AMBUSH 1.1.6 — Faction Update

Factions

• Implemented faction reputation and faction-based hostility.
• Added Villager and Piglin allied support calls.
• Added Villager and Piglin faction horns which summon an ally.
• Added battles between opposing factions.
• Factions can now react differently depending on the player's reputation.

Villager Fleets

• Implemented Villager airships and fleets.
• Added fishing fleets, cargo convoys, escorts, and convoy interception encounters.
• Villager ships can fight hostile factions and defend allied players.
• Added Villager support balloons and airships.

New Airships & Vehicles

• Added the Cast Iron Phantom and Dirt Retribution variant (dont break too much dirt :) ).
• Added the Cast Iron Frigate.
• Added new Redsail ships and a large Redsail fleet.
• Added new Skeleton airships and fleet formations.
• Added Bogged balloon encounters.
• Added Pillager cars, mining vehicles, and additional airships.
• Added lighter potato-cannon ships for earlier progression.
• Added new Piglin airship (its deadly sorry).
• Added two mining operations that are defended.

New Ground Encounters

• Added Stray encounters for frozen regions.
• Added Bogged encounters for swamps.
• Added underground Illager mining encounters.
• Added Dark Forest Illager encounters.
• Added village-related Illager attacks and patrols.

Natural Spawning

• Reworked natural airship spawning around a long-term progression curve.
• Normal natural encounters now occur roughly every 2–5 Minecraft days.
• Major encounters are significantly rarer.
• Encounter selection now considers progression, faction reputation, biome, dimension, structures, weather, and other conditions.
• Powerful ships and bosses have lower natural spawn chances than ordinary encounters.
• Added support for natural boat encounters around beaches and coastlines.

Airship Combat

• Added aligned individual cannon firing.
• Added coordinated aligned cannon salvos.
• Added cannon reload and firing-cycle management.
• Added cannon alignment checks for supported ships.
• Added hardware-driven altitude control for combat airships.
• Added fleet steering and coordinated ship AI.
• Added broader faction-vs-faction airship combat.
• Added swivel-mount turret platform support.

Boss Encounters

• Added and expanded late-game fleet boss encounters.
• Added staged reinforcements and combat events based on boss health.
• Added Iron Tide and Storm Breaker fleet combat behavior.
• Boss encounters are gated behind later progression and lower natural spawn rates.

Cleanup & Stability

• Added queued cleanup for large AMBUSH encounters.
• Added safer handling for split and destroyed airships.
• Reduced the chance of ships spawning too close to players.
• Added limits to prevent natural encounters from endlessly accumulating ships.
• Added microstructure support to avoid areas players have built in or frequent (NO MORE SCULK TOWERS IN YOUR BASE!).

Commands & Administration

• Expanded /ambush encounter and invasion commands.
• Added natural encounter rate controls up to 20x for testing (can also reduce spawn rates).
• Added faction reputation commands.
• Added encounter spawning controls, debug information, and unlock tools.
• Added invasion joining, leaving, readying, profiles, and wave controls (STILL IN PROGRESS, WORKS FULLY BUT STARTS OFF SLOW FOR NOW).

Compatibility

• Added Guard Villagers integration, villagers have a data driven chance to be replaced by a guard villager on aeronautics encounters.
• Added Offroad integration for supported vehicle encounters (cars work in a official way).
• Encounters requiring unavailable optional mods are automatically skipped.

Please report all bugs to my discord! I am working on making the official release of the faction update and I am trying to make sure everything works.