Create:Parachute

Create:Parachute (1.1.4+)

A parachute mod for Create and Sable physics
Build a parachute onto your vehicle, deploy it with a redstone pulse, and glide down safely.

What did it do?

Drop a folder into <game root>/parachute/local/ and it shows up in the selection GUI instantly:

• Blockbench project — .bbmodel + .png. The parachute has to be a Java entity model (or a Bedrock edition model) in the Blockbench project.
• OBJ model — .obj + .mtl + the texture folder, straight out of Blender

parachute/local/<name>/<name>.obj <name>.mtl textures/*.png

• Both work in parachute/server/ as well.
• The built-in parachutes are placed in the parachute/ folder when the mod loads successfully.

• Controller GUI — right-click the block to open it:
• Drag — drag coefficient of the canopy (higher = slows you down faster)
• RotDrag — rotational damping (higher = spins stop faster)
• Cutaway — low-speed detach threshold in m/s; below this speed the chute auto-retracts when enabled
• Low — toggle low-speed auto-detach on/off
• RS — redstone behaviour: a pulse deploys the chute; with RS on, another pulse retracts it
• Save — apply the settings
• M — Set model offset
• P — Set pivot offset (this setting adjusts the pivot relative to the model, but in fact the pivot itself doesn’t move)
• R — Set rotation (rotation point at the pivot)
• Scale — opens the Render Scale screen: one field (0.05 – 20) that scales the whole model and canopy around the pivot
• lock — freeze the canopy’s rotation, so it stops its idle sway/wobble
• pack — the red key hides/shows the pack block’s own model
• Parachute selection GUI — opened from the controller’s folder button. One display box per parachute, scrollable list with a slider; click a box to select it and press confirm. The Open Folder button opens the game’s <game root>/parachute/local/. (The list also tags parachutes that only exist as your local fallback.)

Seat cushion & Synaxis Control Chair

Use the Create wrench on a parachute block to turn it into a seat cushion. Sitting on it works like a Create seat, and it keeps
every parachute feature — model, canopy, dye and the controller GUI.

• Sit — right-click the cushion with an empty hand.
• Controller GUI — Shift + right-click with an empty hand.
• Synaxis Control Chair — with Synaxis installed, the cushion doubles as a Synaxis Control Chair: the chair UI and its settings and the circuit-board peripherals all work from the cushion.
• Blaze Rod + right-click — open the Control Chair settings UI.
• Without Synaxis the cushion is simply a seat; everything else keeps working.

• Dye support — right-click a placed parachute with any dye to recolor it; right-click with an axe to restore its original texture.

Parachutes on servers

• Your own parachutes and the ones you download are kept apart: yours live in parachute/local/, and every server gets its own folder, parachute/server/<save uuid>/.
• Each world save has its own UUID (written into the save at create_parachute/server-id.txt) and sends it to you when you log in, so changing a server’s address or port never splits or mixes its folder. On the server side the library is still a plain parachute/<name>/.
• While you are on someone else’s server, that server’s parachutes win over same-named local ones; in single player, or while you host the world, your local/ folder is used. Same name = the server’s copy overwrites yours. When a server’s address changes, its library keeps living in the same world save’s UUID folder, and the old address is kept in server-info.txt.
• If another player uses a parachute you don’t have at all, it falls back to the default mushroom.

Downloads for every player, sent in batches

• /parachute list and /parachute download no longer need OP — any player can browse the server library and pull parachutes. upload, distribute and delete still require OP.
• Downloads are streamed a little at a time (a limited number of bytes per tick, one file at a time) instead of being packed into one big zip, so a large library still arrives over a slow connection, and you get a chat message when it finishes. There is nothing to unzip: the files land directly in the right parachute/server/<save uuid>/ folder.
• Server owners can turn it off or tune it in config/create_parachute-common.toml:
• [download] allowPlayerDownload — true by default
• [download] bytesPerTick — how much is sent to each player per tick, 65536 (64 KiB) by default; lower it on a weak server or a big library
• [download] maxPendingFiles — queue limit, 512 by default

How to use

1. Place the parachute block — or hold the parachute pack and right-click first to pick which parachute it will place.
2. Right-click it with an empty hand to open the controller and tune the parameters (Drag / RotDrag / Cutaway / Low / RS).
3. Send a redstone pulse to deploy it; it will slow your fall (or your contraption) until you land or retract it.
4. Wrench the block to turn it into a seat cushion and sit on it; with Synaxis installed, hold a Blaze Rod and right-click the cushion for the Control Chair UI.
5. Recolor it with any dye, or revert it with an axe.
6. Fine-tune how it looks: Scale for size, the lock key to stop the canopy swaying, and the pack key to hide the pack block itself.
7. On a server, use /parachute list to see what the server has and /parachute download to pull it into your own game.

Commands

| Command | What it does |
|——————————–|——————————————————————————|
| /parachute list [page] | List the parachutes in the server library (everyone) |
| /parachute download [name] | Download one parachute, or all of them, into parachute/server/<save uuid>/ (everyone, if the server allows it) |
| /parachute upload [name] | Send one, or all, of your local/ parachutes to the server (OP) |
| /parachute distribute [player] | Send the whole server library to everyone, or to one player (OP) |
| /parachute delete [name] | Delete one, or all, parachutes from the server, with click-to-confirm (OP) |

GUI terms

| Term | Meaning |
|———|—————————————————-|
| Drag | Drag coefficient — higher = faster deceleration |
| RotDrag | Rotational damping — higher = spins stop faster |
| Cutaway | Speed threshold (m/s) for low-speed auto-detach |
| Low | Toggle low-speed auto-detach |
| RS | Redstone pulse behaviour (deploy / retract) |
| On/Off | Toggle state |
| Confirm | Apply the selected parachute |
| Scale | Render scale of the whole parachute (0.05 – 20) |
| lock | Hold the canopy still — stops its idle sway |
| pack | Show / hide the pack block model (canopy stays) |