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Gaming news for server admins
Patches, releases and industry news, sorted by what they mean for your server.
Servers & Hosting ·
Craft Attack 14: SpaceMitX's team wins Platin's football tournament
Day three swaps building for a football pitch and a 500 diamond prize. Plus the numbers: 97 players, 378 deaths and about 305,000 viewers.
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The Bus: Hamburg's Route 17 now runs all the way to Karlshöhe
The Hamburg City DLC gets a longer Route 17 for free. Berne station will have to wait a little longer.
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Craft Attack 14: SpaceMitX puts a 506 diamond bounty on his own head
Day two brings a self-funded manhunt. Plus the numbers: 94 players, 300 deaths and more than 300,000 people watching at once.
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Euro Truck Simulator 2 update 1.62 replaces every truck garage on the map
SCS Software is rebuilding the old garage models across the base map and every map DLC. Your trucks are getting a nicer place to sleep.
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SCUM hotfix 1.3.4.2 ends the radioactive carp uranium gold rush a day after the last one
Gamepires shipped a second hotfix in two days. Fishing in the radioactive zone was paying far better than it should.
Servers & Hosting ·
Craft Attack 14 pulls over 200,000 viewers on day one, Papaplatte leads
The 14th season is live. On the first afternoon 54 creators streamed at once, Papaplatte alone in front of 49,000 people. The first numbers from the server.
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ARK: Survival Ascended's reworked Giga has to be beaten before you can tame it
Tranq darts from a cliff edge won't cut it any more. Also this week: a UE 5.8 test realm and a long list of official servers going dark.
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Factorio 2.1.21 stops punishing wide space platforms with lower top speed
Pencil ships, your days at the top are numbered. Parked platforms also take far less asteroid damage.
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Schedule I update 0.4.7 brings four groups of big-spending customers to town
Hippies, a party bus, businessmen and bikers now visit with deep pockets. Late-game saves get a welcome diet too.
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Windrose's Ashlands update turns your ship's hold into a floating base
Faction ships are on their way out. In their place: one customisation pool per ship class and a workbench below deck.
Servers & Hosting ·
Craft Attack 14 starts on Saturday, two weeks earlier than recent seasons
The 14th season of the German Minecraft streamer project kicks off on 10 October with around 100 creators. Here is what is known and how to play the format yourself.
Releases ·
FTB Evolution 2 is out with 420 mods for Minecraft 26.1, from the seabed to the Moon
Feed The Beast's new kitchen sink pack runs on NeoForge and Java 25. FTB recommends 8 GB of RAM.
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Conan Exiles Giant-Kings Part Two opens Rifts and brings back the Mi-Go
The second chapter of Funcom's four-part story is out. Step through a tear in reality, come back with better loot.
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Valheim 1.0.17 fixes a rare bug that erased objects from worlds
One fix in this small patch matters if you build a lot.
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SCUM hotfix 1.3.4.1 closes a fishing exploit and fixes bunker timers after restarts
Gamepires has patched the October update. Faster fishing through a shortcut is over, and the green waders are now free for everyone.
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Squad hotfix 10.6.1 fixes a server crash and the ghost ammo crate at HABs
Offworld's third hotfix for update 10.6 touches both client and server. Tanks should stop leaning at 45 degrees, too.
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7 Days to Die V3.3.0 adds backpacks that stretch your inventory to 96 slots
Hoarders, rejoice. The Fun Pimps have pushed V3.3.0 to stable with a new backpack slot and a handful of dedicated server fixes.
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SCUM's October Update is live with new custom zone settings for servers
Into the Wild bows out with bigger fish and three new NPC damage switches.
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Empyrion 1.20 puts a Creative mode build lot inside your survival game
Eleon has opened experimental testing for Creative mode instances. Build blueprints with friends, then walk back out to the war.
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StarRupture hotfix 0.3.5 fixes crashes and a long list of building bugs
Creepy Jar has patched Update 2's pillar and stability problems. Older saves still take their time on first load.
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Rust's Livestock update lets you breed cows and sheep for milk and wool
Farming comes to the island. Quiet servers also keep their power longer.
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Minecraft gets its first new dimension in over 14 years with The Sift in 2027
The Sift shows up in Dungeons II first. Java and Bedrock players have to wait until next year, and nobody has told them how to get in yet.
Releases ·
DayZ Badlands brings Nasdara, motorbikes and sandstorms on 15 October
The desert map is on schedule. The motorbikes are already on Experimental, and the dogs bite back.
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Enshrouded leaves Early Access on 15 October with nine new spells for mages
Keen Games finally gets round to its mages. Your skill tree is being reset again, so spend those points before you leave base.
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Project Zomboid Build 42.21 hits Stable and stops zombies vanishing from chunks
The first incremental update after Build 42 skipped the drama on Unstable. Modders get loadstring back, server admins get working SteamID bans.
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Satisfactory's first paid DLC, Core Values, takes your factory underground
Coffee Stain announced the expansion after its Big Break stream. No release date yet, but a board game campaign starts in October.
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Terraria Crossplay Phase One is close, but tModLoader 1.4.5 is still months away
Re-Logic is putting the finishing touches on cross-platform play. Modded worlds will be sitting on 1.4.4 for a while yet.
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ARK: Survival Ascended's Therizino TLC lands alongside Cerberax and Gargantar
The Tickle Chicken now gives you a fair warning. Two new creatures and a new INI option for pack bonuses came with it.
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The Isle DevBlog #73 says the Evrima Spinosaurus can stand up to an adult Rex
Oviraptors crack eggs and the Baryonyx learns to defend itself. The Spinosaurus is next.
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SCUM's last Into the Wild update slips to October 5
Gamepires needed a few more days to fix the new fishing. The patch also brings back birds and turns TEC1 into a deathmatch arena.