Strickland Server Instability Issues Since Update 1.19 "Operation Shellshock"
A running update on the lag, drops, GTX network issue, and the eventual restoration across affected USA locations.
Status Update
Strickland Propane servers experienced periodic downtime after update 1.19 “Operation Shellshock” on October 21, 2025. The issue was later confirmed as a GTX datacenter network problem, not a local server-side configuration problem.
According to GTX’s updates, Dallas datacenter network issues were being investigated, and Oregon was later reported as affected too. That lines up with the instability players were seeing across the Strickland servers.
During the affected period, the good news was that the servers were set up to recover automatically after each drop, so the outages were disruptive but not catastrophic.
At that point there was no hard ETA for full resolution, but the issue was clearly upstream and outside the Strickland config itself.
That matters because it meant your connection was not the root cause, and neither was the Strickland setup. It was a datacenter-level network problem.
As a result, the only real move was to keep monitoring stability and wait for the network engineers to finish their work.
— Hank
Once mitigation was in place, most servers were expected to show fewer or no disconnects. A short stabilization window was still possible while routing changes propagated, but the main outage event was considered resolved.
Bottom line: the instability was real, it was upstream, and it got handled. The propane kept flowing. Check the live server status anytime to see current server state.
