The Aircraft Carrier ("ACC") is a naval vessel. ACCs are the largest ships that players can build. It is also one of the ships able to launch combat aircraft (the other is the Zeppelin); Bombers and Fighters can move within a 2,000 block radius of a piloted, friendly Aircraft Carrier, that is located in Wilderness.
¶ Crew Signs
Aircraft carriers can use Crew signs to help the pilots of shot-down aircraft quickly redeploy. When a Fighter or Bomber is shot down within 2,000 blocks of a piloted friendly ACC, its pilot will be teleported to their Crew sign on that ACC if they created one.
¶ Squadrons
One of the most powerful features of ACCs is their ability to command squadrons. Squadrons are groups of aircraft that the ACC can command simultaneously, without real pilots.
¶ Controls
ACCs will always cruise in the direction of their "front". If you try to cruise sideways, your ACC will move diagonally in that direction instead.
The "front" of the ACC is determined in two ways.
- If your craft has a Cruise sign, the "front" is opposite to the direction that the sign is facing.
- If your craft has no or multiple Cruise signs, the "front" is the direction you are looking at when piloting the craft.
ACCs use the Naval Direct Control mode. Direct Control mode is superior to manual movement during combat.
¶ Specifications
General specifications:
- Cruising Speed: 14 m/s
- Rotation Cooldown: 8s
Block requirements and limitations:
- Minimum block size of 6,000
- Maximum block size of 13,000
- Must be at least 3% Redstone Block
- Must be at least 35% Concrete
- No more than 15% of blocks may be (any) Terracotta
- No more than 7.5% of blocks may be Glazed Terracotta
- No more than 0.25% of blocks may be Chests, Trapped Chests, Barrels
- No more than 0.3% of blocks may be Droppers
- No more than 0.3% of blocks may be Dispensers
- No more than 35% of the craft's blocks must be at or below the waterline
You can also calculate these block requirements and limitations in-game by using /craftcalc AircraftCarrier (block size).
Cannon limitations:
- Allowed cannons:
- 4-Inch Gun (6 max)
- Anti-Air Gun (4 max)
The Aircraft Carrier can have armor.
- Terracotta is the armor block. It has a higher blast resistance than normal when piloting the craft.
¶ Allowed Blocks on Craft
You can also view these Allowed Blocks in-game by using /craftblocks AircraftCarrier.
| Anvil (all) | Banner | Barrel | Bed | Bell | Blast Furnace | Bookshelf |
| Brewing Stand | Bricks | Button | Cake | Calcite | Campfire | Candle |
| Carpet | Cartography Table | Cauldron | Chain | Chest | Chiseled Deepslate | Coal Block |
| Comparator | Concrete | Cracked Nether Bricks | Crafting Table | Daylight Detector | Deepslate Bricks (all) | Deepslate Tiles (all) |
| Dispenser | Door | Dropper | End Rod | End Stone Bricks | Ender Chest | Fence |
| Fence Gate | Fire | Fletching Table | Flower Pot | Furnace | Glass | Glass Pane |
| Glazed Terracotta | Glowstone | Grindstone | Hay Block | Honey Block | Hyphae (all) | Iron Bars |
| Iron Block | Ladder | Lantern | Lectern | Lever | Lightning Rod | Log (all) |
| Loom | Nether Bricks | Note Block | Observer | Planks | Polished Andesite | Polished Basalt |
| Polished Blackstone | Polished Blackstone Bricks (all) | Polished Deepslate | Polished Diorite | Polished Granite | Pressure Plate (all) | Prismarine Bricks |
| Quartz Bricks | Raw Copper Block | Red Nether Bricks | Redstone | Redstone Block | Redstone Lamp | Redstone Torch |
| Repeater | Scaffolding | Sea Lantern | Sign | Slab | Slime Block | Smoker |
| Smooth Stone | Soul Campfire | Soul Lantern | Soul Torch | Stairs | Stem (all) | Sticky Piston |
| Stone Bricks (all) | Target Block | Terracotta (all) | TNT | Torch | Trapdoor | Trapped Chest |
| Tripwire Hook | Tuff | Wall | Waxed Copper (all) | Wood (all) | Wool | Obsidian |
¶ Piloting
To pilot an Aircraft Carrier, you may use the command /pilot AircraftCarrier while standing on an eligible Aircraft Carrier. Alternatively, you may right click a sign on the craft that has AircraftCarrier written on the first line.
Piloting an Aircraft Carrier increases your render distance to 10 chunks maximum, until you release the craft.
¶ Fuel
This craft is fueled by Coal, Charcoal, Blocks of Coal, and Blocks of Charcoal placed inside an on-board Furnace.