Introduction

While your ship can hide from radars, your enemy can still see you with his/her own eyes. To that effect, the cloaking field technology was invented and refined over the years.

General principles

The cloaking core is at the heart of this technology: it's a complex resonating chamber generating light deflecting flux. Those fluxes are extracted by a 'channeling' layer of cloaking coils, placed close to the core, on each side of it. The fluxes are them transferred to a 'projecting' layer of cloaking coils, directly aligned with the core and a channeling coil. Each of the 6 projecting coils projects the flux on a face, effectively cloaking the content of the area from outside players.

Upon entering or exiting a cloaked area, it'll take a few seconds for your eyes to adjust and see the content of it. Unlike older version of the cloaking technology, humans may safely transition between the different sides of the field.

While they use different energy levels and structure, the light deflection field from cloaking and the warp field from the ship core are incompatible to each others. Notably, a ship needs to uncloaked before engaging a warp jump.

Until recently, a cloaked ship was still leaving some form of shadow in view of outside players. With an good amount of extra power, you may now become completely invisible to your enemy eyes.

Remember that cloaking only affect human eyes. You can still be detected on a radar or with particles and loud noise.

Cloaking tiers

There's 2 tiers of cloaking: first tier leaves a shadow in place of your ship, while second tier completely hides blocks and entities. Tier 2 requires significantly more power.

For each tier, the power requirement is function of the number of blocks cloaked; hence as you add more blocks, your power consumption will increase accordingly.

Placement

Cloaking an area requires exactly 1 cloaking core and 12 cloaking coils, along with a computer and a steady power source. On each side of the core, you need to place 2 coils.
The first coil needs to be exactly 2 blocks away from the core (i.e. leaving 1 block in between the core and the coil), it's known as a channeling coil. Here's a picture of the 6 channeling coils around a core (glass is just for visual aid):

The second coil on each sides defines the cloaking area dimension. They are known as projecting coils. The actual cloaking area is in fact 5 blocks bigger then each projecting coil position.
Here's a picture of a full cloaking setup (glass is just for visual aid, redstone blocks are inside the field, lapis blocks are the first visible blocks when the cloak is enabled):

Right clicking the cloaking core or trying to start/enable cloaking will report the status of those 12 cloaking coils.

Crafting

You can produce a Cloaking Core block with 3 Cloaking Coils, 4 Iridium Blocks, 1 Ship Controller, and 1 Power Interface.

You can produce a Cloaking Coil block with 2 Reflective plates, 2 Coils, 4 Focusing plates, 1 EV Machine Casing. Reflective plates can be Titanium plate, Sunnarium, Dense steel, Vibrant alloy, Emerald, etc. depending on mods installed. Coils can be GT Nichrome Coil, IC2 Coil, TE Redstone conductance coil, IE HV wire coil, EIO Ender energy conduit, Gold, etc. depending on mods installed. Focusing plates can be Reinforced iridium plate, Frank'n'skull, Lumium or Emerald.

Cloaking on WarpDrive 1.12

Once enough power has been provided, use one of the pre-loaded scripts to start the cloaking.

The Cloaking Core comes with 'enable' and 'disable' scripts. Using 'enable' will enable the Cloaking Core, and using 'disable' will disable it.

The Cloaking Core will leave a dark shadow by default. Upgrading the Cloaking Core with a Diamond Tuned Crystal will make it completely invisible.

Cloaking on WarpDrive 1.7

Once enough power has been provided, use one of the pre-loaded scripts to start the cloaking.

The Cloaking Core comes with 'cloak1', 'cloak2', and 'uncloak' programs. As the name implies, cloak1 is for Tier 1, cloak2 is for Tier 2.