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 ===== World Owner Quickstart Guide =====
-This guide is written assuming you have installed the default server pack and have been able to connect to your world.
-  * Introduction
-  * Step 1 - The default setup
-  * Step 2 - Your first settings experience - Getting time moving
-  * Step 3 - Try out a few commands
-  * Step 4 - Explore a few settings
-  * Step 5 - A quick look at the server menus
-  * Step 6 - Your first buildings
-  * Step 7 - Time for a breather..
-  * Step 8 - Making a plane : Assigning a model
-  * Step 9 - Making a plane : Settings
-  * Step 10 - A quick look at robocrows
-  * Step 11 - Weaponry
-  * Step 12 - Conclusion
-===== Introduction =====
 Following this step by step guide will help you learn all about the possibilities and procedures that you’ll need for making your own world.
-The world server is designed to be as flexible as possible, to allow a wide range of different gametypes and environments, so there are endless different ways of building it. Depending on your design ideas you’ll spend more or less time on certain aspects.
+The world server is very flexible and allows a wide range of different gametypes and environments, so there are endless different ways of building it. Depending on your design ideas you’ll spend more or less time on certain aspects.
 Learning the ins & outs of the world server is a long process.. so lets start by forgetting about all of that and having a quick play around.
 ** Don’t Panic :] **
-===== Step 1 - The default setup =====
+===== Step 1 - Fire up a template =====
-<html>
+Before you start any world building.. run the game, select Create World, choose a template and have a run about a bit. Then lets try your first command - type :
-<center><img src="http://monkeycollection.com/guidepics/opening.jpg"></center><br>
+ ** *say Hello World **
-</html>
+If red text appears, then woot, You're a god.
- The default world setup gives you a nice standard lil landscape with some grassy hills and not much else.
-Have a run about a bit. :]
-===== Step 2 - Your first settings experience - Getting time moving =====
+===== Step 2 - Try out a few commands =====
-On the default setup, time is frozen, so its always Midnight, 1st Jan, Yr 0. As your world’s God, its up to you to do the whole ‘Genesis’ bit..
+There's a huge list of commands available - the reference manual contains a fairly comprehensive list and descriptions of what they do.. Don’t be daunted by the amount.. you don’t need to know them all and you’ll soon start to remember the common ones.
-Type
-'' *settings '' \\
-\\
-<html>
-<center>
-<img src="http://monkeycollection.com/guidepics/settings1.jpg"></center><br>
-</html>
-Ooh.. Look at all those options. Scary isn’t it? \\
-Select 'World Rules' and page down to 'Day Length'. Its 0 at the mo - press end, and enter 300 instead. Ding.. you’ve just invented time.
-<note tip>
-(For now, you’ll probably want time frozen until your world is a bit more advanced, so set the Daylength back to 0 and the clock will stop.)
-</note>
-===== Step 3 - Try out a few commands =====
-Theres a huge list of commands available - the reference manual contains a fairly comprehensive list and descriptions of what they do.. Don’t be daunted by the amount.. you don’t need to know them all and you’ll soon start to remember the common ones.
 First off, lets try changing your vehicle. (You’re a god now, so you don’t need to buy things :] ). In game, type.. \\
-'' *setvehicle [NAME] 2 '' \\
+'' *setvehicle [NAME] 3 '' \\
-(Replacing the [NAME] bit with your own game name). If all is working your chap should now be sitting happily inside a vehicle. Wahey.
+(Replacing the [NAME] bit with your own game name).
 <note tip>
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 ''*settime [0 - 16000]'' \\
 .. this lets you set the current time of day. ''*settime 12000'' for instance will set it to dawn. \\
+</note>
-===== Step 4 - Explore a few settings. =====
+===== Step 3 - The World Editor =====
-The settings screen is the place where you control most of the built-in stuff that determines how your world works.. from things like how the economy operates (if at all), whether or not weapons are allowed, and how quickly your vehicles move. Theres a huge amount of settings to control so don’t expect to be able to do everything straight away.
+To access the in-game world editor press F10.
-Type ''*settings'' again \\
+Here you'll find various tools and menus that let you add things to your world and access various screens and dialogs that let you change how your world appears and operates.
-Now have a browse around at the other settings available - and don’t worry if it looks a bit daunting at first. You don’t need to get everything set in one go - most of the time you’ll just need to change one or two settings occasionally as you build up your world.
+===== Step 4 - Explore a few settings. =====
+If you're old-skool, from the world editor you can access the raw settings values that control the overall configuration of your world. If you're really old-skool you'll access those by type ** *settings **.
+<html>
+<center>
+<img src="http://monkeycollection.com/guidepics/settings1.jpg"></center><br>
+</html>
+Ooh.. Look at all those scary numbers!.
+As an example, Select 'World Rules' and page down to 'Day Length'. Its 0 at the mo - press end, and enter 300 instead. Ding.. you’ve just invented time.
+<note tip>
+(For now, you’ll probably want time frozen until your world is a bit more advanced, so set the Daylength back to 0 and the clock will stop.)
+</note>
+The settings screen is the place where you control most of the built-in stuff that determines how your world works.. from things like how the economy operates (if at all), whether or not weapons are allowed, and how quickly your vehicles move. You don’t need to get everything set in one go - most of the time you’ll just need to change one or two settings occasionally as you build up your world.
 Heres another one to try.. Assuming you’re still in the vehicle 2 you set with the command above, lets have a look at giving that vehicle a jetpack.
-On your settings screen, go to ''Vehicles''. There are 24 different vehicle settings to change – press ‘+‘ once so that the settings you’re editing are the ones for vehicle 2.
+On your settings screen, go to ''Vehicles''. There are 24 different vehicle settings to change – press ‘+‘ once so that the settings you’re editing are the ones for vehicle 3.
 Scroll down to the ''Extras'' setting and set it to **1** - which is the setting to give the vehicle an infinite jetpack. (The description on the left tells you what each of these 'Extras' means.)
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 If the are other people on your world, you need to confirm settings changes by selecting the ‘Confirm Settings’ option at the bottom of this ''*settings'' index list. This will transmit the new settings to anyone else currently connected to your world.
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 ===== Step 5 - A quick look at the server menus =====
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