Sable Scaling

Scale a Sable vehicle up or down – a giant airship, a palm-sized model boat, anything between – and have it still work.

/sablescale looking <n>   scale whatever you are pointing at
/sablescale set <id> <n>  0.01 to 100
/sablescale reset <id>    back to 1

That is the whole interface. There is no config file.

It feels the size it is

Sable already knew how to draw a scaled ship. What was missing was a way to set one, and everything that broke once you could:

• The scale saves and syncs. Worlds still open without the mod – scaled vehicles just come back at normal size, nothing is corrupted.
• A shrunk vehicle is lighter. The physics staff flicks it around like the toy it has become, water stops it fast, and it settles on its waterline instead of bobbing forever.
• Bearings, thrusters and arms hold themselves up at any size.
• Your reach on a small vehicle is the reach you expect.
• Scaling a machine scales the whole machine, including parts on bearings.
• Resizing keeps the vehicle sitting on the ground rather than inside it.

Known issues

• Rescaling a floating vehicle by a large factor in one step gives a brief lurch. Do it in stages.
• Scale first, then assemble a bearing. The other order leaves the joint in the wrong place.

Loaders

The NeoForge build is current. The Fabric build is older and does not have the physics work above – it has the commands and the saving, not the buoyancy, weight and bearing fixes.

The Creative Scaling Staff is not in this mod. It ships in the separate Create Scalable add-on.

Related mods

Sable

Requires Sable, on both server and client. NeoForge 1.21.1 (current) and Fabric 1.21.1 (behind). MIT. Free to use in modpacks.