What is ToB?

The Orange Block is a Lego building game designed for people aged 8 - 18, but don't limit yourself! It provides a multiplayer sandbox environment for people to get together and build, and is a complex rendering system allowing you to have large amounts of interactions with your buildings. It is the successor to the game TBM.

TBM was a free multiplayer game built off the alpha build of Eric Hartman's game, Blockland. It featured hundreds of different bricks for building, 98 different colors, IRC chat, and a variety of high-quality maps and models. It also had a deathmatch mod titled Death to Block (DTB) which expanded on The Better Mod's list of features and allowed you to battle your friends online.

TBM has now been succeeded by the game The Orange Block (TOB), TOB contains all of TBM and DTB, and has been redone to be smoother and more stable. Not only does it have TBM and DTB, but it has the adaptable Cemetech AI, dozens of new fire and smoke particles and better weapons. 

You can download The Orange Block from the link at the top of this webpage, or the link in the left-hand menu. All you need to do after that is unzip it into the folder you'd like to run it from. 

Further help can be found here:
http://theorangeblock.org/forum.html?func=view&id=5156&catid=2#5156
Or the "Guides" section in the left hand menu.
If neither of these helps you, you can get help by simply asking in the forum.

Should you need older versions of TOB, or, failing that, TBM, several are available in the files section, and at http://tbm.pcloadletterwtf.com respectively.

The TOB Forums are a friendly place for players to gather, share information and chat about a wide variety of topics. You can register with the links on the left below the menu.

The Forum is moderated by the mods Elrunethe2nd, DShiznit, Lucas, and the admins Dontar and The Administrator (Lucas). It is our job to help you if you have a problem, so try us first!

Make sure to quickly read the rules before you post so you know what is expected of you, and, most of all, have fun.
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Dshiznit's News Article PDF Print E-mail
Written by Dshiznit   
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 10:39

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New Years FreeBuild PDF Print E-mail
Written by CyberPrime   
Saturday, 26 December 2009 09:38

CyberPrime wrote:
Cross-posted on Cemetech: http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=90835#90835

Well, it's the moment we've all been waiting for! I won't dilly dally...

New Year's Day

Yea, some of you have guessed it already but this should give you something to be excited about. We've been working on this for quite some time, and submitted over 200 SVN commits. We're damn proud of what we have now, but there's still plenty to go before we release our first, finished version. We do, however, have many of the major things done;

Mod System - Allows for quick and easy pre-packaged mods to be installed, uninstalled, enabled and disabled.
Cemetech Integration - Logging in to Cemetech allows you to connect to other's profiles, send PMs, etc. Eventually we plan to have an online mod system and build save sharing.
New inventory system - 3d, on-the-fly generated previews of bricks, and new catagorization; splitting bricks and tools
New Engine - this comes with new abilities for you as a player and us as developers as well as improved speed and memory usage.
Dynload - dynamic loading of Datablocks, essentially eliminating the datablock loading times. This also lets you load and unload datablocks on demand.


There's a whole slew of other features, but you will have to wait to see them for yourselves.

And of course, yes, it is completely Open Source.

News Source

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2009 09:45
 
The Orange Block 2.0 Released! PDF Print E-mail
Written by DShiznit   
Saturday, 04 July 2009 19:56
Happy Independance Day! The long anticipated Orange Block 2.0 is here! It has loads of new content, further enhanced weapons, two new vehicles, headshots, and more! Get it from the files section today!
 
Welcome New Users PDF Print E-mail
Written by Dontar   
Monday, 09 March 2009 14:54
please post an intro inside the Introduction Thread
Last Updated on Monday, 09 March 2009 14:55
 
The Orange Block 1.9 Has Been Released! PDF Print E-mail
Written by DShiznit   
Wednesday, 04 March 2009 01:19
This new version features over 70 weapons, some new community maps, enhanced exploding barrels, mountable chairs, and more. This version also includes a utility for porting over your old saves and prefs from an older Orange Block installation.
 
Orange Block Weapon Guide PDF Print E-mail
Written by DShiznit   
Sunday, 01 February 2009 18:27

I wrote a help file, converted to html by Elrune, that has information on all of The Orange Block's weapons. This guide will also be included in the help menu of The Orange Block 1.9

http://thebettermod.org/ftp/weapons/Weapons.html

 
Merry Christmas! PDF Print E-mail
Written by DShiznit   
Sunday, 28 December 2008 22:01
On December 25, 2008, I made a surprise release of The Orange Block (my mod of TBM) 1.8. This new version finally fixes the unstable Radius damage on bricks, and it even adds awesome chain-able exploding barrels. What the F*ck are you waiting for? Get it from the files section now!
 
Badass News System PDF Print E-mail
Written by DShiznit   
Saturday, 22 November 2008 20:31

GreyMario wrote an amazing script, that when coupled with a dll allows the downloading and viewing of html-like news in game.

Get it here:

http://thebettermod.org/files/doc_download/51-news-patch.html

 
The Orange Block 1.7 is finally here! PDF Print E-mail
Written by DShiznit   
Monday, 17 November 2008 00:30
I just released the Orange Block 1.7. It has the money system I've been working on, as well as a few other surprises...
 
The Orange Block 1.6 Released! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Gilbert M   
Thursday, 04 September 2008 03:20
Surprise! I've decided to patch up what I have so far and release it as The Orange Block 1.6. Sorry, the community add-on system has yet to be added. I still need to set the mod paths correctly, among other things. I have however added Emotes, balanced the shit out of the weapons, and added toggable blood and fall damage. I also included a bunch of saves left out of 1.5.
 
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