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News

• Twelve days after the C&D, Ascension's CoA became a self-hosting repack
• RP-PvP is coming to Forever at launch, and names can be reserved there on October 27
• Podcast episode 5 is out: the end-of-beta special, with Aggrend and the leads
• Warlockguy wins the Forever Open: a 20th seed Warlock takes 50,000 dollars
• Blizzard's economy crackdown, in two parts: no GDKP, and Temporary Economy Holds for RMT
• The Forever beta's last 24 hours are a send-off party, not a shutdown
• Anachronos launches officially today, capped at level 20
• A browser WotLK project bundles a client built from decompiled Blizzard code
• Project Epoch Reborn locks in Friday 16:00 UTC, and registration is open
• Someone turned vanilla WoW into a survivors game, and it runs entirely on your own PC
• Forever's soundtrack is out, and its nineteen tracks map the new world
• Blizzard dates all three Forever raids to December 9, which settles the Onyxia question
• Nine Forever dungeons, level 13 to 60, and the faction gates on the first two
• Forever name reservations open October 27, and Blizzard finally published the start times
• Blizzard shows the road past level 30: the Riverglades, Mount Hyjal, and a raid under the mountain
• A community duel tournament inside the Forever beta has 6,000 players signed up
• Forever's internal build moves to 70502 while the beta client stays on 70450
• Forever's beta is extended to Friday October 23, and the stress test now has end times
• Forever's battleground matchmaking will keep solo players away from premades
• Conquest of AzerothCore now has a one-click Windows server manager, and it runs the Wildcard realm
• Benilla-WotLK: a 3.3.5a client written from scratch in Rust now reaches the world
• benilla-re publishes the address book for the 1.12.1 client: 37,967 functions, cited by offset
• Open Vanilla puts a playable Vanilla realm in a browser tab, with guest mode and a public server package
• Lighthaven turns its 3.3.5a realm into a browser game that streams the files it needs
• Forever's final class deep dive rewrites how Paladin Seals work
• RavenCraft is moving to a 1.14 client and carrying every character over
• The WotLK and Cataclysm clients have been decompiled to C++, with the source public
• Warmane dates Onyxia's Ruby Sanctum for November 7
• Project Reforged dates its Classic+ launch to November 6, and Evergreen HC opens a hardcore vanilla realm
• Forever is already being self-hosted, weeks before launch
• WoW Circle opens a fresh Legion x5 realm on October 17
• GrimfallWoW opens Conquest of Azeroth, its second product line
• Blizzard moves the Forever stress test to October 21, and it is free to join
• ChromieCraft's October 14 outage: the server shut itself down because item IDs ran out
• October 16 launches: uWoW opens Mists of Pandaria x10 and Nozdor opens DUNE, with lordaeron.eu next
• Sulvus Reforged opens today, and it is a different Sulvus from the one we track
• Forever podcast episode 4 turns to PvP
• Forever adds Temporary Economy Holds, its hardest anti-RMT tool yet
• Forever class deep dives: Rogue and Warlock close out eight of nine classes
• Scene scan: 14 new servers added, and why a listing catalog overstates the count
• Both Forever tracks jump to 70374, again on different binaries
• UwowSA 7.2.0 check: realm online at 602, launch unconfirmed from first-party
• lordaeron.eu: a new 3.3.5a project opening October 16, borrowing a name from Warmane
• Quissy's October roundup clarifies the dungeon XP cut and lists class changes
• A dual-class realm and a 19-player Russian realm lead batch five
• Kaivax notes: Dalaran dungeon live, 16 free Legacy points, dungeon XP up 20 percent
• Orc and troll racials flagged too strong, weapon passives may be replaced
• Podcast ep 3 names Blackmaw Hold and keeps Onyxia's attunement
• Beta and dev tracks converge on 70334 with different binaries
• Beta build 70291 is live with a new build config
• Beta build 70291 is live, coinciding with the Dalaran notes
• WarCrown opens a Latin American realm October 31
• Five dated claims converge in the next three weeks
• Four more from the backlog, including the most honest bot count we have seen
• Forever PvP runs on Honor plus Rank Points, with a weekly cap and two gear sets
• Four more Forever classes deep-dived, and the talent structure holds
• Forever's new battleground is 15v15 for levels 30 to 60, first to 2,000 points
• Thirteen days to beta close, nine questions still open
• Anachronos opens early access today, capped at level 10
• Our build watcher was reading the wrong track, and three beta builds passed through unseen
• Second straight hotfix post with no Forever in it
• Kaivax restarted the beta realms October 6 with three fixes
• Project Epoch Reborn still shows October 23, sixteen days out
• Eight more from the backlog, led by a roleplay realm with positional voice
• Whitemane has a MoP realm in beta and a TBC realm coming, and Frostmourne did 8,500 at launch
• Four days to the Forever dungeon reveal: the one question it has to answer
• NycterMoon is now Microbot WoW, and the old name appears nowhere on its own site
• Nine more servers from a vote-ranked list, and six of its entries are dead domains
• Frontier is coming soon, and the beta has an independent health monitor
• Five days out: UwowSA's 7.2.0 is still on for October 10
• Eight more from the directory backlog, including a realm that opened two days ago
• Ten more from the nostalgic directory, and why 90 others are waiting
• Blizzard takes Forever to PAX Aus with a dungeon deep dive on stage
• Four new Forever references, and 70205 finally has documented content: nothing
• Fifteen servers we did not track, found on a competitor's list
• Draevor is building Farahlon, the zone Blizzard cut from Warlords of Draenor
• The stale queue is empty, Sirus reads 18,468, and two more tags from the bad sweep
• Beta build 1.60.1.70205 is live, and all four regions moved together
