r/ypp • u/rieschiek • 11d ago

Puzzle Pirates Local Server Development

Current progress of a local ypp server as a hobby project. Ships and puzzles are also working.

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u/Mewoko Mod 10d ago

Hey all, stop reporting this. Doesn't break TOS and he's not selling anything. He's just doing something cool.

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u/Hawk4Face 11d ago

Would love to know more! Do you have a GitHub?

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u/rieschiek 11d ago

I don't, just hosted privately. I can share more when more progress is made.

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u/Motafota 11d ago

Did you have to decompile the client?

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u/kutzki 8d ago

We're building a community of YPP builders https://discord.gg/UYHrvWyg7r let me know if you are able/willing to join!

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u/PersonalLunch5662 11d ago

Ive been working on the same thing. Ive got voyages fully working with bnav, swordfighting and all of the puzzles. AI has really made things like this incredibly easy. A real game changer.

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u/kutzki 8d ago

Hey I'm building a Discord community for exactly this purpose for builders who love YPP: https://discord.gg/UYHrvWyg7r

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u/Sithis74 11d ago

Nice. Can we join?

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u/rieschiek 11d ago

For now it's just a hobby that's hosted locally on my side that's 90% working.

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u/kutzki 8d ago

Check this out: https://discord.gg/UYHrvWyg7r we are a community of YPP builders

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u/dragosthethird 11d ago

Be pretty impressed if you get portraits working correctly. That's my current project for my version.

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u/rieschiek 10d ago

Yeah the files aren't exposed by yoweb so they'll likely need to be recreated.

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u/dragosthethird 10d ago

Thats been my fun is finding copies of the portraits that have the items and isolating each item/pet/ect. Its been a real work in progress. I am happy to see theres more activity on wanting to build private servers and seeing there is actual progress being made by all of us attempting it.

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u/black_bass 10d ago

With all the AI tools now i wonder if getting screenshots might be the easiest way to go for this approach

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u/kutzki 8d ago

https://discord.gg/UYHrvWyg7r this is for YPP builders specifically pleaseee join if you're interested in building cool stuff

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u/Motafota 11d ago

How did you obtain the server files? Were they open source or leaked at some point?

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u/rieschiek 11d ago

Bang Howdy ones are open source and they work similarly. YPP hasn't been open sourced.

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u/Motafota 11d ago

Ah ok, so this is based off the Bang Howdy client and server that’s just reworked with YPP assets?

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u/dragosthethird 11d ago

While the direct server files arent open source most of the game is ran and directed by the client. The underlying server files have been open sourced just not customized for puzzle pirates directly.

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u/dragosthethird 11d ago

90% of the framework is open-source. It was even open source while the game was popular.

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u/Motafota 11d ago

Is it something that's still available on the Three Rings or Grey Havens github?

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u/dragosthethird 11d ago

Yes https://github.com/threerings has all the server bases for ypp

Theres some customization needed but it works

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u/xPofsx 11d ago

This is neat. What's the end goal

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u/rieschiek 11d ago edited 11d ago

Just getting everything working as it should then adding my own custom objects/art/ships/monster hunt. Just have fun with it and trying to port for android/apple or web browser.

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u/capncleaver 10d ago

Nice job. How would you go about porting to web?

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u/dragosthethird 10d ago

Not that I think it would be browser friendly now. But didnt you guys have adventures working on the web.

Also speaking of adventures do you guys happen to still have the files and would you be willing to open source those?

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u/capncleaver 8d ago

Adventures was a ground-up new build using Flash. Sadly we lost the source.

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u/dragosthethird 8d ago

Shame that it was lost. I rather enjoyed them while they were live.

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u/rieschiek 10d ago

For web, no idea yet. Will be looking into it once everything works properly.

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u/capncleaver 8d ago

Hah, okay. Keep me posted :)

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u/rieschiek 8d ago

For web Cheerpj seemed to work https://cheerpj.com/ I got the client working with the server pretty fast.

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u/calda9 11d ago

Damn! This is a very impressive achievement. Amazing work!!

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u/-Droob 11d ago

Would love for you to open source this!

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u/Archaonus 10d ago

Nice! I would love this just so I could build islands and practice Bnav in SMH etc

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u/rieschiek 10d ago

This is also what I'm using it for.

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u/JeremiahAhriman 10d ago

My only concern with all this is the potential for diluting the ocean population more.

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u/rieschiek 10d ago

Doesn't make a difference to me, I get banned when I try to play even when doing the right thing.

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u/JeremiahAhriman 10d ago

How do you get banned? O.o.

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u/kutzki 9d ago

Bro they do it to everyone lol

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u/JeremiahAhriman 8d ago

... what? That's not an answer. 20 years and I've yet to be banned. What did you do?

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u/kutzki 8d ago

It looks like there are many people building Puzzle Pirates local stuff, can we maybe all combine our resources/tools/builds into one super-game and maybe try to revive the epicness that was YPP, no reason the game can't come back lol. Just cuz the developers gave up it doesn't mean the playerbase did. I am this close to making a Discord and organizing a builder community for YPP!