Hey everyone,

First of all, I sincerely apologize for the delayed release. The realm was originally planned to launch at 17:00 GMT+8, but we ran into compatibility issues between the local development environment and the cloud deployment.

Basically, it was one of those classic programming moments:

“But it works on my PC…”

I’ve been sitting in front of my PC for almost the entire day fixing the issues, deploying updates to the website, preparing the game server, and making sure everything is stable enough to finally go live. So pardon me if this takes too long, honestly i'm also stressed.

But now, with this announcement becoming public, I’m really happy to officially begin the opening of our new Cataclysm realm.

This launch is also the beginning of something I’ve wanted to do for a long time: to see how far we can take Sinmeowgra and whether we can build a genuinely good Cataclysm private server for Indonesia and, hopefully, the wider Southeast Asian community.

I don’t want this realm to simply be another Cataclysm server that opens everything on day one and then loses its sense of progression shortly afterward. I want us to build something that develops over time, where players can experience the content properly and where the realm itself has a journey.

Before anything else, however, there is one very important thing everyone needs to understand:

This realm is not the same as our previous Cataclysm realm.

The features, content configuration, object placement, in-game currencies, progression systems, and many other parts of the realm have been changed, rebuilt, or reworked.

This project has taken me years to develop. Integrating both the Playerbot and NPC Bot systems alone has required a huge amount of time and resources, especially when it comes to bug fixing, compatibility, stability, and making everything work together properly.

At the moment, Playerbots and NPC Bots are designed for PvE only.

There are currently no bots implemented for PvP, and I also do not have plans to introduce PvP bots anytime soon.

The reason is simple: implementing proper PvP bot behavior is currently beyond the development resources, time, and technical capacity I can realistically dedicate to it.

If this is something you were expecting, please remember that long before this release I had already mentioned several times that you should not expect this new Cataclysm realm to provide exactly the same features, systems, or content as our previous realm.

And because this is a fresh start, I also want to try something new with how the realm progresses.

Instead of immediately opening every Cataclysm dungeon, raid, item, vendor, and endgame feature, we are introducing a realm-wide progressive content system together with the new Journey Reset system.

The goal is simple:

Start fresh, progress together, and see how far we can build this realm as a community.

A New Progression Journey

With this new realm, I also wanted to introduce something different.

Instead of immediately opening every Cataclysm dungeon, raid, item, vendor, and endgame feature from day one, we are introducing a realm-wide progressive content system.

The goal is to create a fresh and fair progression journey where the entire realm grows together over time.

Think of it as:

Zero to Hero — Realm Edition.

Veteran characters will go through our new Journey Reset system, while Cataclysm content will gradually unlock through scheduled realm-wide progression phases.

Compared to our previous WotLK progression, which I personally think was poorly planned and became quite messy, this system has been designed from the beginning with much better progression control.

Realm Phase Progression

The realm will not immediately unlock every Cataclysm feature and endgame system.

Content will instead be released gradually so that every major stage of Cataclysm can actually be experienced properly.

Current Phase

Phase 0: Cataclysm Launch
Maximum fallback item level: 346

Planned Progression

Each progression phase can control access to things such as:

• Dungeons and raids

• Quests and zones

• Items and equipment

• Recipes and professions

• Vendors

• Auction House listings

• LFR

• Endgame systems

• Other phase-dependent content

High-level items or systems cannot simply be used to bypass the current progression phase.

You can check the currently active phase in-game by using:

.progress

The progression system is managed automatically through the realm schedule system that I developed.

However, please understand that future phase dates are not guaranteed to remain unchanged.

A phase may be delayed if content is not ready, if major bugs are discovered, or if additional development is required.

This realm is still actively maintained and developed by me, so release schedules may occasionally need to follow the actual condition of the content rather than forcing a release that is not ready.

Journey Reset

The Journey Reset system gives existing and veteran characters a fresh starting point for this new progression journey without completely deleting their identity or everything they previously earned.

Progress That Will Be Reset

The following progression data will be reset:

• Character level and progression

• Learned spells

• Talents

• Skills

• Professions

• Reputation

• Languages

• Achievements

• Quests and quest progress

• Money

• Stored materials

• Bank capacity

• Bank contents

• Other progression-related character data

Data That Will Be Preserved

The following will remain:

• Character name

• Race

• Class

• Appearance

• Existing equipped gear and armor

• Guild membership

• Guild ownership and structure

Preserved equipment will be moved back into your character inventory.

If your inventory does not have enough available space, the remaining preserved items will be delivered through in-game mail.

Guild Reset

Guilds themselves will remain available, including their ownership and membership structure.

However, guild progression will restart.

The following guild data will be reset:

• Guild level

• Guild experience

• Guild currency

• Guild bank contents

• Guild bank storage upgrades

• Guild news

• Guild activity history

The guild itself will survive, but its progression journey will begin again together with the realm.

Journey Reset Eligibility

The Journey Reset will be applied to eligible existing characters when the new progression system launches.

Characters created after the new progression system is active will not repeatedly receive Journey Resets.

This is a one-time transition designed to bring existing characters into the new progression environment.

So, What Is the Point of the Reset?

The easiest way to explain it is:

We are starting again from zero to hero, but we are not completely erasing the history of our veteran players.

Your character identity remains.

Your race and class remain.

Your appearance remains.

Most importantly, your previously equipped gear is preserved.

So if you spent time farming equipment before the long-term maintenance, that effort is not completely forgotten.

As future progression phases reach the point where your previous equipment becomes useful again, veteran players may receive a small advantage from the gear they previously worked for.

And hopefully, when that time comes, some of you can use that advantage to help newer players progress through the realm as well.

The goal is not to completely erase veteran progress.

The goal is to create a common progression starting point while still respecting some of the time our long-term players have already invested in the project.

Your GM is also having its journey reset, so you dont need to be worried. If you ever needing help on GM participating in one of the raid, please just make a ticket on discord and plan a schedule there, the GM will response and make a schedule when had the time.

Important Notice About Item Recovery

We do not provide manual item recovery based only on memory, screenshots, personal claims, or statements such as “I remember having this item.”

The Journey Reset system has been tested multiple times.

It is designed to preserve the equipment that was actually recorded on eligible characters before our long-term maintenance, including existing:

• Equipment

• Enchantments

• Enhancements

• Gems

These can only be restored if the data actually existed and was available in the character data before the maintenance period.

Please understand that we cannot manually recreate items based on assumptions or memory.

Bug Reports

If you encounter problems during your journey, please consider submitting a bug report.

Even a small report can help identify problems that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Every proper report helps us improve the stability and quality of the project.

Playerbot & NPC Bot Guides

If you need help understanding how the Playerbot or NPC Bot systems work, please refer to the relevant guides available under the Tarecgosa forum category.

There you can find more information about how the systems behave and how they are intended to be used.

Finally, I want to thank every player, contributor, supporter, tester, and community member who has helped keep this project alive until today.

The fact that we are opening this new chapter on the 81st Independence Day of Indonesia makes this release especially meaningful.

This project has gone through many changes, mistakes, experiments, rewrites, long maintenance periods, and plenty of moments where things simply refused to work.

Yet somehow, we are still here.

There will still be bugs.

There will still be unfinished things.

There will probably still be more:

“But it worked locally…”

moments in the future.

But development will continue.

Thank you for your patience, your support, and most importantly, for trusting us with your journey.

Welcome to the new Cataclysm progression.

Welcome back to Sinmeowgra.

— Sinmeowgra Project