• Emberveil put Classic WoW on an Android phone, and publishes a devlog worth reading
• Azeroth Universe's host is down, and a flaw in how I have been running this sweep
• Vanilla+'s own counters read zero, and we would rather downgrade than repeat a number we cannot source
• UnlimitedWoW was six PvP seasons out of date, and its Tier 16 raid has been live since March
• Stonetavern runs two Vanilla realms, puts progression changes to a vote, and has a dated October gate
• Six servers we rated tiny or small, downgraded because we cannot find them any more
• Midnight's 12.1.5 lands October 13, and it shows what Forever is being built alongside
• A Wow Weekly that is really a Forever content index
• Two Forever systems settled at level 40 and level 10, and one of them is not what Classic did
• Shadow Word: Death arrives at level 32 in Forever, eight levels early
• Every region is on the same build, and that turns out to be checkable
• Forecast: the Forever podcast's second episode is about class design and speedrunning
• Blizzard broke down the Legacy System in numbers, and the cap is the whole design
• Blizzard's October 1 hotfixes exist, and almost none of them are for Forever
• Blizzard has deep-dived four of ten classes, and we are counting which
• Blizzard published its first Forever class deep dives, and the milestone talents moved
• Beta build 1.60.1.70170 is live, and the last three builds have no notes
• Three servers are called Conquest, only one of them is the one people mean
• A Diablo 3 remake inside WoW, and the dead Conquest of Azeroth that is not dead
• Four entries rated playable with no address at all, and one of them owns the search result
• Beta build 1.60.1.70100 is live, and it is one build, not three
• A tracker entry was demoted to satisfy a spreadsheet, not a server
• A server we called playable has been shut down since 2022, and its page still shows a live player count
• Sunwell.pl is down to four players, and our tier was wrong
• Two servers announced dated content drops for October, and both are re-checkable
• Beta build 1.60.1.70058 is live, and the fan sites have not noticed
• Project Epoch Reborn launches October 23, restoring a Classic+ realm from the dead
• We dated a raid unlock six days early, and two launch dates had already expired
• We downgraded IceDNicco from large to tiny, and why we were wrong
• TBC5Legends sets its Tier 6 gates: Mount Hyjal October 17, Black Temple October 24
• Frostbound joins the tracker: 650 reported online, Warband AI alts, and a client you should not trust yet
• Tim Jones and Nora Valleta on Forever: 27 viable trees, a raid cadence, and mid-level zones
• Beta finds roundup: an Alliance Kodo, a Kalimdor set bonus, a murloc transformation and layering complaints
• Blizzard confirms Forever beta auto-shot bug, fix promised for a later build
• Classic Forever launcher ships reproducible builds and a hash I could verify
• Two AzerothCore tools ship in a day: a quest authoring app and a texture atlas inspector
• OutlawCraft's September changelog adds boats, champion zombies, and economy fixes
• RestedXP Guides v4.11.9 expands Forever and Skyborne routing
• WoW Forever Podcast episode 1 tackles the beta launch
• Blizzard adds more Forever Collector's Edition restocks
• Forever beta update: memory leak fixed and class tuning expands
• Classic Forever 1.60.1 server project reaches the beta, with launcher risk
• Official Forever video says Onyxia's Lair is available at launch
• Blizzard teases stronger storms for selected WoW Forever beta zones
• Three more servers verified: Azekai Reincarnated, Elderhide and Project Rx
• Freedom WoW verified and consolidated: Ukrainian WotLK with 531 online and smart cross-faction
• Forever warns before a layer change, with a get-safe button
• Enchanting catalog surfaces: necklace slot, campfire exclusivity, biome-doubled trinkets
• Datamined mount catalog names Forsaken Charger, eight Galestriders, Devilsaurs and more
• Beta PvE census: Undead Paladins dominate, Skyborne rank second for both factions
• Beta build 69977 ships Mac fixes and controller repair, unblocks Zephras quest
• Battle Mage discovery: Comprehension decodes the Scroll of the Saber into a Coldflame Saber
• Wowhead retracts XP-reduction report after Blizzard clarification
• Skyborne origin and art caution: Metzen wanted elves, Greenfield asks reserve of judgment
• Blizzard publishes official racials, closing three open conflicts
• No shared tagging in Forever, and Recent Allies is the plan instead
• Forever GPU floor and system requirements: GCN 1, Maxwell, Skylake and up
• Dungeon-set bonuses surface: Defias, Postmaster, Necropile, Bloodmail
• Forever controller support tested at BlizzCon: radial menus, 20-plus binds, alpha limits
• Black Market Auction House live in beta at Powderfuse Port
• Beta reception by numbers: 800k Twitch peak, craziest numbers in 17 years
• Forever beta post-mortem: one regional realm, Oracle tables, hot WORLD pools
• Retail learns from Forever: Last Titan gets Heroic world tier
• Serpent Form found in beta: full Viper set from Wailing Caverns unlocks secret druid transformation
• Ruins of Lordaeron quests mapped: 10 entries, Horde routes confirmed, Alliance data-only
• Naming mechanics: hideable surnames, combined filters, reservation window
• Gold buyers face permanent bans as Greenfield admits Blizzard was too lenient
• Book quests work in Forever, and mages get a Research profession
• Forever beta name enforcement moves to forced changes and access removal
• Frostmourne launches with 8500 peak after 30-minute DDoS outage
• Silver of the Waves: first documented Forever quest chain solved in Loch Modan
• First Forever dungeon mapped: Hall of Thanes entrance, 5 quests, lava deaths
• Forever addon ecosystem: Questie ships, DBM ports, WeakAuras stops, ClassicUI restores
• Forever systems roundup: Familiar Faces grouping, reagent bags, bigger banks, profession patterns
• Forever datamine round two: crafted Artisan tier, raid-dis enchant reagents, rep-gated equip limit
