Alpha build 3348 unknown place

[elzabbul]

Hello, I would like to present you some vintage exploration as I love old WoW builds. This area is to the right of Teldrassil (when looking at map) and there is no possibility to get there other than by some crazy worldporting - it is high in the sky. The worldport is 1 10500 -1800 500 , I think there is still a lot to be found in these old builds. For example there is a huge desert with flat areas to the south of silithus... PVPZONE2 with very early Blasted lands... probably more

Edit build 3368 obviously, sorry for mistake

[Linostar]

what i have to do to play offline on this old wow vanilla without crash my real wow data?

[BaddyMcBad]

Hello, I would like to present you some vintage exploration as I love old WoW builds. This area is to the right of Teldrassil (when looking at map) and there is no possibility to get there other than by some crazy worldporting - it is high in the sky. The worldport is 1 10500 -1800 500 , I think there is still a lot to be found in these old builds. For example there is a huge desert with flat areas to the south of silithus... PVPZONE2 with very early Blasted lands... probably more

Edit build 3368 obviously, sorry for mistake

I know of the desert area south of Silithus that you speak of. I absolutely loved it when I was able to get the vanilla F&F Alpha working.

[elzabbul]

what i have to do to play offline on this old wow vanilla without crash my real wow data?

At least my version has no installer these are just files packed, so after unpacking it doesn't do anything to the real wow. I have both builds together in games folder since many years

[Andy8888]

what i have to do to play offline on this old wow vanilla without crash my real wow data?

[Nyarly]

The alpha has been explored many times (including by me) but i didn't know this spot (i can't worldport on my abyss server, how you do this ? ;_

It's a really great find. I love this stuff and i thought there would be no more things left to discover on previous alpha builds. I was wrong, i'm so going to explore the crap out of my betas !

Thanks for this +5 rep for you


Everything you need to explore the alpha : http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...nt-2003-a.html (World Of Warcraft Classic Alpha Client[2003])

[spoutnik]

@Linostar & Andy : are you dump ? This is a sandbox ...

[elzabbul]

The alpha has been explored many times (including by me) but i didn't know this spot (i can't worldport on my abyss server, how you do this ? ;_

It's a really great find. I love this stuff and i thought there would be no more things left to discover on previous alpha builds. I was wrong, i'm so going to explore the crap out of my betas !

Thanks for this +5 rep for you


Everything you need to explore the alpha : http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...nt-2003-a.html (World Of Warcraft Classic Alpha Client[2003])

On Abyss 1.1 (aka Abyss2) go to console and just type worldport continent x y z, enter and voila

[Teryaki]

This is interesting, too bad there is no way to fly around and port to other maps. I would love to see what some of the instances may have looked like, if they existed. Also, anyone know if GM Island exists on this build. I tried going in with some of the current coords and had no luck.

[elzabbul]

Of course you can port to other instances. Just need to edit your char's file, the last number serves as the instance number. No GM island, but there are Deadmines, Shadowfang, PVPZones etc

[Teryaki]

Ok, I will try messing around with it. Thanks elzabbul.

[MoD]

Yes, this place is well known, it's even shown in Picakill's Mysterious WoW from year 2005:

Mysterious WoW

As for changing instance IDs:

Abyss doesn't allow direct porting threw various instances IDs.
But it can be done by doing the following:

-Locate a file named f7fXXXXXXX.dat in your WoW alpha folder, and open it with your favorite text editor.

-You'll end up with something similar to this:

1|5|troll|1|0|7|64|0|8|4|1|2|0|3|9|0|17|-10075|-5649.12|15.902||3.42929|0|

-Check the last field, which is the Instance ID, and change it to your needs:

0    Kalimdor      
1    Azeroth   
2    UnderMine
13   Testing
17   Kalidar
25   ScottTest
29   CashTest
30   PVPZone01
33   Shadowfang   
34   StormwindJail
35   StormwindPrison
36   DeadminesInstance
37   PVPZone02
42   Collin's Test
43   WailingCaverns
44   Monastery
47   RazorfenKraulInstance
48   Blackfathom
70   Uldaman
90   GnomeragonInstance
109  SunkenTemple
129  RazorfenDowns

-Don't forget to set your character to '2-Last Known Position' in server options, then login.

-If you end up in emptyness, tele around until you hit the ground (Kalidar & Plains of Snow are both somewhere around from -1500 to 1500 ranges)

Happy exploring!

[elzabbul]

Damn, I thought that I found something new. Anyway thanks for replies and rep guys

[Teryaki]

Thanks for the post Mod, will try it now since I am off work. UnderMine sounds interesting, but can't find a good teleport to land on solid ground (if there is ground).

[spoutnik]

If you want to visit Undermine, you'll be disappointed, beause there's nothing here
The instance is wmo-based (means that there is no ground, like RagefireChasm or Uldaman for example, but "only" a floating grotto), but the problem is, there's no wmo ScottTest is the same, there's nothing.

Undermine was abandonned very early, if I remember well there's no mention of it in WoW Beta's files.


However, Kalidar and PvpZone02 are very interesting, they're worth the trip ^^