The Blockland How-to Guide Collab (Serious or comedic entries welcome)

[Regulith]

Good news, everyone! I've decided to make a How-to guide for Blockland! [/farnsworth]

I'd like everyone's help on this. I've made a few of these in various Help topics, and I'd like to make more.

Basically what you need to do is make a nearly fool-proof guide on how to do something either in Blockland or on the forums. I'm looking for serious ones, but don't hesitate to make a few comedic ones as well. The serious ones will help people new to Blockland who have no clue what they're doing. Here's an example I made not too long ago:
How to download add-ons

1. Go to the add-ons section of the forums and find the add-on you want.
2. Click the download link provided by the add-on creator.
3. If asked where to save, save to your add-ons folder located in your Blockland folder. If you aren't asked, move it there.
4. Start Blockland.
5. Click Start a Game.
6. Click the add-ons tab.
7. Check the box next to the add-on.
8. Start.
Now, I know Badspot made an add-on installation guide already, this was purely an example.

Please do them in this format, so it's easier to string together.

As we collect enough serious ones, I'm going to put them all in a Notepad file to have for future reference. I might even make a Help topic or something in the hopes of it getting stickied for people to be able to check. I don't know. I guess this struck me as a good idea. I'm sort of babbling right now, aren't I? Blah blah blah.

The Blockland How-to Guide

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Normal Computer Functions

• Opening Notepad

Chapter 2 - Before you start
Chapter 3 - Simple In-game Functions
Chapter 4 - Advanced In-game Functions

• Using Macros

Chapter 5 - Help with Add-ons
Chapter 6 - Solving Problems
Chapter 7 - Forums

• Posting Pictures on the Forums

Chapter 8 - Comedic Entries
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| CHAPTER 1 |
Normal Computer Functions


How to start Notepad:

1. Click the Windows Start button.
2. Go to "Programs" or "All Programs".
3. Go to "Accessories".
4. Click on Notepad.

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| CHAPTER 2 |
Before You Start


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| CHAPTER 3 |
Simple In-game Functions


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| CHAPTER 4 |
Advanced In-game functions

How to make a Blockland macro

1. Open: Options>Controls
2. Scroll to the Building section of the Options.
3. Bind Toggle Build Macro Recording to any key.
4. Bind Playback Macro Recording to another key.
5. Toggle recording, and build, be sure to return the selected brick to the correct position to complete the macro
6. Toggle recording off
7. Use the Playback button to repeat the macro

Notes
1. Preferably make the bind keys easy to reach, they make building much easier and faster.
2. Do not place bricks by shooting them while recording. Use the mouse wheel, or the numbers to switch between bricks for more complicated macros
3. Select different colors before placing the bricks, painting them later will not work while recording.
4. Macros are used to repeat simple tasks, such as building walls.

Example
 You want to build a wall, but placing each brick would take much to long with a 1x6 brick. With a simple macro you can cut the building time in half.
Start off by selecting the 1x6 brick, and starting the macro recording. Place the brick like normal, stacking up 6 on top of each other. Before ending the macro recording, move the brick to the bottom of the stack, and move it over 6 times so that it directly next to the newly created wall. Now when you playback the recording, it will  create another wall directly next to yours, while moving the ghost over in preparation for another playback.
Contributed by myeyebrows


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| CHAPTER 5 |
Help with Add-ons


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| CHAPTER 6 |
Solving Problems


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| CHAPTER 7 |
Forums

How to post pictures on Blockland Forums

1. Go to an image hosting website. Examples:
      -ImageShack
      -Photobucket
      -TinyPic
      -ImageHosting
2. Upload your image(s).
3. Get direct links to the image, usually the links will end in .png, .jpg, .gif etc.
4. Copy/Cut links.
5. Paste them into a post/PM and highlight the link in the post/PM.
6. Click the IMG tag button ().
7. Click preview to see if you picture shows up.
8. Repeat steps 2-7 until it works if necessary.
Contributed by NickTheSushi


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| CHAPTER 8 |
Comedic Entries


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[NickTheSushi]

How to post pictures on Blockland Forums

1. Go to an image hosting website. Examples:
      -ImageShack
      -Photobucket
      -TinyPic
      -ImageHosting
2. Upload your image(s).
3. Get direct links to the image, usually the links will end in .png, .jpg, .gif etc.
4. Copy/Cut links.
5. Paste them into a post/PM and highlight the link in the post/PM.
6. Click the IMG tag button ().
7. Click preview to see if you picture shows up.
8. Repeat steps 2-7 until it works if necessary.

[nas]

How to make a Blockland macro

1. Open: Options>Controls
2. Scroll to the Building section of the Options.
3. Bind Toggle Build Macro Recording to any key.
4. Bind Playback Macro Recording to another key.
5. Toggle recording, and build, be sure to return the selected brick to the correct position to complete the macro
6. Toggle recording off
7. Use the Playback button to repeat the macro

Notes
1. Preferably make the bind keys easy to reach, they make building much easier and faster.
2. Do not place bricks by shooting them while recording. Use the mouse wheel, or the numbers to switch between bricks for more complicated macros
3. Select different colors before placing the bricks, painting them later will not work while recording.
4. Macros are used to repeat simple tasks, such as building walls.

