Every change below was checked against the 2023-03-21 client disassembly;
file:line evidence is in the code comments and in
docs/recroom-2023-client-api-complete.md.
Presence
- matchmake/none means "online, in no room" (its only caller is
TryGoToOfflineRoom, which ignores the reply). The server used to keep the
old room or invent a dorm, so the next heartbeat looked out of sync and
the client cancelled its load to chase that room.
- The join watchdog no longer clears presence 30 s into a long room load;
it is a 3 minute backstop that drops the room only.
- One fan-out (PresenceBroadcastService) for every transition: deferred
joins, matchmake/none, logout, failed joins, visibility changes, SignalR
connect/disconnect. isOnline is sent on its own; pushes never go to the
subject, because a self push moves the player.
- Online-status visibility (Public / Friends / Favorites / Appear offline)
is stored and honoured by GET /player and by the live pushes.
Profile
- PUT account/me/{emoji,personalpronouns,identityflags,bannerimage} were
404; added with the client's real form keys and persisted (new Players
columns plus migration). Every account read now returns them, and edits
push AccountUpdate to everyone.
Outfit menu
- Saved outfits kept OutfitSelectionsV2 and CustomAvatarItems, so loading a
slot restores what was saved instead of a stale outfit.
- isCreationAllowedForAccount answers the {Success, Error} envelope the
client parses; minPriceForPublicItem is a bare int; gifts/generate accepts
form bodies; lockeditems returns the full owned-item shape; colourways no
longer share their base item's AvatarItemId.
RecNetResult writes
- About 40 writes look status-only but parse the body as {Success, Error}.
An empty 200 showed "Failed to ..." after the server applied the change,
and a body without Success threw "Error message cannot be null". Clubs,
announcements, keepsakes, comments/read, subscriptions, purchase offers
and privacy settings now answer RecNetResult.
- Login token and device-code grants are real; remoteauth approves the
device code; createlogintoken returns a bare string.
- New: incentivizedreferrals/referrals, account/bulk/{email,phone},
GET strings, account/me/confirmphone, PlayMenuCarouselOrdering_1.
Route inventory and coverage test extended to match.
README now describes the 2023 branch.
Security:
- roomcode PUT now requires instance ownership (any player could plant
or relocate codes on foreign private instances)
- /platformid/{accountId} requires auth (anonymous Steam/Oculus id
enumeration oracle)
- request tracing no longer captures successful /thread bodies by
default (chat messages landed unredacted in logs); opt in via
Trace__SuccessBodyPaths
- anonymous action-link renewal clamped to 720h per consume
Data integrity:
- buyPurchaseReminder upserts its objective sentinel (second purchase
threw UNIQUE after the wallet was debited)
- progression reward gift + idempotency sentinel commit in one
transaction (crash between them double-minted the reward)
- ClubPermissionsGalleryAndModeration migration defaults corrected to
the entity contract (CommentsJson '[]', ClubChatEnabled true); new
one-shot ClubChatDefaultRepair migration fixes databases that
applied the wrong defaults; bootstrap repairs '' CommentsJson rows
- admin subroom-maxplayers audit entry commits with the mutation
- account purge covers CustomAvatarItems (ownership deleted, created
items reassigned to the system account)
- duplicate photo reports ignored while one is unresolved
Stability:
- bootstrap only swallows the expected duplicate-column error; locked
databases and schema failures now fail startup instead of the first
endpoint
- clone blob write failure degrades to an empty sub-room instead of a
500 after the clone row committed
- resumed photo-feed cursor stamped DateTimeKind.Utc (Npgsql rejects
Unspecified for timestamptz)
- unreadcounts queries per requested room instead of materialising the
whole comment keyspace
Tests:
- destroys-the-probe-session template guard is case-insensitive
74/74 tests pass.
- Added support for multiple tag filters in HotRoomServer endpoint, allowing clients to query hot rooms with multiple tags.
- Introduced a new DeleteRoom endpoint for owners to soft-archive their rooms, ensuring room data integrity.
- Updated MagicDoor endpoint to return a structured response including refresh timing.
- Improved reporting functionality to handle form submissions correctly, ensuring room reports are persisted.
- Refactored per-field mutation endpoints to support both legacy and new client formats, accommodating changes in request structure.
- Implemented a multi-field payload reader to handle complex requests more efficiently.
- Enhanced logging for room code management to track player actions and conflicts.
Audits every route the March-2023 client can call against what this server
actually serves, and fixes the defects that were breaking gameplay. Adds
docs/recroom-2023-client-api-complete.md as the reference: ~500 route
literals across 13 subsystems, with verb, request/response shape, and a
per-subsystem diff. 315 defects catalogued; the ones fixed here are listed
in its "Already fixed" table.
