Tiered maps
Map items open red portals to dedicated map zones. Three tiers at monster level 81, 84 and 87, combine three maps into the next tier, and buy Tier 1 maps from a vendor in every town.
Coming soon · Alpha invitations open
Endgame maps, deeper builds and a real ladder for Diablo II: Resurrected
Project Lage is a free mod made by a long-time Project Diablo 2 player. Many ideas are inspired by PD2, rebuilt from scratch for D2R with their own twist. Join the closed alpha and help shape the first season.
- Free to play
- Your own D2R copy
- Softcore and hardcore ladder
- Never on Battle.net
From a PD2 veteran
Inspired by Project Diablo 2. Built for Resurrected.
Project Lage comes from years of playing Project Diablo 2 seasons. It keeps what made that endgame great, like maps you push tier by tier, loot worth picking up and builds that were never viable before, and brings it to Diablo II: Resurrected with its own touch: our own maps, bosses, items and numbers, in full HD.
D2R deserves an endgame that keeps you playing long after Baal.
Endgame firstTiered maps with their own rules, unique bosses and a pinnacle fight.
Its own identityOur own names, layouts, items and balance. No copied files from any other mod.
Fair seasonsServer-kept ladder characters, one build for everyone and an approved plugin list.
Shaped by playersAlpha testers decide what gets tuned next. Your feedback goes straight into the build.
Features
What Project Lage adds
Everything marked In the alpha is in the current test build. Coming later is on the roadmap and arrives during the alpha or after it.
Unique maps and a pinnacle
Named bosses in Vaelith's Frozen Throne, Morvane's Ossuary and Hrothgar's Last Stand. Cube all three into The Sundered Crown and face Kharos the Unending.
Corrupted maps
Corrupt a map for twice the monster density, one extra modifier and 25% more experience. A corrupted map can't be changed again.
Room for your loot
A 10×8 inventory, a 10×4 charm drawer that slides out of the inventory, a 10×12 Horadric Cube and extra shared stash tabs.
Class reworks
All eight classes, the Warlock included, get stronger synergies and fixes for weak skills, and the mercenaries get scaling auras. Skills can be cast in town.
Players 5 loot
Every game drops loot as if five players were in it, higher runes drop more often, and cube rune upgrades no longer need gems.
Crafting orbs
Orbs of Shifting, Remaking, Ascension and Fortune reroll and upgrade items, the Socketsmith's Box adds sockets, and the Corruption Orb rolls one risky outcome.
New items
New uniques like Koki's Ember and Emberwrought Crown, new runewords (Kindred, Wrath of Ages, Dawnward, Pale Lantern) and stronger charms and jewels.
Quality of life
Shift + click to identify, Ctrl + Q to identify everything, tomes hold 500 scrolls, scrolls cost 1 gold, and loot colours for runes, orbs and maps.
Loot filter and drop list
Hide junk, highlight what matters, and a floating list of notable drops in the top left corner.
Random maze maps
A fresh layout on every run, rolled map modifiers and a dedicated Maps tab at the vendors.
Stacking and a bigger stash
Stackable runes, gems and map currency, and more stash space for long seasons.
Screenshots
See it in action
Straight from the alpha build. More arrive with every test round.
In-game screenshots arrive with the next alpha build.
Behind the scenes
The tools every map and town in Project Lage is built with.
The map system
Your endgame, one portal at a time
Maps drop from Hell Act 5 champions and uniques and are opened in the Horadric Cube in Harrogath. Each map is its own zone with its own monsters and rules.
Tier 1
81
Monster level
Tier 2
84
Monster level
Tier 3
87
Monster level
- Find or buy a map
- Open it in the cube
- Clear the zone
- Cube 3 maps into the next tier
- Unique maps
- The Sundered Crown
Every map has rules
2
Immunities per map. Rare monsters can roll others on top.
1
Monster type with higher resistances than usual.
2
Monster types with lower resistances, so every build has a target.
+50%
Density on Teeming maps, +100% on corrupted ones.
Map atlas
Our own layouts, drawn straight from the alpha build's map files. Click a map to see it larger.
Map info on screen. Inside a map, its name, tier, monster level and boss show at the top of the screen, and map tooltips explain how to open each map.
