Excellent resources for world of warcraft private servers in rust
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awesome-wow-rust
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Excellent resources for world of warcraft private servers in rust. There is still a lot of room for experimentation with a few differing approaches. This resource will act like a hub to share ideas and experiment with alternatives.
Servers
- wrath-rs: the most complete implementation, with movement in the world
- azerust: an experiment into a modular high-tech server platform with interfaces over graphql and tokio-console
- wow_vanilla_server: experimental 1.12 server with no external dependencies other than
cargo run.
Libraries
- wow-srp: wow's flavour of SRP-6 authentication
- wow_login_messages: datastructures for the wow login server
- wow_world_messages: message definitions and types for wow world server
- wow_message_parser: a pest-based parser for wow packets
- wowm: a DSL for the world of warcraft protocol, aiming to cover client / server for versions 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x
- divert: Rust bindings for Recast pathfinding library
- namigator-rs: Rust bindings for the namigator WoW pathfinding library
- dev_wow_auth_server: Authentication server that allows everybody with a matching username/password combination to log in. Used for skipping writing an authentication server and going directly to writing a world server.
File Formats
- wow_dbc: library for reading 1.12, 2.4.3, and 3.3.5 DBC files
- wow_chunky: library for reading 1.12, 2.4.3 and 3.3.5 binary files (ADT, WDT, BLP, BLS)
- wowdbdefs-rs: Library for reading WoWDbDefs DBC file definitions.
- image-blp: Library for reading Blizzard BLP files
- warcraft-rs: A collection of crates for WoW 1.x to 5.x file formats, which support up- and downgrade between format versions. Currently supported: MPQ, ADT, WDT, WDL, M2, WMO and DBC
Tools
- forge: a pure-Rust WoW renderer, using wow_chunky to parse WDT/ADT/BLP files and render them with Bevy
- idewave-cli: a world of warcraft client as a cli.
- worgen-rs: a desktop 3D asset viewer for WoW models and maps, built with warcraft-rs and bevy.
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Excellent resources for world of warcraft private servers in rust
47
17 commits
updated Jun 18, 2026
README
awesome-wow-rust
🚨 We have a discord server! Please join if you'd like to get involved: https://discord.gg/RjSytaEuuX
Excellent resources for world of warcraft private servers in rust. There is still a lot of room for experimentation with a few differing approaches. This resource will act like a hub to share ideas and experiment with alternatives.
Servers
- wrath-rs: the most complete implementation, with movement in the world
- azerust: an experiment into a modular high-tech server platform with interfaces over graphql and tokio-console
- wow_vanilla_server: experimental 1.12 server with no external dependencies other than
cargo run.
Libraries
- wow-srp: wow's flavour of SRP-6 authentication
- wow_login_messages: datastructures for the wow login server
- wow_world_messages: message definitions and types for wow world server
- wow_message_parser: a pest-based parser for wow packets
- wowm: a DSL for the world of warcraft protocol, aiming to cover client / server for versions 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x
- divert: Rust bindings for Recast pathfinding library
- namigator-rs: Rust bindings for the namigator WoW pathfinding library
- dev_wow_auth_server: Authentication server that allows everybody with a matching username/password combination to log in. Used for skipping writing an authentication server and going directly to writing a world server.
File Formats
- wow_dbc: library for reading 1.12, 2.4.3, and 3.3.5 DBC files
- wow_chunky: library for reading 1.12, 2.4.3 and 3.3.5 binary files (ADT, WDT, BLP, BLS)
- wowdbdefs-rs: Library for reading WoWDbDefs DBC file definitions.
- image-blp: Library for reading Blizzard BLP files
- warcraft-rs: A collection of crates for WoW 1.x to 5.x file formats, which support up- and downgrade between format versions. Currently supported: MPQ, ADT, WDT, WDL, M2, WMO and DBC
Tools
- forge: a pure-Rust WoW renderer, using wow_chunky to parse WDT/ADT/BLP files and render them with Bevy
- idewave-cli: a world of warcraft client as a cli.
- worgen-rs: a desktop 3D asset viewer for WoW models and maps, built with warcraft-rs and bevy.