Dr. B's Vintage Screenshot Vault (Now With Valid Unicode)

[Dr.Block]

EDIT: I'm not sure how many thousand images I can get away with posting on this 20 year old forum that's been begging for death for 15 of them, so I'll be posting to this Tumblr archive as well just in case: https://www.tumblr.com/vintage-blockland-screenshots

Hello there! I started playing Blockland in 2007 when I was 11 years old! During this time, I had a nasty case of child-onset OCD, which manifested as a compulsion to take Blockland screenshots constantly. As a consequence of this, my screenshot folder has become so big and unmanageable that it has begun eating itself, and temporal leakage has caused the chronological order of the files to become scrambled. A more positive result is that I now have a repository of thousands of screenshots from all different eras of Blockland history. In the hopes of grinding down this massive image folder into lifeforce for this community, I will be going through it and posting my favorites here. I have been playing this game so long I no longer remember taking most of them. It should prove..... informative......

Some of these screenshots might not seem like much to look at, but I believe they have value as a time capsule of Blockland as it was.

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[Swholli]

This one gave me goosebumps. Like this feels like what the game felt like to play at that time, somehow. It conveys the feeling.

I started playing around the same time, so I dug up a few shots I found in my oldest blockland install still shoved on an external archive:







Blockland just had that vibe.

I don't have as many screenshots from the eras as I'd like, but if you have more I'd love to see them.

[Dr.Block]

I picked that one specifically because it shows some addons that were super common at the time but I'm not sure if they even exist anymore. I haven't seen that flamethrower model in over a decade. Anyone feel free to post any old screenshots too.

The first screenshot I ever took. Moments before I found out the jeep can fly.

Storefront on Mr. Wallet's Rise of Blockland

Badspot samples some of the first wrench event contraptions ever made on the day of v9's release. Colorized.



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Critically off task at Pecon's Boss Battles



"This map is based on Pload's colon" was the only context I got for this crouch-racing map.



I don't know how many people besides me have seen this map.

[Dr.Block]

Dr. β participates in the illegal mini-nuking of The Slopes during the Dog Fights



Real ones remember the Polygon Panic Era.



Our beloved leaders interacting with their people.



desu



Mafia Madness rounds ran so long, the dead had to be given a pong machine to keep them from growing restless.



The Mocheeze Pecon doesn't want you to remember.



These ROTCO Health Lockers used to litter the landscapes of Blockland's zombie servers, but they are believed to have gone extinct after the acquisition and dissolution of ROTCO.



A quickly abandoned project of mine



That time my mom wanted to play. Fear not, I didn't let her leave singleplayer.



Talking out our differences peacefully.



Rest in peace to a genuine legend.

[Swholli]

I haven't seen that flamethrower model in over a decade.

You're in luck, it's been archived:

https://bl.kenko.dev/Add-ons/Retail/Weapon/Weapon_Flamethrower2.zip

[Dr.Block]

You're in luck, it's been archived:

https://bl.kenko.dev/Add-ons/Retail/Weapon/Weapon_Flamethrower2.zip

I'm going to host a dm with this as the only weapon, thanks.

[Dr.Block]

Sustaining an ion cannon bullet to the face








Mr. Wallet's long forgotten bot mod. As far as I'm aware, these are the first bots ever made in Blockland




They went afk like this for two hours, so I made an overly detailed still life sketch of them.


Breaking the illusion at the Prison Break


Me when I join the dog fight server idk I never played blockland


College students when the professor is exactly 15 minutes late


loving losing it at the New Years party

[mod-man]

all of my pictures are lost on many different computers, but ill never forget packer making a clone of OOT/MJ as an open world thing and he did it in torque and its still on his channel. then i found these bl videos that are peak old energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmACPk5PEdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyIYwMRvYok

[mod-man]

[Dr.Block]

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