duckyah/WoW-Launcher

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

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

Binary Releases

You can find signed binary releases at Releases

Supported Game Versions (Windows x86 64 bit)

• Dragonflight: 10.0.0, 10.0.2 (implicit)
• Shadowlands: 9.1.0, 9.1.5, 9.2.0, 9.2.5, 9.2.7 (implicit)
• Classic: 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 3.4.0 (--version Classic)
• Classic Era: 1.14.x (--version ClassicEra)

Supported Game Versions (Windows ARM 64 bit)

• 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

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

Parameters

• Use --help

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.