How to run your own WotLK AzerothCore with Playerbots server using Linux (2024)

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[@Painbow9553]

Please use the included installation txt file. I fixed a few mistakes I made: abs.freemyip.com:84/api/public/dl/dOIVokJQ/installation.txt?inline=true 0:00 - Preamble 5:30 - Guide starts 7:51 - Installing Debian Linux in Virtualbox 15:33 - Installing and configuring Putty SSH 16:49 - Logging into Debian Linux, changing root password, and getting the IP of the new machine. 18:44 - Setting Debian to allow root logins via SSH. If you accidentally press a key or mess up this config file, you can exit it without saving by pressing CTRL+X and then press "N" when "Save Buffer?" appears on the screen. That's how you exit safely, then you can try again. 21:01 - Setting static (unchanging) IP in Debian 22:17 - Remember to change iface, gateway, and IP to match yours which may be different than mine. Also, the dns-nameservers must also match your gateway IP. 23:59 - Installing all the software into Debian Linux! 25:57 - Compiling Azerothcore! 26:35 - Configuring the database (MariaDB SQL which stores all player/in-game data like gold, mounts, characters etc) 28:55 - Running the server for the first time to set up databases. 32:21 - This is where you change the realm name and set the IP address of your server in your database. This can be changed any time should your IP somehow change or you want to change your realm name. 34:09 - Creating scripts and aliases to make starting/stopping/updating/compiling and connecting to the auth/world-server much easier! These only need to be done once. 35:38 - Starting server and connecting to the "world-session" using our new aliases [wow]. So typing wow anywhere in Linux will connect to your world-session as long as your server is running. This window allows administrative commands to create characters, announce a server shutdown etc. You can also do these commands in-game if you are a GM, but you need to add a period in front of it. You do not need a period when issuing administrative commands in the world-session window. 36:05 - Creating account using the "world-session" window. You can get here by typing "wow" in Linux so long as your server is running (by typing start). Do not press ctrl+c or ctrl+z in this window unless you want to stop the server! Just close the putty window when done. 37:00 - Changing realmlist.wtf to the server IP so we can connect. 37:41 - Connecting to our brand new server for the first time. 39:52 - Modifying the config file to change to a PVP server, XP rate, and many many other settings. 47:38 - Modifying the playerbots config file to adjust how many bots we have, what level they start at, and more! 51:02 - I made a mistake here. Set AiPlayerbot.BotActiveAlone = 100 or else the bots seem to wander aimlessly. My apologies! I am still learning myself. I updated the install txt. 54:32 - This setting is currently bugged. If set to less than 2.0, bots will be nude when you "initialize" or "upgrade" them! I fixed in the install.txt file. 1:00:00 - There they go! Newborn bots begin their journey from level 1. 1:00:32 - Trick to hide Virtualbox and Debian in the background using "headless" mode.

[@hamburgerfan2890]

wont load your link to the text file for some reason

[@Painbow9553]

@@hamburgerfan2890 whoops! sorry about that. It's up now. I was having some https problems today and I cleared the issue. Thank you.

[@zombesn]

"you have the option to play with thousands of bots running around just like the real game" hahaha

[@Painbow9553]

Actually I think in many cases the bots play better than humans. The bots don't get drunk, have to go to sleep, and they wait patiently while you afk for an hour. :D

[@vladimir4526]

Blizzlike

[@MrAnalyptic]

I'd actually like it if you could play with bots in dungeons and raids etc that could be my retirement game classic with bots ​@@Painbow9553

[@nirv]

​@@MrAnalypticyou can.

[@coolcatjk30]

​@MrAnalyptic u can it's an option in lfr

[@spacebibba8984]

Seeing the AzerothCore project and this insane bot addon is huge. I'm a developer myself, have messed with private servers and all of that several serval years ago, but didn't realize how far we have come with this. All of this is a huge step towards Game Preservation and being able to play versions of this game for years to come, even without Blizzard hosting the servers. Very important for a huge piece of gaming history like WoW is.

[@terminado]

Shit... Offline WOW i have dreamed of this forever.

[@joefer5360]

Give the bots dialogue between each other, and it's now more immersive than playing with real people today.

[@PimpofChaos]

a simple script of hello, hi, bye would make much social game then retail

[@Painbow9553]

You can enable bots to greet you in the playerbots.conf file. Maybe later a deeper method of communication will be implemented. The possibilities are endless with open source!

