• TrinityCore ¹⁾
• 3.3.5 ²⁾
• Realm of Espionage

• These notes provide a local singleplayer server for World of Warcraft 3.3.5 on Linux (see these notes for Windows)
• For a traditional dedicated server see these notes

• Fedora Workstation (GNOME)
• MariaDB
• World of Warcraft 3.3.5 (Linux)

• TrinityCore
• TrinityCore MMo Project Wiki

sudo dnf install bzip2-devel gcc-c++ cmake git mariadb-devel boost boost-devel readline-devel

cd ~ && mkdir -p ~/'Projects' && rm -Rf ~/'Projects/trinity-335/src' && git clone --branch '3.3.5' --depth '1' --recurse-submodules 'https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore.git' ~/'Projects/trinity-335/src' && sync

• This creates the authserver, characters, and worldserver databases
• Change the x for all three GRANTs to a password

sudo mariadb

CREATE DATABASE authserver;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON authserver.* to 'authserver'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'x';

CREATE DATABASE characters;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON characters.* to 'characters'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'x';

CREATE DATABASE worldserver;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON worldserver.* to 'worldserver'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'x';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

EXIT

• 2024/06/02: Takes about 11 minutes on i5-8400H

rm -Rf ~/'Projects/trinity-335/build' ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run' && mkdir -p ~/'Projects/trinity-335/build' ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run' && cd ~/'Projects/trinity-335/build' && cmake ~/'Projects/trinity-335/src' -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/'Projects/trinity-335/run' -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE='Release' -DTOOLS='1' && sync && make --jobs=$(nproc) install && sync

git -C ~/'Projects/trinity-335/src' pull origin '3.3.5' && cd ~/'Projects/trinity-335/build' && cmake ~/'Projects/trinity-335/src' -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/'Projects/trinity-335/run' -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE='Release' -DTOOLS='1' && sync && make --jobs=$(nproc) install && sync

• Expects World of Warcraft 3.3.5

• 2024/06/02: Takes about 30 seconds on i5-8400H ³⁾

cp --force ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/mapextractor' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && cd ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && rm -Rf 'dbc' 'maps' 'Cameras' && ./'mapextractor' -f '0' && sync

• 2024/06/02: Takes about 45 seconds on i5-8400H ⁴⁾

cp --force ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/vmap4extractor' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && cd ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && rm -Rf 'Buildings' && ./'vmap4extractor' -l && sync

• 2024/06/02: Takes about 11 seconds on i5-8400H ⁵⁾

cp --force ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/vmap4assembler' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && cd ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && rm -Rf 'vmaps' && mkdir -p 'vmaps' && ./'vmap4assembler' 'Buildings' 'vmaps' && sync

• 2024/03/06: Takes about 43 minutes on i5-8400H ⁶⁾

cp --force ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/mmaps_generator' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && cd ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && rm -Rf 'mmaps' && mkdir -p 'mmaps' && ./'mmaps_generator' --bigBaseUnit 'true' --threads $(nproc) && sync

cd ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && mv --force 'dbc' 'maps' 'Cameras' 'vmaps' 'mmaps' ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin' && rm -f 'mapextractor' 'vmap4extractor' 'vmap4assembler' 'mmaps_generator' && cd ~ && sync

• ~/Projects/trinity-335/run/bin needs Cameras, dbc, maps, mmaps, and vmaps folders

ls --directory ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/dbc' ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/maps' ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/Cameras' ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/vmaps' ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/mmaps'

gio open ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/'

cd ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/' && rm -Rf 'Buildings' 'mapextractor' 'vmap4extractor' 'vmap4assembler' 'mmaps_generator' 'WoWDL.lnk' && cd ~ && sync

gio open ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340'*'/'

• https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore/releases
• Download the latest TDB 335 .7z with a web browser

• Expects something like TDB_full_world_335.24041_2024_04_10.7z in ~/Downloads

rm -Rf ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/TDB_full_world_335.'*'.sql' && cd ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin' && 7za x ~/'Downloads/TDB_full_world_335.'*'.7z' && cd ~

• See TrinityCore 3.3.5 localhost confs

• authserver needs started at least once to create the tables and to start worldserver for account creation
• Ctrl + C to exit

cd ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin' && ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/authserver'

sudo mariadb --execute="UPDATE authserver.realmlist SET name = 'localhost', address = 'localhost' WHERE realmlist.id = 1"

• Change x to password

cd ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin' && ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/worldserver'

account create Espionage724 x

account set gmlevel Espionage724 3 -1

server shutdown 1

cd ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin' && ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/authserver'

cd ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin' && ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/worldserver'

nano ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/tc-335-server-start.sh' && chmod +x ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/tc-335-server-start.sh'

#!/bin/bash

cd ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin'
gnome-terminal --title='WoW localhost authserver' -- ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/authserver'
gnome-terminal --title='WoW localhost worldserver' -- ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/bin/worldserver'

# End

~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/tc-335-server-start.sh'

• Dumps authserver and characters MariaDB databases as .sql in ~/Downloads

cd ~/'Downloads' && sudo mariadb-dump --user 'root' --databases 'authserver' --result-file='localserver-authserver-database-'$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%s)'.sql' && sudo chown $USER:$USER ~/'Downloads/localserver-authserver-database-'*'.sql' && sync

cd ~/'Downloads' && sudo mariadb-dump --user 'root' --databases 'characters' --result-file='localserver-characters-database-'$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%s)'.sql' && sudo chown $USER:$USER ~/'Downloads/localserver-characters-database-'*'.sql' && sync

nano ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/tc-335-save-backup.sh' && chmod +x ~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/tc-335-save-backup.sh'

#!/bin/bash

cd ~/'Downloads'
sudo mariadb-dump --user 'root' --databases 'authserver' --result-file='localserver-authserver-database-'$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%s)'.sql'
sudo mariadb-dump --user 'root' --databases 'characters' --result-file='localserver-characters-database-'$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%s)'.sql'
sudo chown $USER:$USER ~/'Downloads/localserver-authserver-database-'*'.sql' ~/'Downloads/localserver-characters-database-'*'.sql'
sync
notify-send 'localserver databases have been successfully dumped.'

# End

~/'Projects/trinity-335/run/tc-335-save-backup.sh'

• This deletes the existing authserver and characters databases before restoring from backup
• Only have a single authserver and worldserver .sql in ~/Downloads ^{7) 8)}

ls ~/'Downloads/localserver-authserver-database-'*'.sql' && sudo mariadb --execute='DROP DATABASE authserver'

sudo mariadb --execute='CREATE DATABASE authserver'

sudo mariadb 'authserver' < ~/'Downloads/localserver-authserver-database-'*'.sql'

ls ~/'Downloads/localserver-characters-database-'*'.sql' && sudo mariadb --execute='DROP DATABASE characters'

sudo mariadb --execute='CREATE DATABASE characters'

sudo mariadb 'characters' < ~/'Downloads/localserver-characters-database-'*'.sql'

sudo mariadb

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON authserver.* to 'authserver'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'x';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON characters.* to 'characters'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'x';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

EXIT