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Forge allows players to customize maps for custom game (online or offline) use. Options include changing and resetting spawn points, weapon spawns, weapon timers, vehicle spawns and timers, vehicle spawn points, and add existing geometry to the map’s existing structure in the form of crates, boxes, fusion coils, lifts, teleporters, turrets, etc. However you can only use certain weapons, vehicles, scenery, and equipment on certain maps, this way you can't spawn a hornet or a scorpion in the pit.

The amount of items you can drop is regulated by an economy budget system, with different items having different values and each map having an overall budget that the items you place cannot exceed by having money to allow you to not use an excessive amount of memory. By deleting existing things off of a given map, you can actually place more things. The spending limit is merely a counter to help the player gauge how much they can place on the map at a given time, no real currency is used.  Players can modify and create their versions of maps, save them and share them with their friends, but that’s only half or so of what Forge allows.

In addition to functioning as creation-driven tool, Forge is also a playspace. Up to eight players can be on a given map at a time, shifting back and forth between their chosen multiplayer model and the Forge model – a Monitor. Players can play actual games in Forge, goof around, kill each other, play Slayer where each team designates a Monitor to supply weapons, vehicles, equipment and cover on the fly. While in Forge mode, the player can press up on the D-Pad to cycle through Monitor or Player modes. Note this feature can be changed so only the party leader is able to become a Monitor and edit the map.  Once you're done with the editing you can start a party over System Link or Xbox Live and test it for flaws.  

As revealed in Bungie's 8/27/07 Podcast, you can add items in Forge that aren't available in a regular match. One example is the [[Yellow Powerup]], the alternative to the Over shield or the Active Camouflage.  The Yellow Power up is completely customizable in its effects; it can cause the interacting player to run faster, jump higher, grow an overshield/active camouflage, and even change the player's color. Effects aren't limited to one or two at a time, but rather a number of effects can occur simultaneously. The hosts described it as equivalent to an "instant juggernaut." You can only change the actual properties of this custom power up via game settings.

While playing as a [[monitor]] a health bar is shown at the top and its basically the same amount as a Spartan's. This can be tweaked as well to allow the Monitor to have damage resistance, overshields or be invulnerable.

In the 11/2/07 update,Bungie said that an eventual forge update will allow users to create player spaces and make some one spawn somewhere with a specific item. These will all be part of the advanced Forge options, including vehicle customization and "zones" for controlling gameplay.

To set an object to instantly respawn, without any wait time, set the objects minimum and maximum counts (under the object summary page) to the same number. The object will now instantly respawn when disturbed. You can make an infinite fusion core shower using this technique, or a massive pile of trip mines.

With the infinite respawn tool comes a trick that allows you to remotely turn on and off fusion core bombs (continuous explosions). When you have one running on infinite respawn, and it keeps blowing up, if you wish to turn it off, select the fusion cores in the scenery object list, hit x, and then set the minimum number to 0. The infinite respawn will be turned off.

1. Make eight rooms that look as similar to each other as possible (the look of First and Last room doesn't matter)

2. Place teleporters & channels in all rooms in this order:

3. Last room can be a good place to shoot each other, contain power weapons / powerups / equipment, or anything that puts anyone controlling it in a powerful situation

 

In Heroic Map Pack maps many objects will stay in air when placed there, but in other maps they need a teleporter under to not fall. (Weapon holders will also stay in air, but they aren't greatest to be used for making massive floating bases or stuff) So teleporters aren't always needed in Heroic Map Pack maps.

Three (3) ways to do this:

   * Hold teleporter in air as high as you want

   * Save the map (while still holding it)

   * Stack any objects to make as high tower as you want

   * Place teleporter on top of it

  * Have your friend keep object that is larger than a teleporter in air

  * Place a teleporter on it

  * When you have placed the teleporter, have your friend delete the object below

*Man-Cannon anywhere - On maps with [[Man Cannon|man-cannons]], go into a man-cannon. Immediately after you've entered it, go into Forge mode. Fly around anywhere you want. And when you're done, go into regular mode. The game will think you're still in the man-cannon, so you'll go flying!

