All credits go to Ronan C. P. Lana, Nexon, Wizet, and the contributors of HeavenMS and subsequent parties. I do not take credit for any files located herein unless specifically specified otherwise. Forked from HeavenMS in order to have a history of changes made herein.

Required Files

• Use Git or checkout with SVN using this web URL
  • I will refer to this location, for the source, later as {source}
• Download and install the following from here:
  • jdk-7u79-windows-x64.exe
  • ManagerMsv83.exe
    • I will refer to this location, for the client, later as {client}
  • netbeans-8.0.2-javase-windows.exe
• Download the latest HaRepacker
• Download the latest localhost
• Download the latest mariadb that is available for Windows
• Download STREDIT
  • I will refer to this location, for the extracted STREDIT, later as {edit}
• Download the latest XML files to be used by the server: HeavenServer v228.3.zip

Creating a New Database

1. Open HeidiSQL
2. Click New in the bottom-left panel
3. Type a name for the new session
4. Fill in the Hostname / IP, User and Password with the parameters used while setting up MariaDB
5. Click Open
6. Right-click your open connection in the top-left panel
7. Expand Create new
8. Click Database
9. Type maplestory in the Name field
10. Click OK

Preparing the Database

11. Click maplestory in the top-left panel
12. Click File
13. Click Run SQL file...
14. Navigate to {source}\sql
15. Open db_database.sql
16. Repeat steps 12 - 14 for db_drops.sql

Creating an Account

19. Right-click the maplestory database and click Refresh
20. Expand the maplestory database
21. Click on the accounts table
22. Click on the Data tab
23. Press the Insert key
24. Type a username into the name column
25. Type a password into the password column
26. Close HeidiSQL

Configure Your Server

1. Navigate into the {source} folder
2. Open configuration.ini
3. Change HOST to the IP Address you want your server to listen on
4. Change URL, DB_USER, DB_PASS to the parameters used while setting up MariaDB

Build the Server

1. Open NetBeans IDE 8.0
2. Click File
3. Click Open Project...
4. Navigate to {source}
5. Click on the {source} folder
6. Click Open Project
7. If prompted to resolve Project Problems continue with Resolve Project Problems otherwise continue with No Project Problems

Resolve Project Problems

1. Click Resolve Problems...
2. Click Resolve...
3. Complete steps 1 - 7 from Combined Procedure
4. Click Close again
5. Continue with Continued Steps

No Project Problems

1. Right-click on the newly opened project
2. Click Properties
3. Click Libraries
4. Click Manage Platforms...
5. Click Add Platform...
6. Complete steps 1 - 7 from Combined Procedure
7. Click OK
8. Continue with Continued Steps

Combined Procedure

1. Check Java Standard Edition, if not already selected
2. Click Next >
3. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Java
4. Click on jdk1.7.0_XX
5. Click Next >
6. Click Finish
7. Click Close

Continued Steps

1. Right-click on the newly opened project
2. Click Clean and Build
3. Close NetBeans IDE 8.0

Preparing the Client

1. Navigate into the {client} folder
2. Delete the HShield folder
3. Delete ASPLnchr.exe, MapleStory.exe, and Patcher.exe
4. Copy all files from current_wz into {client}
5. Click Replace the files in the destionation
6. Copy HeavenMS-localhost-WINDOW.exe into the {client} folder
7. Rename HeavenMS-localhost-WINDOW.exe to MapleStory.exe
8. Navigate into the {edit} folder
9. Open STREDIT.exe
10. Click File
11. Expand Open..
12. Click Open new file...
13. Navigate into the {client} folder
14. Click MapleStory.exe
15. Click Open
16. Click No
17. Click No again
18. Change all three IPs listed in the Configured IPs section to match HOST in the configuration.ini file
19. Click File
20. Click Save

Testing the Client

1. Navigate into the {source} folder
2. Run launch.bat
3. Navigate into the {client} folder
4. Run MapleStory.exe

Changing a character to a GM character

1. Open HeidiSQL
2. Connect to your MySQL server with the parameters used while setting up MariaDB
3. Expand the maplestory database
4. Click on the characters table
5. Click on the Data tab
6. Find the row with the character who will be a GM
7. Change the gm column to one of the following values:
   • 0: Common
   • 1: Donator
   • 2: JrGM
   • 3: GM
   • 4: SuperGM
   • 5: Developer
   • 6: Admin
8. Close HeidiSQL

Port-forwarding the server

1. Port-forward the following ports:
   • MapleStory LoginServer 8484
   • MapleStory Scania Ch 1 - 3 7575 - 7577

WZ Editing

I am going to go over how to WZ Edit with using Heena as an example. I want to change the dialogue when you talk to her. The dialogue is either in the scripts as a .js file or in the .wz files. In this example it is the .wz file. Procedure may differ based on different scenarios but hopefully this will get you an idea on how navigate the .wz file and the basics of editing.

1. Extract HaSuite-211.7z
2. Navigate into the extracted folder
3. Open HaRepacker.exe
4. Change BMS\GMS\MSEA to GMS (old) in the drop-down menu
5. Click File
6. Click Open...
7. Navigate into the {client} folder
8. Click String.wz
9. Click Open
10. Expand String.wz
11. Double-click on Npc.img
12. Find 2101
13. Expand 2101
14. Click d0
15. Change traveller to traveler
16. Click Apply Changed Value

• Make sure maplestory is closed before proceeding, otherwise you will receive an unhandled excepetion error and you will have to redo your changes

17. Click File
18. Click Save...
19. Click Save again
20. Click String.wz
21. Click Save for the last time
22. Click Yes
23. Close HaRepacker.exe