• Forever beta player workarounds: lighting crash fix, VPN lag fix, and a contested addon claim
• Centurion merges two realms into one: world vs tournament characters
• Frostmourne roadmaps original raids: Scourging of Karazhan, Echoes of the Sunwell, Fall of the Sunwell
• OutlawCraft's Survival Handbook: full-death zombies, Black Sites and a 60-yard render cap
• Miststorm joins tracker — MoP+ with a custom Mythic+ system in closed alpha
• WoW Forever Q&A answered — no GDKP, no heroics, no rated PvP, and a seasonal Honor track
• WoW Forever devs detail campsite rules, biome-specific gear and bigger banks
• WoW Forever: First Aid now crafts Healing Potions, moving them out of Alchemy
• Forever client data teases beyond the nine dungeons — Dalaran City, Karazhan Crypts, Azshara Crater and more (datamined)
• Forever beta goes live today — servers open after the Q&A, PvP locks one faction, loot stays a surprise
• Forever beta day one: Blizzard's known-issues list — pets, spells, Waylaid crates and UI bugs
• Forever beta datamine round one: loot locked behind 8 missing keys, and stats are now server-side
• classicwowforever reference expands — raid tracks, Hardcore Legacy carryover, dungeon XP curve
• Bronzebeard DB mirror preserves Ascension realm items — unofficial database
• Azeron and OutlawCraft join the tracker — Legion open beta, custom survival WotLK
• WarCrown goes live on WotLK Classic 3.4.5 client — Crystalsong open
• Project Alterac shuts down: WotLK private server closes citing Forever beta and CDN costs
• WoW Forever design details: no shaman tanks at launch, raid tier structure, PvP rank 14
• Emberveil one month in: 340+ bugs fixed, Dungeon Finder live, Android invites pending
• BlizzCon 2026 esports results: Korea wins Overwatch World Cup, Liquid takes MDI, Gators Back take AWC
• Ascension archive opens: community project preserves CoA game data before it's gone
• WoW live Q&A Sep 17 — the Forever questions we'd ask
• WotLK Anniversary not announced at BlizzCon — where Classic progression stands
• Whitemane Frostmourne launches Sep 19 — WotLK+ with Heroic Naxx, Personal Loot, Collections
• WoW: Forever Deep Dive and Found Photos recap - Paladin rework, realmless servers, 6 new combos
• Forever beta verification hit list — 10 claims to check on Sep 17
• Diablo 4 Season 15 launches tomorrow — Hell's Legacy eve roundup
• No BlizzCon in 2027 expected — Slasher points to 2028
• Blizzard clarifies Krol'dok Stronghold is level 40-45, and Forever will have no WoW Token or boosts
• WoW: Forever Skyborne racials and new class combos surface from pre-release captures
• WoW: Forever roadmap 2026-2027 - raid date conflict, Hardcore, and the 2027 content cadence
• WoW: Forever pre-purchase editions — Skyborne Heroic $29.99, Epic beta, Collection with Warcraft III
• Talebound: Midnight's new PvE action-RPG mode revealed at BlizzCon
• StarCraft shooter revealed at BlizzCon 2026: open-world, Dan Hay directing, 2030
• StarCraft ARG: Transmission 04 reveals Project Spellbind cover-up, hours before ceremony
• Overwatch at BlizzCon 2026: vampire Support Doctrine, Grimsvötn map, Sombra rework
• Xal'atath enters the Nexus September 28: HotS reveal at BlizzCon 2026
• Hearthstone Battlegrounds gets Aberrations minion type September 22
• Diablo V announced: Spring 2029, a Sanctuary where Diablo won
• Diablo at BlizzCon 2026: D5 dated Spring 2029, Netflix series, Amazon 2027, 30th season
• BlizzCon 2026 day one recap: every announcement from the opening ceremony
• World of Warcraft: Forever revealed — Classic+ is real, Skyborne Elves, beta Thursday, launch Nov 4
• Everwood Announced: Hard-RP Classic With No Leveling, No Raids, Permadeath
• AORUS Dark Portal Teaser: Closed Portal, Azeroth-Only Hints, One Day Out
• Hardware Watch: What BlizzCon 2026 Means for Your Setup
• BlizzCon 2026 Bingo Card: Every Phrase, Reveal, and Crowd Reaction to Watch For
• The $600K Question: AWC and MDI at BlizzCon 2026, Betting Favorites and Format
• Blizzard Union Ratifies Contract Covering 1,900 Workers Across WoW, Diablo, Overwatch
• Tempest-WoW 255 launches Sep 5, Anachronos brews LATAM Vanilla
• Tavern rebuilds Battle.net login for retired Classic clients
• StarCraft ARG escalates: Transmission 03 brings breach and takeover
• No Diablo campfire before BlizzCon — Season 15 held for the stage
• BlizzCon 2026 preview: every fixture, every leak, every question that matters
• Wrathstorm joins tracker — classless WotLK with high-risk PvP
• Season of the Crusade joins tracker — Vanilla world, TBC systems
• OctoWoW DDoS Round 9: the accusations, the counter-theories, no proof
• Keldurn plays Vanilla in the browser, Vaelith builds honestly in the dark
• Emberveil puts full client on Android — separate realm, wave invites
• DLSS5 confirmed working on a 3.3.5a client via feeder
• Fan ports Ascension's 21 classes to AzerothCore, promises open release
• StarCraft ARG advances: Transmission 02 recovered as old channel goes dark
• Camelot bumps to 69704 — Dev 2 moves again seven days out
• Ascension team pivots to original MMO after Sep 4 shutdown
• Architect WoW joins tracker — Spanish WotLK x2, all raids open
• Starfall Cata Mythic+ and IceDNicco large WotLK join tracker
• StarCraft Twitch drops return for BlizzCon 2026 — first carrot in years
• Rivals Beyond playtests Sep 12-13 — WoW MOBA on BlizzCon weekend
• Liquid takes Mythic Ula'tek world first — fifth race win in a row
• GrimfallWoW releases Sep 5 — day after Ascension goes dark
• Felskorn relaunches Sep 1 — Vanilla content on WotLK 3.3.5a with Corruption and Prestige
• Project Legacy crosses 1,000 accounts — highest concurrent since launch
• Centurion joins the tracker — Vanilla 1.12 mechanics on a 3.3.5 client
• How to watch BlizzCon 2026 and earn WoW drops — Sep 12-13, free stream, Twitch and YouTube
• BlizzCon 2026 schedule — dates, venue, free stream and what Classic players watch for
• Firestorm BFA: Reforged arrives Aug 31 — Plunderforged Bay, >3600 queued, Felsong merge live
