Gate to Heavens Classic

A 2003 fantasy MMORPG, preserved as it shipped. Four classes, 23 worlds and a 98-level climb, with the original interface down to the fonts.

Getting Started

What You Need framework
The hardware, software and files required to run one of our servers, and the one rule about matching a client to a server.
Installing framework
Download, unzip, run. On Windows that is one double-click of GoMMO Manager. What is inside a release, how to tell it worked, and how to keep it running.
Docker and Linux Services framework
Run a server release under Docker Compose with docker/gommoctl, or install it as systemd services with server/linux/install.sh. Commands, where your files live, environment overrides, ports, backups and upgrades.
Services and Tools framework
GoMMO Manager runs all of it from one window on Windows. What every program in a release is for, which you need running, and which you only run once.
GoMMO Manager framework
The Windows window at the top of every release archive that starts your servers, makes your first administrator, takes backups and updates the server.
Updates and Versions framework
What our version numbers mean, how they differ from the game version a server emulates, what a release candidate is, and how to apply an update to a server you are already running.

Configuration framework
The settings.ini format, what each setting does, which port your game uses, and how to open a server to the outside world.
The Database framework
Why the default needs nothing installed, when to switch to MySQL, how to do it, and how to back up either one.
The GameCP framework
The control panel and website that ships with every release. What your players get, what you get, how to put it online, and why the settings behind it differ from game to game.
The Launcher framework
How players sign in and start the game, how the launcher keeps their client files current, and the settings file behind it.

GM Accounts framework
What each staff level can do, the ways to make your first administrator on a fresh server, how to promote everyone else, and the switch that opens the safe RF commands to every player.
Client Updater framework
How to push a client change to every player without handing out a new archive: the manifest, the download route, and driving the updater from the command line.
Signing In With oldschoolops.com framework
Letting players sign in to your server with their oldschoolops.com account instead of a local one, how to ask for a server key, and what changes once it is on.
GameCP API framework
The HTTP API behind the GameCP - sign-in, accounts, support tickets, the public game database and live map, and every control panel endpoint, with the staff level each one needs.
Client Scripting framework
Writing Lua macros for the GoMMO client, and deciding whether your server accepts them.
Client Automation API framework
Letting an AI agent or your own program observe and play a character through the GoMMO client, over MCP or HTTP.

Backups framework
What to copy, how often, and how to prove a backup works before you need it.
Moving a Server framework
Taking a running server to another machine without losing anything.
Hardening a Public Server framework
What to change before a server is reachable from the internet, and what not to bother with.

Your Account framework
Signing in, confirming your address, and what the groups beside a name mean.
Notifications framework
The bell, email, the weekly summary and notifications on a phone - and how to turn any of them off.
The OSO API framework
Using the site from a program with an API key - the forum, reactions, comments, messages, your profile, bug reports and ideas.

GoMMO Client framework
One game client for Gate to Heavens, RF Online and World of Kung Fu, played from your own game install. Installing it, choosing a game, its settings, and its Linux build.

GoMMO Studio framework
The map editor, model viewer and asset toolkit for MMO worlds and for the game clients our servers run, in one window. Start here.

MMO World Format framework
The open, engine-neutral file format GoMMO Studio saves an MMO world in, and how to turn it into your own game's files with an exporter.

Troubleshooting framework
The failures people actually hit, what each one really means, and how to tell them apart.
Reporting a Bug framework
What makes a report useful, what happens to it, and how to follow one you filed.
Capturing Packets framework
How to record the traffic between a game client and an original server with Wireshark, and what to send us. A capture is the only evidence that settles what a message really contains.

Where to Play family
The two Gate to Heavens editions. What each one contains, what the difference is, and which one you can run.
The Game Client family
What ships in the client folder of a Gate to Heavens release, what a player runs, and how it finds your server.

GM Commands family
Every slash command the Gate to Heavens servers accept, what each one does, and which staff level each one needs.

Running Classic Yourself
What is inside the Gate to Heavens Classic release archive, how to start it, and how to get a client connected to your own server.
What Is in Classic
What Gate to Heavens Classic contains today, the original interface and vocabulary it puts back, and which buttons the server does not answer yet.
Your Own Website
Every Gate to Heavens Classic release ships a website that serves your players, patches their client and holds your admin area, and everything in it that names anybody is a setting you control.