Burning the Bridge!

Since Version 4 was first released almost five years ago, growers have used the ḈḁṇṇḁḇḭṦḼ Bridge Transmogrifier to update Version 2 & 3 plants to the latest & greatest. The Bridge was an old school standalone Update Transmogrifier that delivered a special ovule that combined Version 2/3 harvesting protocols with Version 4 scripting. The Bridge process took two generations to be done right, and it was a tedious process that stumped a lot of new growers.

During development of Version 4.19.912, the ḈḁṇṇḁḇḭṦḼ Team had to change some of the harvesting protocols yet again to accommodate changes Linden Labs made in the SL Server platform. While implementing these changes, we made a happy discovery: the Bridge was no longer necessary.

Version 2 & 3 mother plants can be directly updated to Version 4.19.912. Simply set your HUD 4.20200120 to "CSLUT On" mode & click the "Update" button in the mother plant's menu. For one-seed mothers, that's all you have to do.

The only trick is that 2- and 3-seed Version 2/3 mothers need to be re-updated between each harvest. Update, harvest the first offspring, update again, harvest the next offspring. If you don't re-update between harvests, the odds of a failed offspring are very high.

Lastly, we have found that Version 2/3 plants that aren't updated will harvest properly on some server versions but not on others. For this reason we recommend that all Version 2/3 mothers be updated to 4.19.912 before harvesting.

Disclaimer: The above information is provided as a courtesy to growers who have older seeds & archived plants. The ḈḁṇṇḁḇḭṦḼ Team cannot guarantee that updating very old seeds will work properly in all situations. (See the ḈḁṇṇḁḇḭṦḼ Terms of Service.) ḈḁṇṇḁḇḭṦḼ does not officially support Version 2 & 3 plants. Version 4 was first released almost five years ago & that's plenty of time. But we realize that a few growers have large "seed banks" extending back almost to the beginning & we want to provide backwards compatibility whenever we can!