Classic · kept · gated raids
OG Vanilla
Elwynn
The game, kept.
Pure Classic Vanilla — a Normal PvE realm, faithful 1.12. Tuned where it was broken, changed nowhere else.
What it is
Vanilla, exactly as it was.
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.
- Normal PvE — open-world PvP as it was, no battlegrounds bent out of shape
- x1 rates — the real climb, no boosts
- No layering — one world, one Azeroth
- Cross-faction grouping, chat and trade
- Cheap respec — talent resets stay capped low, so you can experiment
- No shop, nothing for sale, no pay-to-win
- A ready-to-play client — download and go
Open since June 2026. The 1–60 climb is on now — Molten Core and Onyxia open once eighty players reach sixty. No invented dates; it opens when the realm gets there.
Why kept
A museum you can live in.
We left the 1.12 game untouched because it was already whole — one world, no layering, where you meet the same faces at the same inn instead of a stranger on every shard. Horde and Alliance share the table here; a small house is one community, not two. Nothing is for sale, so everything you carry, you earned. It's a tavern at the crossroads — stay an hour or a year, the door's open and the fire's lit.
The contract
What will not change.
If you only read one part before you download the client, read this. It is the deal between the house and the people inside it.
Nothing is for sale
No shop, nothing ever sold, no Patreon, no "supporter" perks. No money ever touches the game — no advantage is for sale, at any price.
The museum realm stays Vanilla
Blizzlike, nothing boosted. No transmog, no LFG tool, no Vanilla+. One deliberate exception: Horde and Alliance share chat, groups and dungeons — a small community is one table, not two. Beyond that, only invisible bug-fixes and small account comfort.
AI gnomes watch, humans decide
Little AI gnomes keep an eye out for griefing, hacking and the like and report it. Every ban is then reviewed and issued by human hand, can be appealed, and the numbers are posted publicly.
No hidden house rules
Rules, operational changes, and monthly transparency live on the site. If something changes, it is written down.
Realm record
The shape of the world.
Slow progression, normal rates, a PvE realm, and rules that protect the people who actually play.
- Core
- Faithful Classic Vanilla — tuned for accuracy, stability, and the old shape of the game
- World
- This Normal realm has no layering and no sharding. In a small house you actually meet the same people
- Rates
- No boosts — XP, gold, drops and reputation exactly as Blizzard set them
- Start
- Level up first; the first raids open two weeks after 80 accounts reach level 60
- Progression
- MC + Ony → Dire Maul → ZG → BWL → Call to Arms → AQ → Naxx — one content patch about every two months across a ~15-month roadmap, then the road stays open
- PvP
- A PvE realm — no forced world PvP. Use /pvp only if you want a fight; battlegrounds and honor work just like Classic Vanilla
- Economy
- No RMT, no GDKP, no staff advantage
- Accounts
- Email registration, CAPTCHA path, one real person behind the character
The road
From the Core to the necropolis.
We open one content patch at a time, the ruleset fixed at 1.12 throughout. The first raids open two weeks after 80 accounts reach level 60; from there a new patch roughly every two months — about a fifteen-month roadmap — carries us from Molten Core to Naxxramas. Then the road stays open.
- 1.0Phase 0Launch
- 1.1MC + OnyGate + 2 weeks
- 1.2DM≈ Month 2
- 1.3ZG≈ Month 4
- 1.4BWL≈ Month 7
- 1.5Dragons + PvP≈ Month 9
- 1.6AQ≈ Month 11–12
- 1.7Naxx≈ Month 14–15
Up nextTwo weeks after the gate is met — 80 players at level 60. The Mountain and the Broodmother open together.
Start
Three steps, then you're in.
The museum keeps the game; this gets you into it. Account, client, character — then the door's open.
01
Create your account
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
Download the realm client
A clean Windows zip, realmlist already set to play.stonetavern.app. No installer, no telemetry.
Open →03
Walk in
Log in, make a character, and settle into a small PvE realm built around people, not accounts or payment tiers.
Open →
The honest part
Free, and staying that way.
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.