Your own World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (Wrath of the Lich King) world, for playing alone or with a few friends, in one application. LonelyIce sets everything up from the game client you already have, runs the server in the background and starts the game with one button.
- Download a release and unpack it anywhere, for example next to your game folder.
- Run
LonelyIce.exe. The setup wizard finds your game, prepares the server data from it and creates your account. The first setup takes from twenty minutes to an hour, depending on your computer. - Press Play.
You need a World of Warcraft 3.3.5a client (build 12340). LonelyIce does not include or download any game data.
For setup over SSH, use LonelyIce -nw: the terminal interface configures the server, plugins and storage.
Start the configured server separately with LonelyIce --headless.
See Terminal setup and headless servers.
- One button to play: LonelyIce starts the server, points the game at it and launches the game.
- A world that feels alive: server features come as plugins, which you can add, remove and configure.
- Settings in the interface or YAML: experience and drop rates, difficulty, world options and plugin settings
in plain words. Share the plugin list and settings as
server.yaml, with machine-specific overrides inlocal.yaml. - Game master tools: common server commands as simple forms, account management, and a console for the rest.
- Runs quietly in the tray: closing the window keeps your world running; start, stop and restart from the tray menu.
- Automatic backups of your characters and your world, as often as every hour: only what changed takes space, old backups thin out by themselves within the disk space you allow, and any of them can be restored with two clicks.
See docs/building.md. Plugin authors: docs/plugin-format.md.
LonelyIce is free, with no ads and no paid features. If it is useful to you, you can buy me a coffee: it pays for the server, code signing and development time.
GNU General Public License v2.0 or later, see LICENSE.
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