New mountable games With community effort and permission from the respective game developers, 2 new games are now available to be mounted in Garry's Mod: Black Mesa and Military Conflict: Vietnam! As with other mountable games, you will need to own them on Steam first, which will enable players to use maps and models from these games in Sandbox and other gamemodes. HUD Improvements Some default…
Hello everyone, A new small patch has been released. This one contains mostly fixes for regressions introduced by the November Update, as well as some other minor fixes. Sandbox servers and clients are recommended to update at their earliest convenience. The change list is as follows: · Fixed decals not rendering in Hammer · Re-added model scale to prop_dynamic in Hammer · Limit physics rescali…
The November 2025 Update is now live. New water visuals This update adds new water rendering features from newer Source Engine games to Garry's Mod. Here's a comparison: This includes flow maps, lightmaps and ability to reflect 3D skybox. This both improves compatibility with mountable games, as well as enables map makers to use these new features in their maps. It must be noted that these chan…
Hello everyone, The next Garry's Mod update is coming soon. The current plan is to release the next Garry's Mod update on 12th of November at 3PM GMT. This update will be backwards compatible with existing servers, so servers will not need immediate updating and players can still join old servers, but it is still highly recommended to update as soon as the update releases to get all the new fea…
Artwork Showcase - "The Construction" The July 2025 Update is now live. Update Highlights The biggest user-facing change in this update brings most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content to Garry's Mod by default, with gracious permission from Valve. This means that you no longer need to own those games and have them installed to play on community maps that expect you to hav…
Hello everyone, The next Garry's Mod update is coming soon. The current plan is to release the next Garry's Mod update on 23rd of July at 3PM GMT. This update will be backwards compatible with existing servers, so servers will not need immediate updating and players can still join old servers, but it is still highly recommended to update as soon as the update releases to get all the new feature…
Hello everyone, A new patch has been released. This one contains mostly stability and security fixes. Servers and clients are recommended to update as soon as possible. The change list is as follows: · Throw a non halting Lua error when hitting Lua file limit, to let players know that they have hit the limit · Fixed a regression crash on Linux when almost finished loading a map · Prevent crashe…
Hello everyone, A new patch has been released. This one contains mostly fixes, some for regressions introduced by previous update, as well as some crash fixes, security improvements and a number of under the hood changes. Servers and clients are recommended to update as soon as possible. The entire changelist can be found on our website:
Hello everyone, We are releasing a small patch today with some fixes for issues introduced in the previous update, as well as some extra fixes. Servers and clients are recommended to update as soon as possible. Change list · Fixed bone manipulations not working clientside if ever set serverside on the same entity (Regression) · Fixed regression with TTT team colors while spectating · Fixed a re…
Artwork by "Rozy Cosmic" The March 2025 Update is now live. Update Highlights This update brings some new content to Sandbox: There are also further localization improvements to the Sandbox gamemode, more English-only phrases are now translated to player's selected language. We also have a new mountable game, at the request of its developer: Players will be able to use maps, models and other as…
Hello everyone, The next Garry's Mod update is coming soon. The current plan is to release the next Garry's Mod update on 26th of March at 3PM GMT. The update will be mandatory for all server owners, so write the date down, servers will need to be updated before they can be joined again . You can preview the list of upcoming changes here: Please note this list is still work in progress and is s…
Hello everyone, We are releasing a small patch today with some fixes for issues introduced in the previous update, as well as some extra fixes. Servers and clients are recommended to update as soon as possible. Change list · Merged Episode 1, Episode 2 and Lost Coast mounting options into the Half-Life 2 mounting option · Added sv_quota_stringcmd_kick convar - kicks players who exceed sv_quota_…
The October 2024 Update is now live. Update Highlights This update brings many animation fixes for the Half-LIfe 2 campaigns playable through Garry's Mod if you own the games on Steam. There are also a few quality of life improvements - a search bar for addon presets and spawnicon editor menus, as well as a date of last visit for each server in the server browser. For modders the new Particle E…
Hello everyone, The next Garry's Mod update is coming soon. The current plan is to release the next Garry's Mod update on 29th of October at 3PM GMT. The update will be mandatory for all server owners, so write the date down, servers will need to be updated before they can be joined again . You can preview the list of upcoming changes here: (Please note this list is still work in progress and i…
Hello everyone, We are releasing a small patch today with some fixes for issues introduced in the previous update, as well as some bonus fixes. Servers and clients are recommended to update as soon as possible. The changelog is as follows: * Fixed performance degradation with lots of static props * Fixed crash with threaded addon file access * Fixed changelevel crash to do with ragdolls * Fixed…