• Camelot watch: no new build Aug 30 — why 3 builds in 25h still reveal nothing
• Black Temple live; Camelot at 69609; tracker at 102 servers; BlizzCon 13 days out
• Three Camelot builds in 25 hours + WoW Armory adds Classic — Aug 28-29 surge
• Project Ascension to shut down Sep 4 under Blizzard agreement — 10-year classless network ends 8 days before BlizzCon
• BlizzCon 2026 predictions: what to expect from the Classic+ reveal
• Community lists scanned — 8 servers our tracker missed
• Client tooling update: IchaLaunch launcher for Ravencraft, OpenWoW client milestone
• Project Legacy 1.12.4 live; tracker at 93 servers; BlizzCon 19 days out
• Tracker expands to 83 servers: Legion and Cataclysm coverage arrives
• Warmane Onyxia: Icecrown Citadel releases September 5
• Patch roundup: Reforged WotLK v1.3.0 hits Faebright compat, Legacy 1.12.4 imminent
• Warlords of Azeroth launches: full-loot Vanilla where Stranglethorn bites
• Where Turtle WoW players went: the successor wave of 2026
• The Turtle WoW preservation scene, mapped
• Will your private server survive? Reading shutdown risk in 2026
• Patch roundup: Legacy 1.12.4, Astral beta, Triumvirate Phase 2, Maelstrom Phase 5, Warstorm emerges
• Modern QoL is coming to classic cores — the private server trend of 2026
• Blizzard ports modern UI to Classic Era: Edit Mode and 41-yard nameplates go retro
• BlizzCon 2026 Preview: Project Camelot, WoW Classic+, and What It Means for Private Servers
• Black Temple opens on TBC Anniversary August 27
• Blizzard v. Ascension lawsuit: September 8 answer deadline set
• RavenCraft confirms Aug 22 launch on original Turtle 1.18.1 core
• AI NPC assistants arrive on WotLK private servers — ThunderWoW's Oráculo goes live
• Project Camelot hits Patch 1.60.1 — Dwarf Shaman and Shen'dorei clues surface
• Unreal Azeroth official release
• OpenWoW: from-scratch WotLK client reimplementation
• Emberveil — Vanilla WoW in Unreal Engine 5
• OctoWoW modern client setup guide
• WoW Classic+ datamine fuels BlizzCon 2026 anticipation
• WarcraftXL — modular modding framework for the 3.3.5a client
• Ascension accelerated content timeline for CoA and S10
• Turtle WoW team forms Moonwhisper Games for an original MMO
• Turtle WoW 1.17.1/1.17.2 source leak
• Everlook Radio lives on as Out of Bounds Entertainment — the station that outlived its server
• Turtle WoW permanently shut down after Blizzard C&D
• Stormforge shut down after Blizzard C&D
• Blizzard v. Turtle WoW: consent judgment and permanent injunction

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Mods & Creations

• AzerothCore - open-source WotLK 3.3.5a server emulator
• CypherCore — C# port of TrinityCore (retail 12.1, .NET 8, GPL-3.0, reuses TDB/extractors)
• Eluna — Lua engine for AzerothCore/TrinityCore/MaNGOS (GPL-3.0, Lua 5.2 hooks)
• Eluna Scripts — catalogue of Lua scripts for Eluna (AzerothCore/TrinityCore)
• SPP-Classics CMaNGOS - Single Player Project releases for Vanilla/TBC/WotLK
• Azeroth Platform Progression - patch data for Classic/TBC/WotLK progression stacks
• wagoarchive - /wpsg/ Legion WeakAuras and ElvUI profile archive
• Warperia - WoW addons, UI profiles, WeakAuras, ElvUI and private-server addon lists
• Nostalgic.gg — 166-server WoW directory with live Discord counts, 30-day trends, community reviews
• wowmodding.net - modding tools and files (free registration)
• Wiki for Dummies - modding guide
• SahtoutCMS — AzerothCore WotLK 3.3.5 CMS (PHP/MIT, voting/shop/armory, SRP6)
• FusionCMS — open-source CMS for WoW private servers (PHP, voting/armory/shop)
• BFA-HavenCore - open-source WoW 8.3.7 (Battle for Azeroth) server emulator
• BfaCore-Reforged — open-source WoW 8.3.7 (Battle for Azeroth) server emulator (109★)
• LegionCore-Reforged — open-source WoW 7.3.5 (Legion) server emulator
• EG-Source - open-source WotLK 3.3.5a server core powering Eternal Gaming
• SuperUI-Core - VMaNGOS fork with persistent world bots for MangosSuperUI
• Tortoise-WoW - community restoration of the 1.18.1 Turtle-WoW patch, with solo-play additions
• Shyalya - Tortoise-WoW fork with PlayerBots — run the 1.18.1 world populated with bots
• Nescabir - tortoise-docker - Docker packaging for Shyalya's Tortoise-WoW + PlayerBots fork
• kasperfriend - tortoise-docker - Tortoise-WoW + PlayerBots Docker rebuild, any-CPU near-zero-command setup
• Dad's MMO Lab - offline MMO private servers on Steam Deck — guides and Docker scripts for WoW, RuneScape, MapleStory and more
• Tortoise DB Viewer - Tortoise WoW database viewer — items, NPCs, drops, quests, crafting
• Warband - Vanilla-compatible UI for controlling PlayerBots — roster, bags, groups, raid fill
• TortoiseGMManager - in-game UI for Tortoise WoW GM commands
• Ryac TW Steamdeck UI - Console Port UI for Tortoise WoW on Steam Deck
• ConsoleExperienceClassic - Vanilla Console Port addon, gamepad-friendly setup
• Unreal Open Azeroth - local interop layer bridging the UE5 Azeroth client to 1.12 servers
• wow-mobile - WoW 3.3.5a on Android (Winlator fork with ConsolePortLK touch controls)
• Mods, Tutorials, Singleplayer & /wpsg/ Creations
• EQWOW (Everquest + WoW)
• WoWee - open-source WoW client (C++/Vulkan, Vanilla/TBC/WotLK)
• benilla - from-scratch 1.12.1 client (Rust + Bevy)
• WoW Emulation - preserves & tools for WoW clients (Rust)
• tavern - Rust Battle.net account services, preserves retired Classic builds
• protobuf-decompiler - rebuilds .proto files from client reflection metadata
• WoTLK Modding Wiki - guides for learning WotLK modding
• Playerbots - AzerothCore module for player-like bots
• Unreal Azeroth - from-scratch UE5 client with Legacy Mode
• WarcraftXL - modular modding framework for the 3.3.5a client
• hexdbc - code-based DBC editor for 3.3.5a modding
• AdtV - ADT viewer (no conversion)
• BlpV - BLP image viewer
• ListM - listfile merger
• wxl-itemdbc-ditcher - WXL module that drops the Item.dbc dependency
• Project Reforged - HD visual overhaul for 1.12 and 3.3.5 clients
• OpenRealm - open-source WC3/WoW/SC2 engine in C (MPQ, Linux/macOS)
