Why even post this if you can't provide instructions?

[IncompetenceMadeManifest]

Your instructions are literally my username.

Your script requires Numpy to run. You have zero instructions on installing it or indicating it was needed.

Your instructions on the file structure is horrible. That doesn't tell us where the files should be ran from. Nor does the .exe even exist. Do you want the files IN the assets folder? Do you want the files in the new world folder containing the assets folder?

It doesn't matter, running the script in any of the provided choices results in it failing anyway because of the missing Numpy. On top of that, running the script doesn't provide a console output, so you can't even see what the issue is unless you manually open cmd and run the script from there.

If you're going to release a tool , in any subject, have more than 4 lines of instructions next time. Otherwise your work is useless.

edit: I've gone and wrote some extended instructions here

[lmachens]

Instead of this very stupid comment, you could ask for help and be thankful that someone shared their project. You should read the GitHub community guidelines.

I agree that the instructions are not very useful, but it is enough to run this project and extract the assets.
Keep in mind that this project was created for New World Alpha and won't work for the beta without some adjustments.

[IncompetenceMadeManifest]

1. I got it to run, with zero help of the non-existent instructions. My post was to purely point out that there's way more steps involved than initially presented.
   2. The files are encrypted anyway, this tool is useless. Even when it was in alpha.(Most of the sound files are no longer encrypted in the latest New world Playtest, so I retract this statement.)
2. Positive only comments get zero replies, as seen on the issues tab. Only thing that seems to get a response is criticism, which in this case is very valid. The instructions are so horrible, that posting this to begin with was a waste of time. Anything lacking execution, regardless of other aspects, is pointless.
3. You're completely irrelevant, why are you responding?

[nexsja]

As somebody who's used this tool an hour or two ago, I feel your name is ironic, honestly.
If you have some basic programming knowledge you don't really need any instructions. The app runs perfectly as soon as you satisfy it's dependencies.

As @lmachens pointed out, it won't work without some adjustments because it was written for when the game was in alpha.
The files are not encrypted, they are compressed. The point of this tool is to decompress them and it does so with minor modifications.

Now that you know it works, good luck figuring it out. I, personally, refuse to share the knowledge with such ingrates.

[IncompetenceMadeManifest]

The files are encrypted.

No amount of lying is going to change that.

You can't extract a single sound .bnk file if you wanted to. The .wem files are encrypted.

edit: In the latest New World Playtest, most of the sound files have been decrypted. They were encrypted before.

[Michael-Stokoe]

@nexsja Would you mind sharing with me how you got the extractor to work please?

Thanks in advance.

Nevermind, I have it working now, too. :)

[lmachens]

@Michael-Stokoe maybe #4 is helpful. It works well for me and extracts all the assets I require for my project.

[Michael-Stokoe]

I just looked at it and the edits I made were more or less the same as mine :)

There's still some encryption on the files, though. And I'm not sure how to tackle that.

Edit: With your extractor the files don't seem to be encrypted anymore. Fantastic. Thanks. :)

[Michael-Stokoe]

Update: assetcatalog.xml seems to still have some kind of encryption. Any tips?

[k3Yninja]

Update: assetcatalog.xml seems to still have some kind of encryption. Any tips?

Burp suite

[kloruklass]

Can't read assetcatalog.xml, it seems encrypted. Anyone?