CurseForge · Minecraft mod
Nova Lux Vehiculum
Immersive Vehicles add-on featuring a variety of vehicles such as ships and hot air balloons.
Quick answer
Which Nova Lux Vehiculum release should I use?
Nova Lux Vehiculum novaluxvehiculum-v0.2.0.jar targets 1.12.2 with Forge. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. All 1 required mods have matching files.
Where it goes
Is Nova Lux Vehiculum required on the client, server, or both?
The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both.
The source does not explicitly classify this release as client-only or server-only.
What else does Nova Lux Vehiculum novaluxvehiculum-v0.2.0.jar need?
novaluxvehiculum-v0.2.0.jar. Change the file and its required mods may change too.
Install Immersive Vehicles (MTS) first. We found matching files for this game-version and loader setup.
We only count dependency files that match this setup. A file for another loader does not fill the gap.
Before you install it
Add Nova Lux Vehiculum without breaking your instance.
Built for Nova Lux Vehiculum novaluxvehiculum-v0.2.0.jar. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.
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Stick to this file
Use novaluxvehiculum-v0.2.0.jar. It targets 1.12.2 with Forge; another release may have different loader, side or dependency requirements.
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Bring the mods it needs
Install Immersive Vehicles (MTS) first. We found matching files for this game-version and loader setup.
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Put it on the correct side
The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both.
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Pick the file you checked
Use the “Get this file” button beside novaluxvehiculum-v0.2.0.jar. It opens that exact file at the source.
About this project
What does Nova Lux Vehiculum add?
NLV is an Immersive Vehicles pack with no particular focus on any one type of vehicle.
Although currently not many things are implemented, as time goes on, this pack will get a wide variety of vehicles and other things. A special focus is put on making the vehicles actually practical and useful in survival mode.
What started this pack is that I noticed the fact that IV and modded Minecraft as a whole has a severe lack of ships. From there it just expanded. I will add whatever I think would be cool to have.
READ THIS BEFORE YOU INSTALL THIS PACK
This pack does not add its own seats. You will need another pack to have seats. If you don't install one, you will not be able to use anything except for the Small Hot Air Balloon. At some point, I will add seats of my own to make this pack usable standalone. For now, I recommend using the Official Content Pack, it adds very well-made vehicles and parts, including seats: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/transport-simulator-official-vehicle-set
Currently implemented vehicles include:
Small Cargo Ship

As you can probably imagine, this vehicle is good for transporting good quantities of items over sea. It comes with a customizable callsign. It's length is more than 20 blocks.
The containers on this thing are modular. They come in multiple colors, can be set to display an image from a URL using the wrench, and you can choose to put either one large or two small containers. They are based off of the real 20 and 40 foot containers commonly used in logistics.
Small Hot Air Balloon

This vehicle is not very good for cargo transport, but it's great for travel and exploration. Although it's slow, you don't have to deal with obstacles like mountains, rivers, forests, and swamps, or mobs at night. It's also relatively cheap. As it's small, only one player can fly in it at a time. Larger variants will be added in the future.
Dinghy

Small wooden sailboat. It comes with a customizable sail and is very cheap. Unfortunately due to the limitations of Immersive Vehicles, you need to shift the gear from neutral to 1 (or reverse if you want to), and it uses fuel. I set it to use a custom fuel type called "nothing"; I recommend going into the mod's config and adding water to the valid fluids of this fuel type.
WORK IN PROGRESS - Large Cargo Ship

I don't really have the motivation to continue working on the model of this as it's quite big and extensive. But at some point in the future I'll probably finish it and upload it. Once it's done, this vehicle will be used to efficiently move huge quantities of items and liquids over sea, while also being able to transport multiple players, due to its impressive size of more than 60 blocks of length.
Furthermore, this pack also comes with various parts like ship engines that are required to use these vehicles.
Plans for the future include:
Medium Cargo Ship, to fill the gap between the small and large one
Various military ships, a speedboat, and a jet ski
Ancient and medieval sailships, both for cargo and military uses; these will be worse than their modern counterparts, but also cheaper, using mostly a bunch of wood
Medium and Large Hot Air Balloons, these will be able to carry more than one player, as well as some additional cargo in the form of crates
Bomb racks you can mount on hot air balloons for raiding NPC structures, or other players on a multiplayer server
Various sizes and types of airships
Project description from CurseForge.
Pick your setup
Nova Lux Vehiculum by Minecraft version and loader
Choose the version and loader you play, then open the matching release.
1.12.2
1 loader buildCheck the dependencies, then try the file in a copied instance before changing a world you care about.
Recent files
Nova Lux Vehiculum versions and loaders
novaluxvehiculum-v0.2.0.jar
15 Aug 2023
novaluxvehiculum-v0.1.0.jar
13 Aug 2023
Looking for an older file? The official CurseForge project page is in Resources.