headcrab dot monster (recursive acronym of monster_headcrab) is just a tiny gaming space, focused mainly on classic and "semi-modern" FPS games (like Half-Life in this case), as well as a place for random projects and some other crap. Started since November 2024 after the closure of Igloo Cafe.

If you arrived here only to see headcrabs, then sorry but those are in another castle.

I was thinking about making a Surf map for BuzzyBots (and adding it to the main server as the only map to play) but due to lack of time and creativity I decided to postpone it to April 11 (which I consider by myself the alternative April Fools).
So in response I will contribute to #RicochetingTheBar event by running a temporary server with some cursed and shitty maps, and also why not, with sv_cheats 1. There will be almost nothing special on it so don't expect something cool.
I don't care what you do there so enjoy making any mess or even crashing the server.

I'm sorry if I usually promise something and then close it, I'm bipolar.
The Minecraft server was already finished (I only needed to create a lobby for MobArena), but I was having many problems such as skins not loading (even if I installed SkinsRestorer they still didn't appear), the hoster where I bought the MC server not letting me use authlib-injector for ely.by (because I'm not going to run that resource-hungry thing known as JVM on my main VPS), ping issues (since I wanted to self-host the SMP from the Velocity proxy to save resources), in short, a pain in the ass to fix and I was starting feeling tired wanting to do something else than wasting my time fixing this for only 1 or 2 players.

In response to this, I decided to reactivate the Unturned server once again (since I've been spending so many hours playing this game that I've really enjoyed it), this time with a map change (from Washington to Yukon). Most probably I will start making map changes each 5 months and make the world files public on the website when finished. Server details are on the same site as always, on https://headcrab.monster/?p=crabturned.

That's everything and happy April Fools before April 1st (in my mind I had planned to host a Bumper Cars server but the people of GoldSrc Saturdays stole my idea a long ago so there will be nothing special for that date :DDDDD).

Something weird happened to me today that I couldn't get back into the SSH of the VPS while I was doing a backup which prevented me from accessing the system again (not even from VNC), which made me end up formatting the whole operating system. Luckily nothing was lost and everything is the same as before.

The game servers will have to wait a while longer to be back up and running.

Sorry for the long downtime.

Well, first of all, seems like the latest Debian 12.10 update somehow fixed the issue I had when I was trying to run a Codename CURE server.
So yeah, for those who were waiting for this to return, it's now back, with most of the SourceMod plugins and the same maps before its shutdown. The DNS & port are still the same (srv01.headcrab.monster:28016) but else you can try finding it on the in-game's server list.

And besides that, remember when I said something about a Unturned server? Well, I decided better to close it since I didn't think I was going to receive anything of interest. Instead, I decided to replace it with a new Minecraft server that I have been planning for months now. As for now I'm deciding whether to use an old version (1.8.9 for example) or 1.12.2 vanilla or with some Forge mods. When I see what ends up happening I will announce it in another post.

That's everything.

Since this mod was no longer attracting at least some 1 or 2 players (and because CS isn't something I like), I opted to finally close the Retro-CS server. The UDP port that was being used will be replaced for Snow-War in a few days.

The Sven Co-op 3.0 server is on hiatus for now because I was planning to restore the Codename CURE server but for some reason the CURE SRCDS crashes on this VPS so I had to create a debootstrap with Debian 11 which manages to fix that weird issue but this has caused the SC 3.0 server to stop working for some unknown reason (previously it was running on a 32 bits Debian 10 debootstrap to save resources, which I also used to install the CURE server but it crashs with SourceMod). I will be looking at a solution for this soon (if I cannot find a way to fix this I will probably ending up closing it).

Among other things, a few days ago I've been playing Unturned for the first time and I liked it so much that I've decided to create a small private vanilla PvE server called "Crabturned" for those who want to play survival in a friendly way and without PvP bullshit or mods overload. For now it's running with the Washington map and no plugins. More info at https://headcrab.monster/?p=crabturned.