Guide: Server Development Wiki

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Introduction

When developing a private server for Conquer Online, it's important to match a patch's defined packet structures and encryption to maintain client/server interoperability. Our board's development wiki for packet structures is hosted on GitLab, a free and open git repository hosting website. Enjoy, and please contribute.

How to Contribute

All articles are written in Markdown. To make an edit to an article or write a new page, simply clone the Git repository, make your edit, and push the commit. Currently, this requires that you be assigned a Contributor role on GitLab. Hopefully in the future, GitLab will support pull requests for Wiki-style repos. If you're not a contributor on the repo, you can post your change below and I'll update the wiki on your behalf. Thanks for your interest.

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[cyano]

Hi,

I appreciate this is an old thread - but I do not have contributor role to the wiki & this post does say to post changes here for an update to the wiki. 

I've written a page where I've analyzed each packet type in the 5517 / 1029 binary to see whether it is sent, received or both by the client. I think it'd be a useful addition as a page: Packets/ClientPacketHandling.md - I've attached the markdown to this page: ClientPacketHandling.md Could you kindly consider adding this to the wiki?

If there's an alternative way to submit changes to the wiki, please let me know - maybe I could submit future changes as a GitLab Issue?

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On 3/11/2026 at 3:05 PM, cyano said:

Hi,

I appreciate this is an old thread - but I do not have contributor role to the wiki & this post does say to post changes here for an update to the wiki. 

I've written a page where I've analyzed each packet type in the 5517 / 1029 binary to see whether it is sent, received or both by the client. I think it'd be a useful addition as a page: Packets/ClientPacketHandling.md - I've attached the markdown to this page: ClientPacketHandling.md Could you kindly consider adding this to the wiki?

If there's an alternative way to submit changes to the wiki, please let me know - maybe I could submit future changes as a GitLab Issue?

I'm actually slowly moving things over to a new wiki that's way more detailed. But because of the amount of detail, it's taking me a considerable amount of time on my own. You're welcome to view what I currently have here: https://github.com/conquer-online/wiki (source), https://conquer-online.github.io/wiki/ (live view).

But the way you contribute to both wikis are the same. You just create a fork, make your changes in your own branch, and then create pull requests with your changes. Nothing fancy. I'll be sure to add a contributing guide to the new wiki soon, though.