WoW-Launcher

A game launcher for World of Warcraft that allows you to connect to custom servers.

License, Copyright & Contributions

Please see our Open Source project Documentation Repo

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT & SERVER CONNECTIONS

Applies to: 1.14.4 or later, 3.4.2 or later, 10.1.5 or later

• Dev Mode is enabled by default for local game portals.
• LOCAL HOSTNAME & IP: USE the --dev command line parameter to force the dev mode to avoid issues with invalid certificate chains.
• EXTERNAL HOSTNAME:
  • DO NOT use the --dev command line parameter.
  • USE a valid certificate matching your authentication/bnet server host name.
    • That certificate needs to be loaded by the authentication/bnet server too.
• EXTERNAL IP: NOT SUPPORTED

Binary Releases

You can find signed binary releases at Releases

Supported Game Versions (Windows x86 64 bit, Release)

• Dragonflight: 10.x
• Shadowlands: 9.x
• Classic BC/WotLK: 2.5.x, 3.4.x (--version Classic)
• Classic Era: 1.14.x (--version ClassicEra)

Supported Game Versions (Windows ARM 64 bit, Release)

• Retail: Coming Soon
• Classic: Coming Soon
• Classic Era: Coming Soon

Building

Build Prerequisites

• .NET Core SDK 7.0.0 or later
• Optional for native builds: C++ workload through Visual Studio 2022 or latest C++ build tools

Build Instructions Windows (native)

• Available runtime identifiers/platforms: win-x64/x64, win-arm64/ARM64
• Available release configurations: Release, ReleaseSilentMode, ReleaseCustomFiles, ReleaseCustomFilesSilentMode
• Execute dotnet publish -r RuntimeIdentifier -c Configuration -p:platform="Platform"
• Native output is placed in build\Configuration\bin\native

Usage

Windows Usage

1. Copy Actium WoW Launcher.exe to your World of Warcraft folder.
2. Optional: Edit the WTF/Config.wtf to set your portal or use a different config file with the -config Config2.wtf launch arg.
3. Run the Actium WoW Launcher.exe

Static Auth Seed Usage

• Use the --staticseed launch parameter
• On server side add 179D3DC3235629D07113A9B3867F97A7 as auth seed in the database.

Custom File Loading Usage

1. Get or create your own file mapping (.txt) file(s) and place it in the mappings folder. File Format: fileId;filePath
2. Place your custom files (mods) in the files folder. Be sure to follow the correct folder structure.

File mapping sources

• https://github.com/wowdev/wow-listfile

Launch Parameters (--help)

Usage:
  "Arctium WoW Launcher.exe" [options] [[--] <additional arguments>...]]

Options:
  --version <Classic|ClassicEra|Retail>  [default: Retail]
  --path <path>
  --binary <binary>
  --keepcache                            [default: True]
  --staticseed
  --dev                                  [default: False], Required for local development without valid certificates.
  -?, -h, --help                         Show help and usage information

Additional Arguments:
  Arguments passed to the application that is being run.

WARNING

DO NOT USE THIS AS BASE FOR ANY OFFICIAL SERVER TOOLS. IT WILL GET YOU BANNED THERE!!!

Special Request <3

Please do NOT remove the name arctium from the final binary. Blizzard filters their crash logs based on localhost and the string arctium in the binary name.