Exactly a year ago, IGN’s excellent Neverwinter Vault was taken offline. It was — thankfully — soon restored to good working order, all of its many and varied modules and bits of content intact, a short while later, but the event spooked the Neverwinter Nights (and Neverwinter Nights 2) modding community sufficiently; they banded together to create NeverwinterVault.org, which was to serve as a permanent backup site for NWVault content.

Well, as of today, it appears that NeverwinterVault.org may now be the principal source for the many hak paks, script packages, and modules — including not a few Ultima fan projects! — for Neverwinter Nights and its sequel; IGN’s NWVault now redirects to their wiki for Neverwinter, the free-to-play MMORPG. Granted, at present, NeverwinterVault.org doesn’t have more than a small fraction of all of the original NWVault content online, although it is my understanding that the people behind it have a full backup of all NWVault content.

Let us hope so, at any rate.

On a related note, I think it is officially time for me to re-think my arguments in this article.