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Title: Climbing Pick
Summary: Climb ledges and leap off walls!
Authors: Jetz and Spider_
Submitted By: Jetz
Date Submitted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:22 pm
Description: So... Erm... Having a bit of a mental block on how to start this description with some overly long backstory to the mod's development... Guess I'll get right into the mod itself...

Introducing, the Climbing Pick! This tool - waitwaitwait got it.

A certain fifteen-hundred players who noticed I was hosting a server in the past month at time of writing should be familiar with this one. The server was a climbing challenge, originally to be called a Climbing Pick Challenge but was changed because the former name sounded better and actually fit within the character limit. As the latter name would imply, it was centered around this tool - a melee weapon for climbing ledges.

Introducing, the Climbing Pick! This tool enhances your mobility by allowing you to attach to and leap off or up bricks. It does not allow one to climb straight up a vertical wall, however, so you can design maps with it in mind, creating areas accessible with the pick while not making every area accessible.

To use the pick, simply strike a wall with it. You will then grab on to the wall and have a few options for where to go from there. If you tap crouch, jet, the fire button, or put the pick away, you'll simply drop down. If you press jump, you'll leap upwards, higher than you could normally. If you look away from the wall and jump, you'll do a wall-jump, leaping off the wall in the direction you're aiming.

When building, keep these things in mind for how the pick interacts with bricks: Disabling raycasting will make it impossible to hit the brick. If a player is attached to the brick, disabling raycasting, breaking the brick, or fake-killing the brick will also detach them. If collision is disabled, then any direction a player jumps off in will be considered a wall-jump, and launch them extra far in the direction they're looking.

Those of you who played the challenge will recall three other properties - inability to grab dark colored bricks, bricks that would launch you extra far, and bricks that would launch you immediately after connecting. These properties were built in to the challenge, and are not currently accessible through normal means. It is possible however, to enable challenge mode and these properties through the script, by editing the variables at the bottom of the file.

Included with the pick are several events that were written at the last minute since it seems like a good alternative to hard-coded properties and obscure configuration:
onPickAttach - called when the player attaches to the brick with the pick.
onPickDetach - called when the player disconnects from the brick by normal means, including jumping.
onPickLeap - called only when the player leaps off the brick when attached, in addition to the detach event.
pickDetach - output event that causes the player to detach from the brick by normal means. Has a checkbox that determines if they jump off the brick instead of simply letting go.

With these events, you could replicate the instant-swing bars from the server as such:
onPickAttach > Player > pickDetach > 1
onPickAttach > Player > playSound > wrenchMiss.wav

Another example, a brick that collapses when you try to leap off it:
onPickLeap > Self > fakeKillBrick > 0 0 0, 5
onPickLeap > Self > playSound > breakBrick.wav
onPickLeap > Player > setVelocity > 0 0 0

Anyway, here's the feature list:
-Climb on and leap off walls.
-Pick model thanks to Spider_.
-Functions as a high damage melee weapon.
-Tested by 1500 people with mostly positive* feedback.
-3 input events and an output event.
-Good for challenges.
-Sounds from the Half-Life 2 hopper mines.
*Excluding vast quantities of death threats and rage.
Actually as an aside, the testing was conducted with normal scaled players using a datablock with the standard model and jump height. I haven't fine-tuned it for other playertypes, but there is some barely-tested logic to account for them. Report relevant issues if you want.

Warning: May cause inverted genitalia.
 

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Filesize: 34.02 kB
Filename: Weapon_ClimbingPick.zip
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ErenTr35

Comments: 6
Blockland ID: 42232
 Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 6:20 am

So nice... 5/5
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goku123500

Comments: 124
Blockland ID: 15514
 Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 11:00 pm

Really nice! I'm actually making a dm map based around the climbing pick!
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Aronan

Comments: 211
Blockland ID: 8848
 Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 5:35 pm

@Bloxx
Jetz said that this mod was inspired by that.
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Bloxxer09

Comments: 44
Blockland ID: 39072
 Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:03 am

In the screenshot it looks like Molly's Climbing Pick from Telltale's The Walking Dead.
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Dr Diep

Comments: 19
Blockland ID: 16235
 Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 12:36 am

Fucking hardcore parkor
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ThePortalMaster

Comments: 9
Blockland ID: 3636
 Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:43 pm

@TGCOfficer
It can also function as a weapons and has a high damage.

