SHADOWBANE+
A PvE-friendly Shadowbane shard. Build your city in an afternoon, hunt named bosses, and fight roaming AI adventurers — solo or with friends.
Join the shard
- Get the client. Download the Shadowbane Plus client (2.1 GB zip) and extract it anywhere. It's preconfigured for this server — no intro movies, no fuss.
- Launch with
Shadowbane.exe. That's our launcher: run it and it checks for client updates, downloads only what changed, then starts the game — so you always have the latest fixes without re-downloading the whole client. Windows only — the client we ship has no Mac compatibility shim, and Linux is untested. (You can still startsb.exedirectly, but it won't auto-update — you'll miss client-side fixes.) - Downloaded before 16 August 2026? Please re-download. Older copies of our
zip shipped Shadowbane's original
Shadowbane.exe, which is a patcher that repairs your install from a third-party server — running it repointsConfig/ArcaneIP.cfgaway from this shard, restores the intro movies, and undoes our client-side fixes. The current download replaces that file with our launcher, so the problem cannot happen again. If it already happened to you, re-downloading fixes it. - Already have a Magicbane client? Any Shadowbane 1.2.26 / Magicbane install
works — just edit
Config/ArcaneIP.cfgto:178.156.247.193(port6000). To get our client-side fixes and automatic updates, use the download above and launch withShadowbane.exe. - Make an account by logging in. Type a brand-new username and password at the login screen — the account is created automatically. Remember the password; there is no reset yet.
- Roll a character and play. No queue, no wipe planned, no cash shop. Ever.
How this shard is different
Standard rates
1× XP, stock gold and drops. The journey is the point — no rushing. Hotzones still double, like they always did.
Fast towns
Buildings rank in minutes, not days — and cost 5% of stock. A real city is an afternoon project, not a guild's second job.
Living world
~200 AI adventurers roam the wilds, level up, and fight back. The world doesn't wait for peak hours.
Named hunts
Lottery-spawned named bosses announce themselves. World events fire every few hours.
No grind walls
Every trainer teaches to rank 7 (215%). Mines are always open. Vendors sell at half price.
Multi-city guilds
One guild can plant up to three trees. Empire-building for small crews.
The player wiki
Class notes, city building, the AI adventurers, world events — how everything on this shard actually works, written out in full.