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General Discussion / DrenDran's Survival. (Q3 2017)

« on: August 22, 2017, 02:25:31 PM »

   
   Featuring a custom 4km² map.

      
   Custom bricks:
   Non-exhaustive
   

Well Cost: 50 wood 100 ore Anyone can click on this brick and get their thirst quenched.	Recycler Cost: 50 metal 50 wood Insert tools you don't need into here and get 5 metal for each.	Furnance Cost: 10 wood 30 ore The furnance is an important early game brick. It is used to smelt or and cook food.	Workbench Cost: 15 wood The workbench is used To craft non-metal items and to put together parts for complex items.	Campfire Cost: 15 wood Place this down and it will slowly warm you up and dry you off.
Anvil Cost: 50 metal Used to create metal items and parts.	Team spawn Cost: 50 wood 10 ore 30 metal When placed it starts with 10 charges. When a teammate dies, they spawn here using one.	Crate Cost: 50 wood Storage for 5 items 500 resources, or a combonation of the two.	Charcoal pile Cost: 50 wood Place it and let it burn after 15 minutes it will stop smoking and have 40 charcoal inside.	Pump Cost: 75 metal Essential part of any sprinkler system. Can power 25 sprinklers.

   Other custom bricks:
   

Alarm - It will make a loud noise when an enemy approaches Light - It's a light Dirt - Three different types, for planting different crops on Valves pipes and sprinklers - Used for farming

   
   Custom Items:
   Non-exhaustive
   

Improv pistol Cost: 50 metal 25 wood The most basic firearm very unreliable, can shoot shotgun ammo	Double barrel shotgun Cost: 2 Gun barrels 1 shotgun fireing mechanism 1 gun stock Total: 120 metal 40 wood A far more reliable weapon in the shotgun category.	Sniper Rifle Cost: 1 gun barrel 1 rifle fireing mechanism 1 gun stock Total: 120 metal 60 wood A highly accurate rifle fires rifle rounds	Flare gun Cost: 65 metal Shoots fireworks. Does not do much damage.	Axe Cost: 15 metal 10 wood Chops down trees more effectivly than the rock
Pickaxe Cost: 15 metal 10 wood Mines ore more better than the rock	2 Liter Soda Spawns in buildings Can quench 10 thirst	Can of soda Spawns in buildings Can quench 5 thirst	Sandwich Cost: 1 bread 1 tomato 1 potato Combine foods for better nutritional gain	Watering can Cost: 15 metal Water crops with this
Shovel Cost: 10 metal 10 wood Till soil for better harvests.	Coat Cost: 20 cotton Increases your personal temperature 20 degrees	Cloth Armor Helmet: 20 cotton Body: 30 cotton 10 wood Protects against damage	Plate armor Helmet: 10 cotton 20 metal Body: 10 cotton 30 metal Better than the cloth	Medikit Cost: 15 cotton Heals a decent amount of health when used

   Basically:
   Mine, farm, build, craft and raid to get what you need to prevent yourself from freezing, starving, drowning, or dying of dehydration!

Once I can generate a map and make sure the server doesn't crash like last time, I'll start hosting.

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Games / Age of Empires 4 announced.

« on: August 21, 2017, 08:38:05 PM »

Video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYwZ6GZXWhA


Unfortunately there's no in-game footage, but I've heard a lot of people guessing about what time it will be set in.
I think my opinion that it shouldn't be a futuristic game is hardly unpopular though.

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Off Topic / Evolution Simulator. (Third times the charm!)

« on: July 25, 2017, 12:51:37 AM »

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnkk95-KpM
(New August 17th)

It looks like this:




Here is a link to the simulator:

http://nationalist.co/syerjchep.zip

Change log:

• 01:51 25.07.2017 --- Originally posted
• 16:11 25.07.2017 --- Can now spawn poison and blank pellets with spawners. Spawner color reflects it's pellet's colors. Can now change pellet spawning speed. Spawner data saves and can be loaded. (This breaks old save files)
• 30.07.2017 --- A massive update and release

It should contain:

• freetype6.dll
• glew32.dll
• libfreetype-6.dll
• SDL2.dll
• SDL2_ttf.dll
• zlib1.dll
• holy.exe
• prefs.txt (This is the default prefs file, if you delete it, the program will generate another one for you)
• exportFile.txt (contains a creature wjich can seek out food)

There are a few options that can only be edited in the prefs file:



Some features I plan to add:

• Food differentiated into "carbohydrates" required for movement and living and "protein" required for healing/growing
• Ability to edit creatures bodies and neural networks in the program without having to export and re-import a text file
• Creatures will give food when killed by another creature
• Creatures will be able to control each of their body's joints. (This was implemented before but caused crashes)

The last thread was here:
https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=307319.15
But I've added the release of the program itself for you guys to try.

