Guides · Counter-Strike 1.6
Warcraft Mod: RPG Levelling Inside Counter-Strike
Races, levels and abilities bolted onto Counter-Strike, still busy after twenty years. What the races do, why it works, and what arriving is like.
· 7 min read
Game Server Guides
Practical game server guides: set up and configure a server, pick the right plugins and mods, cut lag, and grow a community that keeps coming back.
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The economics of running a free server
Twelve to fifty euros a month, and a workload nobody prices. Why free is the default, and what selling perks changes about what your server is.
· 6 min read
Guides · Minecraft
Pre-generating a Minecraft world, and why it helps
Terrain generation is the most expensive thing your server does, at the worst moment. How far out to go, and the border you want anyway.
· 5 min read
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Handling a duplication exploit without killing the economy
The first hour decides it. Why publishing the method is the mistake, how to decide about the items, and what to do with the people who used it.
· 5 min read
Guides · Minecraft
Modpacks and version pinning, for servers that stay up
A hundred dependencies that all have to agree. What pinning means, why client and server must match, and when not to update at all.
· 5 min read
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Ark, Rust, Valheim and Conan: Which Server Culture Suits You
Wipe cycle, group cap, rates and raiding rules decide your experience more than the game does. How to read a survival listing, and when to join.
· 7 min read
Guides · Minecraft
Joining a Modded Minecraft Server Without Losing an Evening
Mods are not plugins, the pack picks the loader, and the install is shorter than its reputation. How to join a modded server without losing an evening.
· 7 min read
Guides · Minecraft
Towny, Claims and the Problem of Owning Land
What a claim protects and what it quietly does not, how Towny differs from simple claims, and the six settings that cause every argument.
· 7 min read
Guides
Prison Servers Explained
Mining a wall of stone until you can afford a better wall of stone. The purest progression loop in Minecraft, and the tuning that decides whether it works.
· 7 min read
Guides
Picking a game to host, and the workload that comes with it
Session length and switching cost predict the workload better than genre does. Population threshold, cost, update cadence and tooling maturity.
· 5 min read
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Scheduled tasks on a game server, and failing safely
Backups, restarts, updates, cleanup. Getting them on a schedule is easy; making the failures visible is the part that takes thought.
· 5 min read
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Keeping your regulars through a major game update
The risk is not the downtime, it is the dispersal. Announce before they find out, keep the group together elsewhere, and return in stages.
· 5 min read