Volo Volare

Step into a model glider and soar into a world of wonder.

Volo Volare adds a highly-configurable toy glider.

• Give yourself a speed boost by using gunpowder or blaze powder while flying. (item tag: volare:thrust_source)
• Extend your flight by flying through thermals produced by campfires, fire, magma, and lava. (block tag: volare:thermal_source)
• Configure arbitrary wingtip particles with the volare:glider/particles component.

  /give @s volare:glider[volare:glider/particles=[{type:"minecraft:electric_spark"}, {type:"minecraft:heart"}]]

• Give a glider an initial speed boost with the volare:glider/frozen_motion component.

  /give @s volare:glider[volare:glider/frozen_motion=[0.0f, 0.0f, 0.8f]]

Config

To configure 1st- and 3rd-person roll, edit config/volare.json5 or use the in-game config screen.

To configure thermals and boost, edit <world_path>/serverconfig/volare-server.json5 or use the in-game config screen.
Server configs are automatically synced to clients.

Customization

Custom Textures

To create a glider with custom textures:

1. Place a texture at the path assets/<namespace>/textures/entity/glider/<texture_name>.png
2. Create a translation for the key entity.volare.glider.variant.<namespace>.entity.glider.<texture_name> in assets/<namespace>/lang/en_us.json
3. Spawn a glider with the texture using the command:

   /give @s volare:glider[volare:glider/variant="<namespace>:entity/glider/<texture_name>"]

Modifying Volo Volare’s Creative Tab

Custom gliders can be added to Volo Volare’s creative tab by creating a JSON file in your resourcepack at assets/volare/volare_item_groups/main.json

{
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "volare:glider",
      "components": {
        "volare:glider/variant": "<namespace>:entity/glider/<texture_name>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Area Lib Integration

Flak

An area can be configured to shoot down any gliders that fly through it using the /volare area flak command.

Thermals

An area can be configured to act as an updraft or downdraft using the /volare area thermal command.

About the name: The first two principal parts of the latin verb for flight are ‘volo volare’ (‘I fly’, ‘to fly’), but ‘volo’ also means ‘I want’, thus ‘volo volare’ means ‘I want to fly’.