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TGCOfficer

Comments: 35
Blockland ID: 14397
 Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:43 am

This belongs in the Tools category, not weapons.
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Redconer

Comments: 11
Blockland ID: 33688
 Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 7:56 pm

Oh I remember this, you should totally download this.
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Aronan

Comments: 211
Blockland ID: 8848
 Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:50 am

@Evilmatt
It was named Hilda.
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austincain1006

Comments: 100
Blockland ID: 23634
 Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 11:47 pm

acualy it was hilda
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Evilmatt555

Comments: 164
Blockland ID: 13733
 Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 5:30 am

Reminds me of the pick from walking dead game, Called "Sherly" or something.
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DJ Euphoria

Comments: 5
Blockland ID: 35485
 Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 1:14 am

Really cool tool! I've been searching for something like this, and look what I found!
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Gregers

Comments: 1
Blockland ID: 40933
 Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 11:22 am

Reminded me of the new Tomb Raider game! 10/10
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Microwave

Comments: 48
Blockland ID: 37934
 Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:54 am

What he said |
V
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MegaCrazyDerp

Comments: 322
Blockland ID: 11894
 Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 1:29 pm

MOST EPIC THING SINCE WAFFLES.
1337/5
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Portotype Dusk

Comments: 50
Blockland ID: 12724
 Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 4:14 am

Yes! I've been waiting this forever! Now to make something harder than Jetz's...

>:D

-Achoo
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Halmet

Comments: 37
Blockland ID: 38849
 Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 7:02 am

I'm not sure that the mechanics of the game will make this a really useful tool, but still, I can not know something? In any case, it is 10 \ 10 for trying to create something exclusive
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General R

Comments: 4
Blockland ID: 16882
 Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:59 pm

Great! 10/10
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Huskykid

Comments: 66
Blockland ID: 33468
 Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 7:48 pm

10 Outta 10!
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XR_7

Comments: 177
Blockland ID: 10541
 Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:01 pm

Nice Jetz, although I never got the hang of climbing challenge, this will come in handy.
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Benci

Comments: 18
Blockland ID: 19735
 Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:13 pm

5/5
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Benci

Comments: 18
Blockland ID: 19735
 Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:11 pm

This is a good weapon!!!!!
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Jetz

Comments: 37
Blockland ID: 3673
 Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 11:15 am

@DarkFighter @Aronan, actually, that was the inspiration for the mod. Good guess!
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Ozmar

Comments: 194
Blockland ID: 30588
 Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 2:28 am

I think it's climbing time!
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Aronan

Comments: 211
Blockland ID: 8848
 Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 1:03 am

@DarkFighter
You're talking about Molly, right?
She was a badass.
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gsparx

Comments: 148
Blockland ID: 19639
 Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:57 pm

Very nice.
@darkfighter8769 use edits next time
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ben watts

Comments: 80
Blockland ID: 28570
 Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:03 pm

Definitly what I need! Tnx! 5/5
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darkfighter8769

Comments: 32
Blockland ID: 28039
 Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 7:50 pm

Sorry, 3rd post, from the game (sorry xD)
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darkfighter8769

Comments: 32
Blockland ID: 28039
 Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 7:49 pm

Lol, from walking dead, rofl srry.
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darkfighter8769

Comments: 32
Blockland ID: 28039
 Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 7:49 pm

Like the climbing pick that, that (Ja... That that ._.) girl used :P
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Gytyyhgfffff

Comments: 24
Blockland ID: 26879
 Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 7:38 pm

fuck yes
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3 Admin Server 3

Comments: 77
Blockland ID: 21009
 Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 7:00 pm

YEAH!!! 14234123412412 stars
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zenzil9091

Comments: 56
Blockland ID: 13433
 Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 6:04 pm

cool i like it
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