Path coverage was never the problem — 465 of 506 routes already had
handlers. The failures were in shape, and they cluster into four causes:
- Wrong verb. The verb is a BestHTTP.HTTPMethods ordinal (GET=0 .. PATCH=5),
confirmed from that enum's static constructor. Routes registered POST-only
while the client PUTs returned 405, which made room consumables neither
buyable nor consumable and blocked every room-key edit.
- Bare scalar wrapped in an object. The client reads `1000`, not
`{"Limit":1000}`; the issuing method signature says which. Wrapping makes
the deserializer throw and the feature dies silently.
- [FromBody] vs form-urlencoded. The client sends nearly every write as form
data, which an [ApiController] action bound [FromBody] rejects with 415
before the handler runs. This alone broke all 13 club member-management
endpoints. Adds Binding/FormOrJsonModelBinder so this is fixed once.
- Notify dispatch keys. Both enum overloads of the client's RegisterHandler
lower the id via Int32.ToString() and register only that numeric key, and
lookup is a case-sensitive TryGetValue that returns silently on a miss. We
were sending the enum NAME for most ids, so friend-request updates, forced
logout, maintenance broadcasts, live balance and consumable updates, and
invention moderation pushes all evaporated with no error anywhere.
Notable behavioural bugs fixed:
- Editing a club announcement deleted it: PUT was a third binding on the
delete handler. Split apart, and the missing create route added.
- leaderboard/CheckAndSetStat did not exist. The 2023 client has no SetStat
literal at all, so every leaderboard score it wrote was discarded.
- Setting a club clubhouse cleared it: the handler read roomId from the query
while the client sends it in the body, then wrote the resulting null.
- Club join requests were inverted (the enum is Open=0, InviteOnly=1,
AskToJoin=2), so ask-to-join clubs rejected everyone and invite-only clubs
quietly admitted them.
- Room bans were pushed as id 24, for which the client registers no handler;
they now go out as ModerationKick with IsBan, so the ban takes effect
immediately instead of at next login.
- Room-key ownership queries answered for the wrong player, and "has anyone
bought this key" asked "did I buy it" — always false for the creator.
Also persists settings that were previously acknowledged and dropped
(playlist accessibility/restrictions/level-voting/warning, per-player status
visibility, VR movement mode and avoid-juniors, custom room codes), which is
what the new columns in the migration are for.
One test asserted the old nested PriceAndCurrency response shape; the
client's consumable formatter has no such key and reads Price and
PurchaseCurrencyId flat, so the test was corrected alongside the handler.
- Updated the RoomsController to utilize synthetic CDN keys for data blobs.
- Introduced methods for determining current or synthetic data blob names.
- Adjusted room role permissions to align with new game role definitions.
- Enhanced the SanitizeController with a new endpoint for purity checks.
- Modified Match and PlayerPresence services to handle deferred presence commits.
- Improved RoomDataBlobService to support new game role and tool tag settings.
- Added support for boot dorm grace period in PlayerPresenceService.
- Updated protobuf definitions to reflect new room role and game role structures.
You are now able to go into dorm and the rec center!
- Removed Photon configuration fields from dorknet-clientmod.json.template.
- Added new backtrace and Azure Speech configuration endpoints in ConfigController.
- Updated response format for IsCreationEnabled and IsRenderingEnabled endpoints in CustomAvatarItemsController.
- Enhanced InfluencerPartnerProgramController to include additional player properties.
- Implemented RoomKeepsakes endpoint in KeepsakesController to retrieve keepsakes by room ID.
- Modified ReportsController to standardize response for Hile reporting.
- Added PlayerDataForMe and RoomsRequiring endpoints in RoomsController for enhanced player data retrieval.
- Introduced new dorm matchmaking methods in MatchController for player session management.
- Updated MatchPlayerController to handle exclusive login functionality.
- Revised install scripts to reflect changes in Photon AppId handling and patching process.
- Added new patch-client.ps1 script for applying static byte patches to the Rec Room client.
Targets Rec Room 2020.12.18 client.
Re-import after adding:
- DorkNet.ClientMod/dorknet-clientmod.json.template — config schema
the launcher's manifest-driven patcher renders into UserData/.
- tools/build-patcher-zip.ps1 — produces the dorknet-clientpatch-{key}.zip
Release asset the launcher fetches.
- .github/workflows/release.yml — auto-publishes both Release assets
on v1-december-* tag push.
Scrubbed via maintainer-side scrub-for-public.ps1: same drop rules as
the prior import, plus build-patcher-zip.ps1 added to the tools/
allow-list so it survives the scrub.
Alexa