
Essentially, there are the following versions: It is much more difficult to understand all the older versions of Uru. This list includes Shards for old versions of Uru (see below).
Minkata Shard: this is shard used by to test fixes before submitting them to Cyan for inclusion in MO:ULa.Ī full list of Shards can be found here. Gehn Shard: the Guild of Writers showcase shard.
MO:ULa, a Cyan-run server for free with a few additions from other Shards,.The following are the most important Shards: Shards running MO:UL-compatible servers are comparatively rare.
Additionally, PlasmaShop is an excellent tool for handling decryption, Python file-editing and other functions. The two plugins available for creating Ages for MO:UL is to use the Cyan-created Max Plugin for 3ds Max or Korman for Blender.
MOSS: MOSS is a server developed by a'moaca' and cjkelly1 for *nix operating systems and hosted by OpenUru.Īdditionally, there is the Cyan-run server for MO:ULa, which is proprietary and for which the source code hasn't yet been released.
DIRTSAND: this is the server developed by H'uru for Linux. Two such open source servers are known to exist: This does not include the game content (Ages, sound effects, etc.), which is still proprietary and belongs to Cyan.Įven before the client was made open source, work was underway to produce servers capable of receiving connections from MO:UL clients. The Engine, commonly abbreviated to CWE, is the open source version of the client used for MO:UL. MO:ULa doesn't introduce many new changes, save for various additions from the community thanks to open source. This promise was fulfilled in April 2011, with the release of the Engine (CWE). It then stayed dormant for two years, until Cyan started Myst Online: Uru Live (again) in February 2010 for free, promising to release an open source version of the client eventually.
Of all the versions of Uru, only one is still actively supported by Cyan and remains the focus of fan development (excluding Age creation): Myst Online: Uru Live, which was started in February 2007 with a partnership between Cyan and GameTap, introducing progressively various new Ages (such as Eder Delin, Eder Tsogahl, the pod Ages, Minkata and Jalak), before being shut down in early 2008.