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Facepunch is implementing drones in to the game. This is just for a bit of fun while we wait

How it works

• You give yourself the drone item and you can place it like any other deployable item
• Upon placing the drone you will begin controlling it
• While you are controlling it a dummy player will be spawned in your place
• The dummy player takes your inventory whilst you are flying
• If the dummy player is wounded you will stop flying and will enter the wounded state
• If the dummy player is killed whilst you are flying you will also die
• When you stop flying the dummy player is despawned and your inventory is restored to you
• Collision damage is a thing. If you crash in to other objects whilst flying the drone will take damage
• Players can shoot the drones out of the sky
• If you fly your drone in to water it will be destroyed
• If the drone's health dips below 0 it will be destroyed
• If the drone's health dips below 10% you will lose control of it and have to find it and pick it up
• You can repair drones by hitting them with a hammer with the required resources

Controls

• Forward / Backward / Left / Right - Drone movement
• Sprint / Duck - Ascend and descend
• Jump - Stop controlling

Permissions

• dronepilot.use - Required to fly the drones
• dronepilot.create - Required to give yourself the drone item
• dronepilot.nocooldown - Ignore cooldown times being applied when using the /drone command
• dronepilot.nocost - Ignore the scrap cost associated with using the /drone command

Chat Commands

• /drone - Give yourself a drone item

Configuration

{
  "Vertical acceleration speed": 20.0,
  "Horizontal acceleration speed": 15.0,
  "Yaw speed": 6.0,
  "The speed that the drone will return to a levelled rotation after leaning": 2.0,
  "Lean weight (how much the drone leans in to movement) (0.0 -> 1.0)": 0.35,
  "Lean max velocity (the maximum velocity for full lean)": 6.0,
  "The impact speed before damage is applied": 3.0,
  "The amount of damage to apply from impacts (scales depending on speed)": 3.0,
  "The amount of time to disable the drone controls after a collision (seconds)": 0.25,
  "Maximum cruising height above terrain": 30.0,
  "Drone should autohover and not be affected by gravity when no user input is detected": false,
  "Drone damage scaler (does not affect collision damage)": 5.0,
  "The cooldown time on using the /drone command (seconds)": 3600,
  "The scrap cost associated with using the /drone command": 0,
  "Version": {
    "Major": 1,
    "Minor": 0,
    "Patch": 1
  }
}