PadHouse – A house for PADMAN

PadHouse by Haus Enten

Why a house for PADMAN, you will certainly ask yourself. He already has his own world! Well, it wasn’t always like that and if we think back to the very beginning of World of Padman, 20 years ago today there were just the first three PadMaps, called PadCastle, PadHome and PadGallery for Quake 3 Arena. So PadMania was just at the beginning and ENTE, who by the way celebrates his birthday today, just started to make a name for himself as a mapper in the Quake3 scene. It shouldn’t take long and the PadMaps found their way to Quake3 servers worldwide, including the ENTEN-Teich server of the German Q3A EntenClan. ENTE even created a map especially for the EntenClan, called PadPool. Server admin was the good Magnacus at that time and through him the [PAD]Community got their own server and the PadForum. On Magnacus Quake3 server PadHouse only the PadMaps and of course the PADMAN player model were running at that time.

Old banner of Magnacus PadHouse server

Old banner of Magnacus PadHouse server

The EntenClan from back then does not exist in this form any more for quite some time now, but from the remains the Haus Enten (house of ducks) with the focus on Star Citizen has emerged anew. Of course other games like Star Wars: Battlefront, ARK: Survival Evolved or Quake 3 Arena are also a topic from time to time. So the idea was born to resurrect the old PadHouse server of Magnacus for the 20th anniversary of the PadMaps. In cooperation with Haus Enten we want to give you the opportunity to relive this great time of the past. Therefore we will put the respective PadMaps and PADMAN skins on the server at the original release dates, only 20 years later. So you can already play the first three PadMaps online now. All you need is an original and at best freshly installed Quake 3 Arena with the latest Point Release 1.32c or ioquake3. You should definitely join the server with the “autodownload” enabled, so you’re guaranteed to get the same files as the server has. Since the PadMaps were not all created in one day, the campaign will run at least until the end of next year, as far as the current planning. Of course the IP address has changed, too. Visit PADMAN at: 62.75.138.160:27860!

A huge thank you goes to Chavez from Haus Enten, who supports the campaign and provides the server! Who knows, maybe there will be a WoP event with Haus Enten soon. Oh, And not to forget: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ENTE!