[@Weed]

@@Painbow9553 Plug it into OpenAI's API or run a local model and plug it into Ollama lmao.

[@zzz2474]

​@@Weedyeah this is a good idea

[@terminado]

Oh with a chat AI model maybe... 🤔

[@morgenstern2603]

Weirdly enough I always wanted an "offline-version" of WoW. Thank you for this. I will give it a try. I see you made more videos on the topic. Also, you won the algorithm. I wasn't searching for this. KZbin suggested it to me. xD

[@overdev1993]

here I am 15 years later watching a youtube tutorial about to setup a WoW Private Server it's been a minute since I have done that :D

[@joosts5470]

Thank you for posting these video's. For many years this is something I dreamed off, but the hurdles and troubles always seem to high. I followed your video's (1 and 2) and have a server running now!

[@joosts5470]

one question, how do you get a bot to trade gold with you? or are you planning in making a video with some (bot) commands you use in your games?

[@nirv]

​@@joosts5470open a trade window with a bot and whisper them 10g or whatever. He will tell you how much he has if you highlight him and push one of the gold buttons on the unbot bar I forget which

[@joosts5470]

@@nirv Awesome that worked, thank you champ! Greatly appreciated! A couple of things I have noticed in the 2 evenings I have been playing. - if you create say 2 alts and then add them as a friend you can summon them like you do with a bot. I find this handy because I don't like the 1st 10 levels (20 on a druid) so I run around as my main (hunter) followed by my (bot) alt druid and pally. They get some XP too this way. I also use one 'real' bot healer to be sure they don't die. With the AWESOME bag mentioned in you manual they can collect quite a lot of junk to sell. On that note, I tried to add the heirloom items but somehow the .add Name did not work. I got the numbers from the bowhead database, You done happen to know the real DB items? Even when I connected to the DB Keira3 and use that number that also did not work. Not a huge deal but esp for my 'bot' alts the heirlooms would be great

[@Painbow9553]

Heirlooms weren't in Wrath of the Lich King were they? I forget. 😯

[@joosts5470]

@@Painbow9553 These ones are :-D 42943 -- Bloodied Arcanite Reaper 42944 -- Balanced Heartseeker 42945 -- Venerable Dal'Rend's Sacred Charge 42946 -- Charmed Ancient Bone Bow 42947 -- Dignified Headmaster's Charge 42948 -- Devout Aurastone Hammer 42949 -- Polished Spaulders of Valor 42950 -- Champion Herod's Shoulder 42951 -- Mystical Pauldrons of Elements 42952 -- Stained Shadowcraft Spaulders 42984 -- Preened Ironfeather Shoulders 42985 -- Tattered Dreadmist Mantle 42991 -- Swift Hand of Justice 42992 -- Discerning Eye of the Beast 44091 -- Sharpened Scarlet Kris 44092 -- Reforged Truesilver Champion 44093 -- Upgraded Dwarven Hand Cannon 44094 -- The Blessed Hammer of Grace 44095 -- Grand Staff of Jordan 44096 -- Battleworn Thrash Blade 44097 -- Inherited Insignia of the Horde 44098 -- Inherited Insignia of the Alliance 44099 -- Strengthened Stockade Pauldrons 44100 -- Pristine Lightforge Spaulders 44101 -- Prized Beastmaster's Mantle 44102 -- Aged Pauldrons of The Five Thunders 44103 -- Exceptional Stormshroud Shoulders 44105 -- Lasting Feralheart Spaulders 44107 -- Exquisite Sunderseer Mantle 48677 -- Champion's Deathdealer Breastplate 48685 -- Polished Breastplate of Valor 48687 -- Preened Ironfeather Breastplate 48689 -- Stained Shadowcraft Tunic 48683 -- Mystical Vest of Elements 48691 -- Tattered Dreadmist Robe 48716 -- Venerable Mass of McGowan 48718 -- Repurposed Lava Dredger 50255 -- Dread Pirate Ring

[@Griffmode]

Only reason I don’t play wow is the subscription when I don’t have a lot of time to play. Something like this would actually be dope

[@verdeuno]

This is amazing. I never knew you could do such a thing. A single player WotLK game with bots as friends. No more LFGs. I have my own guild too LOL. Great video!

[@jonathanrouse]

This feels like that episode of black mirror where old people are put into their own worlds with made up people to run around and enjoy life like the good ol days

[@KirylKashuba]

💀💀💀

[@telekors5730]

My guy Thanks for posting this man! Got mine up and running, its super cool watching these little bots go running around.

