There seems to have been a minor update, but it sounds unimportant and the client still connects, so I'm likely not going to update my server with it. I've heard it is only a fix having to do with disabling Santa after December ends.

D:! I don't want Santy Claus to go away!

http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/art-feature-comic-magically-delicious.75652/

Edit: We need to do a proper team pvp game.

I found out the decompiler I was using was crashing due to a stack overflow when decompiling a function, so I used editbin to increase the reserve stack size for it and got it to successfully decompile (though there is one other function elsewhere that I have to use ILSpy on now, but not due to a crash this time).

Anyway, I've got my server mods back up, which means messages between worlds are back up, among other things.

btw, I brought Santa back to life.

My modded exes, for those interested: http://www.mediafire.com/?2vaj8fqa4gbmr

edit:
My Terraria mod should now use less memory than regular Terraria on worlds smaller than large. There is no arbitrary limit on world sizes anymore either, only memory limits and whether the generator will crash for the size you specify. Note that larger worlds than large will work to some extent on unmodified clients, but they will crash if they go too far to the right or too deep.

The mod also has a -xmas command-line parameter on the server (useful especially before generating worlds if you want guaranteed snow) and an alwaysxmas command to enable Santa and presents.

I just had an idea for a server-assisted custom PvP game mode. It consists of two teams who each spawn on opposite ends of the map and get their own slime in their team color. The object of the game is to kill the other team's slime (the slime will probably have health more like a boss and might fire projectiles at enemies or in some way hurt anyone who attacks it). When a slime gets killed, everyone who is on their enemy's side of the map dies to get sent back to their own side and the slime respawns. This could be played with any character type - it wouldn't have to be mediumcore or hardcore.

This would probably use my PvP server mod as a base. The server would shift everything on the right side to the left and everything on the left side to the right, effectively moving the center point to the edges and the edges to the center, making an ocean barrier in the middle and a normal area at the edges. The server would determine which side to send you to based on your name. For example, anyone with red in their name might spawn on the left side and anyone with blue in their name would spawn on the other side (which side belongs to which team would be randomized). Either you won't be able to use beds on your enemy's side or you won't be able to place them on your enemy's side, depending on whether I can enforce the former option server-side.

Post your comments or suggestions on this.

Well, a few things:

1. Making it include the whole map makes the scope of the game very large. I wouldn't have the patience for crossing even a small-sized map more than a few times to launch an attack.
   
2. First team to get to demonite gear will basically begin to dominate. Turns out I may be pretty good at that... especially with a softcore character.
   
3. Speaking of softcore: This basically becomes unfair for the attacking team when the defenders can just respawn without (much) penalty. There's a reason most team pvp matches are medium/hard core.
   
4. Are matches in sessions? Or does it run continuously?
   

I think with a few tweaks, it could be good. You could probably just stick with the usual Capture the Gem format by eliminating all relevant gem types from the world completely via. editor.

Actually, it might be possible to assign starting locations by just joining a team and not having to even rejoin. It looks like the client would probably accept that message any time, not just initially when joining. I might look into whether the server can send a message to move a player, but simply killing the player when they pick a team will suffice. Being able to dynamically assign teams would mean being able to play games on this mode with characters who already have full gear.

edit:
And just when I got my mods updated, a new update comes along...

edit2:
ok, all updated. 1.1.2 compatible mod now up on the Mediafire link above for anyone interested.

And for fun: