This magnificent bastard is probably the pinnacle of the art: A lot of GMod's users are simply straight-up amazing builders, using vanilla GMod to create kinetic, impossible works of art that show off just how robust the physics are. Again, I'm backing out because I'm terrible with Wiremod (as is Garry), but what it enables is ridiculous and I'm in awe of it and its users. But also CPUs, etc that make wonderful, surprising things. I'll just moonwalk out of here while you have a peek at this video. Thankfully there are some basic walkthroughs on YouTube that will let me bail out of any further attempt at describing its complex capabilities, because as much as I love it, it's long-winded to describe. Basically: builds that previously needed a pulley system to set a door opening and closing can now do so with a button and wires. You can kind of guess that this provides interesting wiring options for contraptions, enabling deeper connections between props. Spacebuild wouldn't be possible without Wiremod. It isn't easy, but it's remarkably rewarding to be in a ship of your own design sliding from the atmosphere out into the night. It doesn't matter what you build - a tiny shuttle is as protective as a giant transporter - but you need to think of life support, power supply, engines, resources, energy, and the ship's wiring. Your ship shape has to be shipshape, because beyond the edge of the little planetoid is a harsh, deadly vacuum. The goal, such as it is, is to not die and make it to another planetoid. Spacebuild is a gamemode where you build your own spacecraft and take it into space, using the tools from the build menu, the Wiremod addon (below), and a pile of custom parts. It hovered over the server, wobbling as parts were pinged on with the Multitool. I hadn't noticed what he was building because it was so big, but I had stepped out the shadow of an enormous space craft. I spotted another player in the distance and walked over to say hello. I walked around a little and noticed the level was a planetoid: through a haze of atmosphere I could make out other planets and space stations hanging in the air. I spawned on a barren rock and looked around, not seeing much of anything. This was when I first discovered a Spacebuild server. One night I was wading through gamemodes to play, leaping across the servers like a sexy dolphin, and really not paying attention to what I was clicking on. And remember: none of the below comes shipped with the game: it's all community generated. Just make sure it's something that's set your Face Poser to 'stunned'. If there's something I've missed you're absolutely more than welcome to drop it in the comments. It's about wonderful, ephemeral things, not a list of things you have to do right now. The upcoming GMod update might include modes that won't function for much longer, but that's okay. So this list includes my choices with a couple of Garry's mixed in. I tried and gave up, instead creating an inexhaustive list of amazing things that have tickled me over the years as an on-and-off GModder. It really is impossible to cover everything that the GMod community has made. It has a rich user contribution community. I think the real great thing about GMod is that all these addons exist. According to Garry's Mod creator Garry Newman: "There's so much stuff going on in GMod that it's hard to pull out individual addons.
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