[@anspruchslos.3401]

Thanks for the instructions, especially the text document made it easy - everything worked straight away.

[@nirv]

Nice work!

[@tristanquirion3614]

Great tutorial! Followed the tutorial on a Debian proxmox VM and it worked on the first go without any issues. Thank you

[@fyr7343]

Holy shit this is insane! awesome video buddy, subscribed for more

[@ionutznecro]

I've been waiting for a video like this for 15 years. Now i know what my weekend project is going to be. I even have a purpose for my old Threadripper that has been sitting in my closet for 3 years.

[@Painbow9553]

Holy shit a threadripper?! Okay I am officially jealous.

[@ionutznecro]

@@Painbow9553 haha, it's a Gen1 but still good enough to run a server 😄

[@alfredoboys]

Solid guide 👍🏻 keep it up!

[@CLP99th]

Thanks man, this is was awesome!

[@JzJad]

Man, hosting a wow private server has gotten so much easier, the bots thing is cool as well.

[@Silverbolth16]

Just want to say that I found you last week. You made me want to try hosting my own WoW server. Did it with AzerothCore (base) with Hyper-V on my Windows 11 machine. It's running great! Next thing I want to try is the fork you are using for Playerbots. Guess I just want to thank you and tell you that you rock !

[@Painbow9553]

Very nice of you to say. Thank you.

[@xakiri4577]

Yes, agreed! He helped me out and ive been having a shit ton of fun playing on my own playerbot server

[@Painbow9553]

@@xakiri4577 You are a quick learner. I've helped a lot of people over the years and you were one of the easiest to help. It's kind of rare seeing younger people knowing their way around them. There was a study done not long ago that showed most of the last two generations don't even know what a FOLDER is on a computer. :O

[@kevincoyle7704]

I did it a different way with Docker but your guide was incredibly helpful to me. Thank you. You have a fantastic voice for tutorial! Do more :)

[@Painbow9553]

Very kind of you to say. Glad it helped you. Thanks!

[@zeonos]

Really well put together and now i know what to try next weekend :)

[@pusillirex]

Very cool idea

[@carlcard7]

Hey thanks for this video...this is amazing and very interesting.... I'll have to give this a try once I get my new PC setup! 😁

[@pragma-tv]

I'm so impressed with this video. Big up!

[@OmegaDesh]

Thanks Nirv, was a quiet night, not even a big fan of WoW but got it all setup. Appreciate the copy/paste sheet. (Non-linux user)

[@danebenton7962]

Hey Nirv! I just wanted to say THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH for your work on this. I can't even begin to tell you how much I appreciate you making this tutorial. Also.. Ignore the haters man, and please keep up the good work!

[@levente20000]

Thanks for bringing awareness to this! I ended up using docker instead of running a VM since I'm already on Linux, would probably also work under Windows with WSL and Docker Desktop.

[@ororosso9615]

Great tutorial that takes complex tasks to the level of people on the street.

[@Kopenhagen23]

Really well done video!

[@sursomsatan1225]

Running something like this in-house and only making it accessible through LAN could be fun if you can't fill a party etc. Thanks for uploading this man.

[@Painbow9553]

Yup! Actually this install method I give is LAN only. To make it internet capable, you have to change your IP in the database to your external IP, and then forward 2 ports on your router.

[@SvenS2]

This is really coo! Thanks for sharing

[@rogero8443]

Thank you SO much nirv. I will try this out tomorrow. I'll let you know how it goes, because I can tell you actually want to help people out, which is a rare trait when genuine. Can't wait to dive in.

[@huntmanday]

Thanks a ton for putting this together, man! I’m gonna throw it on one of my servers just to know how for when my kiddo is old enough to play with me!

[@DevilDr]

Imagine killling a raid boss and the loot going to the bot.

[@Painbow9553]

if you set it to group loot, rolling need guarantees it goes to you. Bots don't roll need only greed. (I'm sure you can fiddle with that in settings)

[@solofalcon]

single player WoW with bots is the future

[@damienklimanek2282]

Many thanks for your videos. I have followed your explanations diligently, everything is clear and precise. My server is working perfectly and I'm having fun again playing these versions of World of Warcraft without the decadent mentality of the players. It's very impressive to turn this scourge of LIVE gaming (the bots) on its head in this way. I'll treasure them all.

