The Lab
Servers built, broken and measured. Real numbers off the bench.
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Server Uptime Monitoring Said Up 24 Seconds In. It Was Not Up 30 Minutes Later.
The process was alive at 8 seconds and the port was bound at 24. A real player query…
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Server Monitoring Tools Saw Nothing. The .RPT File Named All 43 of Them.
A crash log said ‘Reason: Unknown’ in 89 bytes. The real log, three directories away, listed 43 vehicles…
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Infrastructure Monitoring Found Three Problems on a Host Nobody Thought Was Sick
I only ran a backup. The backup printed two warnings, and following them up found a guest at…
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Syslog Monitoring Tools Would Have Paged Me 97,819 Times for Nothing
One game server with nobody playing on it produced 131,546 log lines. 97,819 of them contain the word…
The Signal
What the survival genre is doing this week, and what it means.
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Pacific Drive AMA: The Parking Brake That Changed Everything
Ironwood’s Summer 2026 AMA reveals how a simple parking brake became the heart of Pacific Drive’s narrative, plus Click and Clack inspiration…
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STALZONE Reworks Loot and Rewards Across the Open World
STALZONE’s new economy update reworks loot, adds jackpots, and fixes protoartifact progression. Here’s my take on the risk-reward changes.
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Once Human 3.0.7 Update Brings Animal Breeding, Custom Dye, and a Date to Circle
The Once Human 3.0.7 update lands with animal targeted breeding, 23 dyeable fashion sets, and two autumn events. But the real news…
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Project Zomboid 42.21 hits stable with zombie dupe fixes
The latest stable build tackles multiplayer zombie duplication and chunk-despawn bugs that hit high-pop servers hardest, and re-enables Lua methods modders rely…
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Space Engineers Warfare 3 Adds Jump Detection to Reveal Incoming Enemy Grids
Keen’s new jump detection mechanic turns long-range jumps into detectable events, and the toggleable world setting gives server admins real control. I’m…
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Deadside 1.11 Update: Speed Boost, Shootable Tires, and Boars
Deadside’s 1.11 update drops today with vehicle speed boost, destructible tires, and boars. I’m most excited about the new animal fat to…
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Pacific Drive AMA: The Parking Brake That Changed Everything
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STALZONE Reworks Loot and Rewards Across the Open World
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Once Human 3.0.7 Update Brings Animal Breeding, Custom Dye, and a Date to Circle
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Project Zomboid 42.21 hits stable with zombie dupe fixes
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Space Engineers Warfare 3 Adds Jump Detection to Reveal Incoming Enemy Grids
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Deadside 1.11 Update: Speed Boost, Shootable Tires, and Boars