Towing Lines + Hooks | From The Depths | Page 1

rose kite Feb 22, 2025, 12:34 AM

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Towing Ships Is Cool. Tow Winches Could Connect Lines To Hook Blocks On Other Craft And Otherwise Function Identically To Harpoons. Except Maybe Allowing For On-The-Fly And Precise Adjustment Of Line Length, Since (Unless I'm Mistaken) Right Now Any Changes To Desired Length Only Apply To New Harpoons.

cobalt canopy Feb 22, 2025, 7:52 PM

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I wish

obsidian coyote Feb 22, 2025, 8:47 PM

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I mean you can kina do it with spinblocks and separators

spark torrent Feb 22, 2025, 11:39 PM

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rose kite Towing Ships Is Cool. Tow Winches Could Connect Lines To Hook Blocks On Other Cr...

That would allow for proper trains (sort of)

cunning barn Feb 26, 2025, 11:38 AM

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Flail melee weapon time

sage skiff Mar 6, 2025, 4:20 PM

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Please I need trains in ftd

quaint crypt Mar 6, 2025, 4:35 PM

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rose kite Towing Ships Is Cool. Tow Winches Could Connect Lines To Hook Blocks On Other Cr...

please, i really want to take a damaged ship under tow, or tow along a seperate vehicle in the adventrue mode and work on it while going to a new resource zone.

quaint crypt Mar 7, 2025, 4:00 PM

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Bump

digital kernel Mar 7, 2025, 5:50 PM

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Oh yes this whould be great, just being able to "harpoon" allied craft could allow so many fun builds

quaint crypt Mar 10, 2025, 3:45 PM

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I have realised another thing would have to be added, a friendly fire module for missiles, basically the opposite of the one currently in game so that it exclusively targets friendly craft, just means missiles won’t accidentally grab the enemy while ur trying to tow ur damaged craft out of harms way in adventure mode.

quaint crypt Mar 11, 2025, 5:07 PM

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Bump

worn fern Mar 11, 2025, 10:30 PM

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quaint crypt I have realised another thing would have to be added, a friendly fire module for...

That could be added to the existing IFF block, a toggle to target only hostiles, only friendlies, or ignore faction - and have this controllable by bread/acb

quaint crypt Mar 11, 2025, 10:41 PM

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Definitely an easier fix than what I was proposing

quaint crypt Mar 12, 2025, 3:37 PM

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merry wharf Mar 13, 2025, 1:16 PM

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How would this work in OOP?

quaint crypt Mar 13, 2025, 3:46 PM

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merry wharf How would this work in OOP?

OOP?

merry wharf Mar 13, 2025, 6:45 PM

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Out of play

normal viper Mar 14, 2025, 12:48 PM

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merry wharf Out of play

probably make the towed vehicle a drone

quaint crypt Mar 14, 2025, 5:09 PM

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merry wharf How would this work in OOP?

It just wouldn’t I guess

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Like why would you need to tow stuff out of play

rose kite Mar 14, 2025, 8:39 PM

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Capturing A Vehicle, And Towing It To A Safer Place

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Or Setting Up Some Kind Of Sea-Train Of Barges To Transport Large Amounts Of Material

torn oxide Mar 14, 2025, 8:40 PM

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just some fun innit

rose kite Mar 14, 2025, 8:41 PM

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As For How It'd Work, I Dunno. Maybe A Special Kind Of Fleet With A Designated Leader That Pulls Everything Behind It.

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Speed Should Be Reduced By The Proportion Of Dead Weight To The Leader's Own Weight And Thrust

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Otherwise, Since The Towed Vehicles Aren't Contributing To Mat Drain, It Could Be Easily Abused To Pull Stupid Amounts Of Stuff Around At High Speed For Almost Nothing

quaint crypt Mar 15, 2025, 4:00 PM

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Bump

normal viper Mar 15, 2025, 7:12 PM

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rose kite Otherwise, Since The Towed Vehicles Aren't Contributing To Mat Drain, It Could B...

tractor beams do that already, just with a bit of manual labor (or ridiculous breadboarding)

rose kite Mar 15, 2025, 7:57 PM

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Fair. Still Doesn't Mean We Need *More* Cheese

quaint crypt Mar 15, 2025, 9:09 PM

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We want tow ropes

normal viper Mar 15, 2025, 9:11 PM

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bmup

quaint crypt Mar 15, 2025, 9:15 PM

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Double bump

safe fossil Mar 16, 2025, 1:55 PM

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worn fern That could be added to the existing IFF block, a toggle to target only hostiles,...

