By continuing to use the site, you agree to the use of cookies. You can find out more by following this link.
17's Buddies Tools 17's Buddies
Make a link
Btn17b
Ban17b
Create a link to our site by incorporating the button or banner 17 Buddies below against on your web pages. To do this, simply click on an image below against and copy / paste into your web page code that is displayed.
HLBox17b: the ultimate toolbox
HLBox17b
HLBox17b
HLBox17b
HLBox17b
Worthy successor to 17Smi and 17Ims, HLBox17b alone accounts for the essential tools that any player and map must have:

  • Automatic Installation of maps (zip, rar, 7z):
  • Do not waste time! Install hundreds of maps in seconds without having to worry about files location. HLBox17b do it for you and you can be sure that the map function properly!

  • Maps Packs creation:
  • Create a zip archive of your map by incorporating automatically all the necessary resources (textures, sounds, models, sprites, skies, etc ...), and only them!

  • Extract gcf and vpk files :
  • View and extract the files included in the steam gcf and vpk files.

  • Check for textures
  • View and export the textures included in the wad or bsp (wadincude) files.

  • Clean steam folder
  • Clean in one click your steam folder and delete unneeded or duplicates files!


HLBox17b still offers many more features that we invite you to discover for yourself.

Of course, the use of this software is completely free!

Note that you will need Microsoft. NET Framework to use HLBox17b.
Hits: 8 598
1 146 KB
FTP Install
FTPInstall
45 seconds and 2 clicks to install a custom map of 15Mb on the server!!

After the arrival of 17SMI, the worries of installing maps on a local machine were set for the common people.

Our FTP installation system does the same thing, but directly to a game server, via FTP.

Conceived and designed by 17's Buddies, this feature unique in the world has sometimes been imitated but never equaled !

This function (compatible with maps HL1, HL2 and all its mods) is accessible with one click from our downloads. Just to indicate the settings of your FTP server game and our script will extract the files in the map, directly on your game server using the FTP settings you have indicated.

The results are INCREDIBLE : The measurements showed a gain of speed until 50 times compared with a normal installation! For a map of 15Mb zipped, installation takes 45 seconds while with a traditional, must be close to 32 minutes!!

You can keep three servers favorites, selected from the top window from the dropdown menu. These three servers are by default, your game server, your web server using the variable sv_downloadurl (with or without bzip2) and a possible test server.

Note that even if your FTP login and pass you are requested to use this function, they are not stored in our databases to ensure the security of your data.
17 SMI (17's Buddies Steam Map Installer)
 
Deprecated, replaced by HLBox17b (see above).
Hits: 8 963
314 KB
17 IMS (17's Buddies Integrator Map System)
 
Deprecated, replaced by HLBox17b (see above).
Hits: 49 325
219 KB
Random Maps
 
Community 17b
Shoutbox
@Arkshine: Have you forgotten about my byplt-maps recovery project?
It's been done for months now...
Can you take a look at this please?
Hoping for a reaction from your side soon.
10-18-2025 at 3:13 PM
Looking for a PodBot waypoint file (de_clyft.pwf) for de_clyft.bsp CRC -1274574817
10-28-2025 at 5:38 AM
Some admin can change my nick to herrgott?
10-28-2025 at 8:41 PM
@sample vodka
sample vodka is better
10-29-2025 at 3:24 PM
lmao no
10-30-2025 at 1:18 AM
The website has been transferred to a new server! I found a decent one for 33€/month. It will be expected to see quirks around, let me know if you have issues.

It will give us some time. I won't be able to handle the fee for long. Please consider donating!
12-02-2025 at 8:59 AM
I noticed there are way too many bots, I will figure out a way to block them.
Same for the people scrapping the website, I won't overlook this behavior anymore, please use the website the "normal" way. Let's have a better experience for everyone.
(When I changed the IP, 8000 bots was spamming the website :wackosmiley
12-02-2025 at 9:01 AM
It seems to have session issues. If you fail to login from the site, you can use the forum.

