SS.Venture

The Sky Ship Venture is a survival friendly, self sustaining, vanilla aeronautics, mobile base Airship.

I made the SS venture for an RPG server I'm playing with friends, it's served me well for exploring the world, living in it exclusively (with occasional drop ins to my buddies base for more complex resources), and it's reasonable to create by the mid game IMO. List of Features below:
- Max altitude of 290 blocks
- Top speed of ~40 blocks a second
- automated levelling counterweight via a gimble and gantry combo
- Self sustaining via a level 9 steam engine powered by lava cauldrons
- base aeronautics friendly
- built in rope elevator for when there's no where to land
- Easy Typewriter controls from pilots room
- Velocity and Altitude displays (mechanics hidden in the front of the balloon)
- Spacious downstairs for create contraptions in my case, or in yours possibly a small vehicle
- upstairs area for crafting and living (see images for my survival version)
- Top floor for captains quarters
- Large vault storage built in (I love this feature)


The Setup after spawning and assembling the venture in is pretty simple:
- pick up and replace the mechanical arm, making it deposit in all the blaze burners, pick up from the bottom depo next to it, and deposit empty buckets into the top smart chute. then just drop some empty or full lava buckets into the corelated smart chute - infinite lava done
- waterlog the stairs surrounding the water pumps for infinite water - infinite water done
- use ropes to connect both rope winches on the elevator - elevator set up
- toggle the lever to the left of the blaze burner shop keep off and back on to enable the vault system (deposit items in top barrel, take from bottom barrel, very simple) - storage working
- lastly, insert one coal into the portable engine to the rear of the steam engine to jump start it, once the engine gets going the clutch next to the portable engine can be toggled on - engine working


This SHOULD be all the set up required for the Venture to function, some small features like the nixie tube velocity and altitude trackers may need re connecting, but that's pretty simple and it works without them
This was my first proper attempt at a mobile base airship, after a few test craft, I think it works well as a versatile mid game airship and its worked well for me so far. First 3 images of the interior are of my survival version (obtainable via the alternate download) but the rest are of a clean blank slate version to allow you to fit it however you'd like