[@Painbow9553]

Thank you for the kind words, but the real heroes are the developers who do all this work for us for free! How lucky we are. :D

[@ArthurSeeClarke]

At the risk of sounding homosexual, I just wanna say you are amazing!

[@Strkostas]

Thank you, that looks great!

[@julian1000]

"enough tahkin' let's just fahkin' start rollin'" instantly knew I was in for a good time

[@royalrepublican3480]

watched one of your livestreams where you showed WinSCP and holyshit i wished you talked about it in this video. Makes editing configs SOO much easier

[@Painbow9553]

If you introduce too many things at once in one video, people's eyes cross. The thousand yard stare happens.

[@mkonji8522]

Managed to get this going for myself thanks to you. Man though id love to do this for tbc since its when i played wow most.

[@benwhatsisname]

I love the Netscape logo.

[@ChrisFaulkner]

Ok, got this spun up on my ProxMox server running in a debian container, not running in a debian VM. From shutdown to Startup, takes 42 seconds to boot. Bots seem to function correctly and with one user online now, using 4GB ram and about 25% CPU of an 8 core 3.4gHz intel system. Not too shabby. I haven't messed with bots and azcore in about 5 years, very nice to know this is working as intended, thanks!

[@Lackstrom736]

Its like the real experience of WOW , a shit ton of bots and actual players who are as good as bots ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@PICADALOL]

This is just GREAT!!!!

[@thijshoogenbosch5151]

This is hype!, Can't find your livestreams tho..

[@Painbow9553]

www.youtube.com/@Painbow9553/streams

[@Harris1337]

i did it and it works! had some ip issues but after restarting the whole guide it works like a charm. thanks for this awesome guide!

[@Painbow9553]

Awesome! You can leave it forever as it is or you can type "update" anytime in linux to update it so long as you followed my guide. If it shows on your screen that you got some updates, then you have to type "compile" next so you have the updates installed! Fun stuff!

[@Harris1337]

@@Painbow9553 Great, now i just need to find how to increase the overall Xp gained

[@Painbow9553]

nano ~/azerothcore-wotlk/env/dist/etc/worldserver.conf Rate.XP.Kill = 1 Rate.XP.Quest = 1 Rate.XP.Quest.DF = 1 Rate.XP.Explore = 1 Change these to like 5 or 10 or whatever increment you want. The two main configs are worldserver and playerbots. The XP stuff is in the command I linked above. Important command. All in the installation txt.

[@Harris1337]

@@Painbow9553 youre the man! thanks again!

[@Painbow9553]

btw you have to restart the server for the changes to take effect. stop then start in linux.

[@Ashibal]

thank you for doing this

[@blaze3495]

The goat at work!

[@spongerobert]

This is kinda like a dream come true since the social aspect of WoW kinda went down the tubes some time ago. Now you can run your own Classic WoW to explore and play at your own pace without the monthly subscription plus you have the option of doing bots for the raids and dungeons. Also, they might one day make a WoW 2 and just shitcan all the old stuff entirely. Also also, people who ask "why" are insane. If you need to ask "why" then you don't know/care enough about classic WoW to already know why this is really awesome.

[@Painbow9553]

I totally agree with you. It's so fun! You have all of the power and you can explore and quest any way you want - including, of course, friends and family since it does allow connections. The people who work on this stuff of course deserve the most credit. What amazing work.

[@Digital-Scriptorium]

nice!

[@Painbow9553]

Hey DS! This is Digital Scriptorium. He has made guides on how to install Azerothcore and others using Windows AND Linux. If you cannot follow my instructions because I'm all over the place or because I refuse to install it in Windows, check this guy's channel out. He's much more calm than my hyper ass. kzbin.info/door/QCdJA9XlvlV8LpGD5olpHwvideos

[@zaconder]

You're awesome dude! Got it all working first try going through your steps! Perfect documentation. Only question I have is if there's an easy way to just add bots. I started everyone at level 1 and just left the server running for hours and now there's a lot of level 10-15s but I just wanna know if can almost create a new wave of bots.

[@Painbow9553]

I don't know the command, but if you increase the bot count in the config file, it will make more bots upon server restart. There may be a way to do it in-game without restarting but I'm unsure.

[@echos063]

Thanks Nirv! Everything is working perfectly! Just thanks :)

[@UsualCivilisationDestroyer]

This is good for the people who couldnt experience the game on classic tbc or wotlk era. Such as me. I can find bots to do onyxia nax and other with me lol

[@KY-xo9yt]

Playing any form of WoW feels like single player mode either way

[@nirv]

Yep so you might as well own it.

