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Welcome to Spore Community Hub! This is the home of various projects for preserving the Spore community well into the future.

This includes keeping various Spore communities connected, preserving Spore’s history and Sporepedia, and ensuring that Spore’s online features continue to work indefinitely.

Created and maintained by Kade, also known as SporeMasterDOGC_Kyle, moderator of the Sporum (official Spore forums), from 2011, to its shutdown in 2018.

Our website is currently (as of April 2023) in the process of a redesign to improve the experience of accessing archived content. At this time, if you are looking for specific content, contact us via email or Discord and we can send you any archived content directly.

Contact Kade by email (kade(a)sporecommunity.com) or join our Discord server.

Not associated with or endorsed by EA or Maxis.

Our projects

Sporum Archive

We have put together an archive of the Sporum at https://sporum-archive.sporecommunity.com/jforum/forums/list.html (NOTE: Currently offline, will return in the future. Please contact us via email or Discord if you are looking for a specific post.)

This is a fully-browsable copy of nearly the entire Sporum. Additionally, it supports existing Sporum URLs - just change forum.spore.com to sporum-archive.sporecommunity.com, and it will take you to the archived copy.

Sporepedia Archive + Replacement Spore Server

We are developing software to accomplish the following:

• Preserve existing creations (or at least the most popular creations)
• Create a system for future creation sharing (in the event of server shutdown)
• Retain compatibility with existing Spore API
• Retain compatibility with the game’s built-in online features

This is a large project, with many parts. So far, we have fully decoded the format used to store creations in PNG files, which allows us to extract data (such as name, author, description, tags), with nothing more than a creation PNG file. We also have a tool to quickly download large numbers of creations, for backups. You can find these on our GitHub.

There is also a project to recreate the Spore servers, currently in development by Rosalie at https://github.com/Rosalie241/SporeServer

Documenting everything for Spore

We would like to create a comphehensive collection of everything related to Spore. This includes archiving content, creating guides and tutorials for both gameplay and troubleshooting, and creating technical documentation of Spore’s inner workings.

We have some content already, and it will eventually be documented and added to this website. If you have anything to add, contact us on Discord!