Airship Concept

[severe hazel]

I know, I know .. Airships are on the developerlist and need somthing to counter to be not op etc.
BUT! I just what to give some ideas how to implement the idea of an airship maybe more easyly into the game.
So the Idea: we already got the shiphulls in the game and an airSHIP is a ship right? so let's just use the hulls to build our fancy airship by simply have the option to put an ballon on top our ship and boom! airship! 😄 but to ballance the hole thing there could be a option that say "lift" and when ever you build a block on that shiphull the number rises and you need more lift to take off.

So now thw ballloon part: there ofcause could be some different balloons to choose from some big with much "liftpower" and some small with less power ( I made an example picture so you better understand what I mean). And you also could add these flying blocks to help lifting the hole ship by adding some of these too (lets say your ship need a liftpower of 1080 and the biggest balloon have 1000 you could add 4 of the propellerblocks with 20 liftpower and have the needed lift to tkae off).
I hope you all understand what I mean and that my english wasn't that bad to explain 😄

[waxen wing]

That does make sense, although if this were to be added there would need to be fuel since balloons don't fly without fuel, unless if you put helium in them. They could add a feature where you can collect helium. I think for airships there should be a dedicated hull.

[unkempt terrace]

Well what you have is the “dirigible” ! Helium or hydrogen, however for the size and ease of implementation, if wouldn’t be too far-fetched to use, say, hot air!

[severe hazel]

you just can use the resources that are already there: coal & ylandium like this is just now the energy source. We don't need to overcomplicate things just fuel to be able to move and maybe some new ingredients to craft the baoons in my view 🙂

[waxen wing]

@unkempt terrace I agree with you, however the helium or hydrogen thing was so people could fly airships without using 3 pieces of coal per minute just to keep it afloat