How to do multiplayer please help

[Tbone]

how do i do multiplayer? please help

[Liam.W]

there is currently no multiplayer

[Tbone]

thank you for letting me know

[Gollum]

Whilst there is no official multiplayer, there is a mod called TDMP that enables multiplayer functionality. However, it is discontinued and only works on the old version 1.4. Mods are also severely limited.

If you are interested in giving it a go, here is a guide to help you out: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2942419409

[BraveCaperCat]

Originally posted by FallGalaxy3945:

Whilst there is no official multiplayer, there is a mod called TDMP that enables multiplayer functionality. However, it is discontinued and only works on the old version 1.4. Mods are also severely limited.

If you are interested in giving it a go, here is a guide to help you out: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2942419409

This guide doesn't work, as it requires people to downgrade to an earlier version of teardown. This shouldn't be required by multiplayer.

[Gollum]

Originally posted by BraveCaperCat:

Originally posted by FallGalaxy3945:

Whilst there is no official multiplayer, there is a mod called TDMP that enables multiplayer functionality. However, it is discontinued and only works on the old version 1.4. Mods are also severely limited.

If you are interested in giving it a go, here is a guide to help you out: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2942419409

This guide doesn't work, as it requires people to downgrade to an earlier version of teardown. This shouldn't be required by multiplayer.

The reason the version must be downgraded is because the mod is no longer updated. In other words, unsupported.

[BraveCaperCat]

Originally posted by FallGalaxy3945:

Originally posted by BraveCaperCat:

This guide doesn't work, as it requires people to downgrade to an earlier version of teardown. This shouldn't be required by multiplayer.

The reason the version must be downgraded is because the mod is no longer updated. In other words, unsupported.

Yes, but the latest update was on July 24 2024, multiple months after the 1.5 update. So, why do I need to downgrade all the way to 1.4 to play the multiplayer mod and not just to the 1.5 update? And why has no one taken over the project since then?

[Gollum]

I'm obviously not the developer, so I will try to answer your question as best as I can.

The Teardown 1.5 update has been well-documented to have broken a substantial number of mods, including TDMP. According to https://github.com/TDMP-Team/TDMP-Launcher-Updater-Public/releases/tag/0.1.0, the last time files were uploaded was the 27th of December, 2022, which was before the Teardown 1.5 update (16th of November, 2023). Whilst the developers were initially attempting to fix TDMP to be compatible with version 1.5, at some point during this process they abandoned their efforts.

As for no one taking over the project, your guess may as well be as good as mine. Developing a mod this complex is a lot of work for many people, especially when you ask someone to do it for free. This may have deterred many modders away. Plus, the modder would need experience in developing multiplayer. In addition, Teardown version 1.6 added external player models. This is an unneeded feature IMO and something I cannot see a lot of people using. Spending that much time developing such a feature can only make me think that a multiplayer update will come in the near future.

In this article from 2022 (https://www.pcgamer.com/one-million-copies-and-5000-mods-later-teardowns-creator-is-just-getting-started/#:~:text=Like%20every%20other%20post-release,its%201.0%20release%20in%202022.), Tuxedo Labs said that multiplayer would be added as a free update in the future. At the time they also said that there were no plans for a paid DLC, and look where we are now. Shortly after they were brought out by Saber Interactive and they pulled a Snowrunner on us and plan to turn the game into a massive cash grab. According to Wikipedia, Saber Interactive believes that the underlying tech behind Teardown's voxel destruction physics can be used to complete with the likes of Minecraft and Roblox, but it's more likely that this was an excuse for buying Tuxedo Labs. However, if Saber does want to be more like Roblox and Minecraft, they will need to implement multiplayer.

[BraveCaperCat]

Originally posted by Gollum:

I'm obviously not the developer, so I will try to answer your question as best as I can.

The Teardown 1.5 update has been well-documented to have broken a substantial number of mods, including TDMP. According to https://github.com/TDMP-Team/TDMP-Launcher-Updater-Public/releases/tag/0.1.0, the last time files were uploaded was the 27th of December, 2022, which was before the Teardown 1.5 update (16th of November, 2023). Whilst the developers were initially attempting to fix TDMP to be compatible with version 1.5, at some point during this process they abandoned their efforts.

As for no one taking over the project, your guess may as well be as good as mine. Developing a mod this complex is a lot of work for many people, especially when you ask someone to do it for free. This may have deterred many modders away. Plus, the modder would need experience in developing multiplayer. In addition, Teardown version 1.6 added external player models. This is an unneeded feature IMO and something I cannot see a lot of people using. Spending that much time developing such a feature can only make me think that a multiplayer update will come in the near future.

In this article from 2022 (https://www.pcgamer.com/one-million-copies-and-5000-mods-later-teardowns-creator-is-just-getting-started/#:~:text=Like%20every%20other%20post-release,its%201.0%20release%20in%202022.), Tuxedo Labs said that multiplayer would be added as a free update in the future. At the time they also said that there were no plans for a paid DLC, and look where we are now. Shortly after they were brought out by Saber Interactive and they pulled a Snowrunner on us and plan to turn the game into a massive cash grab. According to Wikipedia, Saber Interactive believes that the underlying tech behind Teardown's voxel destruction physics can be used to complete with the likes of Minecraft and Roblox, but it's more likely that this was an excuse for buying Tuxedo Labs. However, if Saber does want to be more like Roblox and Minecraft, they will need to implement multiplayer.

Ok, I'm not going to reply to this message any further, it's way too long.

[Gollum]

Ok, fair enough.