[Tibia 1.03] Albe's Journey - A game server that takes you back to 1997

[AlbesJourney]

I've just published my game server for Tibia 1.03 on Github. It's the first working server for that version of the game.
You will find a lot of information in the repository, including the game server, game client, sprite images, item data, and more.
Feel free to check it out!

Repository: GitHub - albesjourney/tibia: A game server and other related tools for Tibia version 1.03 (https://github.com/albesjourney/tibia)

It's a work in progress and below is the changelog as of today.

Packet structure.
Ability to login, create a character and logout.
Change outfit (Info - Change Data).
See a list of players online (Info - Userlist).
Access information about a player (Info - Userlist - {player} - Info).
Send comments (Info - Comments).
Render the map, objects, players, outfits (colors, and sprites based on direction),
Ability to walk around, both using arrow keys and left-click.
Looking at tiles, objects and players.
Item properties and attributes (moveable, block projectiles, throw range, container).
Equipment (player inventory).
Chatting, as well as different chat modes (#W, #Y, #B, private messages).
Containers (equipment, and on the map - e.g. barrels, chests).
Moving objects on the map, as well as to/from containers and equipment.
Using objects (using levers, baking bread).
Persistent storage of players (and map?) in a database (SQLite?).

 

[TibiCAM]

This is incredible! How did you even find that old client? I've been trying to make something for 6.4 but this is something else!

 

[Kardaum]

Nicely done. I've spent some time trying to reverse engineer the old 1.03 client protocol to put it on the legbone experiment but I could never get the character walking once in game.

I see your fork is very advanced and pretty much almost feature complete in regards to what could actually be done in that version back in the 90's

 

[AlbesJourney]

I'm noticing some small details in the 25th anniversary video published by CipSoft. As they are baking bread, the character is not adjacent to the trough of water. This means that it was possible to use "use with" (crosshair) on items further away on the map. This can be seen at 4:09 in their video:

The trough of water he's using the flour on is two tiles away from his character.
I will keep this in mind as I'm working on implementing using items, specifically baking bread.

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Edit: I've also attached a copy of all the project files in the first post of this thread ("tibia-main.zip", dated 2026-06-22). You will find a lot more information about the project on Github however - and any updates will be published there.