WoW Mangos Map, VMaps and DBC Extraction Guide

Warning : this page contain lots of images

To make installation of WoW Mangos even easier, based on various suggestion / comment made by the commenters on this site, i’ve decided to create a new complete guide using lots of images instead describing each step carefully especially at the extraction process of Maps, Vmaps, and DBC which caused problem on some people because they keep getting various error message related to missing vmap, vmdir, map, etc

As a side note, this process is based on my release (i already include all the tools required) so if you’re using someone else mangos release, you can always adjust the path accordingly (i mean the tools itself of course) or find the tools by yourself :)

Okay and here are the steps …

Requirements :

DBC Extractor known as MPQE
Ad.exe to extract Maps
VMaps Extractor and Assembler to create vmaps

Fresh Installation and Upgrading :

Note : the default WoW Installation Directory is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft

Note 2 : the default data directory of your WoW Installation can be found at C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Data\enUS

Note 3 : Make sure to delete the buildings, vmaps, and maps directory (if there’s any, left from the previous extraction process) before running the .bat files to extract maps, vmaps, and dbc files

Note 4 : All the Tools needed to extract DBC, VMaps and Maps can be found in Tools directory of my release

1. Extracting Maps :

Copy below files into your WoW installation Directory :

Map extraction

and then run extract-map.bat from your WoW installation directory … and wait … until it finished (it’ll automatically close itself when finished). And here’s what it should look like after you run the extract-map.bat

Extracting map from wow

2. Extracting VMaps :

Copy below files into your WoW installation directory :

Extracting vmaps

then run makevmaps_SIMPLE.bat from your WoW installation directory and wait until finished

Waiting time

When you see something like above image, just wait until PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE MESSAGE appear on your screen. If you close that window before it finished the process, you’ll need to redo the vmaps extraction process from start … estimated time : 40 Minutes – 2 Hours or more depending on your computer speed

And here’s what is should look like when the VMaps extraction process finished :

Vmaps finished

3. Extracting DBC :

Copy below files into your data/enUS directory of your WoW installation

DBC Extractor

And then run the extract.bat from your WoW data directory and wait until it finished, and here’s what it should look like when the dbc extraction is finished

Dbc extraction

4. Moving the VMaps, Maps, and DBC directory

Now since you have finished with the above process, all you have to do is just moving the VMaps and Maps directory like shown on below images into somewhere for example C:\WoW\data

Maps directory

and then now you need to go inside your data/enUS directory and then move the DBC Directory there into C:\WoW\data too. As shown below

Dbc directory

To make things clear, here’s what it should look like when you’ve moved the above three directory into your C:\WoW\data

Moving finished

That’s it … you’re done … as a reminder, you should keep that C:\WoW\data folder to make upgrading mangos process easier and to save time of course (unless there’re some big changes at your WoW installation like new patch) ;)

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thistle said Dec 8, 2009 at 2:59 am

this was awsome totally got it working but only one small prob cant figure it out -no npc’s in alot of places and such as stormwind or i messed up somewhere along the way any info form anyone would be kills

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Zealous_Fool said Oct 24, 2009 at 2:54 pm

should i be worried that it says: Can’t find area flag for areaid 2304.

Can’t find area flag for areaid 1536.

Can’t find area flag for areaid 462.

Can’t find area flag for areaid 1568.

I’m guessing it’s just marks for different locations on the map, like the name or coords. Am i right? or is it something different, or something much more serious? D:

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Ventego said Oct 23, 2009 at 3:28 am

I read a few topics. I respect your work and added blog to favorites.

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Mackeran said Oct 19, 2009 at 12:46 pm

Interesting and informative. But will you write about this one more?

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Clemento said Aug 25, 2009 at 12:57 pm

Are you a professional journalist? You write very well.

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Crasty said Aug 3, 2009 at 8:38 pm

I added your blog to bookmarks. And i’ll read your articles more often!

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zach said Jun 6, 2009 at 1:19 am

It seems to be patch.MPQ that’s causing the problem. When it’s not there it works fine, but then I don’t get all of the maps extracted.

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zach said May 25, 2009 at 11:36 pm

It doesn’t work for me. It gets to 41% and then says ad.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Opening ./Data/patch-2.MPQ
Opening ./Data/patch.MPQ
Opening ./Data/common.MPQ
Opening ./Data/expansion.MPQ
Opening ./Data/enUS/patch-enUS-2.MPQ
Opening ./Data/enUS/patch-enUS.MPQ
Opening ./Data/enUS/locale-enUS.MPQ
Processing……………………41%

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jimjam2711 said Jan 30, 2009 at 11:55 am

nvm about the tools….I’ve been stuck on the 000431 missing file thing forever somebody help….I have 4.2.0 tbc patch but the ad.exe keeps sticking at 41% no matter what version I get.