I like this idea

quaint crypt Mar 18, 2025, 4:00 PM

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Bum

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normal viper Mar 18, 2025, 7:51 PM

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quaint crypt Bum

assp

brisk cloak Mar 18, 2025, 9:24 PM

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I doubt this will be added but we got fire so why not

brisk cloak Mar 18, 2025, 9:43 PM

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Also I want to make barrage balloons now

quaint crypt Mar 19, 2025, 2:51 PM

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Bump

quaint crypt Mar 20, 2025, 4:32 PM

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Bump

quaint crypt Mar 21, 2025, 2:06 PM

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bump

quaint crypt Mar 22, 2025, 12:12 PM

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bump

normal viper Mar 22, 2025, 2:49 PM

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quaint crypt bump

bmup, also you dont need to bmup this post every day

quaint crypt Mar 22, 2025, 2:49 PM

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lol yeh

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i just do it accidentaly

merry wharf Mar 22, 2025, 5:03 PM

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normal viper bmup, also you dont need to bmup this post every day

I wasn't going to bump this post before, but now I'm going to just out of spite

normal viper Mar 22, 2025, 5:04 PM

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NOOOO WHY ARE YOU SO CRUEL TO ME

fervent bay Mar 22, 2025, 6:04 PM

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notices your bump

quaint crypt Mar 23, 2025, 2:40 PM

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bump

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WAIT

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I DID IT AGAIN

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BRUH

quaint crypt Mar 26, 2025, 8:44 AM

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Bump

quaint crypt Mar 29, 2025, 9:52 AM

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Bump

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Im learning

quaint crypt Apr 2, 2025, 4:07 PM

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bump

quaint crypt Apr 4, 2025, 3:29 PM

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Bump

quaint crypt Apr 7, 2025, 10:19 AM

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bump

quaint crypt Apr 9, 2025, 2:51 PM

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Bump

cobalt canopy Apr 9, 2025, 4:50 PM

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Oh no bison got pregnant

quaint crypt Apr 12, 2025, 12:33 PM

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wtf

quaint crypt Apr 13, 2025, 5:57 PM

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Bun

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Bump

quaint crypt Apr 17, 2025, 12:24 PM

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bump

quaint crypt Apr 19, 2025, 10:12 AM

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Bump

snow wasp Apr 19, 2025, 10:26 AM

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problem with this is that you could drag huge vehicles with tows at 100ms per second breaking the game

quaint crypt Apr 19, 2025, 11:52 AM

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Well like obviously you have to have a craft powerful enough to do that

digital kernel Apr 19, 2025, 2:09 PM

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you can already do that with tractor beams, and they can be perfectly stable using them.
With ropes they will be flung in all kinds of directions. XD

rose kite Apr 19, 2025, 3:10 PM

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snow wasp problem with this is that you could drag huge vehicles with tows at 100ms per se...

The Way Harpoons Work Means That This Would Require Sufficiently Large Amounts Of Power

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Otherwise They Just Wouldn't Winch Down And Wouldn't Be Pulled

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Tractor Beams Are Their Own Series Of Problems, And They Can't Exceed 100m/s

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They Aren't Really Comparable To Proper Towing

quaint crypt May 17, 2025, 9:52 AM

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bumo

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bump

obsidian coyote May 17, 2025, 9:59 AM

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snow wasp problem with this is that you could drag huge vehicles with tows at 100ms per se...

Weight still applies for it

vague mango May 23, 2025, 1:42 PM

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Actually, this might solve the issue of tractor beams clipping vehicles into terrain and destroying them.

merry wharf May 25, 2025, 1:00 AM

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Or, you could just, y'know, not toggle the tractor beam on when it's obviously gonna slam itself through the ground

normal viper May 25, 2025, 1:29 PM

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merry wharf Or, you could just, y'know, not toggle the tractor beam on when it's obviously g...

Which requires obscene amounts of breadboarding

merry wharf May 25, 2025, 3:30 PM

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Don't see why it'd need BB... you just don't turn it on when you see it's obviously going to hit land...

digital kernel May 26, 2025, 3:51 AM

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The problem with that is that tractor beams have a very rigid connection, ropes allow the craft to move which whould just look a lot prettier.

merry wharf May 26, 2025, 12:56 PM

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Speaking of moving, I do wish that the tractor beams had a function to tell you whether your ship is going to sink or not

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Rather than "Aight, time to turn this off and see if it sinks, op it did, time to add more alloy"

wraith remnant May 27, 2025, 4:53 PM

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Trains and proper transport helicopters sound fun. You could also probably make a good tugboat with this.

Bump

vague mango May 28, 2025, 12:34 AM

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merry wharf Or, you could just, y'know, not toggle the tractor beam on when it's obviously g...

