--- title: "Ace of Spades Revival" description: "The community home of Ace of Spades: Battle Builder. Play AoS Revival Remastered (Beta 0.2), host a BattleSpades server, make skins, and follow what is new." canonical: "https://www.aosplay.net/" markdown: "https://www.aosplay.net/docs/index.md" content_type: "WebSite" --- # Ace of Spades Revival > The community home of Ace of Spades: Battle Builder. Play AoS Revival Remastered (Beta 0.2), host a BattleSpades server, make skins, and follow what is new. Ace of Spades Revival is an independent community preservation project rebuilding the Battle Builder experience through a clean-room dedicated server, a new revival client, public Protocol 168 research, independent hosting guidance, and modern discovery services. The current release is Beta 0.1 (0.1.0-beta.1, 21 September 2026). ## Play Ace of Spades - [How to play Ace of Spades in 2026](https://www.aosplay.net/play-ace-of-spades) ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/play-ace-of-spades.md)) - [Ace of Spades servers: server list and how to join](https://www.aosplay.net/ace-of-spades-servers) ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/ace-of-spades-servers.md)) - [Ace of Spades download: the Beta 0.1 client](https://www.aosplay.net/ace-of-spades-download) ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/ace-of-spades-download.md)) - [Ace of Spades on Steam: play your copy again](https://www.aosplay.net/ace-of-spades-steam) ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/ace-of-spades-steam.md)) - [Ace of Spades game modes](https://www.aosplay.net/ace-of-spades-game-modes) ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/ace-of-spades-game-modes.md)) - [Ace of Spades classes and weapons](https://www.aosplay.net/ace-of-spades-classes-and-weapons) ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/ace-of-spades-classes-and-weapons.md)) - [Ace of Spades maps](https://www.aosplay.net/ace-of-spades-maps) ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/ace-of-spades-maps.md)) - [Battle Builder vs OpenSpades and BetterSpades](https://www.aosplay.net/ace-of-spades-vs-openspades) ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/ace-of-spades-vs-openspades.md)) - [Player guides](https://www.aosplay.net/guides) - [Server hosting guides](https://www.aosplay.net/guides/server) - [Beta 0.1 status](https://www.aosplay.net/beta), [What's new](https://www.aosplay.net/whats-new) and [implementation status](https://www.aosplay.net/status) ## Project documentation - [BattleSpades dedicated server](https://www.aosplay.net/dedicated-server) — BattleSpades Beta 0.1: the open-source, clean-room Ace of Spades dedicated server with authoritative physics, VXL maps, bots, and eleven game modes. ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/dedicated-server.md)) - [The Ace of Spades revival client](https://www.aosplay.net/revival-client) — The Ace of Spades Revival client (Beta 0.1): a native Windows client for Battle Builder with a server browser, Quick Play, Create Match, Map Creator, and skins. ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/revival-client.md)) - [A master server for reconnecting the community](https://www.aosplay.net/master-server) — How the Ace of Spades master server on aosplay.net handles verified community registration, heartbeats, discovery, moderation, and the Battle Builder server browser. ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/master-server.md)) - [Inside the Ace of Spades protocol 168](https://www.aosplay.net/protocol-168) — A readable guide to Ace of Spades protocol 168: ENet transport, packet research, VXL map streaming, prediction, and clean-room verification. ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/protocol-168.md)) - [How to host a BattleSpades server](https://www.aosplay.net/host-a-server) — Host an Ace of Spades Battle Builder server with BattleSpades: portable releases, configuration, UDP port 27015, bots, maps, and security. ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/host-a-server.md)) - [About the Ace of Spades Revival](https://www.aosplay.net/about) — Meet Ace of Spades Revival, the independent community preserving Battle Builder through a clean-room server, a new client, protocol research, and hosting. ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/about.md)) - [Ace of Spades Revival Player Identity](https://www.aosplay.net/account) — Understand Ace of Spades Revival accounts, signed guest profiles, original Steam owner validation, unique nicknames, join tickets, and leaderboard trust. ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/account.md)) - [Ace of Spades Revival Privacy Notice](https://www.aosplay.net/privacy) — What the Ace of Spades Revival site, accounts, friends, lobbies and official game servers store about you, why, for how long, who processes it, and how to get it deleted. ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/privacy.md)) - [Ace of Spades Revival Credits and Licences](https://www.aosplay.net/credits) — Who made the community skins in Ace of Spades Revival and under which licence, what the project's own code is licensed as, and who owns the original game, its maps and its artwork. ([Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/credits.md)) ## Protocol reference - [Protocol 168 packet browser](https://www.aosplay.net/protocol-168/packets) - [Complete packet catalog in Markdown](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/protocol-168/packets.md) - [Identity API implementation guide](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/auth-and-identity.md) - [Original Steam client compatibility guide](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/steam-retail-compatibility.md) - [Master server API contract](https://www.aosplay.net/docs/master-server-api.md) - [AI content index](https://www.aosplay.net/llms.txt) - [Combined AI-readable corpus](https://www.aosplay.net/llms-full.txt) ## Community links - [BattleSpades dedicated server repository](https://github.com/KikoTs/BattleSpades) - [BattleSpades server downloads](https://github.com/KikoTs/BattleSpades/releases/latest) - [Community Discord](https://discord.gg/aosbb) - [Public progress board](https://trello.com/b/sf5TkSE9/ace-of-spades-community-revival) Ace of Spades Revival is independent, unofficial, and not affiliated with the original publisher.