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Zeppelin and Controller Revamped (Airships, Blimps, Balloons) [On Hold]

Proper integration of the zeppelin cell and zeppelin control mods This will allow you to use the popular Zeppelin Gas Cell with proper altitude controls in your cockpit! Let your Airship, Blimp, Balloon, or Zeppelin take flight!

This is not an original mod, just a rebalance of multiple other mods with bug fixes, balance changes, and other improvements. My goal was to improve the experience so it isn't overpowered in vanilla survival gameplay.


Adds a "Zeppelin Gas Cell" block to the game
- Original: Zeppelin Gas Cell by LookAtMyHorse and nukeguard

Adds zeppelin altitude, pitch, and yaw controls to cockpits
- Original: TLB Zeppelin Controller by D4RK3 54BR3 and Gauge
- Fixed to correctly control altitude
- Updated to work on all planets
- Keeps zeppelin level and at desired altitude


Link: Colonial Zeppelin


Capacity: 250,000L Hydrogen
Lift @ Altitude (rough estimates):
- 200,000kg @ 2000m above sea level
- 100,000kg @ 5000m above sea level
- 50,000kg @ 8000m above sea level
Lift (actual): 2.4 MN when 100% full

Recommended Load: 1 Cell per 100,000kg

The recommended load will allow for equal vertical responsiveness up to 2000m above sea level (9.8m/s/s acceleration up or down. If you hold the maximum of 200,000kg at 2000m, altitude management becomes somewhat unpredictable, and you will not be able to ascend to avoid tall obstacles like mountains or other vehicles.

Note: I changed vertical lift to decay with the square of atmospheric density to balance trying to leave the planet with actually building aesthetic zeppelins. These generally become uneconomical above 6000m, and ugly above 4000m. Previously the atmosphere decayed too slowly in proportion to gravity.


Hydrogen vent is a new block, looks like a hydrogen thruster
Used to reduce the hydrogen in tanks when it is above 98% so that the Zeppelin cells can be emptied
O2/H2 generators on zeppelins will only fill tanks to 50% so that Zeppelin cells can be emptied without venting precious hydrogen

Located in the control panel for the cockpit and the toolbar selection menu
Make sure you are in the main cockpit (if many)
All you really need are:
Update Zeppelin Setup (Run Setup in toolbar)
- Whenever you add a hydrogen tank, Zeppelin Cell, vent, or h2/o2 generator, you should run this
- The mod will not take advantage of new parts until this is run
- Available as toolbar option from the cockpit

Set Current Altitude (Only in toolbar)
- This will show you your current height above sea level
- If you activate it, it will change the target height for the zeppelin to the current height
- Available as toolbar option from the cockpit

Altitude Controls: (Slider in Control panel, Increments in toolbar)
- This sets the target altitude
- Avoid moving more than 300m at a time, your zeppelin may overcompensate at high vertical speeds
- Increments of 1m, 10m, and 100m are available as toolbar options from the cockpit


Place an LCD panel with "Zeppelin" in the custom data, it will be filled with status information about the zeppelin and what it is doing

Multiplayer is not prioritizing cockpits correctly.