 

* Warthog Launch - (See picture) [[Image:447190-Full.jpg|right|thumb|170px|Piled like this, a hog can be launched across Sandtrap.]]

 

* Elephant Flipping - Use all possible explosives on 1 side of an elephant and blow them up. Alternatively, you can simply push a Scorpion tank into the Elephant and lift it up...

* Magic Carpet Ride - Spawn a crate, and have another player ride on top as you move it around

*Explosion Mania - Create a never ending explosion of fusion coils all over the map, then try to play the map against friends and see how long you can survive

*Monitor of Death - Be the monitor and deploy a tank, then throw it around the level and try to splatter the other players this can also be done by spawning a radio antenna and using it like a bat, very fun.

*Grenade Hold - While not in monitor mode throw a grenade, but right after pressing the left trigger press up on the d-pad to go into monitor mode. If done correctly the grenade shouldn't have been thrown. Then when you see an opponent, go back into normal mode and the grenade will be released and thrown. It works really well with plasma grenades but any kind works.

*Flying Vehicles - Normally if a player is driving a vehicle and a monitor picks it up the player is removed, but if the player is in the sideseat of the vehicle they will stay in it, able to shoot and move as usual as the vehicle is moved around the map. This can also be done with machine gun turrets.

*Unreachable Items - It is easy to place items in places where players cannot normally reach, this makes taunt power weapons, powerups, equipment and vehicles an easy and fun thing to place.

*Flying Elephant - By setting up large numbers of fusion cores and other explosives to spawn inside of elephants, it is possible to have them fly into the air, dropping explosives at random as they travel high above the map.

*Obstacle Course - If you have good (co-operative) friends, it's fun to make obstacle courses, simply construct a path that requires teamwork to travel through (ie: steps that require stacking to get on top of, objects that need to be in one place and need to be moved to another along a narrow path, a wall of objects that needs the force of multiple players to move, etc.) and make the start a bomb spawn point and the end a bomb plant pad, this can easily be turned into a two team race.

*Obstruct the Windmill on Last Resort - This can be done by simply flooding the trench with large items, although it is impossible to stop the mill, the result is entertaining more often than not. If you want to get a bunch of stuff into place at once, try spawning it next to the trench and then using grav lifts to move it into place.

*Environment Battles - By making a gametype where player damage is 0% environment battles become strategic war games. Since players can still effect the environment (ie blow up fusion cores, light propane tanks, flip large objects etc.) the environment is a viable weapon.

*Block Grav Lifts - Blocking grav lifts with large objects like crates is hilarious. Whether the map is used for king of the hill or slayer, the obstruction is either a dangerous waypoint or a noob trap.

*Disable Door shields and turrets on Snowbound - Load the big underground entrance (the one near the shotgun) with all the explosives on the map (use a canvas version of the map preferably) then set instant respawn trip mines (with minimum runtime maxed out) near the pile, throw a bunch on and let it rip, it should disable the entire shield network and even shutoff the turrets

*Under Snowbound - place a mongoose under one of the low rocky overhangs (as close as you can to the edge) in the underground portion near the shotgun spawn. Then place two large crates near it making it only possible to reach it from behind. Enter the mongoose and then exit, but be quick to go into monitor mode, if you are too slow you will die. A way to make this easier is to have 1 person use this trick and place a 2 way teleporter above ground, and 1 on a ledge under the map.

*Trip Mine Launch - Make instant spawn trip mines near a vehicle (within trip mine throwing range) have a friend sit in the vehicle and not move. Plant as many trip mines as possible (when the game cant handle any more, the first ones you place will disappear in a small flash of blue light). After setting all the mines you can, blow them up, this is a cheap and quick way to launch something without a difficult to build explosives pile.

*Race Track - create a race track on any map, set the waypoints sequentially and add interesting obstacles, some cool things to do include making a waypoint in midair and a gravlift jump leading to it, and making a run through a wall of explosives.