The Kingdom of Yaknetistan in Second Life -> "Bedstraw (128, 128)"

The Kingdom of Yaknetistan, the Virtual Land of the Righteous Yak, covers most of the Township of Bedstraw in the online virtual reality of Second Life.

Join Second Life for free:

http://secondlife.com/ <- Main web site

https://secondlife.com/join/ <- Join with free account

Advocacy:

Second Life is a virtual world with many thousands of people simultaneously connected, creating their world. It's a lot like the Croquet system that Ryan and Strick were working on in 2005-2006, but all grown up, done commercially, and running pretty smoothly, using market forces within the world to make it work. It's amazing both as a technical and as a social hack. It's also like a MMORPG, except that everything is designed and created by the residents (users) of SecondLife, rather than by level designers (employees) of the company. You can create objects, model places, and script things yourself.

You can create a free account, and there are free clients for Mac, Windows, and Linux(alpha). Use "skip this step" option to avoid providing a credit card or a PayPal account, although if you do provide one, you can convert some US dollars into Linden Dollars to play with.

Ordinarily you need a paid $10USD/month membership to own land. But if you're a YAK person, we've got land you can use, and we'll give you a few Linden Dollars to spend.

Yak Members in Second Life

Strick Unknown -- Yakmeister Strick
GregR Boram -- Greg, Mallet
Throwthem Hansup -- Iridium, Augusta
Mort Tran -- EJ, PsiU
MrWerewolf Gao -- Ryan, PsiU
Rabbi Redgrave -- Robin, Mallet
Charley Heston -- Dave M, Mallet
Suneku Nakamura -- Jake, Mallet
October Fitzgerald -- Jed, Mallet
simoncion Au -- Simon Ion, Mallet
Mu Wei -- Mu, Atlanta
Sidni Burton -- Sidni, Mallet
Ronald Redgrave -- Chris, Mallet
Maxwell Cronenwerth -- McKenzie, Mallet
Fred Mathieson -- Fred, Mallet
Rictic Yue -- Peter, Kentucky
MechaSteve Harvey -- MechaSteve, PsiU
Virgil Unknown -- Virgil, Mallet
Johanson Lancaster -- Tommy, Gatech
Greg Ozsvar -- Greg B, Psiu
Tyler Voyager -- Shadow, Atlanta
Jackson Ayres -- Jackson, Tuscaloosa
Bowe Burum -- Bowe, Raleigh
Bucky Zemlja -- Melo, Sewanee
Yoshua Mandelbrot -- Tobias in Germany
Kaxis Phlox -- Andrew in Munich
?? -- Chris in Willow Glen
Tem Pera -- Reid Fleming, California

Joining the Yak Group

If you're a YAK person, add "Strick Unknown" to your friends, and send me an email or something to let me know who you are. I'll add you to the YAK group, and you'll be able to use the YAK lands to build stuff.

What you really need to know

Choosing a name: You get to choose your in-world first name, and select from a list for your last name. The list of last names varies with time. Start your first name with a Capital Letter; it just looks better in-world. If you sign up with a bunch of friends at the same time, you can all get the same last name, if you like.
Arrows, PageUp, PageDown, and 'f': Use the arrows to move around. To fly or to stop, hit 'f'. PageUp and PageDown move you up and down. (If your focus is elsewhere (like in a chat box), click in middle of screen so 'f' works. Hitting ESC also gets out of modes.)
Right-Click on objects for Pie Menu (Cmd-Click on Mac): This menu lets you sit in chairs, touch things, edit stuff, delete stuff.
Use the maps, and teleport: The Mini-Map and World Map are helpful. Click on a place on the world map, and you can teleport there. Also using the <Friends> button at the bottom, you can ask your friends to teleport to you.
Don't fret your apperance. You can customize how you look later. Get out and do some stuff instead.
Inventory > Library > Objects Pull objects out of the Inventory window and drop them in front of you. There's a free scooter-Kart in there. Beachballs are fun.
Directions to the Yak: With the button at the botttom of the screen, open your <Map>. Type "Bedstraw" next to <Search>. Hit <Search>. Then below, Hit <Teleport>. (You probably must find the EXIT on the first Orientation Island before you can get to the main grid where Bedstraw (Land of the Yak) is.)
BUGS! Sometimes newbies get weird bugs, like Avatar is invisible, or map is empty. Logging off and back on usually clears this up.

Scripting Links:

http://rpgstats.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://oz.slinked.net/history/lsl2_reference.htm

http://www.ddj.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=197008520&dept_url=/dept/ai/

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Portal

Scraps of code you don't need...

