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A Guide to Finding all TF2 Mod-gamemode Servers
By Dom
A guide for how to use the in-game server browser as well as online server browsers in order to find servers running mod-gamemodes like prop hunt, randomizer and deathrun.
   
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This is a list of what to search for to find most of the mod-gamemodes and other popular misc stuff (like balloon race, cp_orange, trade servers) that aren’t necessarily mod-gamemodes but are definitely different versus vanilla TF2.

How to read and use this list: For “Map Prefix” simply copy and past what’s written in TF2’s server browser (in the map field). For “In Title” category and the “Variable” category use an online server browser like this site http://www.gametracker.com/search/tf2/?query=put+title+thing+here . When on that site select “server Name or IP and put in what’s written for “In Title”. To search by server variable click server variable on the site’s first drop-down menu and put what the “Variable” is in the second field. (For value keep it blank.)

CHEAT SHEET
Alphabetical order

Achievement idle
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “Achievement”
- Variable:

Advanced Weaponiser – (Extinct)
- In Title: “Weaponiser”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable:

Arena Respawn
- In Title: “arena:”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable:

Balloon Race
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “balloon”
- Variable:

Class Warfare
- In Title: “class warfare”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable:

Crab Mod – (Extinct)
- In Title:
- Map Prefix:
- Variable: “crabmod_enabled”

Deathrun
- In Title: “deathrun”
- Map Prefix: “dr”
- Variable:

Dodgeball
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “tfdb”, “db”
- Variable:

Fortwars
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “fw”
- Variable:

Freeze Tag
- In Title: “freeze”, “tag”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable: “sm_tf2freezetag_version”

Gungame – (Extinct)
- In Title: “gungame”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable: “tfgungame_version”

The Hidden
- In Title: “hidden”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable: “sm_tf2hidden_version”

Hunted – (Extinct)
- In Title: “Hunted”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable:

Huntsman Hell
- In Title: “huntsman hell”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable: “huntsmanhell_version”

Instagib – (Extinct)
- In Title: “instagib”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable:

Jailbreak
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “ba”, “jail”
- Variable:

Jump
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “jump”
- Variable:

MGE
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “mge”
- Variable:

Orange
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “cp_orange”
- Variable:

Parkour Fortress
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “pf”
- Variable:

Premium Servers – (don’t go there, but this is how if you want to.)
- In Title: “nighteam”, “saigns”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable:

PropHunt
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “ph”
- Variable:

Randomizer
- In Title: “randomizer”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable: “tf2items_rnd_version”

Roll the Dice
- In Title: “rtd”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable: “sm_rtd_version”

Sandbox
- In Title: “sandbox”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable:

Slender Fortress
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “slender”
- Variable:

Smash Fortress
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “sb”
- Variable:

Starmod – (Extinct)
- In Title: “starmod”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable:

Stop that tank!
- In Title: “stop that tank”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable:

Super Zombie Fortress
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “szf”
- Variable:

Surf
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “surf”
- Variable:

TF2 Tightrope – (project ghost arena)
- In Title: “tightrope”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable:

TF2Ware
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “tf2ware”
- Variable:

Team Fortress Kart
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “tfkart”, “tf2kart”, “kr”
- Variable:

Times 10
- In Title: “x10”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable:

Tower Defence – (alternative: go to the official site)
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “td”
- Variable:

Trade
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “trade”
- Variable:

Uber Upgrades
- In Title:
- Map Prefix:
- Variable: “uberupgrades_version”

Vampire Slayer – (is only played on one server)
- In Title: “vampire slayer”
- Map Prefix:
- Variable:

Versus sexton hale and Freak Fortress 2
- In Title: “vsh”, “ff2”, “vs hale”, “hale”
- Map Prefix: “vsh”
- Variable:

Walkway – (ideally you download and play it locally)
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “tr”
- Variable:

Warcraft 3: Source
- In Title:
- Map Prefix:
- Variable: “war3_version”

Zombie Fortress
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “zf”
- Variable:

Zombiemod – (Extinct)
- In Title:
- Map Prefix: “zom”
- Variable:

“Extinct” as in the mod no longer exists. If it ever came back what’s listed is the way to find a server. Some mods are only mostly extinct and actually rarely comeback. Sometimes servers run a bunch of mods and rotate into an extinct mod making it playable for 15 minutes or so.
39 Comments
3nvied 15 Apr, 2017 @ 11:51am 
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Sbeve 27 Apr, 2016 @ 7:56am 
go to gametracker and search it there, just change the server name/ip to server variable
Smeelio 26 Feb, 2016 @ 3:32pm 
I know this is old, but how do you search for variables? I can only find one hidden server using tags, and its only usually got like 4 people :(
zfs pretty much dead too
like 5 servers or something are left running it and they're empty like forever
Scourge The Great 16 Sep, 2015 @ 6:45pm 
r.i.p hunted
Hyperinvox 4 Sep, 2015 @ 12:30pm 
rip a roni starmod (idk) - chicken
Okay 20 Aug, 2015 @ 8:29am 
Premium servers offer game breaking perks to donors, such as instant health regen, or constant mini crits. It's horrid, I tell ya.
TrackerTracker 16 Aug, 2015 @ 2:02am 
why dont go to permiume severs?
Serjunpe 11 Aug, 2015 @ 11:29am 
I can't find any of the variables you mention in this guide in gt.com . Am I doing something wrong?
itspeany 4 Aug, 2015 @ 3:01pm 
You forget something, TTT :steamsad: