otservers: Crafting the Ultimate Open Tibia Experience

[4Kazelot]

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Dear Open Tibia Community,

The landscape of Open Tibia has evolved significantly over the years. Today's server creators face unprecedented challenges - from increased technical requirements to platform manipulation and deceptive practices that ultimately harm our community. As a team deeply invested in the OT scene, we recognized these challenges and decided to take action.

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Where Darkness Ends, otservers.online Begins​

Current Platform Statistics:​

• 300K+ Average Monthly Players
• 3M+ Player Daily Sessions
• 115M+ Player Monthly Activities
• 17+ Countries Connected
• ~500 Active Servers

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Revolutionary Server Monitoring​

LiveTransparency™ Engine​

Our cutting-edge LiveTransparency™ engine provides updates every 60 seconds (or 15 seconds for premium servers), 40x faster than the competition. Experience real-time network server monitoring and see server statuses and performance metrics instantly.

Global Ping Tracker​

Before you dive into the game, check your connection stability with the Global Ping Tracker. Our interactive map lets you test latencies from 14 worldwide locations, helping you choose the best server for your connection and enjoy a smoother gaming experience.

Lightning-Fast Search Engine​

Find any server, player, or content in seconds. With intelligent filters and a personalized search history, you'll always find what you're looking for, faster than ever.

Advanced Player Analytics​

Track detailed player data, from their session history and playtime to activity patterns and in-game behavior. Whether you're a player wanting to compare progress or a creator analyzing trends, these insights give you a deeper look at the community.

• Rankings & Statistics: Track the oldest players, most active powergamers, level distributions, and playtime records.
• Heatmap Activities: Visualize the peak activity hours across servers to optimize your gaming experience.
• Powergamers: See which players are grinding the most experience on your server and motivate yourself to compete!
• Nolifers: Check out the players with the most time spent online - your server's biggest enthusiasts!
• Detailed Player Level Analysis: Monitor the distribution of player levels, identifying the noobs and the veterans in your community.

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Unique Server Archives​

The only platform offering access to complete archives of inactive servers. Browse through historical data, preserved player stats, and past communities. Analyze trends and track the evolution of the Open Tibia ecosystem.

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What You Gain as a CREATOR​

Take advantage of powerful tools designed to help you grow and manage your server efficiently. With our platform, your hard work gets the visibility and recognition it deserves.

LiveTransparency™ Engine​

Let players see the real, current state of your server with frequent updates, building trust and attracting players who value transparency.

Advanced Analytics​

Access detailed insights into player statistics, server performance, and worldwide ping history to stay ahead of the competition.

Management Tools​

Gain full control over your server with a dedicated admin panel that tracks recent activity, manages player groups, and automatically detects potential issues.

Collaboration Tools for Creators​

With otservers, creators can now invite their collaborators to join their server projects, assign specific roles, and customize notification preferences for every member.

• Roles and Permissions: You can assign various roles to team members, allowing them to take on specific responsibilities within the project.
• Notification Preferences: Each collaborator can choose whether to receive notifications for important server events, such as when the server goes offline or detects issues like high ping or mass logouts.

Future Enhancements:
In the coming months, expect more options for communication such as Discord integration and additional events like:

• Player records breaking
• Increased ping detection
• Mass logout events
  ... and much more.

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Our Philosophy: Three Pillars of the Future​

We believe that the future of Open Tibia relies on three core elements:

Players – The heartbeat of every server, creating stories and bringing worlds to life.
Creators – The architects of those worlds where the stories unfold.
Community – The connection that binds us all together, through forums, guilds, and friendships.

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Why otservers.online?​

Real-Time Data: 60-second updates (premium: 15 seconds!). Always see the live status of your server.
Global Ping Tracker: Check latency from 14 worldwide locations before you play.
Lightning Search: Find any server, player, or content instantly with our advanced search engine.
Advanced Analytics: Access complete server statistics, player sessions, and level history.
Unique Archives: Explore the history of inactive servers and past communities.
Security: Verification and protection from fake activity and data manipulation.

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Coming Soon​

We're constantly developing new features to enhance the platform:

In the coming weeks, expect:

• Project Descriptions
• Screenshot Galleries
• Enhanced Customization Options for Creators

In the coming months, watch for:

• Major platform enhancements
• New features that will redefine the Open Tibia experience

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Ready for the Future?​

This isn't just another server list - it's a fully integrated ecosystem tailored to the Open Tibia community. Visit otservers.online today to discover how the future of Open Tibia should look!

Crafting the Ultimate Open Tibia Experience - not just a slogan, but our mission. Join the revolution. Your community deserves it.

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Important Update for Server Admins
To streamline server verification, we've sent a quick verification email to all server admins who had their contact details filled in the config.lua. This allows for immediate server ownership confirmation, eliminating the need for manual verification via the file upload process. If you haven’t received it yet, be sure to check your inbox!

