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absolutely ZERO idea if there is already one of these but im havin fun so fuck it Hi!! Welcome to the server, I am computer, and I will be helping you out with starting the Garnet Gaming DarkRP server When you first make it in you will see a bunch of people, if you want to have a good/easy time getting started up I suggest joining early in the morning such as 9:00AM EST If you want to wish you were dead while starting up I suggest joining at around 6-9PM EST when the player count is normally highest Now that you are all loaded into the game look around a bit, you will see these things People (no fuckin shit lmao) Vending Machine Fountain Signs on the walls (these signs are VERY IMPORTANT if your textures are not loading in) Little thingy that idk what to call it next to the Vending Machine (This is the Bank, where you will be storing items if you run out of space) Meth Sell NPC, Duel NPC, Vent, basically just a shit ton of interactable thingies A FUCK ton of base spots. everywhere. they flood the map. its amazing. Now that you got a good look at the area around you, take a look at your inventory, these are the things you will see(idk why I havent used bullets sooner this is fun lmfao) Physgun Gravgun Inventory Pickup (this is where you store shit not in the bank) pretty much it as a citizen unless you have bought things from the store Now you have a pretty decent idea of what the game looks like so press F4, you will see a menu Click on Jobs and become a thief, now you have the same shit but with a Lockpick and a Keypad Cracker, make a base using Jbhh's Starter Base Guide to start off then get some printers up by clicking on Entities in the F4 menu and buying and upgrading them You can also just wait until you are level 2 then become the delivery man job and do that until your lvl 25 I think to become the Meth Manufacturer and just keep doin that until you get moolah Very VERY shitty guide but this just explains the very basics of how to start off. cya

Introduction Due to popular demand and the interest in a guide for making bases that are actually defensible and very difficult to raid, I am here to proudly present Jbh's Sweaty Base starter guide. The goal of this guide is to be a guide that can be given to any new player on Garnet and give them a full overview as to what the basing system is like and what they need to do to be successful on Garnet. I have played for over 5 years on Garnet taking breaks ofc but I can proudly say my bases are sick, I very very very rarely get raided since I have been playing I am still yet to be successfully raided. If you utilize my guide you will be able to create a base to your liking that is difficult to raid. ~Jbh(formely known as Hama) Tool introduction Most of the tools in default Garry's mod are disabled on Garnet for good reason. I will not go into why they are, but this section is going to be an overview on how to effectively use the tools at your disposal to make some dope ass bases. You find the toolbar on the right side of the prop menu 1. Stacker The Stacker tool is used to duplicate props in an organized fashion. If you need to make a long wall of a prop you can use the Stacker tool to do this. Stacker is a very intuitive tool and only has a few but useful modifiers you can mess with. 2. Precision tool The Precision tool is used to precisely move props to close gaps and really just prefect a base and remove any unwanted gaps that players can shoot through. To use it, visually determine the precision distance and then press left click to push the object and press reload(R) to pull the object. 3. Fading doors The Fading door tool is used to create the doors/entrance into your base; it allows a prop to become invisible for a short period of time enabling anyone or anything to pass through it. All you have to do to use Fading doors is set the keybind you would like to use in the prop menu, and then left click the prop that you want to be made a fading door. From there you are able to press the key assigned on your keyboard and go through the prop. When building your base, this is utilized with the Button and Keypad tool which will be discussed below. 4. Keypad Keypads are used to allow raiders to enter your base and are a required and essential part of DarkRP. To use a keypad you set the bind associated with a Fading door to the keypad bind and place it near to the Fading Door. 5. Button Similar to a Keypad, Buttons can be linked to fading doors by simply assigning the Access Granted key, to the same as the bind for the Fading door tool. Buttons are primarily used to create peaks for yourself as you can quickly materialize and unmaterialize a prop which allows you to shoot and decrease your chances to not get shot. 6. Material The Material tool is used to change the texture of your props and make your base look different, and can be used to hide what exact prop you’re using to further confuse raiders., I would suggest that you go through and just test them all out and you will find the ones you like. -Reminder: CSS props cannot be seen by non CSS users allowing the player to see whatever prop is underneath and sometimes through the prop. Important rules It is very important that you follow the rules of the server when building your bases and there are a few important ones to know and always consider when building your bases. 