WBOX Converter

Extract text from Wurm maps (WBOX)


Drop or upload your .WBOX file
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How to extract text from your WBOX file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WBOX file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert WBOX to another file type

To convert WBOX maps to another format, you need Wurm Unlimited or other Game software.

Convert a file to WBOX

To convert other file formats to the "Game Map File" file type, you need software like Wurm Unlimited or a similar tool.


About WBOX files

The .WBOX file format is primarily used to store game map data for Wurm Online, Wurm Unlimited, and WorldBox. In Wurm titles, these files contain highly detailed terrain topography, server variables, and item coordinate data required to load a multiplayer server. The major disadvantage of the .WBOX format is its proprietary, closed nature. These files are typically compressed using raw zlib data streams. They lack standard archive headers, meaning standard extraction tools like 7-Zip or WinRAR cannot open them directly. This makes them extremely difficult to view or edit outside of specialized, community-built modding tools. Users often need to convert these files into standard PNG heightmaps to edit terrain visually, or extract the contents into JSON or XML formats for raw data manipulation. Because this file format is essentially a closed black box, generic file converters will always fail to process it. The data can normally only be read properly by the original game engines. Our analyzer can inspect the internal binary structure and often detect the underlying zlib compression. This allows you to view embedded text strings or extract the embedded data streams, bypassing standard file restrictions.

Convert.Guru analyzes your WBOX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted JSON and PNG files.


FAQ

If you want to convert WBOX file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use Wurm Unlimited or similar software from the "Game Map Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to WBOX, try Wurm Unlimited or another comparable tool in the "Game Map Data Storage" category.



The WBOX Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our WBOX converter.