Gate to Heavens Classic

This zip is your whole game world: the server program, the game's content, a database that builds itself, and GoMMO Manager, the window you run it all from. There is nothing else to install first.

1. Download Gate to Heavens Classic v0.3.2 below. It is 482 MB.
2. Unzip it into a folder of your own, such as C:\Games\classicgth.
3. Not inside Program Files: the server saves its database and logs beside itself, and Windows blocks that there.

Technical details

• Check the download: its SHA-256 is 9a388bf44714ecd6470c69544f9dd8cdac75ffc0f964e00ab484c82a6e9fe185.
• On Linux, run server/start-server.sh, or sudo sh server/linux/install.sh to install it as a service.

Good news: there is nothing to find. The client, the game program you play, is already in the zip you downloaded, in its client folder, and it is the exact build this server speaks to.

1. Open the client folder in what you unzipped and find launcher.exe. That is what you will run in a moment.

GoMMO Manager sits at the top of the folder you unzipped. It is the control panel for your server: it starts and stops it, shows you what it is doing, and sets it up the first time.

1. Double-click GoMMO_Manager.exe.
2. Press Start. If Windows asks about the firewall, allow it.
3. The first time, Server Setup opens by itself. Create your owner account: that is you, the administrator.
4. Watch the log. When it says the server is listening, your world is up.

Technical details

• Switch Auto on and the manager restarts a server that stops on its own.
• It backs up every database each day into backups/, and updates the server when a new release is out.
• The first start takes longest: the server builds its database and imports the game content.

Your server is running on your own computer. Now point the game at it and log in. Your computer is both the server and the player, so the address is 127.0.0.1, which means "this machine".

1. Run client\launcher.exe, not client.exe. The launcher checks for updates and signs you in.
2. Type any email and password. On a fresh server the account is created the first time you sign in.
3. Create a character in the launcher and press Play.

Technical details

• To let friends join, GoMMO Manager's Server Setup writes your public address into the client files, and Check Ports opens the firewall. Forward the same ports on your router.

Every server here is built in the open, and the people running them are the best help you will find. Ask when you are stuck, report what breaks, and follow the game so you hear about each new version.

1. Something broke? Report a bug with what you did, what happened and a screenshot. Fixes land for everybody.
2. Stuck on a step? Ask on Discord or the forum. Say which game and which step.