Guides

What is where in the LonelyIce window: the Server and Game panels, the tabs, the Play button, the other pages and the tray icon.

The launcher's own language, the language the game starts in, and how LonelyIce uses your client's Config.wtf.

Add, update and remove plugins from the catalog, in the launcher or from the command line.

What you can build for LonelyIce, the tools you need, and the order in which to read the developer guides and reference.

A plugin that greets every player on login, from an empty folder to a package installed by the launcher.

Short patterns from real plugins for server code: hooks, timers, commands, config, databases, messages, gossip, creatures, translations, per-player data and playerbots.

Give a plugin a config file and a group in the launcher's Settings, and read the values in server code.

Tables and rows in the server's databases: folders, file names, when the SQL runs, and the SQL that works on every backend.

Add spells and other DBC rows with patch recipes: named ids, server rows, the generated client archive and what happens on removal.

Build an existing AzerothCore module as a LonelyIce plugin without forking it: a pinned source, small patches, its conf and SQL laid out with the plugin.

How a plugin like lonelyice.mysql adds a database backend to the core and a storage to the launcher.

Logs, loader errors, running the server process by hand, attaching a debugger, and switching a plugin off.

Choosing version numbers, declaring depends and conflicts, shipping several platforms, rebuilding for a new core ABI, and stating languages.

From a built plugin to the catalog: packing, uploading, automatic checks and review.

Every automatic check on an upload, what each message means, how moderators review and decide, and a checklist before you upload.

Serve your packages from a folder or a web server: the index.json format, building it with --pkg pack, and adding the catalog to the launcher.

Build the AzerothCore fork on its own, build plugins against it, run a plain worldserver with plugins, and build LonelyIce with your own core checkout.

Which repository a change belongs in, the conventions each one follows, how to report bugs and submit changes, and how documentation stays in sync.

Create game accounts in the launcher, change passwords and GM levels, and rename your realm.

Read the server log, type server commands, use the ready-made command cards, and a list of useful AzerothCore console commands.

The Settings page: server rates and difficulty, network options, plugin settings, storage and the launcher's own options, and when each change takes effect.

What LonelyIce backs up, when it does it, where the backups go and how to put one back.

How to put a new LonelyIce release in place without losing anything, how to update packages, and what happens to the databases.

Keep the server's databases on a MySQL 8 server with the lonelyice.mysql package, and what changes when you do.

How the server gets its data from your game client, what the disk cache and the movement maps for bots cost, and what to pick.

How LonelyIce is meant to run on Linux and macOS, with the game client through Wine. Not tested yet.

Common problems, the messages LonelyIce shows for them, and what to do.

Short answers about the game client, friends, system needs, where your data lives and your own modules.

Fill your party with bots, give them the everyday orders and choose how many random bots live in the world.

The chat commands your bots understand, grouped by purpose, and how to switch their strategies.

Give each bot an ordered list of rules, manage your party from one window and let the bots follow what you do.

Touch a waycrystal once, then translocate between the crystals you know from any crystal or from the world map.

Sprint for every character and auto-loot of money and quest items; bots never take a share of your coins.

Random bots move into the capital you are in, stroll, rest, chat and greet you, and leave again after you go.

Vendors, trainers, banks, mailboxes and other services as pins on the zone maps, with filters.

Give the bot a character of its own so the auction houses fill with items and your own auctions find a buyer.

Place the Warpweaver, change the look of your gear, save sets and set the rules and prices.

Adopt tamed beasts from White Fang, as a hunter or, if you allow it, as any class.

Loot every corpse around you with one click, and what to set if you want it to reach further.

Place Cromi and clear your dungeon and raid lockouts whenever you like, for free or for a price.

Get your new class spells the moment you level up, without a trip to the trainer.

Control your bots from a window instead of chat commands, with the MultiBot addon and its server bridge.