Valve have introduced a crafting system which in addition to random item pickups during game now allows you to craft items that you want or need yourself.

 

Now click on the suitcase

This takes you into the backpack and where you can craft your hard earned items.

Now simply drag the items you want to craft from your backpack into the crafting area

And your newly crafting item will be awarded to you, make sure you accept it :>

Blueprints

Here is a list of the known valve blueprints for crafting.

Blueprint     Requirement    Produces
Smelt    Primary Weapons      3 Identical primary weapons     1 Scrap Metal
Smelt    Secondary Weapons      3 Identical secondary weapons     1 Scrap Metal
Smelt    Melee Weapons     3 Identical melee weapons     1 Scrap Metal
Smelt    Class Weapons     Any 3 weapons from the same class     1 Scrap Metal
Smelt    Miscellaneous Items     3 Identical Miscellaneous Weapons     1 Scrap Metal
Smelt    Tokens     3 Tokens     1 Reclaimed Metal
Combine    Scrap Metal     3 Scrap Metal     1 Reclaimed Metal
Combine    Reclaimed Metal     3 Reclaimed Metal     1 Refined Metal


Tokens


Blueprint     Requires     Produces
Fabricate Class Token     4 weapons from one class     1 Class Token
Fabricate Slot Token     4 weapons from one slot     1 Slot Token
Rebuild Class Token     One Class Token + another class weapon     1 Class Token
Rebuild Slot Token     One Slot Token + another slot weapon     1 Slot Token

Weapons


Blueprint    Requires     Produces
Fabricate Class Weapons     1 Class Token + 1 Slot Token + 1 Scrap Metal     1 Class Specific Weapon

Headgear


Blueprint    Requires     Produces
Fabricate Headgear     3 Refined Metal     1 Random Headgear
Fabricate Class Headgear     4 Refined Metal + 1 Class Token     1 Class Headgear
Rebuild Headgear     2 Hats     1 Random Headgear

For a more comprehensive guide click here

 

 

1 Logging into your server

2 Server Commands and Variables

3 Kicking & Banning players

4 Changing maps

 

 

Logging Into your TF2 Server

 

 

The Rcon password is specified in your server.cfg file which is located in the root of your TFC server.

 

Firstly set the password in the server config with the following syntax:

Rcon_password “password�

 

Restart your server and then connect to it in game, open the console and then type the following 2 lines to gain full rcon access to your server.

 

Rcon_password “password�

 

!TIP: You might want to create an admin.cfg file and save It in your \steamapps\ This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it \team fortress 2\tf2 folder and put this information in it.

 

Then when you want to gain access to your server you only have to type is exec admin.cfg in the console and it will send this information with no risk of you accidently typing it into chat!

 

 

Server Commands & Variables

 

 

 

These commands are used to customise the base and core settings that setup your server such as your hostname, private password, gravity settings etc.

 

Commands are broken down down in a number of ways, some require text, others most commonly are switched on with a 1 or off with a 0. 

However some such as the rate, gravity settings are adjusted by the value you require.

 

!Tip Anything with a // in front of the line will be ignored by your server.cfg file and can be used either as reference for certain commands or to disable particular commands when your are testing settings out.

 

 

!TIP To set a command to it's default setting simply don't put it in your server.cfg

 

 

Kicking & Banning players

 

 

If you have people on your server causing problems use the following commands to help you find, setup and ban the person perminatley from your server.

 

Firstly, In your TF2/CFG folder on the server create the following 2 empty text files:

 

Banned_user.cfg

Banned_ip.cfg

 

Create them on your computer and then upload them to your servers TF2/CFG folder. These are your empty steamid and ip banlist files.

 

Now in your server.cfg file add the following 2 lines:

 

Exec banned_user.cfg

Exec banned_ip.cfg

 

Restart your server (by typing quit in the console) and you will now have an active id and ip banlist. This will execut the banlists when the server loads up making it now active.

 

!TIP To avoid slow map changes try adding these lines to your hlds startup line ie "-console -game tfc +maxplayers 18 +map 2fort -port 27015 +exec banned.cfg +exec listip.cfg"

 

The following commands can now be used in the console to control the players.

 

 

!TIP If you enter a steamid ban you need to then type writeid to save it to the banlist, and likewise writeip if you added an ip ban.  If you dont do this the next time the server is restarted the ban wont be saved.

This however is a good way of doing a temp ban as when the server is restarted it will be wiped.

 

 

Changing Maps

 

 

When you are logged into RCON the best way to change a level is to use the following commands.

 

Probably the best method for most cases would be changelevel <mapname> for example rcon changelevel 2fort will change the level with all the people on the server to the target map.

 

 

 

This is just a standard list of common commands, for a full list of CVAR’s for TF2 visit our support site.

 

Written by AmigaOasis.