1. You can only have 4 Fading doors that act as entrances per base, this means at most the raider needs to crack 4 keypads to get into the base. 2. You may only have 3 buttons in a base, this means you are limited to 3 peaks per base that are controlled by a button which are the best peaks 3. Keypad duration must be 6 seconds or more 4. You may not have materialized fences 5. If you are building a base you must put a Building sign up if you want to avoid being raided and killed 6. When you are building you may not have printers or illegal entities in your base 7. All peeks must be fair meaning if you can shoot them they can shoot you, no peaks that prevent the raider from seeing you. These are just a few of the basing rules, we highly suggest that you check out all of them but these are the main important ones that you need to keep in mind when building a base. Finding your base spot When you are setting up a base it is important to think about the location. If you are going to be farming a ton of printers you may want to choose an area that is more isolated if you are looking to set up a shop you want to be in the heart of the town. A big mistake that newer players make is setting up in areas that are not populated for shops. Really though any base spot that has a door will be pretty good there are going to be some that are much harder to build in for various reasons usually size. When you are making your first Base start in a larger base. Here are some pictures and relative locations for each of these bases. There are a ton more base spots but these are just our personal favorites. Spot 1- Beach warehouse Located to the left of spawn. Spot 2- Every single warehouse located in the industrial district, take the tunnel that is right near the chess tables and fountain. Spot 3- Small warehouse across PD. Spot 4- Sewer warehouse located under the map, there are multiple access points to the sewers and if you make your way to the center of the sewer, you will find it. Creating your base 1. Vision It is really important to have a vision of the base you are creating if you just starting through props together what you will get is a pile of shit. It is important to think of these 2 things, first where is my entrance going to be and do I need to block off other entrances, second is where are your peaks going to be, it’s important to think about where you want your peaks because the way your entrance is shaped will rely on this. If your base is in a smaller space you will be forced to have just one or two peaks and you have to plan around those peaks. 2. Creating the Entrance The entrance to your base is the spot that raiders and you will go into the base and placing this in a good spot when you have multiple options is super helpful. For the purpose of this guide we'll be building a very basic base down in the sewer warehouse. There are three different entrances and we have to choose which one to use. We will be using the Garage door for our entrance. Step 1- Block off other entrances this is key to make sure you have the props due to prop limit and can fit your base around the needed props to block other entrances. To block off the entrances choose a prop that you can see through one way if it is materialized such as a prison gate shown below. Here you can see the use of the stacker tool to very quickly be able to fill up the entire space. Step 2- Setup your main entrance- for this you will want to create props that funnel the attackers into a very small space. A very nice prop of choice we recommend for newer players is using prison gates with a combination of plastic pieces to create your peaks along the way. You have to plan for your peaks with your entrance as it is a lot harder to add this aspect of them after the fact. Step 3- Create Fading doors and keypads- Now that you have your funnel you need to populate it with doors, you have two options for doors. The first is prison gates you can materialize these as mentioned above so that you can see the entire entryway but the attacker cannot see past the door they are cracking. Option 2 and my suggested option is fences, Fences while they can be seen through you can easily add a few prison gates at the back of your entryway to block off vision. This allows you to create a peak with the entire entryway. Keypad your fading doors- Choose a code that is unique and personal, do not give this code to anyone seriously, with the addition of party members being able to open keypads there is no reason to give your code out to anyone who is not 100% trusted. Insiding can happen very easily this way. Step 4 - Create your peaks- you should have a good idea of how your peaks operate as we have left space for them in the above section but now you need to put a prop and create somewhere to stand and toggle the peaks. Use a fading door on the peeks to make them toggleable, then place a button down with the same key as that fading door in your desired location Conclusion I hope that this guide is able to be circulated by staff members to newer members of the community and also within the community in general. There really wasn't any good guide on building a base but I think I have given a pretty good attempt at it. I hope everyone finds it useful. Additionally here is the base dupe that was created in the videos just go to your gmod main file then data/advdupe2/ Paste it there. The goal of this base is not to be aesthetic but to be a good starting place for beginners to start thinking about basing and create their own designs. And finally here are some of the bases I have built using the above techniques Also check out my guide on money printing if you are interested

