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Yes..it can be depressing. Even on pvte servers there has to be a shut down so you "can bring out your dead" and remove them otherwise they pile up and lag the game badly. What is strange is sometimes they levitate and compete with the flying sharks.. I often drop in to some official servers for a look , and the view at the arrival area is post apocalyptic.... from natural deaths due to disinterest, or victims of the "kill everything" griefers , and its so depressing that there's virtually no life anywhere ... and if i decide not to stay i prefer to craft a wooden shovel , dig a hole in a mountainside and bury myself. Its a feature of all mp games when someone whose a non serious player and "there for the lolz" arrives .. they run around the spawn area...and then log out and die! Some prefer to commit this suicide on someones doorstep or moored ship or in the middle of a place where building is underway, effectively blocking it. It seems to be a passive form of deliberate griefing for some and its not uncommon to see the same person do the same thing each time a new game/map is started.. Well jellyfish have been around for millions of years and they don't have a brain too .. so there is help for these types... You have several options ... if its not in PB protected area, and they are in the way and not moved for several days, bury them, but place a stone panel over the top to stop them re-surfacing! I often get people "infesting" the sleeping areas on my welcome places, where they lay there for days on end and never return to the game and clutter the place up .. so now i build elevated structures with sleeping accommodation... over water, if i can ... so if someone occupies a bed, or dies there, after a couple of days i can deconstruct the bed, floor and let them drop into oblivion underneath ----- If there's sharks around and the resting place is out over the water, there's some rather neat shark-feeding sound effects courtesy of BI What needs to be done is that if a body is on the ground in a designated spawn area and not logged in for at least 2 real time days, it then "decomposes" ... or bring in modified vultures ......

Our help areas are becoming too helpful Firstly, let me thank the no-brainer who used the axes and saws from the help area to cut down 90% of the surrounding trees ...what you did was to supply us with more than enough logs to build 3 ships to replace the one you stole from a newly arrived player. Also thank you for filling the tool boxes up with the broken tools ...we can dismantle them and re-use the metal pieces. All the wood pieces you dumped around the base...well, they will help refuel my new steamship The piles of dirt used as a wall around the outside of another players PB barrier will make a really neat safe harbor when flattened a little, and landscaped. Sadly though you killed all the tamed horses withing the help area....well the meat and hides can be useful in helping genuine new arrivals. What did you earn? Well no respect, and a perma-ban on this server So what do we do to help new arrivals? We tried an experiment with a NPC at spawn giving out useful items ) flints rope grass clothing etc) to new arrivals who care to trade. there are lots of magic bushes around and the NPC trade accepts the blossom readily. All you have to do is forage and collect some to trade for basic items. Putting things out in chests doesn't work ...someone takes the lot! This NPC idea has merit ...and will need to be refined and expanded..as well as hoping the new arrivals read the signs and take advantage of the things on offer. What about the new Help areas? well some people appreciate them and give thanks and help restock items. Some take just the basic stuff ( spade hammer clothing lantern axe..) and then craft their own stuff not asking for any more help. They soon have splendid. bases of their own Some will take a pink dinghy , some food and a fishing rod and map ..and seek another island. Some even leave a "thank you" message And sadly most will just use all the workstations, take all the nearby resources ... and leave refuse etc around to ruin it for other newcomers . They do not build a base, just sponge and use others stuff. So what do we do? Well the next Help area will be walled off, save for a small alcove with just a spinning wheel, weaving loom, tannery and a smelter. Maybe some flints and other materials scattered around to gather. perhaps a coupe of NPC's who will trade items like spades axes etc and clothing ... and some fishing rods, a small pier and some pink dinghys ( i like pink .. ..also its easier for us to find your body after a shark has had a meal..). All the other workstations will be behind a wall ... protected with security items so they can only be accessed byt those in the know. The outer wall will be surrounded with sisal, banana and corn for food. Jump over the wall ?...please do! i want to see the effects of a Tesla coil on someone in mid air The moral of this story? Play nice and fair. learn to craft and not be a nuisance. People in the community will help those who are useful to the community. learn to survive and be social And welcome to P! gaming!

