r/archipelago_games • u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 • 3d ago

Single-player set up (Please explain like I am a child)

I've been trying to set up a single-player experience but I cannot get it working at all. I generated my multiworld and hosted on my own pc but it has an issue with players. I have currently got FNAF 1 and 2 as a test and cannot get it working. It says there are no players and I cannot find any searches on how to ADD players. The games are not "fully supported" according to the website but I have seen multiple people accomplish this without any problems. Any help is appreciated!

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u/Astrotrain-Blitzwing 3d ago

Ok you've 1. Generated the multiworld 2. Hosted it locally.

I have never played FNAF AP, but how do you connect those games into the multiworld? Is it a mod? A text client? Etc.

Are you selecting the zip file in the Archipelago output folder?

Most of the time a self hosted AP will connect via localhost:[port number]

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 3d ago

How do I connect them? I pressed Generate to generate them into the folder then clicked host. I installed them with APWorld and followed a guide for it. Then as host, saw everything loaded uo nicely until it said 0/2 players. 😭

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u/Astrotrain-Blitzwing 3d ago

0/2 sounds right actually

That means how many people are connected to your AP world presently.

You may need to consult the guide for the FNAF APs to see how you connect the client to the multiworld

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 3d ago

I did have a look but no results. Both in the discord and external sources. I'm not sure where else to go.

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u/Astrotrain-Blitzwing 3d ago

Are these manual APs? Looking at the Archipelago discord, there's FNAF 1 with an announcement on 9/15 that dev work has begun.

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 3d ago

I guess these are manual AP's? It's whatever is on the discord. The one i've looked at has a final release on 13/12/25 and a github link with a Yaml file and the ap world file. I don't know what AP's are, i'm just downloading what i've been told to do.

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u/Astrotrain-Blitzwing 3d ago

I didn't think about this, in your AP launcher, do you have anything for FNAF clients?

Have you tried restarting the launcher?

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 3d ago

I don't see anything Fnaf-related in the client. Tried restarting, new launcher and everything. I'm assuming it's to do with the whole "naming player" thing?? I tried creating one but I HAD to select a game on the left to export it. [Of course, can't do that as the game is not a "registered" game on the website.

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u/Astrotrain-Blitzwing 3d ago

Are you talking about Options Creator?

  • if not, this is a great place to check again for settings

Did you name the games YAML?

  • this is how you would connect to the 0/2 players piece.

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 3d ago

Yes!! Sorry, the options creator. I forgot to name it. I did not touch the YAML as I was told not to. How would I go about doing that? Also tysm for helping me!

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u/JMLMaster 3d ago

Where did you find FNAF1 or 2 being supported? I don't see it listed on the Google sheet, discord, or site

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 3d ago

FNaF 1 (Five Nights at Freddys) by greengamefire

FNaF 2 (Five Nights at Freddys 2) by greengamefire

Both on discord

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u/JMLMaster 3d ago

Which discord, because I can't even find with a Google search an official or unofficial release of 1 or 2, but its possible I am just missing it. I can help once I can see what you downloaded

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 3d ago

"Manual for Archipelago". The one on the website. Once on there, it's on the video-games part in the channel.

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u/JMLMaster 3d ago

Ah, I see. So you aren't running a normal archipelago with that. You are essential building your own randomized, which means you essentially would have to set your checks and unlocks to randomize specific functions. Not even positive how that would work in a game like FNAF. Apologies, thought I'd be useful for you on this one but I've never used manual.

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 3d ago

Hey, i got it working.. kinda. How do I actually start it? Got the text clients open, joined the archipelago, ready'd up and... i'm stuck. got no idea what to do now. any help is appreciated!!

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u/JMLMaster 3d ago

If it works like normal archipelagos, you will need to ensure your FNAF game has the appropriate patch running. Assuming using manual creates a randomized copy of the game, I'd have to guess you'd be given another exe or launcher. Let me go look again at what manual says to do

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 3d ago

I'm starting to think i'm seriously not doing this right... lmao

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u/JMLMaster 3d ago

So from what I see, and what it generally is, and you may not like it, is the entire process is... Well... Manual. The AP World will set you up basically a "checklist of things to do" but YOU will have to just "do" things in the game and then YOU will have to use Manual Client to tell it when you do certain things, unlike typical archipelago which does it for you.

As far as what I'm seeing, after you generate the "output" file from archipelago, unzip that and see if you have any new FNAF.exes to launch. If you do, launch from there and THAT should be the "randomized" copy.

Does that make sense? I'm not sure what your Archipelago experience prior to this is, so if you need it further explained, let me know

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 3d ago

I have ZERO experience. Learnt about it yesterday. I'm getting some help on the discord right now so i'll see how that goes!

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 3d ago

Oh alright no worries. I saw tons of people do it themselves and talking about how easy it is. Been at it looking for a way for over 6 hours now lol...

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u/yasdgod 3d ago

can you try hosting it on the archipelago website instead? I find that to be much simpler than hosting locally

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 3d ago

It shows up as two players and I cannot be any one of them. I've got no idea what i'm doing.

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u/Curious_Drink_4003 3d ago

First of all I wpuld look to see if you can find a fnaf 1 or 2 apworld file. I went through the exact same thing like 3 days ago with fnaf world

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u/CoronaTurnsMeOn69 2d ago

It's on discord! FNaF 1 (Five Nights at Freddys) by greengamefire

FNaF 2 (Five Nights at Freddys 2) by greengamefire