Hello to all Hypergrid residents: Over the past week, Shofia and I have been working to launch a yard market this Sunday, featuring wonderful items to decorate your homes, gardens, and anything else you like. We’ve curated a selection of the pieces we’ve gathered, items that Shofia, with her exquisite taste, has been showcasing to us.
The yard market is open all day today, Sunday, September 13th. Shofia and I will be there as much as possible to assist you with whatever you need. Come on by and enjoy a Sunday at the market—browse the stalls, pick up some great items, and grab a cold beer while chatting with friends. Also, for those interested, we’ve add a stall open if you’d like to contribute a piece of your own.
We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona!


Hola a todos los habitantes de Hypergrid: Esta semana atras, Shofia y yo hemos estado trabajando para inaugurar este domingo un mercadillo con cositas estupendas para decorar vuestras casas, jardines y lo que querais. hemos hecho una seleccion de todas las cositas que vamos recogiendo y que especialmente Shofia, con un gusto exquisito, nos ha ido presentando.
El mercadillo estará abierto todo el dia de hoy, domingo13 de septiembre, y nosotros, Shofia y yo estaremos todo el tiempo posible para atenderos en lo que necesiteis, animaos, disfrutad de un domingo en el mercadillo, comprando cositas y viendo los stands, tomaros una cervecita fresquita charlando con los amigos y para los que querais, hemos dejado un stand abierto para los que querais contribuir con alguna pieza.
Venga, os esperamos en Barcelona

Techno and Trance Vibes with DJ Light Ray
█◄♫►█ ⇨ sᴛʏʟᴇ : good vibes & deep bass
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴇɴ : 13/09/26 -- start is 11am Grid Time
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ: Pangeaville
█◄♫►█ ⇨ GRAB YOUR FRIENDS and come :)))
█◄♫►█ ⇨ Taxi: hop://pangeagrid.de:8002/PangeaVille/220/364/22

Vor meinem kurzen Umzugs-Urlaub hatte ich ja angekündigt, dass ich noch 3 weitere Audienz-Ansage-Videos fertig habe und sie sonntags einsetzen möchte. Nun beginn ich in alphabetischer Reihenfolge, das heisst Bluemoon Sweetrain ist heute dran.
Nächste Woche folgt Elamanu Pastorelli und dann kommt Luba vom Turm.
https://lemondhousecafe.blogspot.com/2026/09/einladung-zur...

We now have days for the fundraising week and auctions. Oct 12th - 18th. So asking for more items to auction. Those already donated can be seen on ECHO 1, on the platform and below. Thank you so much to all of you who have already given me things.

Brazilian DJ Tom Southmoor - a very talented RL & Virtual World - Multi Genre DJ, a lover of Disco Funk Soul from the 70's and 80's and other musical styles such as: Smooth Jazz, R&B, New Jack Swing, House Music (Soulful, Funky, Disco, Latin, Deep). His favorites are the earlier decades when musicians really made magic with their instruments
Catch DJ Tom Tonight @ Alternate Metaverse party stage! 4-6pm!
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/34...

I am starting to put out Halloween jewelry the first pieces are in the store. This is a new Halloween Charm Bracelet. Hello to Furious Frenzy who stopped by 🎃

three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:Monentes Jewelry

Icky Thump Live from the UK at 1pm PDT/Grid Time
Bringing his music to us all
With his guitar and Foot base, and his smokey voice ,
Bringing us some Acoustic Blues Tunes
Come join him,
Everybody is welcome
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/36...

Vor fünf Jahren haben wir Ja gesagt.
Fünf Jahre Liebe, Treue und Füreinander-da-sein – und das möchten wir mit Euch feiern.
Zu unserer hölzernen Hochzeit laden wir Euch herzlich zu einem Gothic Ball ein.
Wir freuen uns auf Euch!
Belze & Chubby
Five years ago, we said "I do."
Five years of love, devotion, and being there for one another—and we would like to celebrate this with you.
We cordially invite you to a Gothic Ball to mark our wooden wedding anniversary.
We look forward to seeing you!
Belze & Chubby

THE OFFICIAL LOCATION FOR BUDS CLUB IS AT: grid.virtual-worlds.zone:8002/Mosaic4/84/13/25

