Reminder: Illegal Mods (Also, Regarding Today's Downtime)

If you are in any doubt about whether a mod is safe to use or not we urge you to pay a visit to this link and check our approved mod list.

If the mod in question is NOT on that list, remove it, those mods are allowed because they were personally tested by us for potential issues, mods like the Dye Mod are known to cause server instability and crashes.

 

In case of doubts or wanting a mod to be approved, pm moderators.

 

Is simply having the mod installed an issue, or do you have to use it for the lag to happen?

 

Simply having it installed spits errors.
People seem to think if they have it installed, but aren't currently using any of the techs or items, it's fine.

That is NOT the case.
If you have a mod installed that isn't on the list, remove it, it isn't up for debate.

Have a nice day though.

 

Exactly. I'm pretty sure it's because when you log in, the game loads from your assets, and if you have non-standard assets it causes errors in the server. Those alone have been known to crash the server at times.

 

IMO we should just be like: "Hey, you got a mod, BAN! Reapply on the forums, bish."
But its good that you guys are cracking down on it.

 

Ok, thanks.

 

Well we don't want to do that due to the previously mentioned false-positives. We can't just ban everyone who shows up in the logs as having mods, otherwise we'd ban roughly 50-60% of the playerbase. We're more concerned about picking out people with mods actually causing crashes/other conflicts and warning them beforehand. Insta-bans for illegal mods seem a bit too heavy-handed, don't you think?

 

I actually do have more mods, though any of them that were not allowed have already been removed, I even replaced a sitting mod someone else had made for me with the skyrail sits just incase. The rest i believe are clientside and have never truly cased any issues. But i will list them below and if there are any that you guys believe may cause issues let me know and ill get rid of em.

Aright heres the list in order from top to bottom.
- ADDONS ( This is actually a spear directional mod, only effects one simple line of coding (directional = True) for spears, Already available in the game in most recent update.)
- extended-songbook-wide-1-0-5
- ExtraZoomLevels
- ILC ( of course the I like cheating mod )
- Q_MM_Full (MM music pack)
- Infinite Reach.modpak (seen others use this to access buildings on locations like The Gulch)
- SkyrailSits.modpak

 

This.

Plus there's always that one cool guy who doesn't do it on purpose or just forgot he had them on. It's happened to me, but now I always check.

 

It actually happened to me before. I had the LiquidGuns mod and I was causing issues I believe. No crashes, but error messages in the logs. And this is exactly why we don't take the "ban first, ask questions later" approach asides from in extreme situations.

 

Most of those seem to be either client-side or just music addons, so you should be fine.

 

kk

 

Sadly people are still using mods. I just crashed.

 

Sen's ILikeCheating Mod already has infinite reach in it, silly. Might want to delete that to clear up clutter.

 

What is particularly obnoxious is that the Dye Mod says it is multiplayer friendly on the official mod page; it is not.

 

Many mods claim to be multiplayer friendly without being so. I guess they think that "multiplayer friendly" means that it can be installed on the server, rather than it can be used in a vanilla server.

 

Regardless, people shouldn't install any mods for use on the server without consulting the mod team first, unless they are on the approved mod list. Just because you think it won't harm the server, doesn't mean it's okay.