Where is the source code? How do people modify / customize private servers?

[Falaky]

Hey everyone. I don't make private servers, I just want to tinker and play around locally. I am a software engineer working with C++ professionally. Every google search I did says the game is written in C++, but all the private server topics on here that have assets listed have no C++ code whatsoever and seems to have just one build of the game that you can use to deploy and get a server up and running, but I don't see how you'd add custom quests or events or anything like that without the source code?

I was hoping someone could help shed some light onto that, as I am very interested in playing around with the source code and trying some fun stuff locally.

Thanks!

[silkroadbotter]

no src for silkroad public, it's like red diamonds. everyone is using devkit and server dll injections to make server modifications.. there is many reverse engineer projects that are recreating src but no public release and browser ports are incomplete.

[wxcxc]

Is there really some people that got the sources of server files and client ? Don't understand why kept them private. If someone don't have skill to edit them, it can't be a concurrent. And even if there concurrence, release src could help to correct bug.

[romio100]

the reason the source code is not publicly released is because of certain individuals who download files, inject viruses and trojans into them, and then redistribute them. as you can see, there isn’t a single program that is completely clean of viruses. that is why the source code is not released publicly on forums.