# Cypress: reconstructing Plants vs. Zombies dedicated servers

> Cypress reconstructs dedicated-server behavior for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 1, Garden Warfare 2 and Battle for Neighborville. A C++ DLL loaded by each game hooks Frostbite functions for connections, level loading and commands, while a desktop launcher and backend services provide server discovery and relay functions. The project targets specified game versions and requires a legally owned copy.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/PvZ-Cypress/Cypress>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/PvZ-Cypress/Cypress/blob/2d7eec3b5684c285ea98e6681914cdb264ea2993/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/cypress-pvz-servers-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/cypress-pvz-servers-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/cypress-pvz-servers-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Provide a legally owned copy of a supported game version.
- **Prerequisites:** Use Windows 10 or later or Ubuntu 24.04 or later, with .NET 8.0 Runtime.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires Visual Studio 2022 or later with .NET and C++ desktop workloads.
- **License:** GPL-3.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/PvZ-Cypress/Cypress/blob/2d7eec3b5684c285ea98e6681914cdb264ea2993/README.md>

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