About

The Hunter's Dream

The Hunter's Dream is a custom multiplayer server for Bloodborne, built through reverse engineering the game's network protocol. It is the online home of bbhost, our PC host for the definitive Bloodborne experience on PC, bringing the game's asynchronous and cooperative multiplayer along with it. It also enables online play through shadPS4, a PS4 emulator.

Both share one world: blood messages, bloodstains, wandering ghosts, chalice dungeons and every statistic count hunters from either. Online sessions are the exception: cross-platform play between bbhost and shadPS4 is not supported, so co-op summons and invasions only match hunters on the same client. shadPS4 hunters appear with (shadnet) after their name.

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Implemented Features

  • Blood Messages — Create, discover, and rate (Fine/Foul) messages left by other hunters, with spectre display at message locations
  • Tombstones & Death Visions — Death markers appear in the world; approach to witness a ghost replay of another hunter's final moments
  • Wandering Ghosts — Ghostly silhouettes of other players moving through the same areas
  • Cooperative Summoning — Accurately reports and monitors summoning requests
  • Chalice Dungeons — Create, search, and join dungeons via glyph codes; full dungeon generation with boss prediction and map visualization
  • Channel System — Reports live player activity such as lamp usage and areas of activity
  • Live World Map — Hunters walking Yharnam a few seconds behind real time, with their deaths, kills, gunshots, heals and boss clears as they happen, on a map drawn from the game's own ground
  • Map Layers — Where hunters died, the beasts they slew, the bosses they felled, the messages they left and the paths walked most, across every realm
  • Follow a Hunter — Every path a hunter has walked and every place they fell, drawn on the map
  • Hunter Profiles — Each hunter's deaths (linked to their tombstone on the map), killers, boss clears and fight times, multiplayer record and build
  • Live Activity — Where hunters are right now, by area and nearest lamp, and which chalice dungeon glyphs they are delving
  • Hunt Statistics & Leaderboards — What kills hunters, the most hunted beasts, boss win rates and the fastest boss clears

Acknowledgments

?ServerName? Souls Modding community — FromSoftware reverse engineering resources and mod tooling (Wiki, Discord)
The Tomb Prospectors Chalice dungeon research, documentation, and community exploration (Discord)
Souls Reversing Communities Broader FromSoftware reverse engineering efforts that made this project possible
shadPS4 Thank you to the amazing developers behind shadPS4 (shadps4.net)
HotPocketRemix Created the chalice dungeon map viewer used for dungeon visualization
Nox- Provided the categorized hundreds of chalice dungeons for farming, equipment, gems and developer testing
metr1k Significant help with testing, reverse engineering and implementation
Filipe Ramos (u/Dibilowas) The painted Bloodborne world map behind the Map page, used with the author's released project files
Mephistophea, Bloodborne Wiki The enemy and boss images shown with deaths, kills and boss clears, used with her permission
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