Zombie#24

Outstanding news.  Hydrocraft will live on, and you can get a well deserved break from it. Thanks Hydro for the hours of memories and enjoyment you can to thousands of players!

I have been thinking about this for a long time. And since after months of not being motivated to work on the mod and I don't want it to die with me I am thinking about putting it up on GitHub and allow some dedicated modders to take over for me. One who have already contributed as well as other who have put out patches on their own. This mod is huge now and needs all the help its can get. Note by doing this I want the moders to follow the ideal of "more is more" and be additive to the mod rather than culling stuff they don't like. Removing things should be last resort and only if its causing major problems. I also feel that if i gave it be a group rather than one person that it will less likley be abused since the others can fix anything too extreme. Think Wikipedia.
 
If you are one of these modders who wish to help please let me know. Especially if you have experience with GitHub.

Lots of people ask how to get there since the mod updated.  Here you go. 
 

 
 
 
http://deadpixels.freeforums.net/thread/88/slocan-lake-new-denver-location

More casual than ever 

Been finishing up bits and pieces of the map that have been half done while i was working on other areas, here is a bunch of apartments on the outskirts.
 

I'll answer this because these accusations are an attempt to tarnish my legacy.
 
When they say /blatantly duping items/ they mean framed. There are no logs of items duped because I didn't dupe anything.
Initially I was banned for having Alice Packs they thought I /hacked/ into the game, then when I told them you could build them with Hydrocraft and cited the recipe they just changed their reason.
Nobody can cite what I duped /blatantly duped in mass/ because I didn't dupe anything. The only evidence they ever produced was me logging off in one location and logging into another. A result of loading a backup. Which I loaded because my file became corrupted because they thought adding 12 story skyscrapers with massive hordes of zombies / fixtures / textures was a good idea. The server has huge complex logs that give tons of information, if I was duping they'd easily have been able to cite what exactly they thought I was /blatantly duping./
 
Pretty much they make these big claims against me to try and tarnish my legacy by saying everything I did that was great or good on the server. I could only have accomplished by cheating. Which is false, I don't  even want to be unbanned from New Dawn. I wear my ban proudly. 
 
Here's a story about one of their guys who had an obsession for me. Would go through every item in my base and try to interpret the rules in any way possible to try to get me in trouble. This guy, who is still an admin btw lol even after this. 
He has considerable sway on the server. So he rigged it.
He added gun mods to the server so it allowed machine guns. Restricted drops so machine guns could only be spawned and couldn't be found randomly in boxes. Added mods that allowed extra perks / classes that gave him like +9 to aim from character creation but put it behind a gate so /nobody else could take it but a select few *Approved* individuals/ Then the guy restricted the military profession which had stats that were incredibly overpowered and made no sense how strong it was, but it was balanced because. "no one else could pick it." Then part of the class is that when they spawn they get a free machine gun with a box of ammo. Then the guy walks around and says "Look how tough I am? Have you seen my penis? it is very big and nice and impressive. I am not compensating for anything I swear."
 
If you go up against them, expect to deal with such problems such as. Having zombies spawned on your base, have the admins friends /accidentally/ find your base. /Random/ admin events where 3 bandit players attack your base with machine guns. People ERPing 5 feet away from you... Constantly. False accusations and let's not forget some good old fashioned cheating, one such example. Making people who are their friends invincible during pvp and when asked about it claim it was an accident. 
 
I'm not alone either, there are big groups of people who played on ND who had to leave because the rigged favorism has made it not even worth playing because the winners and losers are decided by a select few people. Not by skill or merit, but by popularity gauged by a small group of "Superfriends."
In the words of Coach
"This used to be a nice neighborhood."
 

From what I understand several problem players still exist in the ND community. I personally enjoyed being a long term community member who was repeatedly framed and banned for daring to go against the secret meta communities that conspire to  throttle or essentially grief players whom they do not like.
 
I've played a lot of Project Zomboid and even set some standards and made some good contributions to the Project Zomboid community and this servers has made numerous attempts to frame me has tarnished my long-term legacy. This server used to be run by a fair and impartial guy who was really cool named Tibby, who paid for the server and didn't pay close enough attention to a select group who used democracy to stack the admin team with all their friends essentially turning the server into their little playground. 

