Eldermore. A Community-Driven Turtle WoW Fan Project

Hello everyone!

We would like to introduce you to Eldermore. A Turtle WoW fan project with a vision rooted not in profit or competition, but in learning, creativity, development, and shared fun.

The project primarily pursues an educational approach. It aims to give people the opportunity to gain experience in development, learn from one another, and create and play content together. Whether it’s programming, databases, quest design, mapping, lore, or general game development everyone can contribute.

We believe that creativity and storytelling never have to end.

What Eldermore Stands For

A completely non-commercial fan project.

• No financial interests or profit motives.
• A friendly community that learns and develops content together.
• No pressure to progress, no performance anxiety, and no "rushing" to the endgame.
• The goal is a long-lasting project that evolves alongside the community.

No Monetization

Eldermore is intended to operate entirely without monetization.

While the in-game shop remains in the client for technical reasons, it will contain no content whatsoever for the foreseeable future.

Our aim is to work with the community to develop a long-term concept for providing cosmetic content without payment models, microtransactions, or paywalls.

No Traditional Website

We have also consciously decided against having a traditional website.

All organizational processes will take place centrally via Discord. This not only saves on running costs and maintenance effort but also creates a space where the community can interact directly and work on the project together.

For new members, this initially means joining the Discord, though a permanent Discord account is not strictly required. However, joining is a prerequisite for contributing to the project. Naturally, Discord can be used directly via a browser, so installation is not mandatory. This approach offers us two key advantages:

We can better ensure that no automated bot accounts register.

Discord’s email verification provides an extra layer of security, confirming that there is an actual user behind every account.

Account management can also be handled entirely through Discord. This includes, among other things:

• Changing your password
• Resetting your password
• Changing your email address
• Deleting your account

Our goal is to make the entire process as simple and straightforward as possible, without needing to operate a dedicated web platform.

Current Development Status

Eldermore is currently based on the Turtle WoW 1.18 codebase, into which initial content from 1.18.1 has already been integrated.

Several zones have already been created, spawned, and populated with NPCs and initial content. However, much of the project is still in the early stages of development and requires further work and refinement.

Open Source Philosophy

A central part of our vision is to develop Eldermore as a fully open-source project.

Everyone should have access to the source code and the opportunity to actively contribute to its ongoing development. Whether you can code, write quests, build worlds, maintain databases, develop lore, or simply want to learn. Every contribution is welcome.

Our goal is to carry forward the original vision of a community-driven project and to implement new ideas together.

Launch?

It has not yet been decided how or when the project will be released.

Possible options include:

• a completely fresh start,
• a progression-style launch starting from version 1.17,
• or a launch based on version 1.18.

We do not want to make this decision alone.... instead, we want to discuss and vote on it together with the community.

Once a path forward has been agreed upon, future content will be released gradually in line with development progress.

Interested? If our vision resonates with you, we would be delighted to welcome you to our community.

Whether you want to actively develop, test, contribute ideas, or simply be part of a long-term community project—everyone is welcome at Eldermore who is passionate about creating something or being involved.

https://discord.gg/2VRYWaKRY7

There is new information about Eldermore.

https://preview.redd.it/1b4hdq7x9hah1.png?width=1298&format=png&auto=webp&s=fc486241fe7946a6221ce7856bbd50019dc73c51

It looks like things are heading in an international direction after all. Well, there probably wouldn't have been enough interest for a language specific server anyway. Still, I'm hyped and curious to see how the content will be implemented.

https://discord.gg/2VRYWaKRY7

Für alle, die vielleicht auch auf der Suche nach einem neuen Classic-Server sind:

Vor einigen Tagen fragte ein Nutzer hier, ob Interesse an einer Weiterentwicklung von Turtle WoW auf Basis der bestehenden Codebasis bestünde.

Meinen Recherchen zufolge soll das Projekt auf Patch 1.17.2 laufen und möglicherweise sogar auf dem Turtle WoW: Visions-Branch weitergeführt werden. Offizielle Details dazu gibt es momentan allerdings noch nicht.

Interessanterweise scheint sich das Projekt nicht nur an die deutsche Community zu richten. Ich habe den Discord-Server des Projekts (Edlermore) auf einer anderen Plattform gefunden, und alle Kanäle und Kategorien sind auf Englisch. Das deutet darauf hin, dass es sich an ein internationales Publikum richten könnte.

Das sind alle Informationen, die ich bisher bestätigen konnte. Falls jemand weitere Details gefunden hat, teilt sie gerne mit.

https://discord.gg/2VRYWaKRY7