Ironclad Ram Car

Quickstart

1. Craft the Armor Car item at a crafting table using the recipe below.
2. Place the Armor Car item on the ground — the vehicle spawns instantly and automatically mounts you.
3. Drive using your normal movement controls (just like a tamed mount).
4. Steer through mobs to ram and instantly kill them — critical-hit particles and an action-bar message confirm each kill.
5. To use the Fortify ability, tap the interact button while driving to trigger a burst of protection effects.
6. Dismount by sneaking (crouch), just as you would with any rideable entity.

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Overview

Ironclad Ram Car adds a single craftable ground vehicle — the Armor Car — built for aggressive mob-clearing and hazard-proof exploration. It is effectively indestructible, passively buffs its driver, and kills nearby mobs on contact, making it ideal for pushing through hostile territory with minimal risk.

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What It Adds

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How To Use

Spawning & Mounting

Place the Armor Car item on any solid surface. The vehicle spawns at that location and immediately pulls you into the driver's seat. You do not need to manually interact to mount it.

Driving

The Armor Car is controlled exactly like a standard rideable mount — use your movement keys/joystick to steer and move. It handles turns up to 35° and can navigate over water paths.

Dismounting

Crouch (sneak) to dismount. You are placed on top of the vehicle when you exit.

Ramming Mobs

While you are driving, the Armor Car automatically scans for non-player mobs within roughly 2.75 blocks every few ticks. Any mob caught in that radius is instantly killed. Critical-hit particles appear at each kill location and your action bar displays "Armor Car rammed a mob!" as confirmation.

Fortify Ability

Tap the interact button while mounted to activate Fortify. This immediately grants you a burst of protection effects and shows a totem particle effect on the vehicle. The ability has a cooldown of about 3 seconds (60 ticks) between uses.

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Abilities And Mechanics

Passive Driver Protection

As long as you are seated in the Armor Car, you are continuously granted three status effects roughly once per second:

These effects refresh automatically — you do not need to do anything to maintain them.

Vehicle Durability

The Armor Car is designed to be practically indestructible:

• 1,000,000 HP — cannot be worn down in normal play.
• Immune to all damage — no damage source (including explosions and player attacks) affects it.
• Full knockback resistance — cannot be pushed by mobs, players, or pistons.
• Fire immune — lava, fire, and flame-based attacks have no effect.

Ramming

The auto-ram system targets any living, non-player entity within ~2.75 blocks of the vehicle's center. Ramming is instant and passive — simply drive into or near mobs and they are eliminated automatically.

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Crafting And Obtaining

Craft the Armor Car at a Crafting Table:

The recipe yields one Armor Car item. Stack size is 1. Once placed, the vehicle persists in the world until manually removed (there is no despawn timer). You can craft additional Armor Car items to place more vehicles.

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Progression And Strategy

• Early mob farm runs: Drive the Armor Car into a mob-dense area (such as a monster spawner room or the Nether) and let the auto-ram do the work. The passive protection effects keep you safe even in lava-heavy environments.
• Fortify on cooldown: Activate Fortify as soon as you mount and keep re-using it every 3 seconds for maximum uptime on the protection burst.
• Fire and lava exploration: The car's fire immunity and your Fire Resistance buff make it excellent for navigating the Nether or the End without risk.
• The car never breaks: You never need to repair it — focus entirely on positioning rather than vehicle health management.