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Crushbone
Onboarding

Welcome to Norrath.

Three steps and you're in. Flip between Windows and Mac below — the guide rewrites itself.

Before you begin

Works on Windows 10/11 and macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 and later). ~10 GB free disk, a few minutes of patience on the client download.

The Three Steps

Your machine

  1. Download & extract the Crushbone client

    One zip, 8.4 GB. It's the Rain of Fear 2 client with Crushbone's patches pre-applied — eqhost.txt, remastered loading screens, all of it. Hosted on the public patch server — no VPN, no allowlist.

    Download Crushbone Client · 8.4 GB →

    Suggested path: C:\Games\everquest_rof2\.

    Base release v1.0.9 · SHA-256 cca30357…bdf3d509d · Verify with certutil -hashfile. Run the updater (see Staying up to date below) right after extracting to pull every patch since release.

    The zip already has the right eqhost.txt baked in — pointing at 77.42.47.147:5999. Don't edit it.

  2. Launch with patchme and make an account

    Right-click eqgame.exe → Create shortcut. Right-click the shortcut → Properties. In the Target field, append a space and the word patchme:

    "C:\Games\everquest_rof2\eqgame.exe" patchme

    Always launch from this shortcut. Without patchme the client tries to reach a patch server that no longer exists, and hangs.

    At the login screen, type the username and password you want. The first time those creds hit the server it creates the account on the spot — no email, no captcha — and logs you straight in.

    Pick something you can remember; password resets currently mean pinging the Admin in Discord. You can change it any time in-game with /changepassword newpass.

  3. Pick a character and go

    Every class is open. Every race goes to its classic starting city — no tutorial zone, no Crescent Reach. For a forgiving first run try Dwarf Paladin (Kaladim) or Wood Elf Ranger (Kelethin).

    At the druid rings in Lavastorm, Jenah Wheelspinner stocks a new item: Nagafen's Ember, Bound Flame. 100 pp. One click, one dragon. Don't ask.

    Join the Discord to find groups and keep up with patches.

    Join Discord →

Staying up to date

When the Admin ships a patch — new item, remastered asset, tuning change — you don't need to re-download the whole client. A tiny updater pulls only what changed and verifies each file against the server manifest.

crushbone-update.ps1 · Windows

One-time install (PowerShell):

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://crushbone.duckdns.org/patch/updaters/crushbone-update.ps1 `
  -OutFile $HOME\crushbone-update.ps1

Whenever a patch is announced:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File $HOME\crushbone-update.ps1 `
  C:\Games\everquest_rof2

The updater reads /manifest.json from the patch server, compares sha256 of each local file, downloads only the ones that differ, verifies the hash, then atomic-swaps them into place. Safe to run any time — re-running a current install is a no-op.

If something goes sideways