Here's the GUI for the next version, click for full size pictures:
(added 12.08.2017)

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Off Topic / What if I tried to turn my farming into a standalone game?

« on: July 16, 2017, 04:10:55 PM »

I've tried many times in the past to create my own online game but never really had any idea to work towards, so it always kind of fell flat.
But I was wondering if I could basically create a server where people could come online and tend plants, mine resources, build a home and generally socialize.
I already have a lot of the models made for the add-on I could use as placeholders until I get better artwork, but I'd be able to create a game not really bound to the limitations of blockland.
It'd probably be a 3d multiplayer game not made on any kind of preexisting engine.

For an example of my previous work I'd suggest this:
https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=254277.0
But I need to find the pictures again, since they've been lost.

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Off Topic / Got my first speeding ticket.

« on: July 11, 2017, 06:19:36 PM »

So today I was driving to work and I was getting off this avenue that's like 45mph or so for most of it and I ended up being pulled over. The officer said I was going 63 in a 30mph zone and I was pretty shocked. Naturally I think I'm forgeted. Since this is my first offense I really hope I can plea it down to something a bit less severe. I'm not getting much work atm and don't really have much money.

Anyone else here have experience with tickets? I'm in New York State by the way.

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Off Topic / The great Blockland survey

« on: July 04, 2017, 12:00:19 AM »

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HNa8CbFzUgUWJJjXwYHU1_XsqFMYGy1l43n_uKfu1KI

It's got questions on Blockland and politics, what's not to love?
Results will be posted later on.

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Off Topic / 8 values political test

« on: June 03, 2017, 04:30:05 PM »

So I saw Sargon of Akkad take this test here:
https://8values.github.io/
And thought it was amusing.


Apparently I'm left-wing now lol

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Off Topic / It took me 453 days to reach 10,000 posts and 954 to post my latest 1000 posts.

« on: May 20, 2017, 01:26:06 AM »

Just an interesting little statistic I found.
I think tomorrow I will make a line graph of my posts per month and upload it here for fun.

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General Discussion / DrenDran's survival. (Hosting test server!)

« on: May 17, 2017, 07:03:24 PM »

   
   Featuring a custom 4km² map.

      
   Custom bricks:
   Non-exhaustive
   

Well Cost: 50 wood 100 ore Anyone can click on this brick and get their thirst quenched.	Recycler Cost: 50 metal 50 wood Insert tools you don't need into here and get 5 metal for each.	Furnance Cost: 10 wood 30 ore The furnance is an important early game brick. It is used to smelt or and cook food.	Workbench Cost: 15 wood The workbench is used To craft non-metal items and to put together parts for complex items.	Campfire Cost: 15 wood Place this down and it will slowly warm you up and dry you off.
Anvil Cost: 50 metal Used to create metal items and parts.	Team spawn Cost: 50 wood 10 ore 30 metal When placed it starts with 10 charges. When a teammate dies, they spawn here using one.	Crate Cost: 50 wood Storage for 5 items 500 resources, or a combonation of the two.	Charcoal pile Cost: 50 wood Place it and let it burn after 15 minutes it will stop smoking and have 40 charcoal inside.	Pump Cost: 75 metal Essential part of any sprinkler system. Can power 25 sprinklers.

   Other custom bricks:
   

Alarm - It will make a loud noise when an enemy approaches Light - It's a light Dirt - Three different types, for planting different crops on Valves pipes and sprinklers - Used for farming

   
   Custom Items:
   Non-exhaustive
   

Improv pistol Cost: 50 metal 25 wood The most basic firearm very unreliable, can shoot shotgun ammo	Double barrel shotgun Cost: 2 Gun barrels 1 shotgun fireing mechanism 1 gun stock Total: 120 metal 40 wood A far more reliable weapon in the shotgun category.	Sniper Rifle Cost: 1 gun barrel 1 rifle fireing mechanism 1 gun stock Total: 120 metal 60 wood A highly accurate rifle fires rifle rounds	Flare gun Cost: 65 metal Shoots fireworks. Does not do much damage.	Axe Cost: 15 metal 10 wood Chops down trees more effectivly than the rock
Pickaxe Cost: 15 metal 10 wood Mines ore more better than the rock	2 Liter Soda Spawns in buildings Can quench 10 thirst	Can of soda Spawns in buildings Can quench 5 thirst	Sandwich Cost: 1 bread 1 tomato 1 potato Combine foods for better nutritional gain	Watering can Cost: 15 metal Water crops with this
Shovel Cost: 10 metal 10 wood Till soil for better harvests.	Coat Cost: 20 cotton Increases your personal temperature 20 degrees	Cloth Armor Helmet: 20 cotton Body: 30 cotton 10 wood Protects against damage	Plate armor Helmet: 10 cotton 20 metal Body: 10 cotton 30 metal Better than the cloth	Medikit Cost: 15 cotton Heals a decent amount of health when used

   Basically:
   Mine, farm, build, craft and raid to get what you need to prevent yourself from freezing, starving, drowning, or dying of dehydration!