Introduction As a long time player I have seen an evolution of printer farming with multiple changes to the system and feel as if I have optimized a few good methods to getting some quick gains for players with a moderate starting stack and really high gains for those with a large cash stack. Prerequisites 1. Being able to max your printers Option 1- Buy VIP and max them yourself honestly worth it if you are going to be playing on the server long term anyways Option 2- Get a VIP to max your printers(This is a cheat code people used to do this all the time but no one does this anymore) Advert you would like someone to upgrade your printer and will pay them 10-20k extra per printer. Make them advert raid and advert raid over so they can not steal or harm you or your printers. You are done now you have VIP printers without VIP 2. A safe Base Additionally a very hidden base would work, though its hard if you are going to be buying a lot of printers. 3. Starting Cash Stack This guide will cover two primary ways you can farm printers one requiring far less cash my recommendations for each method are as follows: Cheap Method-1mil Expensive method- 4-5mil The Cheap Method 1. Overview The cheap method relies around buying claimed printers that you know will last for two hours this allows you to buy printers for a much lower cost than normal overnight or 5+ hour printers. A couple of things that will make your experience more enjoyable while doing this is to build a base close to spawn, the further away from spawn the less people you will be able to get into your base and buy their printers. 2. How to do it Step 1- Place your own printers down and upgrade them to max in both speed and quantity( This just gives you guaranteed income and probably doesnt even need to be stated) Step 2.1- Source claimed printers you can do this a in a few ways first as mentioned buy printers from lower level players who need some starting cash as well as just general players but just know that you will have to pay more to someone with a large cash stack than you would someone who is broke. I try to buy claims for between 40-75k for both printers anything lower feels predatory to new players anything higher isn't worth it for the profit. Step 2.2- The second option you have for sourcing claimed printers is raiding, if you have some friends this can easily get you 10+ printers in 30 minutes which equates to almost 2 million in profit over the course of the printers lives. Choose to raid bases that you know have printers and are able to be raided. Sure you can come raid me and try to get my 40 printers but lets be real bases that are built well like yours should be shouldnt be on your target list when printer farming, aim for small bases that will have between 2-6 printers. Step 3- Maximizing your cash requires that you do not let any money go to waste when the claimed printers blow up and to do this I have a method that works 99.9% of the time if you follow it. As soon as you get a printer claim it and upgrade it to max from there DO NOT COLLECT until 190-195k. You know that after 2 hours the print will blow up a maxed printer will get 200k per 2 hours which means that if you just let the printer stack you can always have an accurate timer. You do lose xp for this and if you are trying to go for xp definetly do just claim at 100-125k but i would suggest just writing down on a notepad when you got each printer and organizing your rack so that you can do this. Step 4- Rinse and repeat, this really is the full strat its not hard and can get you millions per hour if you are effective at sourcing printers. The Expensive Method 1. Overview The expensive method relies on you being able to source printers from established community members for mulitple hours and overnight so that you can make a fuck ton of money for lack of better words. What this method is expensive to start for a few reasons. First is you are buying printers for between 100k-200k per printer without upgrades this puts you in a sizable debt before you can even start recouping your money(I dont turn a profit until usually hour 2-4). 2. How to do it Step 1- Create an advert bind( to be able to notify players you are buying printers. This is done with this command in console | bind b "say /advert Buying printers 5+ hours /pm me" | You should customize this and make it your own something important with this bind is that you should let players know that you only want printers that will be active for a decent amount of time. You will not buy printers that you can not guarantee will last 3 hours. Once you have a cash stack this won't matter as much and you can take more risks from newer players who you can't trust as well because you have the cash to burn. But when you are just starting if a level 3 with 2 hours approaches you do not buy their printers unless you buy and instantly claim. Step 2- Create a base of common customers, you should be really nice and accommodating to players who sell their printers to you, just like any buisness you need these people to come back to you the next time you are farming and more importantly you need them to sell their prints to you over someone else. This is something that I have gotten very good at and it is really the