The Buds The Buds The Buds
◥▧▧▧ DJ Chocolate ▧▧▧◤
◥▧▧▧▧11AM Grid Time▧▧▧▧◤
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴏ : DJ Chocolate
█◄♫►█ ⇨ sᴛʏʟᴇ : a Duck Quacking Reggae Session
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴇɴ : 09/12/26 -- start is 11Am Grid Time
█◄♫►█ ⇨ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ: grid.virtual-worlds.zone:8002/Mosaic4/84/13/25
█◄♫►█ ⇨ GRAB YOUR FRIENDS and come :))))

🌴🍹 ALARMSTUFE: KÖLSCHE ESKALATION! 🌴🍹

Samstag, 12.09.2026 ab 20:00 Uhr wird das Nova Beachresort zur heißesten Tanzfläche weit und breit! 🔥

Und wer sorgt dafür, dass keiner stillstehen kann?

🎧 DJ TAILOR – der freche Kölner! 😎

Der Mann kommt nicht zum Händchenhalten…
Der kommt mit Remixen, House und ordentlich Druck auf den Boxen! 🔥🔊

🎶 Gute Musik? ✔️
🍹 Kalte Drinks? ✔️
💃 Tanzbeine? Hoffentlich! 😂
😎 Gute Laune? Pflicht!

Und wenn ihr denkt:
„Ich bleib heute ganz entspannt…“

Jaaaa… genau! 😂😂😂

Also: Freunde schnappen, Schuhe an und ab ins Nova Beachresort!

Denn eins ist sicher:

DJ Tailor legt auf – und Köln lässt grüßen! 🍻🎧🔥

📅 12.09.2026
⏰ Ab 20:00 Uhr
📍 Nova Beachresort

Komm vorbei – bevor du Montag hörst:
„Warum war ich eigentlich nicht da?!“ 😂🔥

DJ Eagle, 11 AM to 1 pm Grid Time @ Eagle's Diner
COME JOIN US FOR THE FUN We R Having Tribute to Dolly Parton Music
Date - 9-18-26
WITH - Tribute to Dolly Parton Music ♫♫
Who - DJ Eagle
When - 11 am to 1 pm Grid Time
Where- hop://grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/Radio%20DJ%20Club/70/1...

BINGO IS ON TODAY! - Bingo starts at 8:00 AM — EYES DOWN!
Who will be the first one to get the FULL CARD?
Find your lucky seat, meet up with friends, and get ready for some Bingo fun!

Location:
hop://login.linkup-grid.com:8002/LinkUp%20Welcome/118/70/2...
LinkUp Grid - Connect • Explore • Share • Enjoy

✨ **KLEIDER FÜR BESONDERE ANLÄSSE** ✨

Du suchst das perfekte Kleid für einen ganz besonderen Moment? 👗✨
Dann schau in der **Little City** vorbei!

💎 Elegant • Besonders • Einzigartig 💎
Finde deinen perfekten Look bei

👑 **SANO DRESS LARA X – T.W** 👑

✨ **Dein Anlass. Dein Kleid. Dein LARA X Look.** ✨

☀️ **SOMMERPAUSE VORBEI!** ☀️

In der **Little City** gibt es etwas **NEUES**! ✨
Schaut unbedingt vorbei – **es lohnt sich!** 💖

Für alle, die einen **LEGACY BODY** haben:
👑 **Das solltet ihr nicht verpassen!**

✨ **SANO DRESS LEGACY – T.W** ✨

Join us for an unforgettable session at the New Landing Point in Alternate Metaverse Grid!
Expect a rich musical journey with rock anthems, romantic ballads, couples’ dance tunes, and high-energy dance tracks to get your heart racing.

Bring your friends, your dance shoes, and your love for great music. Let’s start the day with rhythm, connection, and pure virtual joy.

Hypergrid enabled – everyone is welcome!

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/34...

For two decades, has been lighting up the metaverse with electrifying live mixes. Known for her Hercules‑driven setup and her unmistakable blend of electro, trance, and EDM, she brings raw passion to every track she drops.

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Alternate%20Metaverse/34...

Fleetwood – New Water Route and Redesigned Monorail Track

There are once again some new changes to discover on Fleetwood.