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Add-Ons / Farming + Crops

« on: May 15, 2017, 03:56:28 PM »

Gamemode Download

Admin commands:

• /greenthumb --- Super admin only, toggles a cheat where plants grow very fast!
• /farmingBypass --- Super admin only, allows you to build normally.
• /saveFarm --- Super admin only, saves farm data
• /loadFarm --- Super admin only, loads farm save
• /grantmoney <name> <amount> --- Super admin only, grants (or takes away) money to a play
• /reloadFarmPrefs --- Super admin only, reloads the preferences for farming

User commands:

• /createTeam <name> --- Creates a team with the chosen name and random color
• /invite <name> --- Invites named person to the team
• /accept --- Accepts last invitation, joining the team and giving all your money to the team
• /decline --- Declines last invitation
• /exitTeam --- Exits team. Team will disband if you're the last one leaving. Only the last person gets any money upon exiting.
• /changeteamname --- Changes team name and re-randomizes team color
• /upgradeShovel --- Buys an upgrade for your shovel
• /reset + /confirmReset --- Resets your account,  kicking you from the game

Preferences:

• HighCostMultiplier --- How much brick building costs go up with each height level (Default: 1.4)
• BuildingCostMultiplier --- Cost multiplier applied to all regular (non-farming) bricks (Default: 0.3)
• SecondsPerTick --- How many seconds per tick, this affects crop growth and sprinklers (Default: 30)
• ShovelUpgradeBaseCost --- How much the first upgrade for shovels cost. Each upgrade is double the last. (Default: 10000)
• StartingMoney --- How much money you start with (Default: 500)
• MaxSprinklersPerPump --- How many sprinklers you can have per pump in a pipe system (Default: 15)
• WeedChance --- The chance of weeds appearing on a brick randomly, increased values mean less weeds (Default: 333)

Gamemode_Farming Version 1
Crop Downloads

Carrot

Onion

Peas
Don't worry they're in color! (12 stages total)

Tomato

Corn
Cotton
Potato
Blueberries

Grapes, Wheat, Cannabis, and Melon all just need a few fixes then I'll post them for download as well.

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General Discussion / Hosting farming!

« on: May 06, 2017, 04:36:23 PM »

I don't really play Blockland much anymore but I do enjoy having an active Discord and Blockland server full of players. Would you guys want me to host one of my old gamemodes again?

Here a link with crop stats you can comment on:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M7f88iuHk3WoW36I0IWO_iTljb98DlFOxWZrM5YSRDk/edit?usp=sharing
It's a work in progress.

Carrot:

Onion:

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Off Topic / Can you bake muffins directly in an aluminum tray?

« on: April 30, 2017, 08:07:32 PM »

If not, what can I use for muffin envelopes? I could probably get paper towels or napkins or something.
I actually need an answer to this question.

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Off Topic / New evolution simulator video!

« on: April 25, 2017, 12:39:05 AM »

I started work on my evolution simulator for the first time in two months. Switching to neural networks I eventually get some interesting results:
https://youtu.be/faNIqivEufE

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Creativity / I've designed a circuit board and soldered all the pieces.

« on: March 09, 2017, 03:56:22 PM »

Newest pictures:



Videos:
10/03/2017   -   Clock and counter test
11/03/2017   -   RAM chip test
15/03/2017   -   Showing the first four steps of every command
09/04/2017   -   Unconditional jump
20/04/2017   -   Running an actual program.
25/06/2017   -   Learning to solder

Pictures:
09/03/2017   -   Parts arrived.
11/03/2017   -   Power supply + Clock + RAM + Memory register
14/03/2017   -   Above + Program counter + Command registers
15/03/2017   -   Started instruction decoder
31/03/2017   -   Rebuilt everything to try and make it neater.
11/04/2017   -   Machine is now capable of processing 6 different commands.
19/04/2017   -   11 opcodes are now implemented

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Off Topic / The [New] icon doesn't work.

« on: March 08, 2017, 01:57:57 PM »

It stays new even after I view the topic.