[@ChBoiiDangP]

Ahaha been playing for like 6 months now…haven’t made a friend yet 😂 everyone’s just mad in dungeons and raids

[@IronBrutzler]

Thank you for the Guide. Played a lot on my own Server back in the day when Vanilla was Playable as Private server. That we now have the Tech to runs bots that can even raid is so awesome

[@dmon1088]

@@Desperado070 I played both private servers and retail since 1.12, had the most fun on private servers, by a long mile.. actually it was retail that got me to be sick of the game for good. Granted, retail was always the most bug-free, but to call that "the appeal of the game" is ridiculous.

[@MoXyiD]

@@Desperado070 oh look, this guys a maroon^_^

[@chrilleman16]

we already have single player wow with bots, its called retail.

[@Painbow9553]

Yeah but it's so censored now you can't even /spit on people, and it doesn't have male and female like a heterosexual game - it has fucking "body type" 1 and 2. How DARE those blue hairs ruins this beautiful game?

[@stewie4467]

yet u stink at it

[@Painbow9553]

@@4F6D I've been waiting for a feckless, spineless guy like you to come along and challenge me. But it's going to be voice - not text. Discord: nirvgorilla (Here come excuses. Watch everyone. These gutless lightweights always run at the thought of having their feet held to the fire.)

[@SuperAnge911]

@@Painbow9553 based

[@raddad6628]

@@4F6D #Nochanges

[@tylerdurdenw]

Hi sorry I wanted to ask you if it is possible to do it with the tbc expansion or is it only possible on wotlk. Thanks!

[@northyhobbies]

Thanks Nirv! great guide :) hope you do more

[@BlazeopGG]

Thanks for the guide! I have absolutely zero intent on doing this myself, been at least 15 years since I hosted a private server, but I still watched the entire thing LOL. You've got a great way of teaching and this is a great entry way into Linux and/or SysAdmin. :)

[@8ladex]

Playing with bots... so its the 10/1 0authentic classic raid experience?

[@pusillirex]

Not really since the bots play better than the average classic andy

[@KingLich451]

They listen to exactly what you say, too.

[@juanjq71]

thank you

[@jacobtb1]

cool

[@AlexeyFilippenkoPlummet]

Thanks for an inspirational tutorial! Do you know if Azerothcore has the TBC expansion version? Btw it's always interesting to learn so explaining Linux in the process could also be interesting, certainly not crap! :)

[@nirv]

Azerothcore is wotlk only, but when you make an account you can restrict it to an expansion - sort of like when you bought BC and then didn't upgrade to wotlk you would be stuck at level 70. The other option is I think there are BC servers you could run but I don't think they have bots like this.

[@ChrisFaulkner]

gonna spin this up on my proxmox server

[@jakromm]

This is great, thank you for the tutorial. Seems like the perfect option for my kids and I. I saw you can set the World type to PvP but do you know if you can make the bots hostile towards opposite faction to have a true PvP world?

[@Painbow9553]

Yes. That's what PVP is. I've seen lots of them battling out in the world, and horde comes after me like I owe them money!!

[@danforbes4513]

Wow that's cool hmm looks hard tho

[@snpwodspriest4012]

Yo Nirv since u are a hunter there is a module called morph summons on AC, to morph ur pet into whatever u like with weap ect, but the explanation on how to use it arent as good as ur videos, would mind trying it ?

[@Painbow9553]

It says that module only works for Warlocks, DKs, and mages. It doesn't say hunters. Is there a way to morph your hunter pet? There likely is since almost anything is possible. I don't want to morph my pet but if you find a module that does it, let me know and maybe I'll try it.

[@lynxsie4285]

out of curosity, why do we call this a "blizzlike"? great video by the way, i love your voice!

[@daixso]

its blizzlike exp and drop rates you may also see some servers listed as "high rate" with high exp or drop rates

[@Painbow9553]

Because it behaves similarly to the real wotlk. similar drops, mob locations, and the way everything just works. It's not like the developers have the source code to wotlk - it's an approximation - or emulation if you will.

[@lynxsie4285]

@@Painbow9553 then in that case it's a really really good approximation, hence why i was curious why it's a blizzlike. to me it feels exactly like official wow

[@SpikeySolutions]

This is absolutely awesome. Thank you very much for the walkthrough. Does anyone else experiece small laggs when you do something Questrelated? Like looting questitems, killing questmobs or even just exploring quest areas?