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jimjam2711 said Jan 27, 2009 at 10:17 am

Where do you get the tools to extract the stuff?please respond asap

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Eric said Nov 2, 2008 at 8:01 am

Great guide btw, thanks a ton. I had one problem I can’t figure out, and I’ve seen other comments with the same problem. When i am doing the vmap extracting, the game path is C:\World of Warcraft\Data\ when it should be C:\World of Warcraft causing an error at the end. I just can’t figure out how to change the path from which it extracts. please help! thanks

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Collinz said Oct 6, 2008 at 2:24 am

can you get back to me please im having problems with the last step, ie done everything in the guide and am at the part where i set my username and password for the server, but i get this error thing in the comand prompt window about a wrong server client and too many files in a certian directory or something. if possible you can controll my pc and help me sort it out. thnx again

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DawnOfMe said Sep 23, 2008 at 7:39 am

here’s an example of what they all say

Opening ./Data/patch-2.MPQ
Error opening ./Data/patch-2.MPQ’: File Operation Error

it does he same for all the others i listed

help?

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DawnOfMe said Sep 21, 2008 at 11:43 pm

to my last comment i took a screen pic of the error message i couldnt see because it closed so fast but it says theres a problem opening:
patch-2
patch
common
expansion

it says theres a problem with those idk why though i did this thing b4 and it worked on the same computer

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DawnOfMe said Sep 21, 2008 at 11:30 am

i have a problem where it wont let me run the ad.exe it command prompt opens and closes quickly Ive done this lots by downloading again and again the thing yet no success and i have it in the right folder help please?

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dom said Sep 12, 2008 at 8:35 pm

it gets to 41% of extracting the maps, and cablooey goes the ad.exe =x

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dom said Sep 12, 2008 at 8:12 pm

i copied the whole folder into my wow directory
liek ea file individually

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Hann said Sep 12, 2008 at 8:08 pm

@Dom
you need to have the over relevant items with the ad.exe file otherwise it wont work

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dom said Sep 12, 2008 at 7:57 pm

hey guys i just wanna test this stuff out every time i try to extract the maps, my ad.exe like “stops working” and i get a little stopped working message. anybody help?

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bobalazs said Sep 12, 2008 at 6:52 pm

the very fist few lines are imminently WRONG. “and then run extract-map.bat from your WoW installation directory ” first of all, extract-map.bat is not even in the repack!!! how am i supposed to extract then?

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Hann said Sep 10, 2008 at 6:56 am

sorry this is better

Some required *.dbc files (1 from 52) not found or not compatible:
C:\Reaper-x\Reaper MaNGOS 5953\Data/dbc/Spell.dbc (exist, but have 216 fields in
stead 213) Wrong client version DBC file?

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Hann said Sep 10, 2008 at 6:49 am

hi i keep getting this message when running Mangosd.exe

Some required *.dbc files not found or not compatible:
C:\Reaper-x\Reaper MaNGOS 5953\Data/dbc/Spell.dbc Wrong client version DBC file?

can anyone help with this plz?

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Holdback said Sep 4, 2008 at 6:07 am

Ahh…If you have the problem i was having just wait for a while…it will sit at the splitConfig.txt thing for a while

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Holdback said Sep 4, 2008 at 5:42 am

ive been sitting at this message for about an hour. Its when i run the vmap_SIMPLE file. and its at the very end after it says: Extract V2.4 2007_07_12. Work complete. No errors.

Then stalls here (which is where ive been for about an hour):

vmap_assembler.exe buildings vmaps splitConfig.txt

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Azag said Sep 3, 2008 at 12:51 am

Well when i run Mangos after all steps it says this:
2008-09-02 18:43:35 Realm running as realm ID 1
2008-09-02 18:43:35 Using UDB 0.8.1 (326) with SD2 calls rev.156
2008-09-02 18:43:35 Using DataDir @prefix@/share/mangos/
2008-09-02 18:43:35 WORLD: VMap support included. LineOfSight:0, getHeight:0
2008-09-02 18:43:35 WORLD: VMap data directory is: @prefix@/share/mangos/vmaps
2008-09-02 18:43:35 WORLD: VMap config keys are: vmap.enableLOS, vmap.enableHeight, vmap.ignoreMapIds, vmap.ignoreSpellIds
2008-09-02 18:43:35 ERROR:Check existing of map file ‘@prefix@/share/mangos/maps/0004331.map’: not exist!
2008-09-02 18:43:35 ERROR:Correct *.map files not found in path ‘@prefix@/share/mangos/maps’ or *.vmap/*vmdir files in ‘@prefix@/share/mangos/vmaps’. Please place *.map/*.vmap/*.vmdir files in appropriate directories or correct the DataDir value in the mangosd.conf file.

Help me :(

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Grimston said Aug 25, 2008 at 6:14 pm

If your not sure where to place the ad.exe place it in Default: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft

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Garrett said Aug 24, 2008 at 7:03 am

Everytime I try to extract DBC Extractor i get the error:

Fatal: could not locate SFmpq.dll

after i copied all the files in the folder given to me to my data/enUS of my WoW folder

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Wijjyu said Aug 23, 2008 at 12:44 am

I found a solution!! Thank you guys!!