simple things such as giving them a bit more than you or they offered for a printer. Seeing they are low on cash and giving them some, just saying hi or messaging them if they will be selling prints etc. Doing this allows you to very easily get prints every time you want to farm. Step 3- Profit, I would suggest that you claim at 100-125k as this is the best for XP but this method is also very simple but just relies on using your brain a little bit. Common issues Issue 1- Someone is paying more than you for prints Unfortunately this is why we call this method the expensive method if you arent comfy paying a lot for prints you won't be able to buy printers, I have paid up to 1 million for printers that I knew would be active overnight. The logic and reasoning behind this is that I had over 40 printers making 4 mil an hour, I can burn 1 mil of my hourly profits to increase that profit in the next hour. This is basic business you can burn your profit stream as long as you do not dip into your savings. Issue 2- You are getting raided Building a better base is the only way to prevent this. Additionally you should always have eyes on your base dont leave your base for 20 minutes and expect it to be ok when you are back make sure you are within audible keypad crack distance or never leave that range for longer than a few minutes. Issue 3- I Have printers that have coolers popping off every few minutes how do i sync them Easy solution you can buy coolers when you already have one installed, every time you get a new printer while you have under 10 just sync every cooler, once you have more than 10 printers every new printer you buy buy the cooler and when the coolers on your already existing printers pop sync the new ones that will have coolers already installed. Issue 4- My printers are everywhere how do you manage 40 printers Printer racks are king- There are many different printer racks here is a link to one that I endorse and use Extra tips from @ChrisRid - A fully upgraded printer costs roughly $100k to buy and fully upgrade, and produces roughly $100k per hour. This means it takes 1 hour to break even, so 2 hours of farming will double your investment.- This also means the first hour is the most important, in terms of defending your base from raiders, because after that at least you'll break even worst-case- Coolers need to be replaced every 30 minutes on the dot, and when they break, you have 5 minutes to replace them before they blow up! Using a timer (like Google) really helps keep track of this.- The most efficient route to level-up for low level players (1-30) is to take very frequently from the printers, given XP doesn't carry over between levels. For example, if you're level 1 and took $200k from a printer, you'd be level 2, whereas if you took multiples of $5k you'd probably jump to level 10+ (haven't done the math to confirm exactly how high you'd go, but as an example)- When buying printers off others, price is one of many factors to consider. Are they well known amongst other farmers for being trustworthy? Are they quick to setup / drop their printers? Are they available to replace lost printers over the duration of your farming session for a fee? Will they help you place and upgrade them for an additional fee? Closing Thoughts While I may not be the richest player on the server yet In my past week playing on the server again I have jumped from 1 million to 100 million doing these methods, My one true calling on Garnet is printer farming, as most of you know i'm not really a role-player you'll catch me messing around here an there with some buddies on the streets but most of the time I am kept up in my base printer farming and that is because I love it, I don't know why but god damn do those numbers in the top of my screen increasing every time I collect is an instant serotonin release and not to mention every time getting on trying to beat my personal record for most printers at once. https://imgur.com/a/ilgEa5q A Note on Alts There is one thing that is omitted from this guide very purposefully and that is alts, the goal of this guide is to create a basic framework for newer players and veteran players who just roleplay to learn how to print in general, if you know what alts are you know they will increase your printing speed significantly myself and almost every other top printer uses them, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT NECESSARY unless you are really trying to push into the hundreds of millions relatively quick. If you dont know what im talking about its ok don't worry about it :). If you always thought that alts were needed for printer farming and that was the reason you hadn't done it you should really give it a go you can still make tens of millions in days. The true benefit of printer farming The amount of friends I have met from printer farming is amazing, and the friendships you build while sitting in a base doing nothing but popping coolers are genuinely awesome. My best friends on the sever all come from printer farming and honestly if I just had to sit in my base and printer farm alone I would be a little sad so my suggestion to you is to find some friends to do it with as it makes it even more enjoyable. Huge shout out to @Oyasumi@tdizz @Harm@GNCActno(even though you are an actual fucking gambling addict) Each of yall have made my printer farming experience a lot better and I hope everyone can find some friends like Y'all