2010 ~ The Average Joe's Gaming Servers

Thursday 23 December 2010

TF2 Server Update

Posted by Pearce on 22:16

Our Team Fortress 2 server has now been upgraded to 24 players.
Also, I have found a well made Medieval CP map which has been added to the server, and will be placed in the rota when it is restarted.
Right now, the map will change on an hourly basis and I will probably but a voting system in so it can be changed at will.

Server Update #2.1

Posted by LongThumb on 20:03

Well the MineCraft Beta is out and unfortunatly, the Hey0 plugin needs to be updated for it to work, even worse is that we won't get this plugin till the 24th. So for anyone who wanted MC goodness, you'll have to wait. Don't complain cos I'm on your side.

Anyway, good news is our TF2 server is getting an extra 4 slots soon, hopefully. Bloody thing is rammed at the moment so if you can't get in keep trying.

Also going to do some form of member sign up thingy for those who want to become members.

Server Update #2

Posted by LongThumb on 10:57

Hi again, LongThumb here.

Over the course of the weekend TF2 got broken by an update so our server had a bit of a hitch and we had to remove sourcemod etc, yesterday we were told that the problem is now fixed and we have put them back on, if you experience any problems or crashes then please let us know.

Also, at some point today Notch is releasing the BETA of MineCraft, so once again the map will reset, this should be the last time it reset in a very long time. I know your getting fed up of the resets.

The L4D/2 server is doing very well, better than I expected, with stats like below:

It even beats our long standing TF2 server, so thank you guys for supporting us.

Whilst the L4D server is doing well the HL2DM one isn't, it has seen no action what so ever. So this server IS going next month, what will replace it I do not know.

One last thing. We need your support, to keep our server's up and running we need players and even members should you like us that much. So please don't hesitate to join.

Server Update #1

Posted by LongThumb on 11:59

An early Christmas for you all, I've very recently (about 20 minutes ago) got my hands on the L4D/2 server as well as a HL2DM server.
So enjoy.
Aat the moment L4D/2 has every map on the list, these will be sorted at some point, also HL has 2 maps on there, again this will be sorted.

Currently there are no active mods on HL2DM.
There are however two active mods on L4D/2, these are explosive cars and RTD. RTD may go by tonight, although explosive cars will stay as it adds a little more realism.

So stop reading this and get on there.

MineCraft Server news.

Posted by LongThumb on 12:21

We will be adding new disks in blade39 & blade21 for minecraft servers. This means that all servers on those blades will be shutdown tomorrow morning and Clanforge disabled, to prevent servers being restarted while we perform the move.

We are hoping that moving the minecraft worlds from the current SAS disks to SSD's will help counteract the problems introduced by the recent server "patch", which should be fixed in the next patch but we didn't want you guys to have to wait that long.

If the tests on these blades go well we plan to roll out SSD's for minecraft world across our machines in London and Amsterdam over the next few weeks.

Downtime for minecraft servers on these machine while we perform the move will be between 09:00 GMT and 10:00 GMT.

Update @ 10:20 GMT - It looks like this is going to take several hours due to the number of very small files each world has. We will update the news once this process is complete

This is the reason you can't get on it. Notch still hasn't given the update that he promised for monday so the good people at MultiPlay have decided to fork out thier own money and by SSD's so we can enjoy thier servers. Thanks guys, hope all goes well with the transfer.

MineCraft Update #3

Posted by LongThumb on 16:15

Update #3.

Well what could it possibly be?

Well these are what it could be.

More food.
More Items
Sammiches

I've put these through to our server hosts to see if they can be added to the list of addons we can use.

If all goes well then we should have things like this:

Recipes:

Obsidian Dust

Obsidian Dust is used to create Soft Obsidian Ingots, which can be used to create Obsidian Tools which have the strength of Stone, but the durability of infinity!

Netherstone Dust

Netherstone Dust is used to create Fire Runes, which can be used in the furnace for extremely long smelting times.

Gold Dust

Gold Dust can be used to create Gold Runes. When right clicked, Golden Runes can summon a random item. While you could get lucky and retrieve a Diamond, you could get unlucky and get a flower.

Coal Dust

Coal Dust can be used in Furnaces to smelt items. While their durability to smelt items is lower than Coal, you gain 4 Coal Dust, which amounts to more durability than the original Coal!

Cobblestone Dust

Cobblestone Dust can be used to create Cobblestone Runes. These runes can be thrown to spawn Cobblestone Blocks.

Saw Dust

Saw Dust can be used in the Furnace as an alternative smelting item.

Hammer

Hammers are used to combine two relatively common items together to create one extremely powerful one. In future updates, Hammers will be used in Redstone Anvils to combine two items together, and they will have the durability of 8 uses.

Blank Rune

Blank Runes are used to create a variety of Unique Runes with powerful abilities.

Red Rune

Red Runes are stackable healing items which heal for 2 hearts.

Green Rune

Green Runes are stackable healing items which heal for 2 hearts.

Yellow Rune

Yellow Runes are stackable healing items which heal for 2 hearts.

Cobblestone Rune

Cobblestone Runes can be thrown to spawn Cobblestone Blocks.

Fire Rune

Fire Runes are alternative smelting items which has a smelting durability of between Coal and Lava Buckets.

Lava Rune

When thrown, a Lava Rune spawns lava at the thrown location.

Gold Rune

When right clicked, Golden Runes can summon a random item. While you could get lucky and retrieve a Diamond, you could get unlucky and get a flower.

Soft Obsidian Ingot