• FoundryCoreRepack - one-click TrinityCore repack for Midnight 12.x with GenAI bots
• MangosFour - open-source MoP (5.4.8) server emulator
• DestinyCore — Legion 7.3.5.26972 TrinityCore fork with PlayerBots (C++20, GPL-2.0)
• open-realm — WC3-primary C/MIT engine reimpl (WoW/SC2 exploratory, tools mpqtool/maptool)
• wowlib - C++26 library for reading/writing WoW client files, Python-bound via welder
• StormLib - MPQ archive reader/writer (C++)
• WoWDBDefs - WoW DBC/DB2 field definitions
• CascLib - CASC archive library (C++)
• Zezula MPQ format documentation
• Noggit Red - WoW map editor (3.3.5, working toward 9.1.5 functionality)
• OctoUpdater - OctoWoW client and addon auto-updater
• Sparus - cross-platform game launcher (Tauri) for installing and updating game clients
• Game-Launcher — modern WoW launcher (TLS cert, custom CDN, MIT, supports Mainline/Classic/Anniversary/Titan)
• SuperApi - required dependency for SuperWoW functionality
• ShaguTweaks - QoL tweaks for the 1.12 default UI
• pfUI - full UI replacement for 1.12 clients
• OctoSpec - OctoWoW/Turtle WoW specialization UI
• AtlasLoot - instance loot browser
• wow.tools.local - locally runnable wow.tools (file browser, DB2 viewer, build diffs, hotfixes)
• TACTSharp - C# library for retrieving files from WoW's CDN storage
• WoWFormatLib - C# library for parsing WoW file formats
• BLPSharp - C# library for converting BLP textures to PNG
• DBCD - C# library for reading WoW DB2 tables
• DBDiffer - DB2 diffing tool
• wow.export - tool for exporting WoW assets (models, maps, textures)
• wago.tools - online file browser for WoW build data
• OpenWoW - from-scratch WotLK 3.3.5a client reimplementation (AGPL, no game code)
• Warcraft: Guardians of Azeroth 2 — CK3 total conversion (Azeroth map, not WoW server, requires Crusader Kings 3)
• WorldBots — autonomous GOAP bot AI for TrinityCore/TSWoW 3.3.5a (C++20, GPL-2.0, hundreds-thousands concurrent bots)
• tswow-web-client — browser-based WoW 3.3.5a client (Three.js/WASM, educational research)
• Worldforged ascension.help — community Mystic Enchant database (184 enchants), dungeon routes, M+ upgrades, WeakAuras
• Open Ascension — Flutter companion app: classless builder, enchant/gear DB, M+ tools (web, Android, Linux, MIT)
• mod-classless-wildcard — AzerothCore module recreating Ascension Classless + Wildcard on 3.3.5a (GPL-2.0, Hero line, elemental variants)
• Ascension Preservation — reconstruct Ascension locally: AuthGate, AzerothCore bridge, cache tools, offline character importer
• Ascension Data — recovered datasets, WDB provenance, manifests, CoA database mirror (MIT)
• Azeroth Control — local multi-realm launcher/panel for AzerothCore 3.3.5a, stdlib-only Python (MIT)
• Ascension Archive — community cache contribution portal (WDB + Account folders, privacy-filtered)
• AscensionDB — preservation archive explorer: items, spells, quests, discoveries (WDB cache, Exiles DB, BisBeard addon, Wayback recoveries)
• Bronzebeard DB — unofficial item database mirror of Ascension's Bronzebeard (Warcraft Reborn) realm: 12.8k items incl. Worldforged/Bloodforged gear, Mystic Scrolls, phase-3 snapshot (BWL/ZG open)
• azerothcore-wotlk-coa - Conquest of AzerothCore fork (272★/193 forks read Oct 23, CoA classes native, GPL-2.0)
• CoA-Hosting-Guide - community step-by-step guide to self-hosting an Ascension CoA repack (Windows, local/LAN/online, acore realmlist via Manage.py; posted Sep 16-19 2026, 12 days after the C&D)
• ascension-db — 464k-row AzerothCore SQL from Exiles offline mirror, converter + verifier + gap audit (Sep 10)
• AcensionOfflineDatabase — 12.8 GB / 517k-file Ascension baseline, multipart archives under Releases (Aug 2026)
• AstoriaCore-AC — 3.3.5a classless MMO framework on AzerothCore, Project Astoria lineage (AGPL-3.0/GPL-2.0)
• Playerbot AzerothCore fork — bots-integrated 3.3.5a core for solo/small-pop realms (416★, Playerbot branch)
• wxl-extended-dbc — layer custom DBC rows over stock tables without replacing files (client ext + AzerothCore module)
• Bind My Soul — Ascension build planner for Classless Free Pick + Conquest of Azeroth (theorycrafting app)
• The Lab — one-click offline WotLK server + bot party manager for Steam Deck (27★, support halted Sep 2026, releases work)
• AscensionDB archive browser — searchable preserved items/spells/quests with provenance (companion to ascension-data)
• Bronzebeard Atlas — Ascension interactive map: mystic enchants, Worldforge, bosses, zones
• Worldforged-data — 5,703-pin Worldforged pickup/location union with provenance (assembled Sep 11)
• WoWChat — clientless Discord↔WoW chat bridge, Vanilla through MoP (148★, Java)
• SaureksCloset — client-side 1.12.1 transmog, body + weaponry customizer (addon + DLL, GPL-3.0)
• ShadowWorld Noggit Red Modern — experimental modern-client map editing from Shadowlands 9.2.7 (WIP, not production)
• WarcraftXL — SKSE-style modding framework for the 3.3.5a client, in-client map editor included (81★, GPL-3.0)
• HermesProxy-WOTLK — play legacy emu servers with modern clients, packet translation layer (45★, GPL-3.0)
• TrinityCoreCustomChanges — official 3.3.5a custom patch collection, diffs via wiki (83★, GPL-2.0)
• DragonUI-CoA — retail-style modular UI addon for Conquest of AzerothCore (MIT)
• ACORE Quest Creator — desktop quest chains, scripting, NPCs and patrols for AzerothCore exported as reviewable SQL patches (GPL-3.0-or-later, v0.1.0)
• Atlas Inspector — local app resolving WoW texture atlases by FileDataID into Lua region tables, with an MCP server for agents
• WowForeverClassic — unofficial WoW Forever map, talent calculator and guides, every fact source-linked with a confidence grade
  Fan reference, checked 27 Sep 2026: publishes an A to D confidence scale, one tester is Reported and two agreeing is Verified. Site's own currency date is 19 Sep 2026, the stalest of the three we track, and it does not track beta builds at all. Carries the pre-70009 Gnome Eureka! and Touch of the Grave values, so grade it behind our client read on datamined combat values.
