Hey Guys,

This mod is getting a huge amount of press. Its based off of the ArmaII engine which is on sale on Amazon for $15. Arma is a true sandbox military game.

The Day Z mod drops the player into a 500 square kilometer play area with a Pistol and basic supplies. You only get one life and when you die your character is gone. You have to start with a new person. You have to forage for food, keep yourself from bleeding out after wounds and take pain killers to be able to continue when wounded. You can also team up with other human players, but you don't know if they can be trusted which makes the game incredibly tense and satisfying. When you quit a server your supplies and status are saved, so your character is persistent even if you change servers.

I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds really cool. I figured I would let everyone know while Arma is on sale.

Here is PC Gamers take on the gameplay and some in game videos to give you an idea of what its like.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/12/fo...-survival-mod/

any of you bastards playing this? i just started the single player a week or so ago. shipwreck and i are about to give the multiplayer a try.

You guys are gonna love this one.

We know that we can create automatic farms for wheat, melons, etc. and Festus and I (that I know of) have built chicken coops that allow the eggs to drop and flow to an area to be easily collected. The limiter has been that not only do you have to be online for the crops or animals to operate (a good thing), but you have to actually be standing at the collection point when the items arrive, or they will disappear after a short while (a bad thing).

What this plugin does is allow you to strategically place a chest, directly under the flow of such items. When the chest is powered, those items will be absorbed into it. It only works when the chest is powered, and when the items either flow over or are dropped directly on top of the chest. Double chests need power to both ends.

For an example, stop by my base and check out the chicken farm. -44, 911, 52

Have a great one!!! Cheerio!

http://gallery.clan-tlb.com/data/500/evensteven.wmv

Who's thinking about buying this? It's out and I'm on the fence.

Initial Review:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/05/15/di...as-it-happens/

Yes, the website is up for the sequel to one of my favorite RTS games.

I know a couple of other bastards will be interested.


http://www.companyofheroes.com/

Happy Birthday TopGunViper!!

Hope all is going well for you my brother. Miss you round here.

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Happy Birthday! Hope you're first in line for the early bird special and they still have tapioca left when you finish :D

http://gallery.clan-tlb.com/data/500/sandman_2.avi

A lost brother has found his way home finally.

Glad to see you back man.

Hope you have a great day man!!

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Hope it's a great day D!

:birthday: :birthday:

29 hours since I got of the plane from Ireland, and I'm now outside of Sydney, Australia. Here on a 12 month working holiday visa. Basically involves a lot of job hopping, traveling and possibly radioactive teeth.

Since I last posted in July, I was still liiving in Ireland. Employment was terrible, as I had feck all for work and mostly stayed on my families old farm doing gardening and chores. Only had a half-working computer (customs was rough... but that's mostly just me shifting blame as I did arse up the packaging pretty bad, lol). All this and more, hence the scoot.

Australia looks to be a very bright future for me, and that's before I even get delerious. Lots of jobs available thanks to the company that helped me get the visa. Should be getting a job and my own place within the coming week or two, should it all go smoothly.

With luck, I'll be able to return to TLB in some sort of capacity other than a random post every eight months. Maybe even get to play BF3 or whatever the rage will be at the time. Roughly a few months to half a year, all things depending.

Anyways, for a while, I should be able to respond to this thread as I try my best to get sorted and going.
And thanks for the birthday greeting back in January, even if it was just an automatic email from the server, lol.

Talk soon.

P.S I still have access to the members forum. Was like that in July too.

This plugin makes it a little easier to construct a minecart system for travel. For the purposes of simplicity, it makes it necessary to stipulate that minecarts are items that don't have to be crafted for each use. You have to craft the initial cart that is placed into a dispenser, but additional carts that are dispensed from the container are automatically replaced. Likewise, when you eject from a minecart, it is destroyed. This is to keep people from misusing the system and stocking up on minecarts.

How it works:

There are basic blocks that, when placed beneath a normal rail, will cause different things to happen.

1. Gold Block - gives the cart a boost without the need for powered rail and a redstone torch. However, it's cheaper and more effective to just use powered rail and a redstone torch.

2. Iron Ore - causes the cart to bounce back, or reverse direction.

3. Soul Sand - acts as a braking mechanism, but only while the cart is passing over the block. speed will resume on the other side.

4. Obsidian - ejects the rider from the cart.

5. Diamond Ore - acts as an elevator. there must be a diamond ore block and track placed vertically at the entry and exit points for this to work.

6. Wood Plank - creates an intersection point when rail crosses over this block type.

7. Wool - acts as a station. when the cart reaches this block, the cart stops, giving the rider an opportunity to exit or keep going.

8. Dispenser - when one cart is placed inside and a button placed on an adjacent block, a cart will be dispensed onto the track each time the button is pressed. Carts do not need to be replaced unless the one cart is removed. The dispenser needs to be facing the track.

When you enter a cart, it will prompt you to punch the cart in the direction you want to travel. To stop the cart, punch it again. When you get to an intersection, punch in the direction you want to go. Anytime you get out of a cart, it will disappear.

Let me know if you have any problems with this plugin.

This is a plugin that allows you to designate a single/double chest to act as a dropbox and will sort all of the stuff you put into it into other chests that are linked.

For example, you return from a mining trip with an inventory full of items. It would normally take you several minutes to run back and forth sticking your stuff in the appropriate chest. With this plugin, all you have to do is unload everything into one chest, and it automatically transfers to another chest nearby that is linked to it, and already contains the same item.

What you do is you attach a sign to a block adjacent to a chest. On the first line you put [MondoChest] and then label the sign what you want to on the third line. Right-click on the sign and it designates the adjacent chest as the master.

Then you attach a sign to another chest close by (can be elsewhere in your base, not sure on max. distance) and on the first line put [MondoSlave]. On the second line you put the word restack and all that does is enable the chest to stack items that normally aren't stackable (signs for example). You can leave the second line blank if you want.

Then you right-click on the sign and it should link the slave chest to the master. Then it's just a matter of putting 1 block of each item you want to store in each slave chest. When you drop stuff in the master chest, close the lid and right-click on the sign that has [MondoChest] on it to initiate the transfer.

Let me know if you have any problems with this plugin. You can drop by my base to see it in action.

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http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield3...ation_for_the/

Should give us tips on what kinds of things to look out for.