// Strick's Cannon Script
default
{
    state_entry()
    {
    }

    touch_start(integer total_number)
    {
        integer i;
        //llSay(0, "Shooting 30 cannonballs...");

        float speed= 40;
        vector direction= llRot2Up( llGetRot() );
        for ( i=0; i<30; i++)
        {
        vector epsilon= < llFrand(0.3)+-0.15, llFrand(0.3)+-0.15, llFrand(0.3)+-0.15 >;
           llRezObject( "BlueRubberCannonball", llGetPos(), // position
                    //<1, 1, 10>,  // velocity
                    (epsilon + direction) * speed,
                    <0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0>,  // rotation
                    1   // param
                    );

        }
        //llSay(0, "... Done.");
    }
}

Discuss Stuff Here

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2007-01-16

by strick:

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avatars seem to be about 2m high, maybe a little more... when I put up railings at 1m above floor, they seem to hit the avatar about in the middle.

2007-01-22

by strick:

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ANTS! We've now got ants!

2007-01-26

by strick:

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http://secondlife.com/developers/mapapi/ -- I've got an object that maps a region; i want to merge the data i collect with the map from the above API ...

2007-01-27

by yoshua:

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After a few weeks of prim-torture, I got the first "public" version of the Yak SkyStation above Yaknetistan Industrial Park up and running. It's mostly done with Blanc Noir's SkyHome Kit, so be patient and wait for the first Yak-grown modules..

So far, we got: - a Meeting Room with panorama windows - a Sun Deck with a beta version of my Yakkuzi (no bubbles yet) - a Garden Module with trees and a round table - a Heli-Pad (with integrated Skydiving Target) - a giant Pool - a Power Supply Module (with one of the Flat Bottom Reactors.. can someone help me out with the particle system on that one? the particles are steaming up through the heli-pad)

... plus my private workshop module, where i will be building and developing new stuff for the station.

There are three long-distance teleporters installed get to/escape from the Yak SkyStation: - on the ground, near the "9" end of the runway - at the guest entrance on level 1 of the station - at the heli-pad

I got a few neat features planned, so stay tuned. If you have any questions, comments, suggestions or flames, IM me inworld.

Yoshua Mandelbrot

2007-02-10

by strick:

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BLIMPS! We've now got blimps!

2007-02-16

by strick:

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Yak Blimps made it into the latest update of the World Map! e.g. look in Misogada or in Cepphis.

2007-02-26

by strick:

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We're doing another redesign of Bedstraw, mainly the southern half right now. This effort is being lead by Yoshua Mandlebrot.

My latest hack is an experimental ski lift. The ride is a bit rotational right now, but come try it. Look at Bedstraw 128,120.

2007-02-28

by yoshua:

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In the last few days, Bedstraw has seen a lot of activity. As Strick already mentioned, we were pretty busy redesigning everything south of 128.

Added features include:

- Route 69, the Yaknetistan Central Highway. Connects the two Linden roads on the SW and NE corners of Bedstraw by taking the scenic route through Yaknetistan. So saddle your horses and get ready for a ride along the new

- Sandbox. New, improved, kidney-shaped. A bit smaller than the last two sandboxes taken together, but with enough space to rez huge pre-fab houses, ships or other stuff.

- Yaknetistan International Airport. Bigger, better, and with a large hangar (courtesy of Mr. Cubey Terra). Please watch out for approaching planes or skydivers!

- The new New Yak City. We moved it to the border of Bedstraw and Amelia. Not much new stuff here. Well, except for some exceptionally.. uhm.. exceptional architecture by Kaxis Phlox, whom I'd like to thank for all the hard work he's been putting into the redesign of Yaknetistan.

- The Yak Emporium. Still under construction, but I think the first items "Made in Yaknetistan" have already been put on sale here.

So, come by anytime and have some fun in the new Yaknetistan!

Yoshua Mandelbrot.

2007-03-02

by strick:

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Someone messages me: a blimp of yours has landed in my living room, can you remove it please but she doesn't tell where that is...

2007-03-04

by strick:

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How to populate the new sandbox: PutSand(x,y,count) -- where x and y are in units of 4m, and count runs across the y direction.

PutSand(32,23,4);
PutSand(33,22,6);
PutSand(34,21,8);
PutSand(35,20,10);
PutSand(36,20,10);
PutSand(37,20,11);
PutSand(38,21,10);
PutSand(39,22,9);
PutSand(40,22,10);
PutSand(41,22,10);
PutSand(42,23,10);
PutSand(43,23,10);
PutSand(44,23,10);
PutSand(45,23,10);
PutSand(46,22,10);
PutSand(47,22,10);
PutSand(48,22,9);
PutSand(49,21,10);
PutSand(50,20,11);
PutSand(51,20,10);
PutSand(52,20,10);
PutSand(53,21,8);
PutSand(54,22,6);
PutSand(55,23,4);