Update Highlights The Faceposer tool got some upgrades with this update, the model flexes can now be grouped into convenient, collapsible groups, making it easier to find what you are looking for at a glance. These groups are loaded from the models themselves, so the support for this feature is up to model makers. This update also comes with reworked default spawnlists, finally exposing every s…
Hello everyone, The next Garry's Mod update is coming soon. The current plan is to release the next Garry's Mod update on 31st of July at 2PM GMT. This update will be backwards compatible with existing servers, so servers do not need immediate updating and players can still join old servers, but it is still highly recommended to update as soon as the update releases to get all the new features…
Some of you may have noticed that certain Nintendo related workshop items have recently been taken down. This is not a mistake, the takedowns came from Nintendo. Honestly, this is fair enough. This is Nintendo's content and what they allow and don't allow is up to them. They don't want you playing with that stuff in Garry's Mod - that's their decision, we have to respect that and take down as m…
Hello everyone, We are releasing a small patch today with some fixes for issues introduced in the previous update, as well as some bonus fixes. Servers and clients are recommended to update as soon as possible. The changelog for March 19th is as follows: · Fixed lua_refresh_file not working with gamemode or addon files · Fixed autorefresh not working on symlinked folders and subfolders · Allowe…
Artwork showcased: " Job " The March 2024 Update is now live. New Crosshairs This update brings a new default crosshair for the base game, as well as ability to customize your crosshair. This is usually fulfilled by using addons, but the default crosshair had a long standing issue of being impossible to see on bright backgrounds, so a new one was well overdue. You can now customize the crosshai…
Hello everyone, The next Garry's Mod update is coming soon. The current plan is to release the next Garry's Mod update on 13th of March at 4PM GMT. This update will be backwards compatible with existing servers, so servers do not need immediate updating and players can still join old servers, but it is still highly recommended to update as soon as the update releases to get all the new features…
Hello everyone, We are releasing a small patch today with some security fixes. Servers and clients are recommended to update as soon as possible. The changelog is as follows: · Made Entity.PhysicsInitMultiConvex throw type errors when given invalid input · Removed unused DLLs from game's folder - bugreporter.dll, sixense.dll, headtrack_oculus.dll · Shutdown HTML after VGUI - hopefully fixes a r…
Hello everyone, We are releasing a small patch today with some minor fixes. The changelog is as follows. · Fixed saves really not working on maps with spaces in their names · Fixed a number of security issues reported over the holidays · Fixed addon file paths being lowercased before being mounted, causing issues for Linux users · Allowed color correction files (materials/*.raw) and vehicle scr…
Hello everyone, We are releasing a small patch today with some minor fixes. The changelogs are as follows. December 19, 2023 Patch: · Fixes towards certain files not loading from inside maps · More security fixes · Fixed keybinds being lost if they contain semicolons December 18, 2023 Patch: · Added PANEL:OnTextClicked( id ) for RichText · Temporarily restored PANEL:ActionSignal for RichText ·…
Hello everyone, We are releasing a small patch today with some minor fixes. This patch mostly affects game clients. The changelog is as follows: · Fixed HL:S skill configs setting HL2 convars · Fixed an infinite loop crash with Panel.KillFocus and Panel.OnLoseFocus · Fixed a crash with text rendering · Fixed crashes with filesystem printing warnings · Fixed custom HTTP methods not working on cl…
Hello everyone, We are releasing a small patch today with some minor improvements. Servers are recommended to update at their earliest convenience. The changelog is as follows: · Added util.IntersectRayWithSphere · Added util.IsSphereIntersectingSphere · Added util.IsBoxIntersectingSphere · Added util.IsPointInCone · Added util.IsSphereIntersectingCone · Panel.PaintManual can now render panels…
Hello everyone, We are releasing another small patch today, addressing some issues found out from the last update, as well as some additional improvements. The changelog is as follows: · ents.GetMapCreatedEntity is now shared · Fixed a crash issue when loading certain particle files · FIxed skill configs not applying in time for singleplayer, resulting in NPCs not having health set, etc · TTT:…
Artwork showcased: " Movie Night " The June 2023 Update is now live. This update adds a few new visual effects for mappers and modellers to take advantage of, for better visuals. There are also new additions for the Hammer Editor for mappers to enjoy, such as new entities, static prop lightmaps, and more. We are also introducing experimental changes that remove the script limit for singleplayer…
Hello everyone, The next Garry's Mod update is coming soon! The current plan is to release the next Garry's Mod update on 28th of June at 4PM GMT. The update will be mandatory for all server owners, so write the date down, servers will need to be updated before they can be joined . You can preview the list of upcoming changes here: Please note this list is still work in progress and is subject…
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