• Classic WoW Forever — unofficial WoW Forever talent and class reference, 180 sourced class changes, full racial tables and dated beta update briefs
  Fan reference, checked 27 Sep 2026: tracked build 1.60.1.70009 as of that check and carries the Cultivation level gate, but the CDN moved to 1.60.1.70058 on 29 September and it had published no notes for it when we last looked, the Crusade removal and the Primal Fury to Blood Frenzy rename. Still holds the pre-70009 Eureka! and Touch of the Grave values. /classes/ and /news/ now 404, so the entry above is the live root.
• WoW Forever Server Status — unofficial live probe monitor for the Forever beta with service-level breakdown and uptime history
  Fan reference, checked 5 Oct 2026: probes login, realm, character and game-data services separately with per-service states, a 24h/72h/7d history chart and uptime accounting. Read 158 status reports, 97.8% uptime, 0 outages, all services green. Independent of Blizzard and of our CDN watcher, which tracks builds rather than liveness.
• Forever Codex — bilingual WoW Forever guide and database with per-build datamined comparisons and mirrored blue posts
  Fan reference, checked 4 Oct 2026: on current build 70205, updated hours ago. Diffs every beta build against the last from game files (70205 vs 70170: 0 player-facing changes across 9 record kinds) and mirrors blue posts including Warrior updates and the Oct 1 service issue. Front page carries dates we did not have: name reservation Oct 27 to Nov 3, Hallow's End Oct 18 to Nov 2, Hardcore ruleset Winter 2026-27. References a build 70124 our wowdev2 history does not contain; unresolved.
• WoW Forever (wow-forever.gg) — talent calculator, 22,007-item database, atlas and per-build changelogs
  Fan reference, checked 4 Oct 2026: on current build 70205 with its own per-build diffs (70205 vs 70170: 0 changes for players, compared Oct 3; 70170: 2 new class abilities). Legacy calculator matches our Legacy reporting exactly (20 talents, 3 trees, 16 points of 65). Countdown renders launch as 3:00 p.m. PT, agreeing with our PST resolution.
• The Forever Era — WoW Forever guides with per-class change counts and launch countdown
  Fan reference, checked 4 Oct 2026: on current build 70205. Per-class change counts (Druid 59, Priest 49, Hunter 46, Warrior 42). Countdown reads November 4 3:00 PM PST, agreeing with our PST resolution over the announcement's PDT.
• WoW Classic Forever (talent calculator) — beta-client talent data rebuilt per build
  Fan reference, checked 4 Oct 2026: talent calculator read from beta client 70170 (one behind current 70205), compared against Classic Era 1.15.9.69722. Shares a name stem with classicwowforever.com but is a different domain and function (calculator vs notes); whether same project or a fork is unresolved.
• WoW Forever Top — independent English Forever fan portal, 242 pages of datamined databases, talent calculators and beta build history
  Fan reference, checked 27 Sep 2026: separates official Blizzard information, panel reporting and beta-unverified data, and tracked build 70009, which the CDN superseded with 1.60.1.70058 on 29 September. Resolves the raid unlock to December 9 naming Hyjal Summit and Barrow Deeps, and carries no Onyxia date at all, which is why that conflict stays open. AdSense supported, so treat editorial independence as good but not unlimited.
• Private Server Hub: large WoW server directory with player reviews, monthly votes, rankings and news
  Fan reference, checked 17 Oct 2026: the front page reported 187 servers listed, 147 active, 21 coming soon and 19 closed, with per-expansion, per-type and per-feature filters and a Renown reputation system for reviewers. It runs its own versions of the same ranked lists we publish, including best hardcore, best blizzlike, no pay-to-win and servers with bots. Populations are quoted as ranges and the site itself labels them estimates from servers and communities rather than exact counts, so use it for discovery and cross-checking, and treat its figures as the operator's or the community's claims. Useful for finding projects we have not yet verified; not a substitute for a first-party read.
• benilla - a complete World of Warcraft 1.12.1 client written from scratch in Rust and Bevy
  Checked 17 Oct 2026. The engine behind two finished products we now cover. MIT and Apache licensed, builds on macOS, Linux and Windows, and plays the whole game from character creation through questing. The author also publishes wow-1121-client-internals, a documentation repo on how the retail Vanilla client renders terrain, lights a scene and decodes the wire protocol.
• wenilla - benilla compiled to WebAssembly, so the 1.12.1 client runs in a browser
  Checked 17 Oct 2026. Maintained under a different account from benilla itself. This is what lets a full 1.12.1 client run in a browser tab, which is how the survivors-mode roguelites reach players without a download.
• azeroth-survivors-re - survivors roguelite on the benilla and wenilla engine
  Checked 17 Oct 2026. Apache and MIT licensed, 189 stars. Credited to Aethus and playable in the browser at wow.aethus.pl. Reads a WoW 1.12.1 client Data folder at runtime and can fetch build 5875 from archive.org. Fully offline, no server and no account.
• warcraft-survivors - a second Vampire Survivors style roguelite built on benilla
  Checked 17 Oct 2026. Independent of azeroth-survivors-re and by a different author, which tells you the benilla engine has become a platform rather than one person's experiment. Pick a class and a hero, pick a battleground, survive a growing horde on a timer.
• benilla-everwood_graphics - a graphics fork of benilla
  Checked 17 Oct 2026. A fork of the from-scratch Rust and Bevy 1.12.1 client aimed at graphics work. Worth watching if you care about how far a community can push a rebuilt client's renderer.
• project_obsidian - Android Vanilla 1.12 client built on the WoWee engine
  Checked 17 Oct 2026. A clean-room C++ client for Android, booting and authenticating on Vanilla. Different engine from benilla and a different platform target, and part of the same wave of from-scratch client projects we track alongside the servers.
