Datasets and Realms

Datasets and realms are a new feature from TSWoW version 0.11

This article is under construction

TSWoW supports managing multiple realms from a single installation, and additionally managing separate sets of modules that should be applied for each realm.

Realms

Realms can be managed by the realm command and are stored in the folder coredata/realms. Each realm manages its own characters database and worldserver process, but shares account information with the entire TSWoW installation. If TSWoW starts with no realms created, a default realm tswow will be automatically created.

Creating a new realm

To create a new realm, use the command realm create <realmname>. This will create the configuration file coredata/realms/<realmname>/realm.yaml, where you can configure the port number and addresses this realm should use. To start the worldserver for a new realm, run auth start to restart the authserver and then realm start <realmname> to start the worldserver.

realm.yaml

The contents of this file are read whenever TSWoW starts the authserver, and contains the information necessary for the authserver to point at the realms worldserver. All the settings, except for dataset are analogous to the settings described in the TrinityCore server realmlist table (not to be confused with the clients realmlist.wtf).

Default behavior

To make TSWoW as easy to use for beginners as possible, if no realms are created a default realm tswow will be created automatically, and most realm commands will select this realm by default if no other realm name is provided.

Datasets

All realms must configure a dataset to use, which defines what modules are applied for that realm. A dataset manages its own world and world_source databases, and multiple realms may share a single dataset.

Since datasets may build completely different client and server files from each others, each dataset manages its own world databases and server files, such as dbc, luaxml, map and id data.

Note: For now, all datasets share the same addon message ids, but all other ids are and will remain separate.

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Creating a new dataset

To create a new dataset, use the command dataset create <dataset>. This will create the configuration file coredata/datasets/<dataset>/<dataset>.dataset.yaml.

dataset.yaml

This is the main configuration file for your dataset. You can specify whether to use_mmaps, the client_path and what modules to build. Since datasets may build vastly different client files, it is recommended that you use different development clients for each dataset unless you’re sure they only differ in server data.

Default behavior

TSWoW always has a default dataset, which by default specifies that it uses all modules. Similarly to how realms use the tswow realm by default, dataset commands will assume the default dataset if no other dataset is provided.