nw-extract

Library and tool to extract assets from New World game folder

Requirements

• Python
  • to automatically create Oodle DLL bindings. (ffi-napi and node-gyp are used under the hodd)
• oo2core_8_win64.dll (Oodle compression)
  • This repository does not ship the oodle compression DLL. You have to own that dll (or search the web, but be careful, dont trust blindly any download website)
• texconv.exe
  • should be available in your PATH, if you choose to convert DDS texture to any other format

Installation (binary)

Install globally

npm install nw-extract

Extract files

Then to extract data from game intall dir

nw-extract "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\New World"

The tool accept sfollowing arguments and options

Arguments:
  input-dir             New World game folder

Options:
  -o,--output <path>    Output folder (default: "./nw-extract-out")
  -f,--filter <filter>  Filter glob pattern (default: [])
  --lib <path>          Directory where oo2core_8_win64.dll is located
  -h, --help            display help for command

Example:
  nw-extract "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\New World"
  nw-extract "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\New World" -f **/*.datasheet
  nw-extract "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\New World" -f **/*.datasheet,**/*.loc.xml
  nw-extract "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\New World" -f **/*.datasheet -f **/*.loc.xml

Convert Files

To convert extracted files to another format

nw-convert "./nw-extract-out" -o OUT_DIR -c CONVERSION

The tool accepts following arguments and options

Arguments:
  input-dir               Location of extracted New World folder

Options:
  -o,--output <path>      Output forlder for converted files (default: "./nw-convert-out")
  -u,--update             Overrides previously converted files (default: false)
  -c,--convert <convert>  Conversion directives (default: [])
  -h, --help              display help for command

Example:
  nw-convert ./nw-extract-out -o ./nw-convert-out -c "json:**/*.datasheet"
  nw-convert ./nw-extract-out -o ./nw-convert-out -c "json:**/*.loc.xml"
  nw-convert ./nw-extract-out -o ./nw-convert-out -c "png:**/*.dds"