• wowdecomp - a decompilation of the WoW 3.3.5a client
  Checked 18 Oct 2026. Rebuilds the 3.3.5a client (Wow.exe, build 12340, June 2010) as C++ source, x64 main target. The repo's own count on 15 Oct 2026 was 24,515 of 27,157 functions (90.3%) and 93.2% of code bytes, with each function keeping its original address in an OFFSET tag. 306 stars at our read, no license stated. No game data included. The client was the closed half of the emulation stack; this is the open one.
• wowdecomp15595 - a decompilation of the WoW 4.3.4 client
  Checked 18 Oct 2026. Rebuilds the Cataclysm 4.3.4 client (build 15595) from both the x86 and x64 originals. The repo's own count on 16 Oct 2026 was 30,790 of 31,300 x86 functions (98.4%) and 26,401 of 38,179 x64 functions (69.2%). It states the figures measure how much of the binary has a counterpart, not how much of the game works. 27 stars, no license stated, no game data.
• advocaite/TrinityCore, the forever branch - a server for the Forever beta client
  Checked 18 Oct 2026. A GPL-2.0 TrinityCore fork that runs TrinityCore master against the WoW Classic beta client 1.60.1.70338 with a vanilla world converted from VMaNGOS plus the Skyborne and Zephras Isle content, and preliminary support for 1.60.1.70450. Ships a Windows repack, a Linux server guide and a host-for-others document. 94 stars. Listed for what it shows about Forever being served before launch, not as an endorsement.
• forever_docker - a Dockerised Forever server with a web sign-up and a launcher
  Checked 18 Oct 2026. GPL-2.0, created 18 Oct 2026. Runs MySQL, worldserver and bnetserver over TLS in Docker with a sign-up website, plus a Windows, macOS and Linux launcher that adds the host to the hosts file and trusts its certificate. Requires the client in exactly build 1.60.1.70450 and states it includes no Blizzard assets, extracting game data from the player's own client.
• Meld - a world editor for Vanilla WoW 1.12.1 (terrain, textures, models, water and creatures, exported straight to a client and server; built for VMaNGOS and Benilla; Apache-2.0, alpha)
  Checked 19 Oct 2026. Sculpts terrain, paints textures and places models, water and creatures, then exports the result into a 1.12.1 client and server, aiming at a one-stop content pipeline for private servers. Built with Wails v2 (Go), Svelte 5 and Three.js. Apache-2.0. Created 11 Oct 2026; v0.1.0-alpha.1 published 18 Oct and v0.1.0-alpha.2 on 19 Oct, 7 stars and 2 forks at our read. The author states it is alpha, that many features are untested, and not to run it on a live server yet.
• benilla - a World of Warcraft 1.12.1 client rewritten from scratch in Rust and Bevy (Apache-2.0)
  Checked 20 Oct 2026. A complete 1.12.1 client written from scratch rather than a patched Blizzard binary, which is what makes it portable to other targets. It is the native engine behind Open Vanilla's desktop launcher and its browser build, and Meld targets it for content export. Apache-2.0, created 24 Jul 2026, 766 stars at our read.
• Open Vanilla - browser-playable Vanilla realm with guest mode, Workshop, Herald bot and a public server package (component repos MIT, main repo unlicensed)
  Checked 20 Oct 2026. Eleven public repositories: the launcher (Python), the server package (SPP Classics CMaNGOS with playerbots, Server Studio and a GM console), the built-in addon suite, the devkit and agent kit (MIT), the Forge creator app (Rust), the Herald Discord bot and autopilot, and the Vanilla Agents side project. The main repository has no licence file in its root while most components are MIT. VERSION reads 1.30.8 and the latest release is v1.30.8, against an Alpha v0.1.8 badge on the site. The README calls it a private alpha with testers from its Discord, and states that desktop play needs the player's own 1.12 build 5875 files until its rewritten game data ships.
• benilla-wotlk - a World of Warcraft 3.3.5a client built from scratch in Rust and Bevy (Apache-2.0, no releases)
  Checked 21 Oct 2026. A standalone project that began from Benilla and now targets only 3.3.5a build 12340. Apache-2.0, created 6 Oct 2026, 38 stars and 5 forks at our read, no tags and no binaries. Its own status line says the port is in progress: the client authenticates, enters the world and runs the stock 3.3.5a interface, but parts of the data and gameplay layers still use 1.12.1 layouts or behaviour. Highlights claimed include the MPQ chain, BLP, DBC, ADT, WDT, WDL, M2 and WMO readers, streamed terrain, GPU-skinned M2 models, SRP6 authentication with world crypto, an ECS object mirror over movement, chat, combat, spells, groups, raids, quests, trade, mail, auctions and battlegrounds, and a FrameXML and Lua engine that runs the stock interface plus third-party addons from the player's install. Warden is not implemented and the README tells you to use a server with Warden disabled until it is, which is a server-operator risk rather than a client feature. Ships no Blizzard code or assets and reads your own installation without writing to it. Build from source with stable Rust and a C compiler via cargo play.
• Hordes of Azeroth - a survivors-style game mode for World of Warcraft 1.12.1, single player, GPL-3.0
  Checked 21 Oct 2026. Turns Vanilla into a survivors run: Normal, Heroic and Mythic zones, an Endless mode on Mythic, challenge modes inside raids, invasions in the open world, six of nine classes with Druid, Paladin and Warlock still to come, dodgeable boss telegraphs, a dash with brief invulnerability, gear, Darkmoon Cards and Glyphs with one item extracted per stage, and an outpost with account-wide gold, upgrades and class talents. GPL-3.0, created 17 Oct 2026, v0.1.0 published 20 Oct and v0.1.1 on 21 Oct. The launcher makes a patched copy called HordesOfAzeroth.exe from your own 1.12.1 build 5875 enUS client, installs a local VMaNGOS server bound to your machine plus an addon and a spell effects patch, and plays offline. Needs a dedicated client copy, Windows 10 or 11 64-bit and about 3 GB free. The launcher is unsigned, so expect a SmartScreen prompt; every release prints a SHA-256 checksum and the source is in the repo, so verify it. v0.1.1 replaces building navigation meshes locally with a download of about 330 MB, with the local build kept as a lower-priority fallback.
