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- deleting a rare-or-better item forks to the reference's typed confirm — "Type \"DELETE\" into the field to confirm": Yes starts disabled, the box takes focus, the button enables only while the field spells DELETE, and a reflexive Enter over a half-typed word is inert; the missing engine piece was one hook, the edit box's on-text-changed; beside it, the loot bind-on-pickup confirm — bind-on-pickup AND uncommon-or-better, two conjuncts and no others, so a white BoP drop is taken with no dialog and a bind-on-equip blue never asks here — with the reference's one-pending-slot latch, and the take split into two verbs the way 1.12 actually has it: the row click stays C-side, and LootSlot is only the confirmation's continuation
- the message frames get their justify quartet, read out of the binary's method tables (with the Button table re-derived as the control that lacks it); Frame:EnableDrawLayer/DisableDrawLayer and Region:GetDrawLayer land — the disabled layers are a five-bit mask on the frame, so re-enabling a layer restores exactly what was showing underneath; and the Skills tab's children take the reference's names, with SKILLS_TO_DISPLAY published — pfUI loops over it and got "'for' limit must be a number"
- the README's roadmap line now names what is genuinely big — battlegrounds and meeting stones, both verified still missing — plus the long tail, because the old line named four features that have since landed and small features go stale on a roadmap within a week

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<h1>benilla</h1>
<p><b>A from-scratch World of Warcraft 1.12.1 client in Rust and <a href="https://bevy.org">Bevy</a></b></p>
<p>
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> [!IMPORTANT]
> **Issues and pull requests are closed here.** benilla is a solo project developed in a private
> tree; this repo is its export, published as squashed snapshots, so a PR here has nothing to land
> on. The best way to contribute is to join the [Discord](https://discord.gg/wJSJx467G4) and report
> the bugs you find. Questions and ideas are welcome in the same place.
benilla speaks the original 1.12.1 protocol, so it connects to any server the real client could,
and reads its game data at runtime from your own 1.12.1 install. Every file format and the network
protocol are implemented from scratch, with no original client code, no third-party WoW crates,
and no bundled game assets.
## What works
- **Formats:** readers for the full asset stack (MPQ patch chain, BLP, DBC, ADT/WDT/WDL, M2, WMO),
wired into Bevy as an asset source.
- **World:** streamed terrain out to the horizon, portal-culled WMOs with interior lighting,
doodads and ground clutter, swimmable liquids, sky and weather, and the client's own day/night
lighting, fog and gamma passes.
- **Models:** GPU-skinned M2s with the full animation controller, a near feature-complete particle
system, ribbons, and animated gameobjects from doors to lifts.
- **Characters:** customization end to end, the armor texture composite, weapons with sheathing and
enchant glows, shapeshift forms, stealth and mounts.
- **Movement:** a WoW-feel controller, networked movement in both directions, the server-granted
modes from slow fall to roots, a follow camera with collision, boats, zeppelins and taxi flights.
- **Networking:** SRP6 auth through world-session crypto, the object mirror into the ECS, and live
wire coverage from movement and chat through spells, party, quests, mail, trade, vendors, bank,
loot, the auction house and PvP honor.
- **UI:** a from-scratch FrameXML + Lua engine driving the built-in interface, from the login and
character screens through the full HUD, the classic windows (guild, macros and key bindings
included), chat, nameplates, floating combat text and tooltips; third-party addons load from
a `benilla-config/AddOns/` folder beside the executable (partial: AtlasLoot and Bagnon run,
see below).
- **Combat:** melee on the faithful swing law, ranged and Auto Shot, casting with GCD and
cooldowns, combo points, crowd control that really holds you, and the spell visual pipeline.
- **Audio:** music, ambience and SFX under the client's own selection and crossfade rules, with
interior and underwater transitions and zone reverb.
## Where it's going
benilla is done when a 1.12.1 player can do everything here that they could in the original
client, it looks and feels the same, and it runs from a download on Windows, Linux and macOS.
No dates; the order is what is likely, not a promise.
- Battlegrounds and meeting stones, then the long tail of small features that separates a
working client from a finished one.
- Addons, options and performance, ongoing.
- The no-brainer fixes from VanillaFixes, SuperWoW and the like.
- Playable downloads for Windows, Linux and macOS. Linux first.
Not planned: other expansions or client versions, Warden (anticheat).
## Running it
You need a **1.12.1 (build 5875) client install** for game data, a vanilla server to connect to,
and stable Rust. Any 1.12.1 core works; [vmangos](https://github.com/vmangos/core) is what
development runs against, and cMaNGOS and the rest speak the same protocol.
```sh
WOW_DATA=/path/to/WoW/Data cargo run --release -p benilla
```
The server defaults to `localhost:3724`, the stock `realmd` auth port. Point `WOW_HOST`
at any IP or hostname, appending the auth port if yours is remapped
(`WOW_HOST=play.example.com:5000`). Credentials go in at the login screen, or set `WOW_USER` /
`WOW_PASS` to skip it.
---
Early inspiration and file format guidance came from the
[wowemulation-dev](https://github.com/wowemulation-dev) community, and
[warcraft-rs](https://github.com/wowemulation-dev/warcraft-rs) in particular.
benilla is an independent fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment.
It ships **no Blizzard content** — no art, models, sounds, maps, MPQ contents or FrameXML; you
provide your own legally obtained 1.12.1 client. The interface code under
`crates/benilla-app/assets/ui/` is ours, written to the client's own layout and API names so that
the windows look right and 1.12.1 addons find the names they expect.
World of Warcraft is a trademark of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Our own code is licensed under
[MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or [Apache 2.0](LICENSE-APACHE), at your option.