The water route to the Fleetwood sim, located right next to Fleetwood Beach, has been completely redesigned to make it more beautiful and varied. Instead of simply travelling along a plain waterway, visitors can now follow a much more romantic and natural-looking river course by boat.

The route winds its way between rocks, past lush vegetation and many small scenic details that make the journey feel much more atmospheric. The idea was to turn the boat trip itself into a relaxing little experience, giving visitors the chance to enjoy the surroundings at their own pace. With the rock formations and greenery along the river, the whole waterway now feels more enclosed, natural and immersive.

The Monorail route has also been significantly redesigned and made much more interesting.

The train no longer travels only through open landscape. Parts of the route now lead directly between large rock formations, making the journey feel narrower, more dramatic and much more varied than before.

One of the highlights is a new section where the Monorail even passes through a rock tunnel. Together with the surrounding cliffs and rocky passages, the route now feels more like a small mountain railway than a simple sightseeing ride.

Visitors who already know Fleetwood will immediately notice the changes. Both the new water route and the redesigned Monorail track are intended to encourage people not only to visit the sim, but also to explore it in different ways.

So: take a boat and follow the river, or hop on the Monorail and simply enjoy the ride.

Fleetwood is located right next to Fleetwood Beach.

DJ Zale Tonight - Midnight-2am SLT/Opensim Grid Time
DarkHearty City @ Main Unicock Club Dance Floor
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Darkheart%20Archipelago/...

Featuring Music from Zale, Nino and Various Epic Fun - 2hrs of amazing tunes

Remember to check-out DJ Zale and DJ Nino on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/@ZaleDarkheart

https://www.youtube.com/@ninoro2502

Einen ganz herzlichen Glückwunsch von uns allen an das Magier-Ehepaar !
Nun hoffen wir das Video macht Lust auf Party heute Abend und der Ballsaal wird richtig voll ;)
https://lemondhousecafe.blogspot.com/2026/09/canidio-und-e...

Discussion for grid owners and HG enthusiast.

Just wondering how many would love to see this implemented for their sims grids.

One of the issues I find with HG is that most of the time the viewer only sends the UUID of an avatar or a group, and not the grid:port. The sim has a lookup table, but if that UUID has never been seen on this grid it has no way to find its home grid. The viewer may or may not have that info; in any case it does not send it.

Current workarounds are a look up table of visitors, to look at the last message to retrieve the grid info, creator info, leftover GridUser rows, and so on. That is not always possible. My understanding is OpenSim wanted to stay as compatible as stock SL / Firestorm as possible, so I am not discussing the option of having the viewer send these fields to the sim.

The idea that has been in my head for a while is to implement a distributed hash table of avatar and group UUIDs and their home grid:port. The DHT can be implemented with the Kademlia protocol. It was used in Kazaa, eMule’s Kad network and on BitTorrent’s Mainline DHT, Kazaa and the Kad/eMule side is the well-tested. There are C# libraries that already do this, Alethic.Kademlia, kademliath, dht-csharp, so we do not have to write the routing from scratch.

Each participating grid becomes a node in the DHT and seeds its own UUIDs and grid URL. Other grids can query the network to find where to request a profile or send an IM.

About privacy
No avatar information is sent to the DHT, no profile, no online status, no group info. It only says this number belongs to that grid. The grids still have full control to deny a profile request, an incoming message, and so on. So grid admins are in control of their resident privacy.

Assets are not included in the network. They are not needed. The unknown-grid problem is profiles, groups and IMs.

Resources

Just a UUID → grid:port (plus a signature) takes little space. Ballpark 100–200 bytes per record. 1,000,000 UUIDs may be in the low hundreds of megabytes for the whole overlay, and those are distributed across all nodes, so expect something like tens of megs per node even for tens of millions of UUIDs.
Bandwidth is little. A new UUID only needs to be seeded on account creation. UUIDs are immutable so there is no update. Once a day the grid can inform of deleted accounts or other housekeeping (URL change, tombstones).

Security

Records are signed. Only the grid that created the UUID can update or delete it.
I am not worried about “someone published this UUID first, now I cannot use it.” Grids mint their own UUIDs. If a number is already sitting in the DHT, you just create another one that belongs to you. The mapping is not a reservation of identity, it is only a pointer for lookups.