[@Painbow9553]

I don't. You can watch my past streams and compare for yourself. I stream in pretty high quality usually so you can get a nice clear look. I would advise even buying a separate computer for this if you really like wow and intend to play like this. It's worth it.

[@KimueX]

​@@Painbow9553 may I know how many ram is required for example: 1thousand bots multiplayer with 20 live friends clients connecting?

[@MichekeBanana]

and that's how the original Azeroth shard had 300-600 players online hehehehe

[@dennizwithaz4652]

Hey Nirv, first of all thank you for all the effort! I do have a small question though. I can't seem to open the SQL database in HeidiSQ. What should I put as the IP adress in Heidi and do I just login with my 'root' user?

[@Painbow9553]

You put the IP of your Linux machine. You can find it by typing ip a Check the installation txt file. I specifically mention you have to create another account and I give you the exact code to do that. Search the word "banana"

[@dennizwithaz4652]

@@Painbow9553 thank you for the quick answer!

[@Kessra]

You know when you played to much WoW when you expected the bots to issue a duel request right after spawning :D

[@huhu9084]

do Bots Dungeon and Raiding on there own, when you log off, or do they only open world questing?

[@Painbow9553]

They do battlegrounds while you're gone but I don't think they do dungeons (yet).

[@mrmiyagi5]

Excellent vid. Is there a way to get the bots to chat in The Barrens general (with all the fun 2005 nastinest). Take me back bro

[@Painbow9553]

Not yet, but it's open source so anything is possible.

[@LM43243]

Fking amazing. Is there battlegrounds?? Please post more SP WoW content, I'll sub.

[@Painbow9553]

There is.

[@Be8Bit]

Amazing guide! I've followed it religiously, it works perfectly and had a great time doing it! I've also done some port forwarding and i keep getting malformed packages when running the server from various random ips, do you know how to stop those?

[@Painbow9553]

That's just the nature of the internet. You can't stop random port scans. You have multiple options: 1. You can run a firewall and only allow certain IPs through - sort of like a whitelist. 2. You can install, configure, and try to learn a program called "fail2ban." What this does is ban IP addresses after X failed attempts of connecting to a certain port or ports. 3. Not care at all and just use big passwords. It's not like it's a credit card server or anything.

[@Be8Bit]

@@Painbow9553 Thank you so much! I think i'll leave it be as is!

[@krisjohnson3652]

What controls the behaviour of the bots? Say I do a 25m raid, how do the healers know whom to heal and the Off tanks know who to Aggro so that the rest can DPS? Secondly, what phase of WOtLK is Azeroth Core using? I will try setting this up and giving it a ago

[@Painbow9553]

You can open the source code and find your answers. I just want to game. playerbots code: github.com/liyunfan1223/mod-playerbots modified azerothcore wotlk source specifically for playerbots: github.com/liyunfan1223/azerothcore-wotlk Phase? 3.3.5a. I don't know. Check azerothcore's website. www.azerothcore.org/ I'm not affiliated with any of the developers. I'm not a developer myself. I'm just a gamer.

[@rooagu]

Hey great tutorial love it so far. Only issue I ran into is that performance gets really bad after a few hours of running the server altough i play with 500-1000 bots I gave the server 24gb of ram but after an hr ish it still runs into a wall and has like 800-1k ms and gets worse and worse over time. Any idea what the issue might be? To me it seems like a ram issue but I'm not sure and will have to test gonne report back if i solved it.

[@nirv]

It's a bug right now with Midsummer fire Festival with bots spawning multiple invisible NPCs.

[@rooagu]

@@nirv Hey thats great to know was running out of ideas. Can i just end the event manually and the server will resume running normally?

[@Painbow9553]

abs.freemyip.com:84/api/public/dl/oWy9k-G7?inline=true Like this.

[@rooagu]

@@Painbow9553 Thank you very much.

[@h.benali8304]

can this be played offline? like if im vacation somewhere remote with no wifi can i just launch the wow server on a laptop?

[@Painbow9553]

That's the entire point of this all: of course you can. I guess I wasn't clear about that? Sorry. I tried to be.

[@jazzardous]

@Nirv I love you.

[@antonbeloguy4146]

Hey, I played one of those repacks some time ago, but bots were not entering queue for the ranked arena matches, are they doing arena on your server?

[@Painbow9553]

I'm not sure. I'm not really into pvp, but I've seen them doing BGs.

