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Jiarn
Don't feel bad gargoyle_eva, I knew about the bugs/glitches, but still did it the old fashioned way.
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GasBandit
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The current map is now up on the server (apparently they did it at 3 am central US time last night), I've made an easy-to-self-restore backup of its state on the server, and the server is up and running (albeit still in ALPHA mode). The guys at hMod say they are "close" to having it working... if you absolutely can't wait to play, here are big scary techie advanced instructions on how to roll back your clients to the last alpha client.
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Jiarn
Not sure I would dub it "cheating", some people treat it like a big "Lego" sandbox, and that's perfectly fine. I just play it with the original intention in mind.
I'm one of those that likes to treat it like a big lego box....with the addition of high explosives 
Seriously I just go there to build, poke around, help others if they need a hand, that kind of things...its one part social ,one part play, and one part exploring....the perfect time-waster for me.
Seriously I just go there to build, poke around, help others if they need a hand, that kind of things...its one part social ,one part play, and one part exploring....the perfect time-waster for me.
Hey FnordBear... how did you grow that massive tree in the first place? I might be interested in giving one of those a shot.
I did basically the same thing with my tower. The only difference is that after the sapling "grew" into a full tree, I replaced the base dirt block with obsidian for the look.
One other thing to do is to place TWO dirt blocks next to each other on top of the old tree, and have the one directly above the trunk make the tree, and the one to the "side" have a torch on it. Then you KNOW it'll grow eventually. Then when it grows, take out the extra dirt you don't need (technically you don't need ANY dirt).
GasBandit
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That's entirely up to the hMod development staff at this point. Bear in mind, too, that just because Wahad is playing smoothly in single player doesn't mean multiplayer won't be buggy
hey0 (the head of hMod development) won't be back to update until the 24th, but he's got some other people on his team apparently who are telling multiplay (our host) that they're getting close.
The server has to have hey0 enabled, I'm guessing due to their particular virtualization process causing map corruptions on shutdown/restart without it.
figmentPez
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I used the durability reset glitch, and used the dupe glitch to replace items that the glitchy inventory ate, but I haven't spawned any blocks. So, my work is semi-legit. I spent a lot of time in single player doing things the legit way, so I was glad to have a little reprieve in multi-player.
If I do make a hedge maze, I will be using mod-spawned leaf blocks to make it. It's just not practical to try and do that legit. Unless... Ni! Ni! Notch, bring us a shrubbery!
If I do make a hedge maze, I will be using mod-spawned leaf blocks to make it. It's just not practical to try and do that legit. Unless... Ni! Ni! Notch, bring us a shrubbery!
What you could also do if you really want to do it legit is spawn trees one square below ground*, let them grow, trim the leaves and put torches or ladders or whatever on them so they won't grow further.
*Something like this:
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You'd have to put the trees deeper down if you wanted just leaves aboveground, and you'd still risk trees that grew much taller than you wanted. It'd be a very hit or miss operation, with a lot of waiting and replanting. Tree growth isn't a gradual thing, they grow all at once. Full height, instantly.
figmentPez
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I don't think that short trees have more than one leaf block at their top, do they? I need to check on that. Even then, would the tree grow right up to the growth cap, limiting the leaf production at the top where it's wanted?
This... is... AWESOME!!!
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Jiarn
/sethome is something that should have been implemented on day one.
Must have been a hell of a party...
figmentPez
Staff member
Do I need a password or something? I've never used Ventrilo before, but I couldn't get it to work.
I'm guessing this is on your "test" realm, and that the actual server isn't up yet?
GasBandit
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I'm guessing this is on your "test" realm, and that the actual server isn't up yet?[/QUOTE]
No, like I said earlier on this page - the map is up, it's just the server is still running alpha. So you have to roll back your client to Alpha 1.2.6 to play on the server, for now.
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