Kademlia and the libraries already take the usual overlay attacks into account, at least at the protocol level:
* Sybil: one operator spinning up many fake nodes
* Sibling / eclipse: crowding a target’s routing table so lookups only hit attacker nodes
* Prefix hoarding: parking nodes so you own a slice of the key space
* Routing-table poisoning: feeding bad contacts
* Churn / flood: join/leave or store spam to wear nodes out

While I am writing this I think it can later be expanded to include land / region search. Same overlay, different key type. Not needed for v1.

Making OpenSim actually a decentralized metaverse

This unknown UUID thing affects mainly Standalones sim and mini-grids, with residents they spend most of their time out on the HG, and most of their visitors are HG visitors. But in general a shared lookup helps the small less popular grids as much as the large ones.

https://github.com/amandaleeang/OpenSim-Aura/discussions

Halloween with Fred: The Zombie That Just Won’t Stay Dead

Halloween is creeping closer, which means it is time to dig through the wonderfully strange corners of Outworldz and resurrect a few old friends.

And this one is very difficult to keep dead.

Meet Fred’s Animated Zombie.

This isn't the sort of zombie that stands in the corner of your Halloween build looking menacing while everyone ignores it.

Fred apparently looked at that idea and decided zombies needed a better job description.

This zombie walks.
It attacks.
It makes noise.
You can hit it.
It falls apart.
It puts itself back together.

And, naturally...

YOU CAN RIDE IT.

Because why run away from the zombie when you can climb aboard and drive the thing around?

A Zombie With a Few Tricks Left in Him

Fred designed the zombie as an animated wandering character using his Prim Animation Compiler system.

The animation sequence includes standing, attacking, walking with alternating left and right steps, reacting to hits, taking a particularly nasty hit, and finally falling completely to pieces.

But death is apparently only a temporary inconvenience.

After enough abuse, the zombie collapses into scattered pieces on the ground.

Wait a bit...

...and he puts himself back together.

Then off he goes again.

There is something wonderfully Fred about engineering an undead creature that even death can't persuade to stop working.

Go Ahead. Hit Him.

The zombie actually keeps score as people interact with him.

Clicking him causes a hit reaction and eventually does enough damage to trigger the full death animation.

Head, arms, body — down he goes.

Then the zombie reassembles himself and resumes wandering around.

It makes a great interactive Halloween prop because visitors aren't simply looking at something spooky. They're causing things to happen.

And probably clicking him repeatedly just to see him explode again.

We know how people are.

But Wait — There's a Ride Me Button

This may be my favorite part.

Right-click the zombie and choose RIDE ME.

Your avatar climbs aboard, and suddenly the shambling Halloween decoration has become transportation.

Fred's script turns the zombie into a controllable vehicle, allowing you to steer him with your arrow keys.

So while everyone else is arriving at the Halloween party on broomsticks, motorcycles and dragons, you can make your entrance...

piggybacking on a zombie.

I think that wins Halloween.

When You Get Off, It Gets Even Better

Getting off your undead transportation doesn't simply end the ride.

The zombie falls apart.

Then he reassembles himself.

Then he walks back home.

Because apparently Fred even taught the zombie to clean up after the party.

The Engineering Behind the Silly

That's what I particularly enjoy about discoveries like this in the Outworldz archives.

They're funny, but underneath the humor is some genuinely clever scripting.

The zombie combines prim animation, sounds, physics, vehicle controls, randomized movement, interaction, damage scoring, roaming boundaries and a home position into one wonderfully ridiculous project.

Fred didn't just explain how to use it, either. His original tutorial documents how the animations are recorded, how the physics base is constructed, how the sounds are added, how the riding position is created and how the scripts work together.

It's one of those projects where you can play with the finished creation — or dig into the code and learn something from the way it was made.

That has always been part of the fun of Outworldz.

Build something.

Take it apart.

Learn how it works.

Change it.

And occasionally ride it around while it makes monster noises.

Resurrect Something This Halloween

There are years and years of creations tucked away at Outworldz, and Halloween seems like an excellent excuse to start opening some of those old crypts.

Fred's zombie certainly deserves another walk among the living.

Just remember one important rule:

If you manage to kill him...

don't celebrate too quickly.

He's getting back up. https://outworldz.com/Secondlife/posts/zombie/