[@antonbeloguy4146]

@@Painbow9553 thanks for answering, yes, they also did bgs in my repack and it was super fun for me, but for some reason they never entered arena matches. Thanks for the vid, will try it myself later

[@Beardblaster]

Thanks for the video! I followed everything to the letter but I cannot for the life of me get my virtual machine to connect to the internet (definitely have the adaptor set to bridged), it became apparent after trying any apt-get command and the connection throwing a 101 error. I've looked at a ton of potential solutions but nothing seems to be working, I'm on win 10 if that makes a difference? Have you heard of these issues before? Thanks again!

[@kumble2687]

I think you missed setting up Bridged networking instead of NAT, mine was on NAT apparently (i admit did alot of new try's to follow along haha)

[@kumble2687]

so in machine settings, go to "network" and change NAT to Bridged and the first value! good luck

[@Painbow9553]

Same thing happened to another guy and when he shared his screen, I noticed his gateway was set wrong. In windows, you can open cmd then type ipconfig and see your gateway. Make sure that's the same gateway in Linux (during the static IP part)

[@Beardblaster]

@@kumble2687 Thanks, I did mention that in my comment but appreciate the help 😄

[@Beardblaster]

@@Painbow9553 Ah thanks so much dude, will check this today! The fact that you're tech supporting on this comment section is amazing and goes to show how passionate you are about this as a concept, really appreciate the help!

[@numbcris]

After doing the last step, the one with "DeleteRandomBotAccounts", bots are not spawning. They were spwaning before doing that. Any solution? BTW great job!

[@numbcris]

Never mind. I fixed it. I had "randombotautologin" in 0 instead of 1.

[@rumseyrum]

hey there! this is such a well written and presented guide, thank you for sharing! i do have one question however and i am not sure if you can help me troubleshoot it beyond what i have already tried finding online. i keep getting stuck at Configuring apt with subtext Scanning the mirror (33%) during my install of debian, at about 13:34 in your video here. troubleshooting suggests it may be a network error but everything looks and operates as normal otherwise, i dont seem to be having connectivity issues in any other regard. please help if you can and find a moment to read this! edit; waited it out and it seems to be proceeding okay! to anyone else who might be afraid something has gone wrong, just wait it out worse case scenario for everything to talk to each other during the install :)

[@florent7412]

Sorry this may be answered in the video but is this playable in other languages than english ? And is the tutorial working with TrinityCore ?

[@Painbow9553]

There may be other language WoW clients but I don't know where they are. No, this is AZEROTHCORE.

[@ComputingCode]

Are the bots persistent? I mean, If I play with bot "KillerXXX", he gets to level 10 and then I shutdown the server, will KillerXXX be there when I start the server again, at level 10 in the same spot?

[@Painbow9553]

He might be level 11 next time you see him actually if you keep the server up. But when you "initialize" them (part 2 of my videos), he will match your current level. But yes, if you shut down the server and restart it later, he will still be available. He will only disappear if you delete the bots. Watch video #2 dude. There is a lot to this.

[@KyPlays2k]

Any TBC servers? Thanks for the video this is awesome

[@Painbow9553]

Thanks. I believe there is but I haven't tried any yet so I can't suggest one for sure. There currently doesn't seem to be a better bot for any WoW server better than the one I show in this video. I could be wrong but I've yet to see anything surpass this. Computers are awesome, and I'm glad there are a lot of people working on all of this software and releasing it freely though.

[@Tawfinator]

You think it’s possible to add something like openAI to these bots?

[@totifoqs]

that would be amazing, hope someone does it

[@Painbow9553]

A guy did on the "Nyctermoon" server, but he refuses to release the source code. He's an ebegging scumbag who takes source code from previous work and then commercializes it. So it is possible but it's not yet available for us.

[@Cyberfoxxy]

Playerbots. I've always wanted to do something like this. I've had an azerothcore server for years. Intermittently I go play in my world. It's amazing. I always wanted to do bots. But I didn't want to spin up hundreds of wow clients. This could finally make most of the dungeons playable again. By the way. I recommend you compile a native binary for Windows. I know the CMAKE guide is a pain in the ass but in return you get a server that kicks off much faster. If you want to run your server in the cloud the yeah. Use a debian. But with the high RAM requirements you might (cost wise) be better off with bare metal.

