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We are rebuilding the client, dedicated server, and online infrastructure that made every block a weapon—and every map a story.
Ace of Spades was never just another shooter. It was rifles, spades, jetpacks, trenches, towers, and terrible ideas—all colliding in a world you could reshape mid-fight.
The revival brings that exact spirit forward through measured protocol work, open code, and infrastructure the community can actually own. No black boxes. No vanishing servers. Just a battlefield built to last.
Measure the real client and document the truth.
Turn those findings into clean, maintainable code.
Put players, hosts, modders, and makers together again.
The playable server is here. The open client is advancing. The master server is the next bridge between them.
A from-scratch, server-authoritative implementation that speaks to the original unmodified client—and stays in sync while players shoot, build, collapse, explode, and respawn.
The community-owned route back into the blockfield, compatible with BattleSpades and built for preservation, repair, and future iteration.
Inspect the clientRegistration, health, discovery, identity, and a dependable server browser—the connective layer that turns working code into a living community.
Want field updates? Playtests, build logs, reverse engineering notes, and questionable map ideas happen in Discord.
The dedicated server does more than accept connections. It reconstructs the rules that made the original battlefield feel right.
Byte-faithful VXL streaming, CRC validation, block edits, destruction, and disconnected structure collapse.
Server-resolved hit-scan weapons, headshots, tracers, per-weapon tuning, grenades, deaths, and respawns.
Process-isolated bots with voxel navigation, fair perception, class actions, and mode-aware objectives.
TDM, CTF, Classic CTF, Arena, gangster VIP, and Zombie infection are all in the rotation.
Fortify the ridge. Tunnel under the objective. Turn somebody’s beautiful tower into physics debris.
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MAP / 03Each phase unlocks the next. The protocol work made the server possible; the server and client make a real master service worth building.
Packet formats, ENet transport, movement constants, and client prediction behavior captured in living docs and tests.
Combat, VXL worlds, modes, bots, admin tools, plugins, and portable releases operating on the clean-room core.
Preserve compatibility while creating a maintainable path beyond the original closed executable.
Define registration, heartbeats, discovery, trust, and a public contract for the in-game browser.
The short version: yes, it works; yes, it is open; and yes, there is still plenty left to build.
Ask the people currently breaking—and fixing—the build.
It is a community-led effort to preserve and rebuild the Battle Builder experience: an open client, a clean-room dedicated server, protocol documentation, and—next—a modern master server for discovery and matchmaking.
BattleSpades is already playable with the original 1.x clients and the open revival client. Grab a portable server build from GitHub, connect a compatible client to port 27015, or join the Discord to find current community sessions.
Movement, jumping, shooting, block interaction, grenades, pickups, deaths, respawns, and bots are simulated server-side. The physics and packet formats were measured against the compiled client, with 866 regression tests protecting that parity.
Portable BattleSpades alpha archives are prepared for Windows, Linux, and macOS across x86-64 and ARM64. Source builds target Python 3.10–3.12 with a C/C++ toolchain.
No. This is an independent, community-built preservation project and is not affiliated with the original publisher. The server is a from-scratch clean-room implementation.
The next major operation is the master server API: identity, server registration, health checks, discovery, and the connective tissue needed for a dependable in-game server browser.
Code, testing, protocol research, map making, hosting, documentation, and playtest feedback all matter. Join the Discord, inspect the GitHub repositories, and pick an operation that fits your skills.
Bring your code, your maps, your server, or just your favorite terrible strategy. The next round needs players.
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