WLHQ / Centuria

Server Emulator for the defunct MMORPG Fer.al. Founded and started by @SkySwimmer, with help from @Rawaho.

Centuria

Centuria is a work-in-progress server emulator for the now-defunct MMORPG Fer.al. Developed by a group of developers from the Fer.ever project, Centuria is a fan-run server designed to bring back the MMO game that recently shut down.

Building Centuria

To build Centuria you will need to have Java 17 JDK installed. Centuria is build using gradle.

Building on Windows

On windows, run the following commands in cmd or powershell::

Download dependencies:

mkdir deps
git clone https://github.com/SkySwimmer/connective-http deps/connective-http

Set up a development environment (optional):

.\gradlew eclipse

Build the project:

.\gradlew build

Building on Linux and OSX

On linux, in bash or your favorite shell, run the following commands: (note that this requires bash to be installed on OSX, most linux distros have bash pre-installed)

Configure permissions:

chmod +x gradlew

Download dependencies:

mkdir deps
git clone https://github.com/SkySwimmer/connective-http deps/connective-http

Set up a development environment (optional):

./gradlew eclipse createEclipseLaunches

Build the project:

./gradlew build

After building

After building, you can find the compiled server in build/Installations, you can run the server by starting centuria (either the shell or batch script depending on your OS)

Note about self-hosted servers

Due to the lack of a easy-to-use launcher, hosting a server yourself may prove difficult. You will need to edit your client's Fer.al_Data/sharedassets1.assets and swap out the server endpoints, however this can be tricky, you may run into string length issues. (a guide will be made in the near-future)

Built-in Client mods

Centuria comes with a few client mods in its main repository.

Module org.asf.centuria.client.plugin

This module is designed by Owen to swap out the game asset URLs, its still a bit untested here and there but seems to work.

Building this Client Mod:

(written by Owen) You will need a unhollowed version of the fer.al game assembly (Assembly-CSharp.dll) to build / run the client mod. The hollowed version of the fer.al assembly is generated by the BepinEX client when first ran, in "client\build\BepInEx\unhollowed". Place it into the "clientmods\org.asf.centuria.client.plugin\lib\feral" in this repository to be able to build the client mod.

I have plans to write the plugin to be able to self-retrieve the assembly when ran. But in order to build it, you MUST manually obtain and move the fer.al game assembly.

Installing this Client Mod

After building the client mod, you should find the dll in bin/Debug/netstandard2.1, copy the dll to a folder named org.asf.centuria.client.plugin in the bepinex plugins folder and it should load.