Every change
What is different from Diablo II: Resurrected
The full list of changes in the alpha build. Numbers are still being tuned, so expect them to move between alpha patches.
| Area | Change | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Maps | Map items | Open a red portal to a map zone from the Horadric Cube in Harrogath. |
| Maps | Three tiers | Monster level 81, 84 and 87, with more unique packs per tier. |
| Maps | Tier upgrades | Three maps of a tier in the cube give one map of the next tier. |
| Maps | Map drops | Hell Act 5 champions and unique monsters can drop maps. |
| Maps | Map vendors | Akara, Lysander, Alkor, Jamella and Malah sell Tier 1 maps. |
| Maps | Map zones | Dedicated map zones with their own names, such as the Bastion of Giants and the Colossal Arena. |
| Maps | Unique maps | Vaelith's Frozen Throne, Morvane's Ossuary and Hrothgar's Last Stand, each with a named boss. |
| Maps | Pinnacle map | The Sundered Crown, cubed from the three unique maps, with the boss Kharos the Unending. |
| Maps | Map rules | Two immunities per map, one stronger and two weaker monster types; rares can roll extra immunities. |
| Maps | Teeming | Map modifier with 50% more monsters. |
| Maps | Corrupted maps | Corruption Orb + map: 100% more monsters, +1 modifier, +25% experience, can't be changed again. |
| Maps | Map info | Zone name, tier, monster level and boss on screen; map tooltips; item level on gear tooltips. |
| Items | Players 5 loot | Every game drops as if five players were in it. |
| Items | Higher runes | Each rune is twice as likely relative to the one below it. |
| Items | Rune upgrades | Cube upgrades take only runes, no gems. Runes show their upgrade recipe in their name. |
| Items | Orb of Shifting | Rerolls a magic item, keeping its item level. |
| Items | Orb of Remaking | Rerolls a rare item, keeping its item level. |
| Items | Orb of Ascension | Turns a magic item into a rare one. |
| Items | Orb of Fortune | Rerolls a unique or set item into a new one of the same base at the same item level. |
| Items | Socketsmith's Box | Maximum sockets on a normal or superior item; 1 or 2 sockets on a rare or unique. |
| Items | Corruption Orb | One random outcome per weapon or armor, marked "Corrupted". |
| Items | Unsocketing | Hel + Scroll of Identify + a socketed item returns the gems, runes and jewels. |
| Items | New uniques | Koki's Ember (+1 maximum golems), Frostvein Band, Ashspire Treads, Warden's Oath, Emberwrought Crown, Stormgrip, Coil of the Unbroken, Last Dawn Bulwark, Veilcutter, Hallowed Vestment. |
| Items | New runewords | Kindred, Wrath of Ages, Dawnward and Pale Lantern. |
| Items | Charms and jewels | Stronger Grand Charm damage, Small Charm life and resistances, jewel damage and attack speed; new Spellwoven and of the Steady Hand affixes. |
| Items | Token of Absolution | Orb of Shifting + Orb of Remaking, far cheaper than boss essences. |
| Items | Loot colours | Runes in orange with their number, orbs in purple, maps in gold. |
| Classes | Amazon | Javelin, bow and passive balance. |
| Classes | Assassin | Traps and martial arts. |
| Classes | Barbarian | Masteries, throwing and warcries. |
| Classes | Druid | Shapeshifting, summons and elemental skills. |
| Classes | Necromancer | Summons, poison and curses. |
| Classes | Paladin | Combat skills and auras. |
| Classes | Sorceress | More fire and lightning options, bolts, synergies and masteries. |
| Classes | Warlock | Miasma, blades and fire. |
| Classes | Mercenaries | Hell Act 2 auras grow with level, more life and damage per level, Act 5 Barbarian tuned. |
| Classes | Skills in town | Every class skill can be cast in town. |
| Storage | Inventory | 10×8, all of it for loot. |
| Storage | Charm drawer | 10×4 grid that slides out of the inventory; charms only work from there. |
| Storage | Horadric Cube | 10×12, the whole panel is storage. |
| Storage | Shared stash | Extra shared stash tabs. |
| Quality of life | Quick identify | Shift + left-click identifies an item; on a Tome of Identify, the whole inventory. |
| Quality of life | Identify all | Ctrl + Q identifies everything you carry. |
| Quality of life | Tomes | Tomes hold 500 scrolls; scrolls cost 1 gold. |
| Quality of life | Item hints | Orbs, runes and the Tome of Identify say what they do. |
| No change matches your search. | ||
Alpha patch notes are posted to testers with each build.
The ladder
Seasons with your characters on our server
Games are hosted by players through D2RLoader's TCP/IP multiplayer. Your ladder characters are stored on the Project Lage server, so the season and its leaderboard stay honest.
Server saves
ProjectLage.exe downloads your ladder characters before you play and uploads them while you play. Ladder characters live in their own save folder, so your offline characters are never touched. The server keeps the last 20 versions of every save.
Leaderboard
Ranked by level, then experience. Filter softcore and hardcore and every class. Fallen hardcore heroes stay on the board, struck through. Open the leaderboard.