Problem was, because the majority were under eighteen years of age, they couldn't afford to keep the server running so they've resorted to pay to win tactics.

I would not recommend New Dawn as a server because it directly hampers creativity and will often stack the deck against you to advance their own personal / friends narrative. I have no doubt this post will certainly stirr some attention, and invite all kinds of slander. But I can't exactly post it on their own website because they moderate it like they are the secret police.
 
Tl;dr ~ Rigged playground where you exist only as long as a you bring pleasure of administrators and their friends, by sucking up and pretending they are the coolest. Enjoy server rules that are directly made to favor specific players and admins spawning themselves the best equipment. The spelling and grammar isn't so bad though.
~Jack

Known issue for a few updates now.  All attempts to fix it have failed.  It happened when the devs updated the base generator code.  It removed the exploitable bug that makes the solar gen work all the time.

IWBUMS or Public Stable Branch
As far as I can tell, it's been fixed for awhile on the public branch.  Aside from the above posted treating plants for disease.
 

Hydrocraft v10.5b has been released!
 
Which includes ...
 
- Updated Clothing for build 40
- Fixed Cooking Beetle Grub
- Fixed Crop Planting Bug
- Thanks to everyone who helped!
 
Enjoy!

Fresh install, all deleted files. Mods and maps removed to test.  Dedicated server won't boot since 40.26.
Asked the server admin to try a fresh Stable Build boot to see if it is the Server box for some reason.


Failed to read SVNRevision.txt
1539756196614 versionNumber=40.26 demo=false
1539756196614 server name is "servertest"
1539756196614 map_t.bin does not exist, cannot determine the server's WorldVersion.
1539756196629 Loading networking libraries...
1539756196629 Loading steam_api64...
1539756196629 Loading RakNet64...
1539756196629 Loading ZNetJNI64...
1539756196754 znet: ZNet loaded
1539756196754 znet: Compiled with SERVER_STEAMAPI == 0
1539756196754 znet: Starting with bServer == true
1539756196754 znet: SteamAPI initialised successfully
1539756196754 SteamUtils initialised successfully
1539756196801 translator: language is EN
1539756196942 reading C:\Users\dedicated\Zomboid\Server\servertest.ini
1539756196942 writing C:\Users\dedicated\Zomboid\Server\servertest.ini
1539756196957 znet: Java_zombie_core_znet_SteamGameServer_Init
1539756197770 znet: SteamGameServer_Init() failed ip=0.0.0.0 steamPort=8766 gamePort=16261 queryPort=65535
1539756197770 znet: Java_zombie_core_znet_SteamUtils_n_1Shutdown
 

Fresh install, all deleted files. Mods and maps removed to test.  Dedicated server won't boot since 40.26.
Asked the server admin to try a fresh Stable Build boot to see if it is the Server box for some reason.


Failed to read SVNRevision.txt
1539756196614 versionNumber=40.26 demo=false
1539756196614 server name is "servertest"
1539756196614 map_t.bin does not exist, cannot determine the server's WorldVersion.
1539756196629 Loading networking libraries...
1539756196629 Loading steam_api64...
1539756196629 Loading RakNet64...
1539756196629 Loading ZNetJNI64...
1539756196754 znet: ZNet loaded
1539756196754 znet: Compiled with SERVER_STEAMAPI == 0
1539756196754 znet: Starting with bServer == true
1539756196754 znet: SteamAPI initialised successfully
1539756196754 SteamUtils initialised successfully
1539756196801 translator: language is EN
1539756196942 reading C:\Users\dedicated\Zomboid\Server\servertest.ini
1539756196942 writing C:\Users\dedicated\Zomboid\Server\servertest.ini
1539756196957 znet: Java_zombie_core_znet_SteamGameServer_Init
1539756197770 znet: SteamGameServer_Init() failed ip=0.0.0.0 steamPort=8766 gamePort=16261 queryPort=65535
1539756197770 znet: Java_zombie_core_znet_SteamUtils_n_1Shutdown
 

Will this be in the next update?  I tried accessing the public IWBUMS servers and I get the server password incorrect, even though the servers say no password needed.