[Noob Friendly] Creating a Sanctuary or Free For All Zone

[Dr. Fallen]

I realise this has been posted before, But the guide I found only explains the pvp flags, and I heard some people not knowing wtf to do so I guess I'll make a slightly more detailed guide.

Download DBC Editor:
Filebeam - Free Fast File Hosting

Now find the zone you want to edit, Two ways for this:
a. Go ingame and type .gps:
Look at the Zone ID, If the number is not 0, Remember it.
If it is 0, remember the AREA ID.
For example I will take The Veiled Sea in Silithus
Zone ID: 1377, Area 2477, So I'll remember the Zone ID, 1377

Open up the DBC editor, Click File > Open
Go to your server's folder/dbc (Example \Arcemu\dbc\), Look for the file Areatable.dbc and open it with the DBC editor.

b. The second method is to now go to Field 11 and look for the name of the zone you want to edit.

If you used the first method, Then go find the ID in field 0 or ID.

If you have found the zone go to Field 4 of the zone and replace the current number with the one of your choice:

19496 - Sanctuary (No duels allowed)
19456 - Sanctuary (Duels allowed)
17536 or 16448 - Free for All (Used in places such as gurubashi arena)
64 - Normal zone.

If you have set everything the way you like, You can now save, But be careful because this program is a piece of shit sometimes, Click on a different zone or row and then press save, Otherwis it won't for some reason.
When you have saved you can also rename the zone by changing Field 11.
Note, This is only serverside, Players will not be able to see this unless they have a patch with this file in.
The changes apply after a server restart



Additional steps:
If you have a client side server or would like to see the zone beign actually sanctuary or free for all ingame, and see the zone name ingame, Then you have to follow these steps.

Download MPQ editor:
http://www.zezula.net/download/mpqediten32.zip

Extract it and open it, and click File > New MPQ Archive.
Enter the name of the patch.
This should always be "patch-X.MPQ"
The X can be replaced by another letter, Just make sure it's in caps or it won't read. And the p from patch cannot be in caps. (Heard some people having trouble with this aswell)

When you have created the new MPQ create a folder named DBFilesClient.
And put the Areatable.dbc in that folder inside the MPQ.

Now close the program, You will find the MPQ in the same folder as the MPQ editor.
Move this file to your World of Warcraft/Data folder, Restart wow, Restart your server, and done!

I hope that was clear enough

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[legitcow]

Thanks man, helped me a lot!