¶ Intro
Heavy Cruisers are vessels of the cruiser class, specialised and designed for direct combat and counter against other cruisers or destroyers, having been utilised in this role by navies since their introduction. An alternative but also widely spread purpose of a heavy cruiser is the role of a merchant raider, because of it possessing heavy armour and weaponry.
¶ Vessel Details
¶ Block Requisites
A Heavy Cruiser may be between 3500 and 9250 blocks.
- At least 2.5 - 5% must be redstone.
- At least 30% must be concrete.
- Not more than 0.05% of the total blocks may be chests or barrels.
¶ Armaments
A Heavy Cruiser may carry an armament of:
- 2x 6inch Naval Gun
- 6x 8inch Naval Gun
- 6x Anti Aircraft Guns
- 4x Torpedoes
¶ Performance
A Heavy Cruiser's engine can produce an output of:
- A speed of 12bps
- with a consumption of 0.85 coal
¶ Allowed Blocks
The following blocks can be used to construct a Heavy Cruiser:
| Anvil | Banner | Barrel | Bell | Blast Furnace | Bookshelf | Brewing Stand |
| Bricks | Button | Cake | Calcite | Campfire | Candle | Carpet |
| Cartography Table | Cauldron | Chain | Chest | Chiseled Deepslate | Coal Block | Comparator |
| Concrete | Cracked Nether Bricks | Crafting Table | Daylight Detector | Deepslate Bricks (all) | Deepslate Tiles (all) | Dispenser |
| Door | End Stone Bricks | Fence | Fence Gate | Fire | Fletching Table | Flower Pot |
| Furnace | Glass | Glass Pane | Glowstone | Grindstone | Hay Block | Honey Block |
| Hyphae (all) | Iron Bars | Iron Block | Ladder | Lantern | Lectern | Lever |
| Lightning Rod | Log (all) | Loom | Nether Bricks | Note Block | Observer | Planks |
| Polished Andesite | Polished Blackstone | Polished Blackstone Bricks (all) | Polished Deepslate | Polished Diorite | Polished Granite | Pressure Plate (all) |
| Prismarine Bricks | Quartz Bricks | Raw Copper Block | Red Nether Bricks | Redstone | Redstone Block | Redstone Lamp |
| Redstone Torch | Repeater | Scaffolding | Sea Lantern | Signs | Slab | Slime Block |
| Smoker | Soul Campfire | Soul Lantern | Soul Torch | Stairs | Stem (all) | Sticky Piston |
| Stone Bricks (all) | Target Block | Tinted Glass | TNT | Torch | Trapdoor | Trapped Chest |
| Tripwire Hook | Tuff | Wall | Waxed Copper (all) | Wood (all) | Wool | End Rod |
¶ Piloting
To pilot a Heavy Cruiser, you may use the command /pilot Heavy Cruiser while standing on an eligible Heavy Cruiser. Alternatively, you may right click a sign on the craft that has Heavy Cruiser written on the first line.
¶ Fuel
Heavy Cruiser is fuelled by Coal, Charcoal, Blocks of Coal, and Blocks of Charcoal placed inside an on-board Furnace.
¶ Tips and Examples
Heavy Cruisers are ideal to be utilised as Coastal Protection against other heavy vessels, without having to invest the resources for a battleship.