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Water Blocks [Legacy]
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Water Blocks [Legacy]

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This is a very quick fix-up of an old mod by Torborn, from the original open-source codebase at https://gitlab.com/torbold/waterblocks -- there is at least one other fork of this on Steam, but it seems to have been abandoned and no longer worked; the blocks did not get treated as water for purposes of drinking, swimming, or keeping water buddies alive.

I had a need for a working version of the mod, so this is a quick fix-up which should be a drop-in replacement for anyone using the old Water Blocks. I also really disliked the Tek hexagon glimmer on the sides of the water, so that\\\'s gone by default; if you want to turn it back on, you can add the following to your GameUserSettings.ini file:

[WaterBlocksLegacy]
UseTekSides=true

It is worth noting that the seams between water blocks still occur from certain angles; that cannot be fixed without a significant rewrite of the mod. As I dislike the way the water placement works in this to begin with, I intend to do precisely that. However, my newer Water Blocks mod will not be backwards compatible with Torborn or JD\'s, because I intend to handle laying out the water in a wholly different manner.

I\'ll be honest that I don\'t have any real plans to add anything to this mod in the long run (or maintain it much); it\'s just to get the existing water working on a friend\'s private server as a favor to them until I can write something better. But if anyone else wants it, hey, more power to you; my slightly updated source code can be found at https://gitlab.com/packetdancer/waterblocks for anyone who wants to toy with things further.
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Mar 22, 2021 @ 3:08pm
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Mar 15, 2021 @ 10:54am
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bintanganjay12 Sep 17, 2024 @ 9:55pm 
How to use this mod? I can find the water blocks, im sorry i need help
Packetdancer  [author] Mar 24, 2021 @ 10:32am 
Yeah, that's the exact problem. They're using the same method Torb's original Water Blocks did, which does not seem to work properly for dedicated servers anymore; streaming level instances just don't seem to load on the server side, and the necessary physics can't be done entirely client-side.

I have an idea on how I wanted to do my own separate from-scratch water building system, but it doesn't mesh with the drop-in replacement.
testerb Mar 24, 2021 @ 4:19am 
It seems you maybe running into the same problem as the maker of this mod; https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2343875434
Packetdancer  [author] Mar 24, 2021 @ 2:13am 
I did find what's affecting you on single player, and I found the replication issue that causes it not to appear on a dedicated server.

However, now it works perfectly in single-player (including fixing the pre-existing issue where once you had picked up a water block no other water block would spawn correctly again)... but the water handling doesn't happen on a dedicated server, and I'm trying to figure out why.

(Or rather, I know why, I'm trying to figure out the why BEHIND the why...)

I'll still roll another build (overnight, because man things take forever to cook), just to push the single-player fixes; it'll work for single-player and non-dedicated multiplayer, but I'll keep poking at the replication issue for dedicated servers.
testerb Mar 23, 2021 @ 8:40pm 
@Packetdancer - I did more testing, everything I could think of but nothing turned up really. I did notice that the blocks aren't snapping to one another and that after placing one, which I still don't see, the land around where I put it takes on the water ripple effect even after picking up the block.
testerb Mar 23, 2021 @ 7:04am 
@ Packetdancer - Hey there, since the update on single player with no other mods I can see the sides and if my camera is inside the block, I see water and hear the ambient water sound. But if I look down from the top the block looks to be hollow and I can't swim in it. Nothing has changed on the server. I've tried both true/false for the tek sides. I've tried blocks 1,2,3,4 and 12. Our server has a bunch of mods so will do more testing later. Thanks for the attempt but it might not be worth spending too much time on.
Packetdancer  [author] Mar 22, 2021 @ 10:11pm 
Never mind, pretty sure I found it. I'm going to leave the mod cooking overnight and try it on a test server in the morning, and if it proves out then I'll push a new one of this.

Cheers!
Packetdancer  [author] Mar 22, 2021 @ 4:12pm 
Actually, one other question: which size of the block were you building with? They're actually all individual objects, so I wonder if one particular size is broken.
Packetdancer  [author] Mar 22, 2021 @ 2:35pm 
@TesterB - Hm... I know of two bugs inherited from the original that I need to fix and am looking into, and one of them causes water to break if you pick it up and put it back down. But it's not showing up for you at all, even on first placement?

If that's the case, I'd love a list of any other mods you're using, just to make sure they aren't replacing any of the textures the water block is using. (I'd also be curious if the water block shows up -- or at least, the rippling Tek effect -- if you turn that on in the ini file.)
testerb Mar 21, 2021 @ 4:59am 
I tried this on my server where I had previously been using the jdbranch merely for show. I can place the blocks and pick them up with the water bucket, but they are invisible to me. Can't see them and there is no water effect.