The Zeppelin is a slow and fragile transport and supply aircraft, mainly used as a personnel carrier that can carry a small amount of cargo.
It is also one of the ships able to launch combat aircraft (the other is the Aircraft Carrier); Bombers and Fighters can only move within a 400 block radius of a piloted, friendly Zeppelin, that is located in Wilderness.
Like other transport crafts, the Zeppelin can quickly load and unload items using the cargo commands.
¶ Movement
Zeppelins will always cruise in the direction of their "front". If you try to cruise sideways, your Zeppelin will move diagonally in that direction instead.
The "front" of the Zeppelin 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.
Zeppelins use the Land Direct Control mode, which allows them to move diagonally. Direct Control mode is superior to manual movement during combat.
¶ Specifications
General specifications:
- Cruising Speed: 8 m/s
- Rotation Cooldown: 3s
Block requirements and limitations:
- Minimum block size of 1,000
- Maximum block size of 7,000
- Must be at least 8% Redstone Block
- Must be at least 65% Wool
- No more than 0.3% of blocks may be Chests, Trapped Chests, Barrels
- No more than 0.3% of blocks may be Droppers
- No more than 4 blocks may be Coal Blocks
You can also calculate these block requirements and limitations in-game by using /craftcalc Zeppelin (block size).
¶ Cannons
- Allowed cannons:
- Anti-Air Gun (maximum of 2)
- Bomb Bay (maximum of 4)
¶ Allowed Blocks on Craft
You can also view these Allowed Blocks in-game by using /craftblocks Zeppelin.
| Polished Basalt | Banner | Barrel | Bell | Blast Furnace | Bookshelf | Brewing Stand |
| Button | Cake | Campfire | Candle | Carpet | Cartography Table | Cauldron |
| Chain | Chest | Chiseled Deepslate | Coal Block | Comparator | Crafting Table | Deepslate Bricks (all) |
| Deepslate Tiles (all) | Door | Dropper | End Rod | Ender Chest | Fence | Fence Gate |
| Fire | Fletching Table | Flower Pot | Furnace | Glass | Glass Pane | Glowstone |
| Wood (all) | Hay Block | Honey Block | Hyphae (all) | Wool | Ladder | Lantern |
| Lectern | Lever | Lightning Rod | Log (all) | Loom | Note Block | Observer |
| Planks | Polished Andesite | Polished Blackstone | Polished Deepslate | Polished Granite | Pressure Plate (all) | Redstone |
| Redstone Block | Redstone Lamp | Redstone Torch | Repeater | Scaffolding | Sea Lantern | Sign |
| Slab | Slime Block | Smoker | Snow | Soul Campfire | Soul Lantern | Soul Torch |
| Stairs | Stem (all) | Sticky Piston | Target | Tinted Glass | Torch | Trapdoor |
| Trapped Chest | Tripwire Hook | Wall |
¶ Piloting
Zeppelins cannot move over besieged enemy towns.
To pilot a Zeppelin, you may use the command /pilot Zeppelin while standing on an eligible Zeppelin. Alternatively, you may right click a sign on the craft that has Zeppelin written on the first line.
The Zeppelin can fly no higher than 100 blocks above ground.
¶ Fuel
This craft is fueled by Coal, Charcoal, Blocks of Coal, and Blocks of Charcoal placed inside an on-board Furnace.