Seasons
Every season starts fresh with new characters. When a season ends its characters become read-only and the final standings stay on the site.
Same build for everyone
ProjectLage.exe installs the same mod build and the pinned D2RLoader version for every player. On the ladder, only approved plugins load; anything else is set aside while you play and put back afterwards.
Approved plugins
| Plugin | What it does | Where to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Project Lage | The mod's own plugin: charm drawer, quick identify, map info. | Installed by ProjectLage.exe |
| Bind And Summon | A separate D2RLoader plugin by its own author, allowed on the ladder in the version pinned for the season. Not part of Project Lage. | Nexus Mods (download it yourself) |
Fair-play rules
- No trainers, memory editors, bots, map hacks or edited saves on ladder characters.
- Only the Project Lage build from ProjectLage.exe and the approved plugins above.
- No selling items, characters or services for real money.
- Report bugs and exploits instead of using them. Abusers lose their ladder characters.
- Be decent to other players. Hardcore deaths are final.
How to join
From invite to first map
Own Diablo II: Resurrected on Windows
Your own copy from Battle.net, with Lord of Destruction. Project Lage builds the mod from your install, so no game files are ever downloaded.
Request an alpha invite
Fill in the form below. Invited testers get the download link and a ladder account.
Run ProjectLage.exe
It installs and updates everything: the mod, the matching D2RLoader version and its settings. It backs up your saves before every update, and if a D2R patch gets ahead of D2RLoader it waits instead of breaking your game.
Play the ladder
Start
ProjectLage.exe ladder, sign in once, and host or join games from D2RLoader's Multiplayer screen (TCP/IP). The host opens TCP port 4000 for others to join.
Never take a mod onto Battle.net. Project Lage always starts offline through D2RLoader and never connects to Blizzard's servers, so your Battle.net account stays safe.
Closed alpha
Request your alpha invitation
Project Lage is coming soon. The alpha is small on purpose, so every tester's feedback counts. Leave your details and you'll hear from us when your invite is ready.
- Play the map system and class reworks before anyone else
- Help tune maps, items and builds for the first season
- A place in the first ladder season
- No spam: we only write about your invite
Support the project
Keep the ladder running
The offline mod is free and stays free forever. Running the multiplayer side is different: the ladder server, the save storage, the updater downloads and the work on new features all cost money every month.
To keep the game running with multiplayer support and to keep upgrading the features, Project Lage needs a little financial help. 1 € per season is enough for now to keep the work going.
- Servers
Ladder accounts, server saves and the leaderboard. - Updates
Every release delivered to every player through ProjectLage.exe. - New features
Maps, bosses, items and class work for every new season.
1 €
per season keeps it going
Donate with PayPal
Server costs covered since October 20262%
The rest still comes out of the developer's own pocket. Every euro helps keep the servers running.
Donations are voluntary and never needed to play. They give no in-game advantage, so the ladder stays fair. Any amount helps. The pool updates by itself and never shows names.
FAQ
Questions and answers
When does Project Lage launch?
It is coming soon. The closed alpha comes first, then the first ladder season. Alpha testers hear about dates first.
Is it free?
Yes. Project Lage is a free fan project, and the offline mod stays free forever. You only need your own copy of Diablo II: Resurrected. The multiplayer servers run on voluntary donations; 1 € per season keeps them going.
Is this Project Diablo 2?
No. Project Lage is made by a long-time PD2 player and many ideas are inspired by PD2, but it is its own mod for Diablo II: Resurrected, with its own maps, bosses, items and balance. It is not affiliated with the PD2 team.
Can I get banned on Battle.net?
Project Lage never connects to Battle.net. It runs offline through D2RLoader, and multiplayer goes through D2RLoader's TCP/IP and our own ladder server. Never try to use any mod on Battle.net.
Do my offline characters carry over to the ladder?
No. Ladder characters start fresh each season and live on the server in their own save folder. Your offline Project Lage characters stay on your PC and keep working.
What happens when Blizzard patches D2R?
ProjectLage.exe checks your game build. If a patch arrives before D2RLoader supports it, it tells you to wait instead of starting a broken game, and picks up the fix as soon as it is released.
Which classes can I play?
All eight, including the Warlock. Every class has rework changes in the alpha.
Can I use other mods or plugins?
Offline, it's up to you. On the ladder only the approved plugins load, currently Project Lage's own plugin and Bind And Summon (which you download from Nexus yourself).
How do I play with friends?
One player hosts from D2RLoader's Multiplayer screen and opens TCP port 4000; the others join from the game browser or by address. Everyone needs the same Project Lage build, which ProjectLage.exe takes care of.
What are the system requirements?
The same as Diablo II: Resurrected on Windows. The mod adds no noticeable load.