You try that while it is on seemingly flat ground while trying to run from an enemy. Not gonna happen, the craft will get smashed to bits.

normal viper May 29, 2025, 8:35 PM

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merry wharf Don't see why it'd need BB... you just don't turn it on when you see it's obviou...

what about automation and not doing everything by hand?

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bmup

cobalt canopy Jun 26, 2025, 7:39 AM

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please this is absolute cinema

sage skiff Jun 26, 2025, 8:26 AM

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This shouldn't be that hard to make anyways since we already have harpoons. Almost the same thing

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And also if we could connect two parts of the same craft with these lines it could make ropes with physics which would be quite cool

brisk cloak Jun 26, 2025, 6:07 PM

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Someone would make a flail or whip for a tg craft and it would be so cool

normal viper Jun 28, 2025, 2:17 PM

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hammerfight is the pinnacle of gaming

zenith chasm Jul 1, 2025, 12:13 PM

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This would be really usefull for a craft like the desert boa :0

digital kernel Jul 3, 2025, 7:30 AM

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Ooh yes, you could do the brake lines and cables for the trailers with this!

keen barn Aug 14, 2025, 8:52 PM

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also bumping this sounds EPIC

ebon dock Aug 17, 2025, 11:12 AM

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Bump

flat cargo Aug 19, 2025, 10:06 AM

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This works as long as craft connected by tow lines cannot repair each other, otherwise it's the new TG loophole

rose kite Aug 19, 2025, 4:09 PM

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I Don't See Why A Pecking Order Couldn't Be Established - The Lead Ship Can Heal The One It's Towing, But Not The Other Way Around, Something Like That.

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For Long Trains, It Would End Up More Like A List. Ships Higher On The List, Further Ahead In The Train, Can Heal Ships Lower On The List. Etc.

ebon dock Aug 19, 2025, 4:10 PM

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I don't get the issue either

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Just make them act like floppy tractor beams

rose kite Aug 19, 2025, 4:12 PM

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We Already Have Tow Lines In The Game In The Form Of Harpoons. Just Let Us Connect Them To Friendly Units And Winch Them Down Without Missiles.

ebon dock Aug 19, 2025, 4:12 PM

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Yeah

rose kite Aug 19, 2025, 4:13 PM

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Read Original Post... 🚬

ebon dock Aug 19, 2025, 4:13 PM

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Tbh just make it have a special block which is basically a harpoon missile spawner

rose kite Aug 19, 2025, 4:14 PM

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Winch Block, Some Way Of Launching The Line, And A Hook Block On The Other Ship. Simple As.

ebon cloud Aug 19, 2025, 10:28 PM

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Hooks and magnets 😔

digital kernel Oct 14, 2025, 6:20 PM

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yes, bump, still think it would be awesome

digital kernel Nov 3, 2025, 5:31 PM

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always bump this, because it would be awesome

zenith chasm Nov 3, 2025, 8:30 PM

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taigsPray

mental elm Nov 7, 2025, 3:38 PM

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bump

celest grail Nov 23, 2025, 3:15 PM

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bump

cobalt canopy Nov 23, 2025, 4:41 PM

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so many road bumps

sturdy berry Nov 24, 2025, 2:06 AM

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Tenor

digital kernel Nov 28, 2025, 7:25 AM

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bomp

muted timber Dec 2, 2025, 2:05 AM

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sturdy berry https://tenor.com/view/bump-reminder-manatee-fail-fail-sea-cow-gif-12036766

normal viper Dec 9, 2025, 1:06 PM

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pmuBump

merry wharf Dec 10, 2025, 4:53 AM

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muted timber

digital kernel Dec 18, 2025, 1:36 PM

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bump cause it would be cool :3

craggy fossil Feb 6, 2026, 9:46 PM

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It would be cool, could be used to tow damaged ships back to where they can be repaired at a faster than 3m/s speed of out of play. But then it could be abused for speeding up slowships by making a very fast tower. But that could probably be solved.

safe fossil Feb 7, 2026, 4:23 AM

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But then it could be abused for speeding up slowships by making a very fast tower.
You can already do this with tractor beams

rigid mountain Feb 11, 2026, 7:15 AM

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meow

digital kernel Feb 15, 2026, 6:30 AM

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meow

rigid mountain Feb 16, 2026, 1:25 AM

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mrrp

brisk cloak Feb 17, 2026, 3:09 PM

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Prrrrr

ebon dock Feb 17, 2026, 3:23 PM

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Bump

normal viper Feb 23, 2026, 8:32 AM

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rigid mountain Feb 23, 2026, 8:44 PM

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keen barn Feb 25, 2026, 12:17 PM

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bump

cobalt canopy Feb 28, 2026, 4:47 PM

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