Island of programmers

[rumpilstilskin]

Hello everybody,

Well I thought I saw everything in this enchanting world... from the peacfull white montains of Winterspring to the fascinating forest of Darkshore... well it seems some places stayed secret to me like an Island of programmers

Now the question is how to get there ! ... found a guide how pointed a certain ".prog" for transportation but it failled !

Anyone knows a good taxi that could take me there for a visit? Wouldn't argue for the price !

Thanks !

[Patman128]

I'm not even sure you can get on there any more. You might have to add an entry in instance_template for map 451. After that try .go xyz 0 0 0 451.

[DasBlub]

afaik the developers' island does not exist anymore. i think it has been removed from the client sometimes before version 2.4.3.

[Lynx3d]

Yea looks like it. It is still mentioned in Map.dbc, but apparently no map files exist anymore (at least no maps and vmaps can be extracted for it).

[shauren]

its not a problem if you add the missing files (for example as an additional MPQ archive)

if you try to go to that map without these files, your client will crash

[rumpilstilskin]

Thanks for your answers,

Looks like I won't visit developer's island... seems a bit complicated... too bad.

[darkstalker]

Maybe the requires files are only in the GM client now

[shauren]

oh no you can still find them if you ask uncle google

they were extracted from regular client 2.2 or so

[Patman128]

Hm, this looks like it's true. I see it still exists in 2.4.3 but I can't find it in 3.3.5. The only files in the folder where it's data should be are Dungeon.chk.DELETE and lights.chk.DELETE so I assume it's been deleted.

[lillecarl]

Still, there is "mpq patches" for the clients around the internet enabling it again

but im lazy so ill say, google is your best friend