Swinging Car

Swinging Car

Swinging Car is a car perched on a mountain peak with real balance physics. Stand on its edge and watch it tilt. Repair it, move in, grow plants under the bumper, and greet the seagulls. Yes, you can live on its roof.

Balance physics

The car sits on a mountain peak block and reacts to weight:

• Step onto any of its edges and the car slowly starts tilting that way. A full tilt takes 16 seconds: it swings to the maximum angle and stays there.
• Tilting works in both directions, and the hitbox tilts with the model — four hitbox stages per side that follow the car’s angle.
• Two hitboxes: the car body and the windshield/roof section. You can walk on the car while it swings.

Repair in strict order

The car starts as a rusty shell. To rebuild it, click parts onto it in the exact sequence:

1. Doors
2. Bumper
3. Headlights
4. Steering wheel
5. Pair of wheels

Every part visually appears on the car — six model stages from a bare wreck to a fully assembled ride. Once it’s complete, you can sit inside.

Nests and seagulls

You can place up to three nests on the car (two at the back, one at the front). Every 5 minutes a seagull lands on a nest, with a 30% chance of carrying something in its beak: wheat seeds, a dead bush, or sweet berries.

The Incubation (nests) and Alex’s Mobs (seagulls) integrations are fully optional — the mod works fine without them.

Plants under the bumper

A fern grows under the car’s bumper:

• Right-click the bumper to harvest it. It regrows in 2 minutes.
• Hold glow berries, sweet berries, a dead bush, or wheat seeds while clicking — and that’s what will grow there instead.
• Shift + left-click the bumper to reset it back to the fern.
• Click the car with bone meal for a particle burst and a shower of 10 plants at once.

Technical information

• Dependencies: requires GeckoLib; Incubation and Alex’s Mobs are optional (nests and seagulls)
• Loader: Forge
• Versions: 1.19.4, 1.20.1, 1.20.4, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.4, 1.21.6, 1.21.8
• Works on both client and server