EASY SERVER patched and online again!

All servers have been patches to fix last nights issues. EASY SERVER is back online.

Facepunch released a short statement about the issues that were introduced after the update:

You may have noticed that some servers were having pretty major issues with yesterday’s update. The backstory is that the last build we did before the update got corrupted on the build server, which broke the powerplant monument. We noticed this and started a new build for a hotfix, but servers that had already generated a map with the broken powerplant monument had a messed up world file. We’ve thought about our options and since only the minority of servers are affected we will not be forcing a wipe. We will however force the hotfix to be installed on all servers and server owners who are affected by the corrupted maps can decide if they want to go through with a wipe.

We’ve had similar fuckups in the past, but they’ve been getting less and less frequent over the years as we hired more QA staff and expanded our testing procedure before updates. It would be easy for us to blame this on the build server issue, but if we’re being honest this absolutely came down to us adding too many things in the last minute which reduces the time we can spend on testing things before they go live. We’ll do our best to prevent this from happening in the future.