In order to keep interest alive on the P1 server, i have started placing "adventures" randomly around the various islands. One has already been set up, and its " Captain Longjohn Underpants" pirate treasure AAaaargh ! Should you find the hidden chest, you can only open it with a key ( it cannot be busted open ) and you have to locate where Captain Longjohn Underpants' ship sank in a storm .. and avoid becoming shark food. You might find useful items in the wreck and if no one else beat you to it, a key The second adventure planned is Anemia Earwax's crashed plane ... you have to locate both the plane wreck and her last camp to get clues where each other is located, plus a different landmark to visit. At these landmarks there's instruction on how to use your map to locate where the mumbo-jumbo tribe buried the cargo she tossed out of her stricken plane before it crashed. You need all 4 locations otherwise you will be ages digging in the wrong spot ! Then there's Steven Dworfz diamond mine.. ( apologies to Snow white, but shes not around any more as Prince Charming got lost... he ate his map by mistake ! ..) The clues to the mines location are still being decided on, but diamonds are great trading items with NPC's Then there will be Pharaoh Tuttifrutti's temple .. not much to reveal here other than tuttifrutti liked worshiping Hyenas, but they liked him as a meal better .and yes he grew up with a a very protective mummy ... or was it 2 ? be wary! Then there's Captain Kneemohs submarine ... (shhhh thats a secret but it involves a powerful power source...) And finally, Area 52 ..an abandoned base where they reverse engineered captured alien craft..... no one there now, but lots of left over parts and stuff to hunt for and collect to help your technology tree expand.. So far i have only managed to implement the first one , the others will arrive randomly and un-announced ... so visitors to P1, have fun searching. ..and be wary! Meanwhile my evil brain is working on other delights , like Dr Moroh's workshop where he experimented with mutant animals, and ummm ----- well guess you will have to find out the others through experience I am getting as much fun creating them ( and the silly puns) as you will have in finding them. Perhaps some other server Admins might want to adopt some similar ideas in the future for their servers, ....?

Apparently the area 52 building is so secret its been abandoned ..because the workers there cannot find it ! But wandering around the island i saw this quaint hut ... umm but what are those things on the roof used for ? ( This pic is from my sp building scenario game and is the modified version ... it is not he same as the one currently somewhere on P1 . but will appear on an island somewhere when the P1 islands are restarted after the .10 release.. )

Oh and i am not to blame for the pink and yellow ostriches ..( i wont admit to it ..) and the penguins? they are from Madagascar ...lets say they escaped ....

ezzy - its best to get away from the spawn spot as soon as possible ... bojo and i often drop things into those chests nearby but they soon get emptied. I saw your bamboo perch on the hill tops ... if you want to try another island, come down to the BIG help area ... ( look for the ship with the pink masts) and equip yourself there... then grab one of those small dinghy's and strike out ... look for birds - i see at least 2 fflying in different directions from my seagull tower. We do get the occasional ning-nong galloping around... i had one about an hour ago come into my house while we were waiting for sleep ...produce an axe and try killing me ..of course pvp is turned off ..his excuse was his mouse button stuck! ... tell that to the judge and see how many years you get! This was the same guy who on a previous map used an exploit to break into a building only to be cursed by 2 mummies inside ...some never learn! i am off for dinner right now ...will drop i later to help clean up and fill in holes and remove stumps and debris ...we do that often and it does reduce lag. If the current map starts to go downhill, we have a new one with 12 islands in the wings ...we will vote on that when the 10 update arrives.

