KiwiNet

KiwiNet is an experimental server emulator for pre-release versions of Path of Exile (0.x). The only currently supported version is 0.8.8 (beta).

This project is intended for educational and archival purposes only. Support for "modern" versions (3.x+) is not planned.

Feel free to join the Discord server if you want to discuss this project.

Features

This is still very far from being "playable".

Basic login server functionality works: authentication, creating accounts, changing password, creating and deleting characters, sending instance server details.
Early instance server functionality: entering and exploring areas.

The 0.8.8 client ISO is available on Archive.org as "Path Of Exile PAX 2011 Closed Beta".
Launch Client.exe with the --nopatch argument to bypass the patcher.
The archived client's GGPK file is missing the Art\Textures\Interface folder. The missing files can be added to the client directory without modifying the GGPK. .mat placeholders can be extracted from the GGPK with VisualGGPK2 and other tools, .dds and .png files can be substituted with arbitrary images.
The instance server requires Data and Metadata folders from the client's GGPK. They need to be extracted and placed in the instance server directory.
If the client freezes at the login screen, you need to block access to the tyypo.com domain.
- You can do this on Windows by adding 127.0.0.1 tyypo.com to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.
- This is because the 0.8.8 client is hardcoded to load news from tyypo.com/production_motd.txt, and it doesn't handle errors very well.