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Premium Plan Availability​

Please note, the Premium Plan is not yet available. Some features, including the LiveTransparency™ engine update frequency and certain advanced analytics, are currently unavailable or free of charge until the premium plan is launched.

Stay tuned for updates!

 

[Kuzyn]

Looks interesting, question is how long will project last. I think that there were many in the recent past and some of them are gone for good.
Hm, actually I just realised that this project under this domain was online for some time already, so it's like a new fresh start?

There are also some weird things like showing Tibia 1.0-3.0 online servers while in fact they're some Pokemon/DBO related servers or some probably custom clients.

 

[Marko999x]

It looks great and I like the feature of seeing if mc and bot usage makes my life easier to filter out those afk ots
question: do you regist people ots or how does it work?

 

[Gesior.pl]

You should redesign top part of that site, to make it show more infomation.

otservlist, even with all paid ADs, still shows 9 OTSes without scrolling down on HD monitor:



This new list shows only 2:

 

[Bloodbringer]

Information about server being PvP or Non-PVP ? Couldn't find

Also adding to Gesior.pl message's. The websites UI looks beautiful and such, but a functional, simple UI always wins over beauty or effects so its important to focus on that before thinking on how to makign it look beautiful with cool designs. The core function of the website is the list of OTs and that one is not super functional right now, I'd much rather have a simple even if "ugly" UI like otservlist's, where you have important information easily readable in a nice tight organized table

 

[Gesior.pl]

Information about server being PvP or Non-PVP ? Couldn't find

It looks like this list was made by coping IPs and ports from other lists (ex. otservlist) and then getting all info from OTS status protocol:

forgottenserver/src/protocolstatus.cpp at master · otland/forgottenserver

A free and open-source MMORPG server emulator written in C++ - otland/forgottenserver

github.com

There are information about count of players online, max number of players online, server location, www URL and even list of players online with their levels, but there is no information about PvP set on server.
It looks like only 2 servers were added by their owners (or players) with info about PvP type. You can sort by World type type column to see them.

MC allowed and Bot allowed are also set by OTS owners, when they register on that list, so only 3 servers have it filled.

 

[Rebirth OTS]

Very cool work, i love it.

 

[Error 502]

a bug:
A)


That seemed strange to me. I understand that TibiaRL is at version 15.03. But it says there are five servers at 15.10—when I visit the websites for those servers, they’re actually 14.12 or 15.00

two recommendations
A)


The region should auto-detect based on my IP or set it to the nearest region.
(example like myacc create account)
B) On otservlist, there’s a ‘custom servers’ option— with one click I can see servers like Dragon Ball, Naruto, etc.

But on your site, I have to make about five clicks using filters. for the same result

 

[Gesior.pl]

That seemed strange to me. I understand that TibiaRL is at version 15.03. But it says there are five servers at 15.10—when I visit the websites for those servers, they’re actually 14.12 or 15.00

AI does not care and you can make site like this with 95-100% AI code in 4-20 hours using Cursor IDE (20$ per month). Of course, it will be spoofed HARD by OTSes, not like otservlist.org, if you make it popular.
ex. 'client version' filter is sorted by it's ID, so 15.x is above 9.x, but below 12.x as it does not understand that it's a float number.
There is also 17.00 client in filters

On otservlist, there’s a ‘custom servers’ option— with one click I can see servers like Dragon Ball, Naruto, etc. But on your site, I have to make about five clicks using filters.

They got no real users, no real OTS owners, they took list of OTSes from other lists and put them on their - probably - AI made site.

I made custom user management site (of MongoDB users), with PHP backend and Svelte framework frontend in 8 hours with ZERO lines of code, just ~200 prompts to AI.

 

[4Kazelot]

otservers has been around since summer 2021 - New otservers list! Otservers.online (https://otland.net/threads/new-otservers-list-otservers-online.277730/)

Some of you may already know us from an earlier, much simpler version. Since then - with some breaks - we've been working on the project that is now taking full shape. We also have many exciting features planned, which will be released soon.

Regarding client versions - we're aware that some servers intentionally report non-standard data. For now, our approach to verifying compatibility with actual Tibia client versions is quite basic, but we're already working on more accurate validation and a better version-handling system.

Currently, 5 servers are displayed on the homepage in compact mode (similar to other platforms), but starting tomorrow, that number will increase to 10. The top part of the homepage is intentionally reserved for future features.
Additionally, on the /servers subpage, users will be able to enable a setting that redirects them straight to the full server list when visiting the homepage - where 25 servers will be shown right away.

Details such as world type, game type, multiclient and bot usage must be provided by the server owners - this data will appear as soon as they update it.

As for automatic region selection - due to limited manpower, we've had to postpone it for now, but it's already on our roadmap and will be added in the near future.

