Immersive Aircraft: Building and Flying Aircraft
Immersive Aircraft adds a range of craftable aircraft for travel and cargo, in a grounded, vanilla-fitting style. This guide covers the aircraft and how to fly them.
The aircraft
The mod adds several flying vehicles, each with its own strengths — from a nimble 
Biplane to an 
Airship, a 
Cargo Airship for hauling, a 
Gyrodyne and a Hot Air Balloon. Each is crafted from materials and placed like a boat, then ridden into the sky.
Fuel and engines
The aircraft run on fuel rather than being free-flying, giving flight a resource cost. Engines and other components can be added or upgraded to improve an aircraft's performance, so you can tune a vehicle toward speed, lift or cargo capacity.
Getting started
Craft your first aircraft — the Biplane or Hot Air Balloon are accessible starters — supply it with fuel, and take off. Because the aircraft carry cargo and passengers, they double as a transport network for a base. Immersive Aircraft is about practical, craftable flight that fits survival play rather than creative-only spectacle.
Twenty-seven items, twenty-seven recipes
Immersive Aircraft is 27 pages, 27 items, no blocks, and exactly 27 crafting recipes — one per item, on both versions.
That one-to-one ratio means there are no intermediate parts to prepare and no hidden dependencies: every item in the mod is a single craft from materials you already have.
Nothing is placed
With no blocks at all, the aircraft are entities spawned from items rather than structures you build. There is no hangar to construct and no workstation to make first.
Version parity
The 1.21.1 build (1.4.6) and the 1.20.1 build (1.4.1) carry the same 27 recipes, so nothing here is version-specific.
Practical first steps
Pick the aircraft that suits your terrain rather than working up a tier ladder — the flat recipe list means none is a prerequisite for another. Upgrades and accessories are among those same 27 items, so read the whole list once before committing materials to a specific machine.
Flying them
Because the aircraft are entities rather than blocks, they behave like boats and minecarts: placed from the item, ridden directly, and picked back up rather than dismantled. Losing one to terrain is a matter of re-crafting the single recipe, not rebuilding a structure, which makes early experimentation cheap.
Engine