Create Aeronautics: AMBUSH

Create Aeronautics: AMBUSH adds configurable, data-driven hostile encounters that make the world respond to players, with encounters tracked separately for each player and natural attacks becoming harder as enemy factions grow more hostile. Ambushes can be triggered by conditions such as biome, dimension, weather, time, player height, nearby structures or active machines, portals, and mob kills, then place enemies around players, in caves, at sea, underwater, or near structures. Encounters can include multiple waves, custom-equipped mobs and AI, projectile attacks, reinforcements, faction reputation, cooldowns, weighted chances, and player-based unlock progression. With optional Create Aeronautics and related ship integrations, the mod turns structure templates into moving vessels that pursue and track players, steer or reverse, keep firing distance, and maneuver for broadside attacks; compatible vehicles also include boats and cars. Ships can arrive alone, in formations, from above, or as coordinated fleets, with crews that target enemies, operate redstone-controlled weapons, and fire cannon volleys from the appropriate side. Vessel encounters can share a boss health bar across a ship or fleet, call reinforcements, activate weapons at health milestones, and trigger events such as cannon fire, fog, effects, fireworks, rewards, or destruction sequences as health changes. Named encounters include the Iron Tide, Storm Breaker, Pale Leviathan, and Iron Raider bosses, armored Pillager airships, a Pillager fishing boat, tiny-cannon raids, and Nether and Overworld Piglin auto-aim platforms. Other examples include underground mining attacks by armored zombies, weapon-carrying skeletons, invisible spiders, and speed-enhanced skeletons, as well as a Pillager Potato Car with side and forward-mounted cannons. The mod is also a toolkit for datapack authors: encounter definitions can be added or updated without rebuilding the mod, and nearly every trigger, spawn placement, combat behavior, progression rule, and vehicle setting can be configured. Create Aeronautics and Create Big Cannons support is optional; ordinary mob encounters work without Aeronautics, and generic encounters can use vanilla entities, sounds, and effects without those integrations.