Welcome Blockheads! This is a guide I made to get you started in the forums, and Ingmar. This is just a good way to start; it is not the only, nor the best (or worst). These are things you
will learn on your own, so “
Spoiler Alert” I guess. So here it is:
1. First of all, you should read
this.2. If you have not bought Blockland at this point, buy it. It has extremely good replay value, and it is REALLY cheap when you play for more than a year. You will.
3. You are not, right now, a skilled builder. Don't get me wrong, you will, I bet my ass on it, but give yourself time. Here are some tips regarding this:
• Build in a demo kind of way, with limited bricks, but not too often. The lack of brick makes you focus more on the detail, giving you an edge.
• Right now; DO NOT spend allot of time looking at other people's builds, if you see something like The Faceship at this point, you can diminish yourself as a builder.
• You have talent at this point, but you may not notice. When I started playing this game (as well as many other players), I was considered good for a starter, but I thought I was not good enough and worried too much.
• Post your first completed build as such, if you wish. Maybe even the second one. But don't go overboard. Spend time on your builds, post when you feel OK, or even proud about them.
• “perfection does not come when there is no more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away”
4. Make friends, they will help you, you will help them. They make Blockland several times more fun, and collab builds
can be less stressful.. to start making friend, just pop in some random server and say “hi”. :P
5. Listen to music. When you listen to music, you get bored less easily, and keeps you busy when you are brain-farting ^^
6. Learning to event can be fun AND easy to learn, do it; it will make your builds more interactive. Advanced eventers are respected and can get access to clans, without worrying much on design.
7. Badspot is the creator of Blockland. hes juts a normal guy, wit allot of work. don't criticise his work, we all love it ^^. go to his sever, its one of the few servers which are good for building AND meeting random strangers!
8. Trolls WILL troll. Even when negative posts are rejected by most blocklanders, negative people, or negative elements in a post will ALWAYS be present. Here are some tips on trolls:
• Trolling is not pointing out the bad stuff. It is pointing out the bad stuff, and not giving either a solution or a suggestion to make that problem better. Doing any two of these is called constructive criticism.
• Use correct spelling please, Do Not Talk Like This, 7h3is, 0r tis pLiz. If you are doing it just for a laugh, let us know, point it out; [1337]liek theis pliez[/1337].
• Ignore trolls, unless they have a REALLY good point, in that case, he/she just can't help being that way.
9. Thing we will most probably not tolerate:
• Racism, there is no valid scientific argument that supports ANY kind of racism. so SFTFU and no cookies for Riddler
• loveism, we HAVE, ARE, and WILL keep having respect towards women, gays, lesbians, and you call it. This is a friendly game, with friendly people. [we might call you gay, but if you show yourself as one, you will be accepted, never the less.]
• Constant stuff. If you do not want to improve your building skills, and still build as if your first day 3 years into the game, do not brag about it.
• And all the things signaled as wrong in the rules.
10.
Please, please, write correctly, there is a spell checker, word, and English classes. I am Mexican and use Word for my constant spelling mistakes.
11. When you are ready, join a clan. Browse them, select one, make an app. Clan tags earn you respect, and clans are a fun and easy [once you get in] way to meet friends and gain building experience.
12. Be mature. We are mostly “mature people” [ : P ]. But: Be immature. Just chose correctly when. We all can have fun like 1 year olds with a rattle, at the right time.
13. Nobody cares, well most of us don't. Post your topics in the right section, talk to the people who care most, and you will not be Trollbait.
14. The art of making add-ons, prints and decals, is a great mystery, only handled by the chosen few. If you know how to script, pack, and model, you are welcome to make as much (good) add-ons as you wish!
15. Most important of all: Have Fun!! And again, welcome to Blockland.
MISC:
here are the official rules :
and
here are some things that might help also:
and here are other guides made by fellow blocklanders
[Suggest more points, changes, or things important to this topic “BLow” (and discuss of course)]
[Trolls: don’t even bother]
is there anything wrong to try and get a good image int he heads off the new people before you guys forget it up 
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