I noticed you can't send message on the forum as well.
12-02-2025 at 12:36 PM
Posting in the forum should work.
12-02-2025 at 8:19 PM
Thanks for the donation, much appreciated smiley
12-02-2025 at 8:19 PM
smiley
12-02-2025 at 8:40 PM
I think the login should be fixed here
12-06-2025 at 12:53 AM
yes, works now
12-06-2025 at 8:41 AM
Yes logged in here, thanks
12-06-2025 at 1:33 PM
Did you get an email when i sent you a PM?
12-06-2025 at 2:19 PM
yup, was in a rush so posted here
12-06-2025 at 2:26 PM
smiley
Hello. Seems like the the site is broken on maps maps removed for copyright violation. Example: (Link)
12-07-2025 at 7:09 PM
The error should be fixed, thanks
12-07-2025 at 11:05 PM
Thank you for fixing it! And thank you for keeping this website up!
12-08-2025 at 12:55 PM
smiley
12-08-2025 at 1:49 PM
Hello everyone.
Are downloads still not available? Let me know, because they’re still not working for me.

Greetings…
12-10-2025 at 11:37 PM
DL woprking for me, I do get a weird message about a proxy but im not using one
12-11-2025 at 10:54 PM
1 for proxy message smiley
12-12-2025 at 12:07 AM
Clouflare enforces IPv6 connection but since the website/forum doesn't support well IPv6, I need to enable an option to keep IPv4, but it's not the real IP and it's detected as proxy. I guess I can remove the warning, doesn't matter much.
12-12-2025 at 4:33 PM
@DarkGenius what issue do you have? Downloading works for me as well
12-12-2025 at 4:35 PM
I don't get why you are insisting everyone pays for your server. If you can't afford 33 euros a month, why don't you just upload the map archive of people's work, instead of demanding people pay your server hosting bill.

Plenty of people (myself included) would just host it for free without restrictions.
Yesterday at 12:51 AM
Yet you demand everyone go through your server (you somehow can't afford at your age?) and throttle downloads down despite you only serving 2-3GB of bandwidth a day which is hardly anything.

You are a terrible person, and its a shame people trusted their content with you.
Yesterday at 12:51 AM
Are you done? I’m not the creator of 17Buddies. It’s a platform, not a file dump, and it exists because of years of work by its original creator, Chapo. I don’t engage with people who insult volunteers while clearly not understanding the situation.
Yesterday at 1:44 AM
Fixed now thanks
Yesterday at 9:30 PM
Arkshine, do not pay attention to ungrateful people like isometricpanda2.
Today at 2:05 PM
Forum
void De_clyft.pwf
 Yesterday at 11:20 AM by meowthx1985
void C'est La Fin Pour Moi.
  12-06-2025 at 5:17 PM by Arkshine
void The End
  12-05-2025 at 4:13 AM by Arkshine
void Need .rmf File ♡ De_dust2_2020 .bsp
  10-27-2025 at 8:38 AM by FIXXOR
void [bug] Wad Titles Contain Dot Suffix
  09-07-2025 at 2:37 AM by Der Meister
void Can't Update A Map
  08-26-2025 at 5:37 PM by FIXXOR
void Hlbox17b Source Code
  08-24-2025 at 1:59 PM by LiveWire
void Are There Open Source Maps?
  08-09-2025 at 2:30 PM by LiveWire
void Counter Strike Source Map Name?
  08-03-2025 at 5:56 PM by Alozuer0900
void Cs.cs2.ro - Since 2012
  07-30-2025 at 12:36 AM by sancez
Donations
Ads
Statistics

669 visitor(s) during the last 15 minutes:

231 guest(s), 1 member(s), 437 bot(s).

Our site hosts 36833 registered members.

743 absolute unique visitors today (904 yesterday).

Connected Member(s)
Poland
2:25:43 PM

17Buddies's website offers at this time 108 084 total uniques and verified maps including 59 201 HL1 maps, 45 580 HL2 maps and 3 303 CS:GO maps, representing 372,87 GB disk space.

There were today 386 maps downloads (445 yesterday) representing 2,41 GB transfered (1,68 GB yesterday).

This page was generated in 0.25 s and required 595 SQL queries.

void
void