I thought that since not very many of these seem to be made yet, it might be useful to make one. This is a topic where I'll post a bunch of things you may or may not know about blockland. Fun little tips and things many people don't know.
A mod made by Brian_smith_
1. Making Clothing Props By this I mean that if you're say- making a closet or something, you can place "clothing" inside. This can be done by using the mod-
Event_setplayerscalebetter, and Bot events. Simply spawn a bot, and hide all nodes. Then unhide the node you want shown, and use setplayerscalebetter to flatten it.
2. Being Carried By Bots AKA "The Bot Centipede You can be carried by bots, and if you repeat these steps, you can be carried by a bot, being carried by a bot. Do this long enough and you'll get a "bot centipede." To do this, make a vehicle spawn, above another vehicle spawn. Spawn a horse on the lower spawn, and a bot on the upper spawn. (this can be done with bot events, or you can do it without the bot events by doing -onbottouch>bot>changedatablock>standard player.)
once the bot has mounted the horse, you mount the horse as well. Then, from the hand of the bot, wrench the horse spawn, and respawn the horse. You are now being carried around by a bot.
3. Wrench Riding As seen in Sheath's ascii promo video, you can "ride wrenches." To do this, first get bot events (I'm beginning to notice a trend in this thread..) and spawn a horse. use bot events to hide all nodes. Then use setbotweapon, and give it a wrench. You are now "riding a wrench."
Well it looks a bit more like you''re dancing with it (especially if you slow down the timescale)
Or if you want it to look more like you're riding it, use a
cow instead of a horse.
You can also always experiment, and use other items like
Guns Akimbo ~suggested by facepalm
4. Controlling Others...Someday I will add one that doesn't require mods..
This one requires either bot events or
FFC, the Mount Mod, and Click Push. What you do, is use either FFC or Bot Events, to make yourself invisible. Once that's done, type in
/mount pants [namehere] Now that you're invisible, and mounted to your victim, use clickpush to control your puppet. You can make them fly around or thrown them to their doom.
[There is no illistration because all you would see is a person in the air, not much]
5. Sentries in vehiclesI remembered
This topic, and although it only has one thing in it, I think it's ok, and I don't want it to be forgotten. So I thought I'd include it here.
6. Brick CreaturesI imagine this isn't common knowledge since I haven't seen it done anywhere but on my own server. But to make a "brick creature," which is basically a brick with legs, just do the following-
use bot events to hide all nodes. Then unhidenode legs, and skirthip. And voila, you have a cute pet brick to have around the house.
(it's the red thing in the middle with legs.)
You can also use these little guys as Headcrabs!
Victim- Adam Savage
suggestion by Dorkdotdan
7. Force FieldsTo do this, you can do one of two things, the first is easiest. Just place a baseplate on top of you. Now you can't be shot, but you can shoot others.
Or the cooler way. Use
Zone Events, &
Zone Bricks. Place a zone brick (preferably a baseplate) on your base. Now check raycasting, and use the following events:
[ ]Onprojectilehit>projectile<bounce [ ]
[ ]Onprojectilehit>self>setrendering [V]
[100] Onprojectilehit>self>setrendering [ ]The rendering is just for looks. And the zone events are only needed if you want a force field around your base that you can shoot out of, but you can't be shot in.
8. Rainbow RingThis is a glitch in the graphics, where a rainbow ring in the bricks follows your camera. Just place some transparent plates/baseplates of the color that you want in your rainbow. Then on the top of all these (they should be stacked) place one layer of white transparent 1x1 bricks. Now a rainbow circle should follow your camera.
9. WidescreenThis isn't too hard to figure out, but if you want a more epic feeling resolution for Blockland, change it to 1280 by 535. (that's the resolution most of these screenies are taken in.)
10. Better LampsThis is pretty simple, and the only add-on you might want (but is optional) is
The octo cone Just place a hammer, and then on that brick, add some invisible bricks, and a lamp head. ~suggested by Bahamut
11. Rainbow vehiclesI know it's very commonly know, I'm running out of ideas.
The rainbow vehicle can be done in 1 out of 2 ways. If you downloaded the extraevents pack I linked earlier for setplayerscalebetter, than you now have setrandomcolor. If that's true, then simply place a spawn with a vehicle, check the box for recoloring vehicles, and input these events
[0]onactivate (or if you have vehicle events- onvehiclespawn)>self>firerelay
[100]onrelay>self>firerelay
[0]onrelay>self>setrandomcolorIf you don't have setrandomcolor, you can do it the hard way and manually input colors.
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