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Your players will inevitably get bored with the official set of maps provided. You will almost certainly want to install some of the many [http://www.scmapdb.com additional maps] around to improve the experience of your game server.

Installing custom maps is a simple process providing map artists follow the [[Mapping/Distribution|map distribution guidelines]]. You will have downloaded a map as a file containing the map contents typically as a ''ZIP'', ''RAR'', or ''7Z'' archive. Maps are rarely distribute maps as a standalone ''BSP'' file or as a bunch of unpacked files.

You can use a free utility such as [http://www.7-zip.org 7-Zip] to open most of the archive formats around today. This runs on both Windows and Linux and is provided for free of charge.

When you open the archive you should see a set of folders that could be ''gfx'', ''maps'', ''models'', ''scripts'', ''sound'', and ''sprites''. It's also likely you'll see a bunch of ''WAD'' files here too. If this is what you see you will need to extract all of these to your server's ''svencoop_addon'' folder.

* Do not extract any unofficial resources directly into the ''svencoop'' folder. To help keep your game files clean, use the ''svencoop_addon'' folder. The game engine is perfectly capable of loading maps and their contents from this location.
* If there is a ''scripts'' folder included take a look inside before extraction. There should only ever be a ''maps'' folder inside this. Anything else should be treated as suspicious and not extracted, or deleted after extraction.
* If there is only a ''svencoop'' folder inside the archive, you need to enter this folder before extraction. This shows the map artist has not followed our current guidelines on map distribution.
* If there is only a ''BSP'' file (and maybe a couple of ''TXT''/''CFG'' files along side it) this means the map doesn't have much custom content. These files should be extracted to the ''maps'' folder within the ''svencoop_addon'' folder.

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