Note
Learn about our history and ethos on our forum: https://lostcity.rs/t/faq-what-is-lost-city/16
This is a higher-level repository that links our other projects. You'll notice it's like home-rolled submodules (without commit references).
Github won't include submodules in web downloads, and we have a lot of users who end up clicking download zip.
Important
If you run into issues, please see our common issues.
- Download and extract this repo somewhere on your computer.
- Install our dependencies.
- Open the folder you downloaded: Run the start script and follow the on-screen prompts. You may disregard any severity warnings you see.
Once your setup process has completed, wait for it to tell you the world has started before trying to play at: http://localhost/rs2.cgi
You can press ctrl + c to cancel/quit out of a terminal process.
- Git CLI - Windows users: git-scm
- NodeJS 22
- Java 17 or newer
Tip
If you're using VS Code (recommended), we have an extension to install on the marketplace.
Use the start script provided - it handles a lot of common use cases. We're trying to reduce the barrier to entry by providing an all-inclusive script.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.