Example
 You want to build a wall, but placing each brick would take much to long with a 1x6 brick. With a simple macro you can cut the building time in half.
Start off by selecting the 1x6 brick, and starting the macro recording. Place the brick like normal, stacking up 6 on top of each other. Before ending the macro recording, move the brick to the bottom of the stack, and move it over 6 times so that it directly next to the newly created wall. Now when you playback the recording, it will  create another wall directly next to yours, while moving the ghost over in preparation for another playback.

[Awasp]

How NOT to spam.

1. Don't spam!
2. Use larger bricks to accomplish what the smaller bricks made.
3. Never say it's for detail if it's just a box house without a separate wall on the inside or a proper roof on top.

Notes
1. Walls made of "2 by1" bricks are spam unless it's not a box house with a roof.

Example
 If you make a build of a house but use "1 by 1 by 5" bricks for walls, That Is Spam!
If you use "1 by 4 by 5" bricks and smaller bricks for the corners, That Isn't Spam!
 

[nas]

Posting a Console Log

1. Start up blockland, and hit the tilde key (~) to bring the console down in-game.
2. Type into the console, trace(1); and close the console again by pressing the tilde key
3. Continue to navigate windows, connect to servers, and play normally until you get an error.
4. Go to your Blockland directory (Default under C:/Blockland) and find the file labeled "Console".
5. Open the Console file and save it as a text document.

Notes

Getting your Console log is essential to diagnosing, and correcting problems within Blockland. When posting on the forums, including your console log is usually the difference between getting a positive and helpful response from the community, and getting posts limited to "Post your console log". There is only so much we can do with your description of the problem.

[pixl]

How to get banned!

1.go to google
2.enter the phrase "snake" and search
3. go to images(make sure safe search is off)
4.click on the first image you see
5.copy the address and post it on the forums
6. Prepare to go to hell

[NickTheSushi]

Another one for the forums Chapter

How to upload an avatar
1. Click the Profile Button at the top of the forums screen
2. On the left, click "Forum Profile Information"
3. Click "Browse..."
4. Search for your avatar and select it (75x75 maximum)
5. Hit OK.
6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Change Profile"

[TheLegomaster]

How to make a player teleport
What you need:

-setPlayerTransform

1. Open the Brick Menu (Default B).
1.1. Put two bricks in your brick basket.
1.2. Press "Done".
2. Place the two bricks.
3. Hit one of the bricks with the wrench.
3.1.Name it. (Example: Tele1)
3.2. Hit the other brick with the wrench.
3.3. Name it [Note: Don't name the bricks the same] (Example: Tele2)
4. Hit Tele1 with the wrench.
4.1. Press "Events"
4.2. Enter this in the Event Menu:
onPlayerTouch - Tele2 - setPlayerTransform - Player [Checkbox checked]
[Note: You can reach Tele2 by pressing "NAMED BRICK", another drop-down menu will appear.]
4.3. Press "Send".
5 Touch the brick you just evented.
Bam! You just teleported to the other brick! :D

[Max4344]

How to get banned or kicked form a server
There are 3 ways to do it in all servers

• Ask for super Admin or Admin
  
• SPAM
• Ask to be banned or kicked

This way may not work

[nas]

How to make a player teleport

>Requires setPlayerTransform addon

[MoogleBoss]

How to talk trough console:

(Only works on YOUR server!!!)

1. Open the console with ~ (or §)
2. Type in "Talk ("-Yourmessagehere-");"

(Be sure not to add the bolded ones)

Very simple, yet neat.

Yay 1000th post :D

[rkynick]

How to talk through console on any server:

1. Open the console with ~ or your console key.
2. Type the following, where MSG is your message.

Code: [Select]

Commandtoserver('messagesent',"MSG");


[MoogleBoss]

How to talk through console on any server:

1. Open the console with ~ or your console key.
2. Type the following, where MSG is your message.

Code: [Select]

Commandtoserver('messagesent',"MSG");


Oh hax. You made mine useless :(

[BobSevenSevens]

While Playing

If the bricks glitch and the top of the brick has nothing on it (no little squares), hit ~ to open the console, and type this in

Code: [Select]

flushtexturecache();
Some forum rules

-Don't randomly flame people for no reason.
-If someone did something IN-GAME that's got you pissed, use the Drama section.
-DON'T make any "names life" topics. You will get people yelling LOCK at you, including me.
-If you have an in-game problem (ex. Blockland crashes), use the Help section. If you have a real-life problem (your pet died, you broke your leg, etc.) post in off topic.
-Before you post any suggestions in the suggestions & requests section, use that little button called search to make sure it already hasn't been made.

Your signature

Make sure it isn't totally handicapped, like "tudgheargfforgetlifenudfhnegh nnted"
You might want to put a quote from badspot in your signature. To do this: Before the quote, put :[quoteauthor=Badspot] but put a space in between quote and author. at the end of the quote, put [/quote]. It should come out like this:

You are pissing in an ocean of piss.