 

[Gesior.pl]

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I just get report on Discord that some random "test server" is listed on this list.
It looks like, it gets all 7171 listening IPv4 IPs from some foundation and reads status from them all.

 

[kambek]

love the design and functionality of this site. now i will be use it to look for servers. btw it’s great that someone’s still making that kind of stuff related to tibia. also fast server updates are definitely a plus. great job Sir

 

[shiozimu]

Really cool to finally have a proper server status tool – haven’t seen anything like this in ages. Super useful to quickly check what’s going on with a server, and that live monitor is a fun bonus. Also love how much player info is available – every player has their own page with visible stats, which is a nice touch. Everything feels well put together and just works smoothly.
@4Kazelot - good job!

 

[4Kazelot]

Restart, Region, and Peace of Mind
Two small but impactful changes just landed - they might not look flashy, but they genuinely improve the system's stability and ease of use.

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✦ Restart Scheduler
A new feature allows you to schedule server restarts.
Not exactly thrilling? Maybe. But for our system, it's a big step forward. Now you can:

• set when your server should restart - daily, weekly, or on a custom schedule,
• rest assured the system won't trigger alerts when the server goes down in a planned window,
• sleep peacefully - uptime stats remain intact. A restart isn't a failure, it's a conscious technical break.

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✦ Regions That Find You
Automatic region selection is now available. Until now, it was a manual process - now the system picks the best one for you.
What's changed?

• we show the distance (in kilometers) to available regions,
• regions are sorted by proximity,
• by default, the one with the lowest ping is selected.

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That's all for today. Small changes, big comfort.
Let us know how they work out for you!

Check out the updates here: https://otservers.online

 

[Gesior.pl]

@4Kazelot
"ping" related ideas:

• do you check "OTS status" answer time as 'ping' (it would also report server lag, as it's executed in 'dispatcher' thread of TFS) or 'ping' server with ICMP packet? ICMP does not work, as most of servers are behind OTCv8 proxy servers and they use different VPS for 'status check', than for real OTS, so with ICMP you get invalid ping value
• order by "ping" does not work, when you click it, it looks like random order
• when you order by "ping" 2 times (from lowest to highest), servers with no ping should be always at end of list, now I cannot check list of OTSes with lowest ping, because on top are always servers with not ping (probably NULL in database?)
• for some reason, it picked Node: Moscow for my "ping" status (I live 30 km from Warsaw); I had to clean cookies/use Incognito to make it detect my real location - it may be related to "Regions" update and people who have old cookies

Other ideas:

• 'comfortable view: off' should be default
• [offtop] if you ever decide, that you don't have money, to pay for all these servers, to check statuses of OTSes, please release your list source code - there were many other OTS lists, that no one heard about and they went offline, anyone trying to create a new list must start from scratch

 

[~X~]

Nice layout, feels more modern and not...erm... 8yr old made? Question though.. What about those of us whom have a server not running TFS or Canary? I tried adding one of my test servers and can't?

 

[Marko999x]

Nice layout, feels more modern and not...erm... 8yr old made? Question though.. What about those of us whom have a server not running TFS or Canary? I tried adding one of my test servers and can't?

Old doesn't mean bad

I like the layout of otservlist more tbh this one looks like some random crypto site

 

[~X~]

Old doesn't mean bad

I like the layout of otservlist more tbh this one looks like some random crypto site

I never said bad haha.. Just a new feel is a nice bit!

 

[4Kazelot]

@Gesior.pl
Apologies for the inconvenience caused by the ping sorting issues. A hotfix has been deployed and the feature is now working properly.

Ping and Regionalization
Yes, we use ICMP. We are aware of its limitations in proxy or distributed infrastructure environments, but most servers run on shared machines, so the latency still reflects real conditions from the player's perspective. The status of Open Tibia servers is not checked from all geographic points like with ping - full regionalization would require bigger architectural changes. We'll see what the future holds in this area.

Region Selection
If you previously selected a region (or it was assigned randomly), that information was saved - hence, for example, Moscow (Are you sure you have nothing to do with the Kremlin? <joke>). You can simply click the button in the "Auto-detect location" section. From now on, the region is automatically selected on the first visit.

About the default disabled Comfortable mode
By default, the Comfortable mode is turned off (we will conduct a survey about this). Meanwhile, we are also working on an alternative retro version of the site - a fast, lightweight list without extras, for fans of the classic style.

@~X~
Regarding servers other than TFS or Canary - we plan to support custom engines via REST API. Work on this will begin soon. If you have such a server and want to help with testing, please contact us through the form: https://otservers.online/contact and include details about your server in the message.

PS. Integration with less common solutions requires individual adjustments, so it's not available "out of the box" yet - but it's definitely on our roadmap.

 

[Morrison]

Any filter to sort most oldest servers by date?