Ezzy...forgive me .. I am near Canberra... .. but that aside , look for the P! server run by Red Eagle. Its a pve server and griefers, and wannabe pvp players who goof around acting like immature ningcompoops soon find themselves locked out. If you do arrive there, there is a spawn/welcome area fenced off from predators. Make your way anticlockwise around the island keeping to the coast and will pass by a series of building being erected by creative types and some by others learning to be creative Bojo's Huge place is visible on the hill, Passengers Buildings are on the coast ( ignore the penguins and yellow ostriches... they are escapees..) .... and ILove has made a magnificent island retreat off the coast. further around you will see rest areas you can pause a while in ..and eventually the bright pink sails of the "s.s. Eggstra Special" will be visible in Rusty Keals dockyard of the P! help center. There you can find some tools to borrow, clothing, emergency food and temporary accommodation and a range of workstations to help you craft thing to get started. There are some ghastly pink dinghy's in a bay area .. you can borrow one to explore for other islands. ( shut the gate after you or they tend to drift out...) There are still predators around in the jungles and hill to add excitement... and if you want to search you could locate Captain Longjohn Underpants hidden pirate treasure ..or his sunken ship if you are a good anti shark diver ...And there's area 52 hidden there ...somewhere on the island ..but be careful not to get lost inside ..or run into one of the abandoned experiments in there they forgot about.. Theres quite a mature community there... as well as BeeOne, Sancho, DarkSupra, Phoenyashe SilentFox and Rita .. all somewhere there, and there's others on the nearby islands. We use chat discord to keep up to date and to discuss problems .. the references etc are on the noticeboard at spawn ...and ignore the arctic wolf in the admin building ..hes there to let the exploiters know that if you break into a locked building you might get more than a ban Also materials are replenished and mining holes filled in and other junk ( including offline abandoned bodies) are cleaned up to reduce lag. I am on for several hours during the day AEST when the weather is not kind to be outside.. We would welcome you . ( Non pvp servers are becoming more popular it seems! )

So you think you found Area 52? Once you gain access... ( you don't need force... ) explore the abandoned rooms ..but be careful ..you do not know what experiments were conducted there ! ..and do not get lost in the maze of passageways... You might also find items to boost your technology crafting ... or you could end up back at spawn in your undies! But have fun

Here are some screenshots of the adventures on P1 ... they have been carefully edited to not reveal their locations . So far only one has been located... the other is a mystery awaiting exploration.. These screenshots are of Captain LongJohn Underpants cave where he buried his pirate treasure. .. wheres his ship? ask the sharks

Thought i would share with you all the latest version of a help center established on Red Eagles P1 server The first screenshot is what you see when you approach from the sea There's a shipwreck protected by Bruce the shark ... and there's accommodation cottages for short term overnight refuge, and of course work stations and stores with useful things new arrivals can borrow. ...and of course Barf's chuck wagons with food supplies. What started as one horse is now two, and there's some pink ostriches practicing for their role as flamingo dancers ( there's a pun there...get it? ) Work stations are available and some containers of surplus building items people can take and there's resources all around...but last count i saw 12 panthers in the nearby forest and valley ... so be on your guard. The ship obviously attracts interest as i keep finding the loading doors re-positioned ..obviously by the curious passer by. However its locked and not for hire.. legally or illegally! Bruce the shark's twin brother is watching out for the careless landlubbers who might fall overboard! If you want to create on a pve themed area/server with a friendly community ... drop in and join in!

The latest P1 map has been operating for a while, and here are some screenshots of the help area. We have had a few visitors arrive and show appreciation ....some have borrowed a pink dinghy from Rusty Keal's "Renta a Dinghy" and returned later from adventures on distant islands bringing gifts to add to the help center. We did have a couple of social misfits who arrived and stole all the lanterns they could and plunder the stores ...only to fall victim to a predator in the jungle ... and the goods recovered. Already plans are being made for what will happen with the release of .10 update

bojo, the chest is somewhere where it cannot be bashed open ... cannot say too much or it will be too easy to find. Red... one day i will assemble my grey cells and experiment in editor ...

There is a new map in operation, and the replacement help area, is similar but different so far we have had only positive reactions from players passing through. You can also "rent-a-dinghy ( they be bright pink!) and your payment is when you return to visit, if you can, donate something useful for new arrivals.

My Rl work involved assessing job applicants suitability for various forms of employment. It didn't matter how smart the suit was, or how short was the skirt, or how wide the smile... as soon as the applicant opened their mouth to speak ..you would know! So when someone in game calls me bro .. or bruh.. or uses certain trendy phrases that are unique to their gender, or country, you can be 99% correct in what you expect to hear next. People tend to stick to stereotypes, most of the time. Playing sp is a good way to learn ... to survive craft and build ..but then it gets boring ...you need to interact with more than wolves . and NPC's... so you dive into a MP game... .... and its not rainbows , unicorns and dancing pixies! Basically 5 percent you meet are wonderful people ... 94% are assholes, and the remaining 1% are cuckoos.. But whats new? real life is the same so would Ylands be different? Strangely, the asses i meet are from a certain area in the world ... the cuckoos another.. so when some guy arrives and does a childish dancing emote ... calls you bro or something similar ..or refuses to communicate .. you immediately think "here goes the neighborhood!" and sure enough ... But i will persist.. the group i am with are great but they too sometimes feel the strain of tame horses being slaughtered, rubbish left around and passive forms of griefing, by logging out and never returning leaving your corpse on someones doorstep or in their house ... We definitely need a means of removing these non serious players who after several days laying there decomposing just waste data space

