VS: Ship Handler
VS: Ship Handler is a Forge utility for Valkyrien Skies servers that registers, lists and removes player-built ships with commands and automatic rules.
What it does
Valkyrien Skies ships can pile up on a server until it slows or crashes. VS: Ship Handler gives server owners a way to track them: a player registers a ship under a name to keep it, and an admin can run a handler command to delete ships that were never registered. Valkyrien Skies is required, and the mod is built for Forge on Minecraft 1.20.1 only.
The mod reads ship limits from its config. An auto-register option can be switched on by default for new players, operators can be given an unlimited ship allowance, and a maximum number of ships per player can be set, with -1 meaning no cap. A maximum search distance controls how far the auto-register step looks for a player's ship. Installation covers the server and each player's game. Files were first published on 2024-11-27 and last updated on 2024-12-17, with 1.1.2 as the latest Forge file.
Key features
Ship registration
Players register a ship under a name with a command, which protects it from the cleanup step, and unregister it when it is no longer needed.
Ship listing
Commands show the ships a player has registered, every ship a player has created, or all registered and created ships on the server.
Automatic registration
Auto-register can be turned on or off per player, and its status can be checked with a command, so new ships are claimed without manual steps.
Admin cleanup
An admin command deletes a ship by its ID, and the handler can remove unregistered ships from the server.
Configurable limits
Settings control the maximum ships per player, infinite ship allowances for operators and the search distance for auto-register.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners and admins running Valkyrien Skies who want to limit the number of ships in a world and clean up unregistered ones.
How it compares
SamHacker's Command GUI is a Forge mod for the client only, under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only and open source, for 1.20.1. VS: Ship Retrieval Service works on client and server, is published for Fabric and Forge for 1.20.1, and is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, but is not open source. Ship Handler is a Forge-only server option that focuses on registering and deleting ships rather than retrieving them.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VS: Ship Handler | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-12-17 |
| SamHacker's Command GUI | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client-side only | 2024-04-23 |
| VS: Ship Retrieval Service | Fabric and Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-02 |
Questions
Does Ship Handler need Valkyrien Skies?
Must Ship Handler be installed on the client?
Can operators get unlimited ships?
In the catalog
VS: Ship Handler is one of 3,545 Optimization mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,441 Optimization mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
VS: Ship Handler is a performance mod for Valkyrien Skies. Have you ever had people creating millions of ships, making the server a crashaholic? Well fear no more, ship handler is here to save the day!
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/vs-ship-handler
- Owner
- IAteMinecraft
- Published
- 2024-11-27
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-12-17
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15