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Wijjyu said Aug 22, 2008 at 9:03 pm

And i have another error in configuring Mangos but i cant post comments there so i write here.

when i open mangosd.exe this is the error

2008-08-22 15:55:03 Using configuration file mangosd.conf.
2008-08-22 15:55:03 MaNGOS/0.11.0-SVN (Revision 6245) (Win32,little-endian) (world-daemon)
2008-08-22 15:55:03 to stop.

MM MM MM MM MMMMM MMMM MMMMM
MM MM MM MM MMM MMM MM MM MMM MMM
MMM MMM MMM MM MMM MMM MM MM MMM
MM M MM MMMM MM MMM MM MM MMM
MM M MM MMMMM MM MMMM MMM MM MM MMM
MM M MM M MMM MM MMM MMMMMMM MM MM MMM
MM MM MMM MM MM MM MMM MM MM MMM
MM MM MMMMMMM MM MM MMM MMM MM MM MMM MMM
MM MM MM MMM MM MM MMMMMM MMMM MMMMM
MM MMM http://www.mangosproject.org
MMMMMM

2008-08-22 15:55:03 World Database: 127.0.0.1;3306;root;candy9;mangos
2008-08-22 15:55:03 ERROR:Could not connect to MySQL database at 127.0.0.1: Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: YES)

2008-08-22 15:55:03 ERROR:Cannot connect to world database 127.0.0.1;3306;root;candy9;mangos

and for realmd:

2008-08-22 15:56:48 Using configuration file realmd.conf.
2008-08-22 15:56:48 MaNGOS/0.11.0-SVN (Revision 6245) (Win32,little-endian) (realm-daemon)
2008-08-22 15:56:48 to stop.

2008-08-22 15:56:48 Database: 127.0.0.1;3306;root;candy9;realmd
2008-08-22 15:56:48 ERROR:Could not connect to MySQL database at 127.0.0.1: Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: YES)

2008-08-22 15:56:48 ERROR:Cannot connect to database

The password is corrrect! Have I to open router port?

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Wijjyu said Aug 22, 2008 at 5:03 pm

Thanks Reaper for this guide but i have a problem. I don’t find extract.bat and extract-map.bat . I use your Reaper_MaNGOS_6245_SD2_474 for wow 2.4.2

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CopperM0E said Aug 4, 2008 at 12:32 am

First: FOR VISTA USERS! anyone trying to run MANGOSD.EXE and REALMD.EXE they MUST be run in ADMINISTRATOR mode! Even with the 32 bit version.

Okay, been through about 80% of the above posts trying to do this right and didn’t find the answer, so, I’ll try to give you what info I have.

Info: World of Warcraft Version: 2.4.3
The Burning Crusade Installed?: Yes
MaNGOS Version: Whatever came with AF-Fresh install
Database Used: Arcane-Fire (Fresh Install)
Maps & VMaps extracted with success?: Nope
Checked all directory locations etc?: Yes, used defaults.
Microsoft .Net2.0 Installed? Yes. (3.5 with Vista 32-bit)

Everything looks good so far and the rest of the posts have answered just about any question I might have had, however, in the “DBC’s & Maps” folder, there is only ad.exe. There is no Extract-maps.bat file. I do NOT have files or folders hidden. AD.EXE will function properly and create the MAPS and DBC folders and put the files in there like it should, however, I have long forgotten where to place them. TYhe number of files in them is also a bit low according to earlier posts, so somthing else might be wrong. (
Now, this last part is just my own opinion, but as most of the process is automatic, thanks to LOADS of work by Reaper-X and his associates, perhaps some of the older web pages that have links to versions that are outdated should be removed. I had to scrap EVERYTHING the first time I finally got to the WoW login screen and then realized that I was using more than one version of the database and such. I humbly ask two things.

1: Streamline and perhaps consolidate the instal process with those wonderful images starting with the most recent ’stable’ database.

2: If I don’t have certain batch files that can only be obtained by using an older database, wouldn’t that interfere with the newer one I just got?

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Dan said Aug 3, 2008 at 4:11 pm

i have 2 questions:

1/ How long is it suppose to take for the ‘Press any key to continue’ to pop up. My extractor ran all night all it still hasn’t shown up.

2/ Where do I find the files that need to be copied for part 3? I’ve looked all over the bundle i got but i have yet to find them

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shithotcat said Jul 23, 2008 at 9:11 pm

im on enGB what shall I do? can anyone post a link to download the enGB dbc extractor pls

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Prevas said Jul 20, 2008 at 9:33 pm

This is a very nice guide, thx for the help

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nasty one said Jul 13, 2008 at 4:56 am

I have an one kill lvl 300 server lol

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