Classic · kept · gated raids
OG Vanilla
The game, kept.
Pure Classic Vanilla — a Normal PvE realm, faithful 1.12. Tuned where it was broken, changed nowhere else.
What stays
Nobody wipes this realm to start it over, and no season closes here to make room for a fresh one. The character you roll tonight is the same character in five years — same name, same bags, same friends list, only older and further up the hill.
Which is also why you cannot fall behind here: there is nothing to fall behind. The world does not move on without you. Come back after six months and Azeroth is where you left it, the level cap still 60, the ruleset still 1.12.
The first gate43 / 80 accounts at level 60The house climbs together. When 80 accounts hold a character at level 60, the first raids open 2 weeks later.
Two ways in
The same account, the same house rules, the same client. The difference is one thing: whether the world stays where it is, or moves.
The museum
The game, kept.
Vanilla, preserved. The cap is 60 from the first day and no phase ever moves it, so nothing you do here can fall behind.
For the player who logs in on a Sunday evening and wants the world exactly where they left it.
You are standing here
The road
The journey, together.
Classic, then The Burning Crusade, then Wrath of the Lich King. The cap is 30 today and lifts in steps, on the same day for everyone.
For the player who wants the climb, and wants to be climbing it at the same time as everyone else.
What it is
No remix, no custom content, no transmog or dungeon finder. The 1.12 game, run honestly: bugfixes where the original was broken, and nothing else touched. A museum you can live in.
Open since June 2026. The 1–60 climb is on now — Molten Core and Onyxia open 2 weeks after 80 accounts reach level 60. No invented dates; it opens when the realm gets there.
All of it, on one page. Running today: 11. Set, but not yet picked up by the running server: 0. Not built: 1. Deliberately not done: 1. If something surprises you and it is not here, that is a bug and we want to hear about it.
The point of this realm. Most of the list is things that were not touched.
The few places where the original was changed on purpose.
Things you cannot see but should be able to check.
One caveat, because leaving it out would be dishonest: those 21 are the corrections with a file behind them, nobody has ever compared this realm line by line against an untouched original, and anything you find that behaves differently and is not on this page is worth a ticket.
Realm record
Slow progression, normal rates, a PvE realm, and rules that protect the people who actually play.
The road
The ruleset and the world are 1.12 from day one — no step on this road changes the game you are playing. What opens over time is access to the raids, and it opens by readiness rather than by calendar: the first ones 2 weeks after 80 accounts reach level 60, then roughly one chapter every two months, from Molten Core to Naxxramas. Then the road stays open.
Up next2 weeks after the gate is met — 80 accounts at level 60. The Mountain and the Broodmother open together.
When the last door on this road is open, nothing else happens. That is not an oversight, it is the whole idea: Elwynn was never going anywhere.
Start
The museum keeps the game; this gets you into it. Account, client, character — then the door's open.
01
One account works in the game and on the site. You can play right away; email confirmation only unlocks Armory and character pages.
Open →02
A clean Windows zip, realmlist already set to play.stonetavern.app. No installer, no telemetry.
Open →03
Log in, make a character, and settle into a small PvE realm built around people, not accounts or payment tiers.
Open →The doors ahead
Elwynn does not move: Vanilla 1.12, permanently. What moves is which doors are open. The first raids open 2 weeks after the 80×60 gate is met — 80 accounts, each with a character at level 60. Pick the moment you want to hear about, and we write you once, when it happens.
The honest part
Donations keep the lights on — they buy nothing in game, ever. Everything that matters here, you earn. And if you ever want the road instead of the museum, the door to Barrens is right next to this one.