tutorial/guide on starting and maintaining a dedicated server

[Shocklink]

I feel foolish asking this but I can't find a tutorial on creating and maintaining a dedicated server, I keep finding the old guides which don't work for the steam version I have.

Also when did the menu change? Before it use to be a white menu that showed the list of maps on the left, now I see nothing of that sort, not even the classic bedroom, whats up with that?

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[Crazycom]

Also when did the menu change? Before it use to be a white menu that showed the list of maps on the left, now I see nothing of that sort, not even the classic bedroom, whats up with that?

Maps have been removed.

[Shocklink]

Maps have been removed.

that much I figured out, the question is why?

[Crazycom]

that much I figured out, the question is why?

Maps were holding down development of the game, there was loads of drama about it way back when.

About the dedicated server thing, I don't believe you can host a dedicated server with the Steam version - you will have to download the non-Steam version and use that instead.

[National Rail]

You must buy an actual key, since servers only accept keys and not Steam.

That's what I do, have one for the server and the one I play on is on Steam.

[Shocklink]

Maps were holding down development of the game, there was loads of drama about it way back when.

Oh wow this is 2012, I am way behind on the news lol

And ya, I ended up taking the route of downloading it from the website and not use steam. Thanks for the help!

[Conan]

its possible to set up a dedi with steam and play on steam at the same time, but i don't recall who knows how to do it. you can probably find his post claiming he can do it with a short description of what he did by looking for topics regarding dedicated and steam

[honytawk]

Trying to host dedicated servers with Steam has always been difficult because of their build-in DRM.
It is certainly possible with Blockland, but I don't find it worth the effort.

[Shift Kitty]

its possible to set up a dedi with steam and play on steam at the same time, but i don't recall who knows how to do it. you can probably find his post claiming he can do it with a short description of what he did by looking for topics regarding dedicated and steam

You also need -steam on the start.bat, and it doesn't have to be in the folder if you target it with a full directory, sort of like what you're doing with the dedicated.bat.

Code: (steam_appid.txt) [Select]

250340Assuming you installed BL to Steam's default directory.
32-bit

Code: (server.bat) [Select]

start "C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Blockland\Blockland.exe" ptlaaxobimwroe -steam -dedicated64-bit

Code: (server.bat) [Select]

start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Blockland\Blockland.exe" ptlaaxobimwroe -steam -dedicated
client.bat is the same, just remove -dedicated.

You need a steam_appid.txt with the contents 250340 inside the Blockland folder, and then need to create a client.bat and a server.bat, with the above contents depending on whether it's a 32 bit or 64 bit OS.

[Shocklink]

Its fine

Im not gonna lock it but it was WAY easier to just download the Blockland version from here instead of Steam so its cool. Case closed.