u/kingspoken

Hello again!

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Installer and Written Guide Link

I just put out my second big installer and this one was my ultimate dream. I started playing WoW at release, even got into the beta and logged in once, I remember that being a big deal to me lol. Didn't know what I was doing.

Vanilla WoW has always been my favorite. When I started playing private servers I always gravitated to Vanilla servers. This server here is my absolute dream. This is Cmangos and has playerbots and the Auction House built in. Defaults to 1000 bots, I upped it to 1200 and the Steam Deck runs fine.

This is it for me, this is the game I'll personally be playing for a very long time, and I'm happy to give this installer to anyone who wishes to have it.

Take care yall!

WoW Master Suite Install Guide Video

(Trying to respond to everyone as best as I can. I never encountered so many comments lol)

Finally completed that Installer and OMG, what a hassle that was lol. I have an install video that walks you through the process, but the goal was to make it as quick and EASY as possible. No experience needed, I hold your hand the entire time. But yea, it's finally finished! You get 3 options to choose from:

1. Base WoW with Solocraft: For those that want to go through the world by themselves and want to do dungeons and raids all alone.

2. NPCBots, Comes packaged with NPCbots which are hireable and will fight with you in the open world, dungeons, and raids. Apparently they can also wander the world with 1 command but I didn't get to play with it yet. Kinda want to play with this but honestly I'm playing on the next one. I will note that the scripting for the bots here are said to be really good, especially for pvp. I believe these were the bots that stomped me when I ran servers on my PC back in the day.

3. Playerbots, this is the one I think will he popular and is shown in the video. A bunch of bots populate the world and you log in to seeing a bunch of bots roaming the world killing and doing whatever. Like a bot? Invite it to your party and they'll help you quest. They will also help in dungeons and raids!

I can't post links but Dads MMO Lab is how you find me. I worked on this for a long time and wanted to get this working on steam deck for well over a year, and now that the door is open... man... so many possibilities.

Take care yall!

Hey r/SteamDeckTricks!

I've been working on something I think this

community will appreciate — a fully automated

installer that sets up a complete offline WoW

private server on your Steam Deck using

AzerothCore and Docker.

Here's the trick part:

🎮 GAMING MODE SETUP

Added as a Non-Steam game via Konsole.

Launches the server, waits for world to

initialize, tells you when it's ready, then

AUTO-SHUTS DOWN the server the moment you

close WoW. Zero Desktop Mode after initial

setup.

⚙️ ONE COMMAND INSTALL

chmod +x install.sh && ./install.sh

That's it. The script handles everything:

✅ Detects SteamOS automatically

✅ Installs Docker via pacman

✅ Clones AzerothCore

✅ Installs AI bot and progression modules

✅ Creates your account

✅ Builds the Gaming Mode launcher

🔧 WHAT YOU GET

✅ Full WotLK 3.3.5a server — offline forever

✅ 500 AI bots for dungeons and raids

✅ Individual progression Vanilla → WotLK

✅ Living Auction House economy

✅ 60fps in Gaming Mode

✅ Launches in under 1 minute

Full install guide showing every step:

▶️ https://youtu.be/GVUVnngY93I

Free installer on GitHub:

📦 github.com/DadsMmoLab/dads-mmo-lab

Happy to answer any technical questions —

this community has already helped make the

installer dramatically better through bug

reports in the past 48 hours.

More games coming — same approach, same

one command install. Monster Hunter Frontier

is next. 🐉

🚨 LIVE UPDATES AT TOP — SCROLL DOWN FOR THE FULL STORY 🚨

🔧 FIX: Port 8080 phpMyAdmin Conflict If your install failed with an error mentioning "0.0.0.0:8080" or "phpmyadmin" — this is fixed in the latest install.sh on GitHub.

The official AzerothCore server ships with a database manager (phpMyAdmin) that tries to use port 8080 — which many Steam Decks already have in use. The new installer automatically excludes it since you don't need it to play WoW.

➡️ Re-download install.sh from GitHub and run the installer fresh. If you already have a partial install, run uninstall.sh first to clean up, then reinstall.

Already stuck mid-install? Run this in Konsole: cd ~/wow-server && docker compose up -d --scale phpmyadmin=0

That starts the server without phpMyAdmin entirely. WoW runs perfectly without it. 🎮

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✅ Full step-by-step WoW guide ✅ install.sh — one command automated installer ✅ uninstall.sh — safe removal with character backup ✅ HOWTO-INSTALL.md — plain English guide, zero Linux knowledge needed ✅ HOWTO-UNINSTALL.md — same, for removal

FIRST TIME? Start here: github.com/DadsMmoLab/dads-mmo-lab/blob/main/guides/wow-wotlk/HOWTO-INSTALL.md

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐛 BUG REPORTS & FIXES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Multiple fixes have been pushed since launch — always grab the latest install.sh from GitHub before running. Issues? Drop them below or open a GitHub issue and I will personally respond fast. This community has already made the installer dramatically better in just one day. Thank you. Seriously.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE STORY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I've wanted a fully offline WoW server running in gaming mode on my Steam Deck since the day I got one. Not desktop mode — actual gaming mode, like any other game on the device.

After long nights of research, failing, researching more, and failing again... I got it.

Here's what it looks like in practice:

🟢 Open the server app from gaming mode 🟢 It tells you when it's ready (~30 seconds) 🟢 Go back to home, launch WoW 🟢 Play your session 🟢 Close WoW, go back to server, press Enter 🟢 Server shuts down safely in seconds

Start to playing: under 1 minute. Exit: about 20 seconds.

500 bots configured. Working Auction House. Individual progression — my character levels through Vanilla, unlocks TBC, then WotLK. Running at 60fps on high settings. The Steam Deck handles it without breaking a sweat.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT'S NEXT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WoW is just the beginning. Here's what's coming:

🐉 Monster Hunter Frontier Z (my personal passion project — already have a server on my PC) 🍄 MapleStory Pre-Big Bang (wife's request 👩) ⚡ PSO Blue Burst (already confirmed on Steam Deck) 💎 Mu Online, Ragnarok Online, RuneScape, FFXI 🧱 LEGO Universe, Habbo Hotel, Tibia ...and a lot more. Full roadmap on the GitHub.

The goal isn't just WoW. The goal is to preserve every classic MMO we grew up with so nobody ever has to say goodbye to a game they love again.

If you have suggestions — drop them below.

Cheers 🍺 u/Kingspoken

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