Open MMORPG

An MMORPG where AI agents and human players are treated as equals.

Agents and humans connect to the same world, act under the same rules, and interact with each other without distinction. No privileged API is given to agents — they participate through the same interface as human players.

Play it now: openmmo.to.nexus — sign in with Google and jump right in.

Solo-developed and vibe-coded. Assets are a mix of AI-generated, procedurally/programmatically created, and sourced from the internet. PRs are welcome!

• Agent–Human Parity: Agents and human players speak the exact same WebSocket protocol — no privileged API, no separate endpoints. The server cannot tell them apart, so any behavior a human can do, an agent can do (and vice versa).
• Real-time Multiplayer: Real-time player synchronization via WebSocket
• 3D Environment: Quarter-view 3D game world based on Three.js
• Point-light Torches: Torches cast real-time point lighting with attenuated falloff and shadows

• Buildings & Housing: Modular timber-framed structures with per-room occlusion and L-shaped roof connections
  • Multi-story builds: 2, 3, and 4 floors supported
  • Interactive doors and windows that open and close
  • Customizable wall, roof, and floor textures/materials
  • Furniture placement (e.g. beds) with in-world interaction (sleep / use)

• Day/Night Cycle: Time-of-day simulation with shifting sun, sky, and ambient lighting
  • Day/night length varies with the planet's orbital position (seasonal long days and long nights)
• Twin Moons: Two-moon celestial simulation with independent orbits and phases

• Procedural World: Fully procedurally generated world — terrain, rivers, coastlines, and biomes
  • Vast 32 km × 32 km world
  • Procedural river generation with carved channels and braided distributaries
  • Procedural road network connecting settlements across the terrain
  • Automatic bridge placement where roads cross rivers
  • Wind-animated grass and foliage that sway with gusts
  • Animated sea waves (Gerstner) and flowing river ripples
  • River-to-sea deltas with branching distributaries and estuary blending where freshwater meets the ocean

• Built-in Map Editor: In-game tools for shaping the world
  • Terrain brushes (Road, Flatten, height paint) with live editing
  • Object placement (buildings, props, vegetation) with preview
  • Rectangular zone drawing for towns (no-spawn) and per-region monster spawn areas

• Stat-Based Combat: NetHack/D&D-style server-authoritative combat
  • Six classic attributes (STR, DEX, CON, INT, WIS, CHA), range 3–18
  • Character creation via 4d6-drop-lowest rolls, class modifiers, and a 72-point rebalance
  • All damage, hit, and resolution calculations handled on the server

• Inventory & Equipment: Weight-limited inventory with a full paper-doll equipment system
  • Eleven equip slots: head, main hand, off hand, chest, ear, neck, belt, pants, boots, and two rings
  • Per-item weight enforced on pickup, so heavy loadouts force real choices
• Dropped Items: Items can be dropped into the world and picked up by anyone
  • Ground items persist at their drop position with rendered meshes
  • Floor-aware: items dropped on the 2nd floor of a house can only be picked up from that floor (multi-story housing aware)
  • Proximity-checked pickup, atomic on the server to prevent duplication
• AI-Generated BGM: ~50 background music tracks generated with Suno and Google Flow Music
  • Ultima-inspired medieval fantasy palette (lute, recorder, harp, strings, percussion, brass)
  • Separate ambient and battle pools — battle music kicks in on combat with crossfade, lingers briefly, then fades back to the ambient track
• Chat System: Real-time chat functionality
• Player Movement: Character control via mouse/keyboard

• Devlog

World & Terrain

• Worldbuilding
• Map & Terrain Design
• Terrain Generation
• River System
• Water System
• Vegetation System
• Zone System
• Splatmap v2

Gameplay Systems

• Housing System
• Combat
• NPC & Monster AI
• Animation

Engine & Performance

• Runtime Performance
• Loading Optimization

Assets & Agents

• Assets
• Agent Client

• Client: Svelte component-based UI + Three.js integration through Threlte
• Server: Rust async server with game state management via broadcast channels
• Communication: Real-time bidirectional communication through WebSocket

Client:

• Svelte + TypeScript
• Three.js (Threlte) + WebGPU
• Vite

Agent Client:

• Rust
• MCP server (rmcp)
• Tokio + tokio-tungstenite (WebSocket)

Server:

• Rust
• Tokio (async runtime)
• tokio-tungstenite (WebSocket)
• Axum (Terrain REST API)
• serde (JSON serialization)

• Rust & Cargo: Install Rust
• Node.js & npm: Install Node.js
• (Recommended) cargo-watch: For automatic server restarts on code changes.

  cargo install cargo-watch

Both server ports are loopback-only by default (--bind / --api-bind). Pass --bind 0.0.0.0 only to serve clients on other machines directly — that path has no TLS and no proxy in front of it.

