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ChupathingyMaps

For hosts

Chupathingy runs a small bot that copies Custom Edition maps from the servers that play them, so players who are missing a map can get a checked copy from us instead of from a stranger's game. Here's what it does on your server and how to say no.

The bot isn't running yet. It doesn't visit any server until we turn it on, and this page will say so when we do. Here's what it will do.

When it comes

Only when all of these are true:

  • your game is on the public game list,
  • it's on a Custom Edition map,
  • HAC2 doesn't have that map,
  • and we don't already have that exact version.

If HAC2 has your map, the bot never visits. We only note that it's played.

What it does on your server

  1. It joins as a machine, not a player. It doesn't use a slot, your player count doesn't change, and nobody sees it in the lobby or on the scoreboard.
  2. It asks for your current map through the map sharing your server already offers players. Only the map file, never bitmaps.map, sounds.map or loc.map.
  3. It downloads from your server only. It never connects to your players.
  4. It leaves the moment the download is done or fails.

A 50 MB map at your server's default upload limit takes about a minute.

Its manners

  • Each version of a map is fetched once, ever. If it sees a version we already have, it leaves without asking for anything.
  • At most one visit to a server every 6 hours, and 3 a day.
  • Maps up to 512 MB.
  • It never comes back to a server that said no.

It calls itself "Chupathingy map bot (maps.chupathingy.org/bot)". Your server's log shows a machine joining, asking for the map and leaving.

Allowing it

There's nothing to do. If your server shares maps, the bot can fetch. OpenCE servers share by default. Chupathingy dedicated servers share only when the host turns on network.map_share. Want your maps credited a certain way? Tell us.

Blocking it

Any of these works:

  • Turn map sharing off (network.map_share). The bot won't come back for that map.
  • Ask us to block your server. It stays blocked until you say otherwise.
  • Block it by name on your server, if your server software lets you.

Asking for removal

Made a map and don't want it here? We'll take it down. You don't need a reason. Tell us the map's name (and its hash, from its page) and who you are to the map.

  • It's off the site and our downloads within a day.
  • Mirrors drop it within the hour after that.
  • The bot stops fetching it, and nobody can send it again.
  • We keep a locked copy and our notes, never shown, in case they're needed as evidence. Ask and we'll delete those too.

Rather keep it up with your name on it? Tell us how to credit you.

What we keep

For each map, where and when it was first seen and which servers played it, by their listed name. That's for us only, so we can trace a bad map back to where it came from. We never keep or show anyone's IP address.

Contact

Ask in the Chupathingy Discord and tell us your server's listed name.