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 and reimplementing the original Sony server infrastructure. It enables online play through shadPS4, a PS4 emulator, bringing Bloodborne's asynchronous and cooperative multiplayer features to PC for the first time.

Join the community on Discord.

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 (co-op and PvP sessions are not yet implemented)
  • 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 lantern usage and areas of activity

Support for jailbroken PS4 console hardware is currently in progress, with a patch configuration for it planned for release.

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 PS4 emulator enabling Bloodborne on PC (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
Hosted by droogie (@droogie1xp)