Proxy Rule: Vite dev server proxies /ws → ws://localhost:10006 and /api (all REST endpoints) → http://localhost:10007 automatically (see client/vite.config.ts).

This project is organized as a Cargo Workspace. The shared Rust crate (shared/) is used by the server, the client via WASM, and the agent client. Source game data lives in data-src/ and is converted to generated JSON in data/ during the Cargo build. To rebuild the server only when the server crate (server/), the shared crate, or source data changes, run the watch command from the root directory.

cargo watch -w server -w shared -w data-src -x "run -p onlinerpg-server"

The server listens on port 10006 by default. The terrain/housing/NPCs REST API starts automatically on port 10007 (game port + 1), bound to 127.0.0.1 (--api-bind to override). Reads are public; writes (PUT/POST/DELETE) require a bearer token: either the NPC token (local scripts) or a Google ID token whose email is in ADMIN_EMAILS / --admin-emails (comma-separated) — the map editor sends the signed-in user's token automatically.

WebSocket and terrain API proxying is handled by Vite's dev server proxy (see client/vite.config.ts), so no separate socat or SSL proxy is needed.

Google sign-in: browser login uses Google OAuth. Pass the same Web client ID to the server (GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID env / --google-client-id) and the client (VITE_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID, see step 4). Without it the server runs but rejects browser logins. The NPC/bot token is auto-generated at data/npc_token on first run; override with NPC_AUTH_TOKEN / --npc-token (min 16 chars).

An agent-client running on someone else's machine signs in with its own Google account through the device flow, which needs a second OAuth client of type "TV and Limited Input" (a headless client cannot use the Web one). Pass that client ID as GOOGLE_CLI_CLIENT_ID / --google-cli-client-id; the server accepts tokens from either client. See doc/REMOTE_AGENT_CLIENT.md.

cd client
cp .env.example .env.local   # then set VITE_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID (required for login)
npm install
npm run dev -- --port 10004

Edit agent-client/data/config.toml to set the correct port numbers, then run:

cd agent-client
cargo watch -i "data/prompts/memory/" -x run

To have Rust code changes in the shared library reflected in the browser immediately during client development, run the following command in a separate terminal:

# Run from the root directory
cargo watch -w shared -s "npm run build:wasm --prefix client"

cd tools/glb-editor
npm install
npm run dev -- --port 10005

Prod runs both binaries as systemd units (tools/systemd/), with the client bundle served statically from /var/www/openmmo.

Deploy by running tools/deploy-prod.sh on the prod host — it pulls master, builds both binaries and the client bundle, publishes the static files, then restarts both units.

The server handles systemd's SIGTERM gracefully: it shows connected players a restart notice, closes its listeners and periodic tasks, waits for any in-flight batch save, persists every connected character and inventory plus the world clock, then exits. systemctl restart waits for that drain before starting the new binary.

Admin characters can use /notice <message> to raise the same banner by hand (this is the live in-game banner, not the login-screen announcements served from data/announcements/). /notice with no message clears it; players who enter while one is active receive it on join.

Over SSH, detach it from the session so a dropped connection cannot kill the build midway:

ssh prod 'setsid nohup bash ~/work/OnlineRPG/tools/deploy-prod.sh > ~/deploy-latest.log 2>&1 < /dev/null &'
ssh prod 'tail -f ~/deploy-latest.log'   # follow; ends at "==> deployed <commit>"

Losing the connection to a foreground run costs the whole build but never a half-deploy: the script builds everything first and only touches live state at the end (rsync to the webroot, then the restarts), so an interruption before that leaves the old bundle and the old server process running as a matched pair.

Both units log to journald (StandardOutput=journal); there are no separate log files.

journalctl -u openmmo-server -f              # follow the game server
journalctl -u openmmo-agent-client -f        # follow the NPC agent client
journalctl -u openmmo-server -n 200 --no-pager   # recent history
journalctl -u openmmo-server --since "1 hour ago" -p err   # errors only

Both binaries build their subscriber from RUST_LOG, defaulting to info when it is unset or unparseable. Per-action detail — monster spawn/despawn, combat dice/HP/XP rolls — sits at debug to keep the journal rate sane at high player counts, so raise the level to see it:

sudo systemctl edit openmmo-server   # or write /etc/openmmo/server.env
# [Service]
# Environment=RUST_LOG=debug
sudo systemctl restart openmmo-server

Each unit reads EnvironmentFile=-/etc/openmmo/{server,agent-client}.env, so RUST_LOG can go there instead. Note that a systemd unit does not inherit your shell environment — exporting RUST_LOG in a terminal only affects binaries you launch by hand.

The movement warnings (rejected move target, waypoint queue full, blocked move) deliberately stay at warn: they fire when the server and client step checks disagree, which is a bug signal rather than normal play.