[@Painbow9553]

What in the hell are you talking about? I would NEVER run a game server in Windows over Linux. The only time I would do that is if I didn't have a choice such as Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, Serious Sam first and second editions. Age of Empires. Age of Empires: Rise of Rome. In other words, where the client is ALSO the server. In other words, not a dedicated server. That's the only time I'll run it in windows. Why would I do that? My windows PC is my gaming PC. My Proxmox server in the living room is a DEDICATED SERVER. I only made the video this way because I'm assuming most people only have one computer, and if that's the case, they're better off running it in a Virtual Machine than dealing with Visual Studio and all that bullcrap on their gaming machine. We want it sandboxed. Having said that, I hope you do it properly and don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me very much when I'm angry.™ (Just kidding. Sort of.)

[@IH319]

Hey Nirv, can you tell me why not all addons can work, such as Bartender, Recount, Bagnon? But others are working at the same time, like AtlasLoot, Shadowed Unit Frames, Clique.

[@IH319]

I fixed it myself, downloaded addons from another site and everything worked.

[@nilsstrohfeld19]

Very nice Video! My server runs like a charm. Now that everything works properly i tried to make the server "public" so my brother can join from his home. I typed in the public ip into the SQLdatabase and established the port forwarding for 3724 and 8085 on my router but he still can't connect to my server. Do you have any idea off what to do?

[@Painbow9553]

Computers for me are hard to troubleshoot over the keyboard. If you want to share your screen over discord or something, I'd be willing to take a look. Discord: nirvgorilla Just tell me you're the guy with the PORT issues.

[@thegamingworld100]

Oh wow this just randomly popped up on my feed. I tried getting into WoW (retail) at one point but couldn't stand the amount chores/FOMO, which is a shame because I really liked some aspects of the game. This might be the perfect solution for that, I'm gonna try setting it up this weekend!

[@lotharschramm5000]

Won't change anything about the chores though? Chores are the basis of any mmo game. Just play a single player RPG game western style instead, lol.

[@yesok2954]

Couldn't make it past 11:27 Every time I open it up, it closes itself and says "aborted" with the error message: "Not in a hypervisor partition (HVP=0) (VERR_NEM_NOT_AVAILABLE). AMD-V is disabled in the BIOS (or by the host OS) (VERR_SVM_DISABLED)."

[@Painbow9553]

Get into your BIOS and enable AMD-V. Virtualization. If you don't know what motherboard you have, google the laptop or motherboard and find out how to get into the bios. Once there, find the AMD-V or virtualization setting and TURN IT ON. It should never be off.

[@yesok2954]

@@Painbow9553 Was just on my way to delete my comment. Found a tutorial and got that sorted, but I'll leave the comment up for other people who experience the same issue.

[@kirani666]

Thanks for such a detailed guide! I do have an issue though. I can't seem to consistently login properly unless I am using only 80 bots (AiPlayerbot.MinRandomBots, AiPlayerbot.MaxRandomBots). Otherwise, my client gets stuck on Connected and doesn't load my characters. And sometimes the server gets stuck and won't even log the bots in. Any help for this issue? Been at it all day now :(

[@Painbow9553]

Damnit I wrote a long reply and accidentally hit cancel. Sometimes I really hate youtube comments. I would advise going to the azerothcore discord to help troubleshoot a problem like this. I don't know enough. I'm the new guy myself! Sorry.

[@kirani666]

@@Painbow9553 looks like i got it! I had some thoughts come to me last night in bed about maybe increasing the memory and or processors of the machine. I did go from 6 gb to 8 gb memory, but I think the issue was I was using 12 cores and I only have 12 cores. I thought they were the 24 logical processors haha. So I downed that to 6 and all works now with 400-500 bots!

[@Flarisic]

What discords are you in nowadays, painbow?

[@nirv]

Who wants to know? *suspicious eye shift*

[@jackspicer5245]

Are you the guy who used to run uldaman for super rare item like all the time?

[@Painbow9553]

I am. 7331 Uldaman runs or something for Pendulum of Doom. :D Keen memory you have!

[@theworstvow]

@@Painbow9553 Legend

[@diogo4800]

and flamed that cucklord studen. I was like wtf when he said "painbow"

[@mattwilliams5234]

I did a copy and paste off his list , but I didn’t check if it was lowercase . I’ll look when I get home !

[@capSAR]

net-tools does not run after installing on the latest debian 12, suggestions? I can't set up the static IP as the name resolution does not work after changing the gateway and dns.

[@nirv]

As the installation text file mentions you have to manually install net-tools