins itself up, charges, fires and spins down to cool. Bigger guns spin slower but hit harder. Rooms can be as big as you like. More claws, cells and dynamos mean more power and a bigger orb.

Aiming and control

• Fire Control Computer: type in coordinates and it turns the whole ship to aim, compensating for slug drop. It overrides Gyroscope Stabilizers while it aims.
• Wireless network: build an antenna (taller means more range) and a Control Terminal to aim and fire several railguns at once from the ground.
• Dashboard: shows charge, heat, power and status at a glance.

Every block has Ponder scenes: hold W over an item to learn how it works.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1, NeoForge
• Create 6.0+ (required)
• Create Aeronautics (recommended): mount weapons on flying ships
• Gyroscope Stabilizers (optional): the Fire Control Computer can override it while aiming

Almost everything (costs, charge times, damage, room settings) can be changed in the config.

if you want to shoot from space, i recommend Create Aeronautics: Simple Space. (compatibility with other space mods will soon be developed)

Designed and tested by me, coded with the help of Claude (AI).