Old SchoolOps

RF Online: Red Army v0.1.5

No Database To Install

Released 2026-07-25

There is no database to install any more. Start the server and it creates everything it needs, with the full game world already in place. Nothing in the gameplay changed.

Getting this server running no longer starts with installing MySQL.

Changed

  • Nothing to install. The server keeps its accounts, characters and game content in ordinary files in a db folder beside the executable, and creates them itself on the first start. No credentials to configure and no SQL to run.
  • The download carries the full game world: the monsters, items, shops, spawns and NPCs.
  • To start over, stop the server and delete the db folder. It rebuilds on the next start.
  • MySQL still works. Set DATABASE_PROVIDER mysql in settings.cfg, load the schema from database-mysql, and it behaves exactly as before. The schema is identical either way.
  • Monsters come only from the original map data now. The hand-written spawn file that used to stand in for it is gone, so what stands in the world is what the original map files say stands there.

Nothing else moved. No gameplay changes and no fixes. If something was broken for you in 0.1.4, assume it still is.