Private WoW Server Setup 1.11
This guide is old. I do not use UWC anymore, NOR do I support it. The new and best WoW emulation is through MaNGOS. I DO NOT have a guide ready for people to use, you're going to have to use Google and search it out yourself. Currently I don't have time to work on a MaNGOS guide but our discussion forums might proove helpful to you. If not, then go spend $15 a month for the real thing. Support Blizzard!This is a new guide and allows a user to setup a private World of Warcraft Server for 1.11 clients. Currently this is the highest I've found, minus the Burning Crusade emulation. Please, PLEASE use the
message boards for discussion. Don't AIM me or anything else because I won't respond or I'll just add you to my block list. Plus it helps other people if we figure things out in the public boards.
First you'll want to get World of Warcraft installed. Make sure it's updated to
version 1.11 (full update). I used GameDaily.com to get from 1.11 to 1.11.2 with the 2 little patches. You'll want to run the HackPatch1-11-2.exe file on your client machine so that your client(s) can connect to the server.
Then you can start with setting up the server.
You'll want to download a one of the many versions of the server. Most if not all are just repacks. I will be using Poglia's Repack (Poglia_s_Repack.rar) v1.0. Do note that this repack DOESN'T INCLUDE NAXX!! Sucks, but hey...you can use another one if you want. I chose this one because it was Blizzlike. Here's some information about it:
Based on:
- UWC 1.3.4
- StartTCL Startup System v0.9.5
Scripts:
- Spirit's Scripts v4.45b
- SQLdb middleware database API v0.2.4
- NextGen Auction House System v1.0.2
- NextGen Mail System v0.9.3
- NextGen Buyback System v0.8.7
- MobResist + Root Fix v0.4
- Improve Armor, Critical, Miss & Dodge v1.20RC2
- NextGen RestState System 1.1.9
- zInstanceLimiter a Better Instance Limiter v1.3
- zJail, a Better Jail System v1.4.9
- zBroadcast, a Better Broadcast v1.0
- Pewex Waypoint System v2.0.S
- Professions / Primary Skills by Piznete and Team v1.0 modifed by lopht
- Pewex GuildBank System v1.0
- Pewex Prefix System
- Professions Unlearn system v3.01 by CZW & ZOoMiK
- Chance on Hit System
- Working Talent Master scripts
- Other things that i don't remember added and/or edited by me
Database:
- Spell & AI fixes for Bosses & Mobs By Ata
- Blizzlike Classes by Jenova v0.8.9 with some fixes by me
- UWC Blizzlike Loottemplates by Scorpio v1.3
- UWC Blizzlike Items by Scorpio v1.1 with some fixes by me
- UWC Blizzlike Creatures by Solfern with some fixes by me
- WoWQT Quest Fixes by Raveraa
- Ahn'Qiraj by PredatorX
- Latest Spells and Spellcost by BAD updated by me for all the system works
- Blizzlike world.save edited by me
- Other things that i don't remember added and/or edited by me
Extra Tools:
- Mandatory client addons
- Extra client addons
- Updated DBFilesClient folder
At least it has AQ!!
Alright, once you've download your repack stick it into the C:\ drive. I created a folder in the root of C:\ so that it was C:\World of Warcraft Server\. You'll notice that the repack is usually zipped or RAR'd up, if it's ZIP, Windows should open it right up. If it's RAR'd then you'll want to get
WinRAR. Ok, so you should see a 'server' and a 'client' folder. Copy the content of the 'server' folder into C:\World of Warcraft Server\. Since you should have World of Warcraft (the game) installed by now and updated to 1.11.2 you can now go back to the server repack server that contained those 'server' and 'client' folders. This time go into the client folder and copy the contents into your World of Warcraft GAME folder C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\. These are addons that you will want to have. Ok, now back to server stuff.
Go into the World of Warcraft Server folder and into the 'maps' folder. You'll see a file called
BatCreator.exe. Open it click the Locate button. Find the folder containing WoW.exe (should be C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\). Then click the Create button. Now click Extract. A DOS-like window comes up and lots of text goes flowing through it. This is good. If you get the program crashed, eh whatever. Click Don't Send and the DOS-like window should chug along. It might ask you about doing something with maps (cannot remember) and hit 'y' and enter. Then more text go flying through the window...good good good!!
Now we need to edit some files. In your World of Warcraft Server folder edit a file called
emu.key. Open it with Notepad.
You'll probably want to find these 2 lines:
server_name=PUT YOUR NAME OF THE SERVER HERE
ws_host=PUT YOUR IP HEREand change them to fit your setup. I used 'Thrall' for server_name and ws_host was 127.0.0.1 since I didn't need a LAN or public WAN server. If you're confused about what to use, post on the message boards please. We can help you there.
Now go into the 'scripts' folder (C:\World of Warcraft Server\scripts\). Find a file called emu.conf and you can edit that also. I change my server type from PvP to normal and added some stuff into the [Welcome] section. It's up to you here!
Next is adding a GM to your server. Using the DBUtil.exe tool (server shouldn't be on) you cna do it. Open the program. Click 'Exclusive Mode'. Now input the name of the user you wish to be a GM. I just used my normal WoW username so I don't forget it haha You can use anything. Now give it a password and hit the Add/Remove button. Done!! :) Now locate the WE_DK-Core.exe file. This is the server. Double click to open it!! Once it has finished loading you can open your World of Warcraft game and login with the account you just created!! HAVE FUN! :) You can tell it's finished loading with Poglia's repack because it tells you so, bot sure about others!
Other Notes: The repack I used seems to auto save the world every 5 minutes. This is quite often, but nice just incase the server crashes. I also noticed there was no application that auto-starts your server incase it crashes with the Poglia repack...anyone know anything about that??
If you need more information, let me know on the message boards. Enjoy!!
Update: I noticed that in order to use the loader file (wowemu.exe) you need to install .Net Framework from Microsoft. Get version 2 from Microsoft's website. It's free.