Onedown... do we live in a perfect world? a world without hate, wars, terrorism and such? ... as John Lennon sang in "imagine" ? The internet is toxic in a lot of areas .. like the Monty Python sketch where they had a department you went to if you wanted an argument, here its join a forum...any forum ...same result! Not wanting an argument here, but stating that as soon as you first interact with another player in MP Ylands, you instantly know whats going to happen next when you either see a throw away account name or someone who acts in a really goofy immature manner. Throw away names... that's names that usually use the first five letters of the keyboard .. like asdfg or sadgf etc or similar combinations .. whenever i encounter a player with an in game name like that, its always 100% trouble... they grief for an hour then abandon the game and do the same on another server .. if they are not banned , they come back later.. The name betrays their lack of creativity. As Bojo commented .. i have rl experience in sorting the bull-shooters from the genuine person with genuine non inflated qualifications. For example we had a job applicant for a aged care hostel who stated in a previous job he supervised 45 subordinates at a medical institution... it did not add up and after questioning a slip of the tongue by him revealed a clue that when followed up exposed the fact the subordinates were animals used in a research station... namely mice! Regarding stress.. Its a game and i can always pull the plug and walk away. But its disappointing when you use your grey matter to create something like a help area to assist and encourage new players and an ignorant troll then arrives and stomps all over your work. Some are just trolls - others are plainly nasty like the one that left hateful messages inside buildings i created, and who posted abusive words in chat when where children were watching me create ( and learning) ..and could could see what this moron wrote. The reason why i like mp games that are moderated is that you CAN meet new intelligent creative people, and there's quite a collection coming to the server to interact with me, Bojo, and others in a friendly manner and engage in humorous and interesting chat on discord. We can go a week without interruption, then some half-brain comes in and runs rampant in just an hour when moderation is not possible... ( there are issues with the allocation of admin rights it seems ..and the power to ban etc does not stick if you log out ... a crash will render useless any admin rights handed out prior to the server moderators nightly retirement.) But as they say ..practice makes perfect .. every time you rebuild its better. ( we need a thumbs up emote here) But . its disappointing to see that when the trolls do arrive, its from the same areas on the earth. No wonder there are world wars Also note : I play PVE . ---- PVP is not - and never will be my cup of tea! To each his own.

adding ..others having same issue ..bojo was fixing up the spawn area and drowned and lost the cube! luckily managed to retrieve it .. also you can starve ... you need to keep feeding ...

Latest door security .. its called the "horse plop on head" .. so if you use that exploit on my door and get trapped, you will get one dropped on you

that was on the p1 server of red eagle... if you fall under the water you get the drowning bar .. so have to surface. this was ll just before the post i sent in..with the log files

Hey .. how about bringing back vultures or crows to cleanse the areas of corpses that hang around for days on end?

well then - how about griefer eating raptors ?

try placing 2 doors in any entry to houses...a grill door 1 row of stone blocks behind the outer door ...both lockable that way the griefer can get stuck between the doors ...also don't place beds or chairs visible from the doorway ...or if you go offline lay on the bed so it cannot be used as an exploit. Bojo is 100% right...if these exploits and such cannot be stopped...no one will bother to play ylands... that's why i and some others are on a private server where we have admins to control harassment /and griefers...and we still get these idiots coming in and killing horses, wrecking gardens...stealing ships and such.

what about feet for the land sharks? I keep getting one spawning amidst the rubber trees

Forget macca's and the colonel .. we have BARF's ..... Todays special, - salmonella free soup! All meat sourced locally... and MSG free !

yes but the wheels do not appear ... nor the sign on the roof - they have to be added afterwards Now working on Fred Bear's Haberdashery store... for fine cloths, tanned hides and a good yarn

Not quite a scene from "the Godfather" as it wasn't in my bed, but least its better than having bats in the belfry!