• hordes-of-azeroth-server - the private VMaNGOS fork that runs Hordes of Azeroth locally (GPL-2.0)
  Checked 21 Oct 2026. A fork of the VMaNGOS core kept for the Hordes of Azeroth single-player mode. GPL-2.0, created 11 Oct 2026. The upstream README is largely intact, including support for 1.12.1 build 5875 and older patches; this fork is what the launcher starts on localhost so the game mode can run with no internet connection.
• ForeverPad - a single-page tool that generates the SDL mapping that makes a generic controller visible to WoW (MIT)
  Checked 21 Oct 2026. One HTML file, no installer, no backend. Reads any DInput pad through Chrome's Gamepad API, prompts every button and stick direction, and outputs an SDL mapping line or a ready gamecontrollerdb.txt for WTF/. Written for the Forever beta and works for retail and classic. MIT, created 18 Oct 2026. The author tested a Migu MGV2170 on a 2.4 GHz dongle on macOS 26.5.2 on an M4 against WoW 1.60.1, and notes that ConsolePort 3.3.10 is blocked by the client's addon restrictions for now, so native gamepad bindings are the working path. Pads in Bluetooth keyboard mode are invisible to SDL and macOS GameController ignores generic HID pads, which is the gap the tool fills. It writes a config line and nothing else, so back up the existing file before overwriting.
• benilla-re - the reverse engineering of the World of Warcraft 1.12.1 client, cited by address (Apache-2.0 or MIT)
  Checked 21 Oct 2026. The reference behind the Benilla client, published as a browsable site plus a repository: 37,967 rows for functions, globals, structs and fields, 388 opcodes with handlers and send sites, 1,723 Lua bindings, 420 events with fire sites, 382 CVars, DBC schemas and file-format docs, and system documentation for 38 areas including net, objectlayer, spell, collision and Warden. Of the 37,967 rows, 14,383 have a unique byte pattern that matches at its own address; the rest are thunks, static initialisers and accessors that bytes alone cannot separate. Exports a C header with asserted struct layouts and typed function pointers, scripts for Ghidra, IDA 9 and Binary Ninja, an x64dbg database and a JSON bundle. Rust crates reimplement client computations and are tested bit for bit against the client's own code in an emulator. Ships no Blizzard code or assets: only the tests, table generators and listing read your own WoW.exe build 5875 and they refuse any other build. The Warden documentation is dual-use and we note that in the write-up. Reverse engineering carries EULA and anti-circumvention risk that the licence does not address.
• wotlk-browser - browser delivery, WebSocket-to-TCP bridge and SRP account backend for a 3.3.5a client (MIT, but see the note)
  Checked 21 Oct 2026. Not a client engine: a bridge that serves client files over HTTPS in 64 KB blocks, a slicer that cuts an enUS 3.3.5a install into those blocks, a WebSocket-to-TCP tunnel with configurable realm hosts, ports and redirects, and an SRP account backend on MySQL that its own README labels Untested. MIT, created 21 Oct 2026. The bundled web client is a 323 KB Emscripten glue file plus an 8.7 MB Wow.wasm whose embedded build paths point at a local copy of SatyPardus/wowdecomp, a C++ decompilation of the 3.3.5a client that carries no licence, and the wasm also contains the strings 3.3.5a, 12340 and AzerothCore. The repository does not attribute or mention that source, so its MIT grant cannot cover the bundled binary; treat the licence as unresolved. No demo and no playability claim, the index page still hardcodes a private 192.168.50.46 address, and a public WebSocket-to-TCP tunnel plus an account service needs its destinations locked down before exposure. We do not link to it as a recommended client.
• CoA Server Manager - a Windows app that installs, updates, backs up and runs your own Conquest of Azeroth server (AGPL-3.0)
  Checked 21 Oct 2026. Tauri 2, Rust and React, AGPL-3.0, created 30 Sep 2026, 46 stars and 15 forks, current release 0.6.22 of 19 Oct 2026. Downloads a signed server package (Ed25519), checks every file, sets up the database and creates the first account, or imports an existing server. One button runs database, auth and world with uptime and player counts, and launches the client with the right realmlist. Server updates are signed, backed up first, keep the files you changed and can roll back. Backups cover characters, accounts and settings. Supports the CoA and Wildcard realms, with accounts shared, characters separate, and only one world running at a time, and it spawns companions and manages named realmlists. Friends play over LAN, direct IP or Tailscale with UPnP and firewall handling. Five languages. Windows only, about 10 GB for the server and 43 GB more if it downloads a client for you. The README states the Data folder game data (dbc, maps, vmaps, mmaps) was extracted from the client of the discontinued Ascension Conquest of Azeroth realm and is NOT covered by the licence, which is the unresolved legal question every private server carries. Community project, not the official test realm tooling.
• Duskforge - a daily aggregator of Blizzard news, blue posts and editorials
  Checked 21 Oct 2026. An editorial site that republishes Blizzard's own news and forum blue posts across WoW, WoW: Forever, Diablo and Overwatch, with a daily index, author bylines and a Discord feed. Useful as a lead source: it flagged the October 20 Kaivax blue post about the stress test window and the beta extension, and the October 19 leveling video, both of which we then verified at Blizzard. It is a fan site, not Blizzard, so every claim must be confirmed at worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com or us.forums.blizzard.com before publication. Its own editorial voice is separate from the source material, and some of its posts carry community interpretation rather than sourced facts.
• Out of Bounds Entertainment - the 24/7 gaming radio station, and the team behind Turtle WoW's in-game Everlook Broadcasting Co.
  Checked 21 Oct 2026. The Turtle WoW in-game station, rebranded after the server shut down on 15 May 2026 and streaming around the clock since. Direct MP3 stream at radio.outofbounds.live/listen/out_of_bounds/radio.mp3, verified live with the Icecast headers Icy-Name Out of Bounds Entertainment and Icy-Description Your Gaming Radio Station, and the stream sends CORS headers for our origin. On the day of our check the station's own site and its metadata API and playlist endpoints were all returning 503 while the audio kept streaming, which is why our radio page probes the stream instead of trusting a cached status. Our own page at /radio/ plays the stream in the browser and reports live status.

Entries with a note carry a dated grading: what we checked, when, and where the source disagrees with our own reading. Sources without one are tools, mods and community links that make no factual claims we rely on.