Huntercoin: Syncing the Blockchain

After you’ve entered the settings and restarted Huntercoin: Mithril Edition, the program will start the Huntercoin daemon and begin to sync the blockchain. If this is the first time that you’ve sync’d the blockchain, it could take a while, depending on your Internet connection speed. (On slow connections, expect it to take a day.)

The only thing you need at this point, is some patience. If you’ve ever downloaded a large MMORPG before, this is actually much faster.

At first, you will see a “Starting” and “Waiting” message like this:

“Waiting” will continue for a little while, and usually around 1~3 minutes.

Go get yourself a cup of tea.

When you get back from getting a drink, the program should be synchronizing the blockchain for you. This is the lengthy part, and depends on your Internet connection speed.

You will see several messages:

  • Game CONNECTED TO Huntercoin DAEMON, Hurray!!!!
  • Trying to (re)syng from block ####
  • Out of Sync, block #### is ## days, ## hours ## minutes old, keep syncing

The ## days and hours that you see isn’t the time that you need to wait. Huntercoin is a real time game, so that’s just an indication of how far out of sync you are. On a fast connection, “1 day” of blocks should synchronize in a couple minutes or so.

You may see an “[!ERROR!][TIME]: System: The operation has timed out” message. This isn’t a problem as the game will continue to sync the blockchain. If you really like the updates, you can safely restart the program. The amount that you’ve already downloaded is already on your computer and won’t be lost. (See below.)

And when it’s finished, you’ll also see “New Game State Loaded, height:####”.

The “height” is the blockchain height, and is a measure of what “turn” the game is on at the moment.

But… what you’re really been waiting for has finally arrived!

THE BLOCKCHAIN IS NOW SYNC’D AND YOU’RE READY TO PLAY!

(The preview edition is “read-only”, so you can only “see” the game, but can’t play it. It is still very useful for getting some in-game intelligence about enemy movements as you will see.)

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