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Is there anyway to make a standalone maps and have them work in multiplayer? I am able to make a 10 x 10 cell map. Give it it's own folder, */media/maps/mymap and fill it with it's own lot files, description files, objects, spawns, etc and play perfectly fine in singleplayer, everything works perfectly. When I setup the server and pick 'myname' as the "lots=" option in server.ini, the map loads, I'm able to spawn, but others get n "unknown" error. I transfer the map from its standalone state (which uses cell coords 1,1) to an offset of 26x26 on the Muldraugh map and everyone can spawn and play no problem. My issue with this is the fact that I have to either place a HUGE 10x10cell zone to stop some of the zones that are already placed (got a lot of random forage zones on my map now because of the 26x26 offset) Another issue is I either have to stop players from leaving my custom map by building over the water surrounding it and eventually making it back to the normal map of Muldraugh and West Point. Only way to stop this is to overwrite virtually all tiles on default PZ map to water. This map has barely any weapons, but if they could just build across the water and get to West Point for guns, come back and kill all the islanders, the server will die instantly. Also, would it not be ideal to let the server use standalone maps? This would be less overhead perhaps, it would also keep zombies from spawning in parts of muldraugh and west point that the player wont even be able to see, ever. Basically making this thread to ensure some things before I continue this map. One of the errors from a client trying to join the standalone version: