Build and Shoot

Hey guys, let me start by saying that I am a teacher in a high school in Australia. I use Build and Shoot in my classroom as either a fun challenge for those students who have completed enough work or as a team building exercise among other things. I have been using the standard B&S server for a while with no problem however I am looking into switching to PySnip because of the increased options available as well as the increased number of game modes available.

I have installed Python and installed the 0.75 PySnip server as well as map pack. The server is running on a local network so I don't need to worry about broadcasting to the master server so port forwarding is not required in this case (YAY!) The server runs and I can connect to it running the game modes included in PySnip; TOW, CTF etc. The problem I have is when I download a couple of extra scripts like Babel and Kraken I can't get them to work.

I have downloaded the scripts and put them in the scripts folder. I have added the scripts to the 'scripts' section of the server config. I have change the game mode in the server config to kraken (same spelling/case as python script name). The server runs, but there is no kraken.

Do I need a specific map to run Kraken/Babel mode? Do the maps include the shelf holding the intel /Kraken or is that generated by the script?

Any help would be appreciated, my students love the game and I'm getting a few of them interested and getting into playing online!

MrMerrick

you can use this script babel.
http://aloha.pk/files/aos/pyspades/feat ... _script.py
http://aloha.pk/files/aos/pyspades/feat ... s/babel.py

How to install and configure:

1) Save babel_script.py to 'scripts' folder: http://aloha.pk/files/aos/pyspades/feat ... _script.py
2) Save babel.py to 'scripts' folder: http://aloha.pk/files/aos/pyspades/feat ... s/babel.py
3) Set game_mode to "babel" in config.txt
4) Add "babel_script" to scripts list in config.txt
5) Set cap_limit to "10" in config.txt

Kraken is a bit more complicated. Like arena, it needs special map metadata (a .txt file with the same name as the map), which contains information about which voxels you need to hit with the spade to activate the kraken. The only public map for kraken is skullisland.
Another problem is that Hompy's original version is only half working and very buggy; thepolm3 released a "fix", but it works even worse, because you have to enter a command which only makes 2 tentacles appear.
However, there's an online server running a playable version of kraken.