VS Shields

# VS Shields **Energy shield systems for (https://modrinth.com/mod/valkyrien-skies) ships.** Minecraft 1.20.1 · Forge · Requires VS2 + Architectury API + Embeddium --- !(https://i.imgur.com/rBj5gGQ.png) Wrap your VS2 warship in a procedural energy shield that stops projectiles, absorbs explosions, and pulses with an organic reaction-diffusion labyrinth glow. Add a battery multiblock for emergency regen, an electronic warfare jammer to burn out enemy shields on collision, a gravity field generator to grant your crew flight and fall immunity, deploy gravitational mines to send enemy ships into a spin, and cloak your ship with a light-bending invisibility field. --- ## Features at a glance - **Dynamic shield bubble** — automatically conforms to the full size of your ship; grows as you add blocks - **Living labyrinth visual** — animated Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion pattern that continuously restructures itself through erosion and regrowth; shifts from blue → yellow → red as HP drops, with violent flicker at low energy; heavily optimized (distance LOD, Fresnel LUT, reduced mesh, throttled simulation) for minimal FPS impact; shader-compatible depth writing for correct cloud sorting with Iris/Oculus - **Three tiers** — Iron / Diamond / Netherite with escalating HP, recharge, and FE costs - **Capacitors & emitters** — stackable addon blocks for more HP and faster recharge - **Shield Battery multiblock** — 3×3×3 structure that silently absorbs 20% of every hit, then dumps an emergency HP restore when you're near death - **Shield Jammer** — 3×3×3 electronic warfare station that burns out enemy shield energy when your ships collide - **Gravity Field Generator** — grants creative-style flight and fall protection to your crew inside the shield radius - **Ship Analyzer** — handheld scanner that highlights ship systems through walls and shows a tactical HUD - **Tactical Goggles** — wearable headgear (helmet slot or Curios head slot) with night vision, ship analyzer HUD (Y toggle), and 4× zoom (Shift+V) - **Gravitational Mine + Launcher** — deployable space-mines that apply massive physical torque to enemy ships on detonation - **Redstone I/O** — Signal **in** activates/deactivates the shield; signal **out** pulses when struck — combine both sides for fully automated defence logic - **Solid Projection Module** — turns the energy shield into a physical barrier; access controlled by programmable **Frequency ID Cards** (up to 8-char codes, Curios-compatible) - **Cloaking Field Generator** — renders your ship invisible to other players and radar systems. Crew aboard sees a subtle rainbow shimmer shell; external players see only a faint Predator-like heat distortion. Activating the cloak suppresses the shield (auto-restarts with 10-second cooldown when decloaked). **Combat break:** after 3 combat hits (shots from or into the cloaked ship), the cloak automatically breaks with a 30-second recloak cooldown. Compatible with Create Radar — cloaked ships are hidden from radar scans and RWR alerts - **Boarding Pod** — 2-block multiblock assault craft that assembles into a full VS2 physics ship; aim with the mouse, hold **Space** to fire the rocket booster, steer mid-flight by looking where you want to go (crosshair-accurate steering at any ship rotation); breaches a 2×2×4 tunnel into the target hull - **Aetheric Anomaly** — procedurally generated floating islands that spawn periodically as VS2 ships high in the sky; mesa top with rolling hills, stalactite-like bottom, caves with rare ores; 4-phase lifecycle (ACTIVE → EXTRACTION → WARNING → DISSOLVING); anti-gravity hover with slow drift and gentle swaying; hostile guardians (Enderman/Phantom/Shulker) with custom drops and escalating waves; ship repulsion, projectile absorption, explosion suppression; hold-RMB void deposit extraction with progress HUD; periodic aetheric pulse (knockback + shield damage); resource mining (Raw Aether Crystal, Resonance Fragment, Void Essence); fully configurable timers, sizes, and physics; admin commands for spawning/despawning/info - **Aetheric Compass** — handheld item that detects anomaly islands: slow spin (no anomaly), points toward island (>500 blocks), wild erratic spin (≤500 blocks — interference); animated 32-texture needle like a vanilla compass - **Resonance Beacon** — scan block that reveals exact anomaly coordinates; requires 500k FE + 1 Refined Aether Crystal per scan; displays position and remaining TTL - **Aetheric Energy Cell** — consumable: right-click a Shield Generator to inject 75,000 FE (configurable) - **Attuned Void Shard** / **Calibrated Oscillator** — crafting ingredients for future tier-4 recipes - **Anomaly particle effects** — spawn beam (vertical light column), ambient motes, pulse shockwave, warning shimmer, dissolution smoke - **Extraction Timer HUD** — shown to all players within 100 blocks of an active anomaly; color-coded countdown - **Crafting component system** — 13 custom