SAPPER'S HIDEOUTDAOC COOPERATIVE REALM

A new road into the Hideout

Create your player account for our Gaheris-style cooperative Dark Age of Camelot realm.

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Dark Age of Camelot

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The realm at a glance

A cooperative Camelot built for the Hideout

Sappers Hideout is a community-run, Gaheris-style PvE realm where heroes from Albion, Midgard, and Hibernia can adventure together. The three realms can journey from Classic and Shrouded Isles through Trials of Atlantis, Catacombs, Darkness Rising, and Labyrinth of the Minotaur as we restore and verify each expansion's content.

Three realms, one adventure

Group, guild, chat, trade, and explore across realm lines. Normal open-world RvR is disabled; consensual dueling remains available.

Classic spirit, expanded world

Adventure through Classic, Shrouded Isles, Trials of Atlantis, Catacombs, Darkness Rising, Labyrinth, Darkness Falls, and cooperative New Frontiers content.

One Sappers launcher

The current official world, newer capital cities, our approved custom UI, connection checks, chat paste, signed updates, optional HD textures, and Enhanced Graphics are managed from one Windows launcher.

Built for cooperative progression: follow the 100-part Long Road campaign, restored class-legacy quests, artifact encounters, frontier keep challenges, scheduled bonus events, and a growing library of verified quests and loot. The realm is actively developed, so the Server Roadmap shows what is online, being tested, and still being restored.

Live realm dispatch

Server Announcements

Updated regularly
Active now

Launch Celebration

2× experience and Champion Level experience are active through September 15 at 10:57 PM Mountain time.

FRI–MONDouble XP Weekends

2× regular XP and Champion Level XP.

TUE + THUDreaded Seal Bonus

2× Realm Points when supported seals are turned in.

Development board

Full roadmap

Work resumes September 15

  1. Merchant inventory repairRestore 1,691 missing shop slots across 233 active merchants.
  2. Progression and expansion restorationContinue Master Levels 2–10, Champion quests, Catacombs, Darkness Rising, and Labyrinth content.
  3. Normal-player testingRetest frontier travel, Taskmasters, artifacts, Group Quest sharing, Power Font, keeps, seals, and loot.

Community journey

Sep 9, 2026 · 3:22 AM

Player Progress

12Characters created
20Highest level
168Adventure hours
23Quest journeys underway

Anonymous realm totals only. Player names, account names, addresses, and private log details are never published.

Realm access

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First-time player setup

  1. Create your Sappers account above, download our Windows launcher, extract its ZIP into its own folder, and run SappersHideoutLauncher.exe.
  2. Click Install Game, then Download Official DAoC Setup. The setup comes directly from Electronic Arts/Broadsword's official DAoC download and is verified by the Sappers launcher before it opens.
  3. Complete the official installation and let camelot.exe finish updating the game. Do not close the updater early.
  4. Return to the Sappers installer window, click Select Updated DAoC Folder, and choose the installed Dark Age of Camelot folder.
  5. The launcher verifies the newer capital-city files, downloads the approved connect.exe, and installs the tested OpenDAoC game1127.dll required by the Sappers server protocol. The official game.dll and updated world files are not changed.
  6. The approved Sappers custom UI and branded loading screens install automatically. Use UI Options to change the interface later; the launcher keeps Custom Skin selected.
  7. Enter your Sappers account name and password, click Test Connection, then click Enter Sappers Hideout.
  8. For chat paste, leave the launcher open with its helper enabled. Press Enter in DAoC to open chat, then press and release Ctrl+V. Review the pasted text and press Enter to send.
  9. Leave Normal windowed mode selected and use the resolution button beside it. On a 3440x1440 desktop, choose 2560x1080; 1920x1080 is a safe fallback. Launcher 0.8.5 saves and reapplies this only to the separate Sappers profile.
  10. Launcher 0.8.5 automatically installs the original Sappers Hideout loading-screen rotation and approved cooperative-realm crest. It preserves the client's previous pregame\splash.mpk under SappersHideoutBackups before replacing it.
  11. Optional multiboxing: use Download / Update Mojo under the launcher logo. The launcher verifies the exact Mojo Build Sappers Hideout 1.0.0.43 installer before opening it. Setup instructions and Script Maker are on the Mojo page.
  12. The realm line shows the route selected for this PC. Players on the Sappers LAN should see DIRECT LAN and 192.168.4.33:10300; outside players should see INTERNET and sappershideout.com:10300.
  13. Optional HD graphics: click HD PACK, download Camelot Unfunded v0.1 from its author on ModDB, and select that ZIP. Launcher 0.7.5 retains the DAoC 1.127 foliage and character-selection scenes that the pack renders incorrectly, protects the vanilla files, and can restore them.
  14. Optional Enhanced Graphics and water fix: close every DAoC character, click HD PACK → Manage Enhanced Graphics → Install Enhanced. Launcher 0.8.5 downloads verified ReShade and dgVoodoo2 files from their official projects, applies the tested Sappers preset, keeps Mojo switching available, and uses application-controlled antialiasing to remove the straight grid or seam lines that forced antialiasing can create on water. Restore Previous returns to the protected pre-install files.
  15. Need game help? Use Official Game Manuals in the launcher or open the official DAoC manual downloads.

Everyone now uses the updated official world files with the tested OpenDAoC 1.127 protocol client. You do not need an Electronic Arts game account for Sappers Hideout, but you do need to install and fully patch the official game files. Version 0.8.5 rejects the older OpenDAoC Classic-capital package so all players see the same newer Jordheim, Tir na Nog, and Camelot world. It then installs the compatible game1127.dll, verified connection loader, approved custom UI, branded loading screens, separate display profile, chat-paste helper, optional verified Mojo download, optional Enhanced Graphics with the water fix, and automatic signed launcher updates. This fixes the Connection attempt timed out error produced by launching the current retail 1.130 protocol directly. If Windows asks to enable .NET Framework 3.5 when the connection loader first runs, approve it and launch again.

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