The unpacker.exe requires the following file structure:

• New World Alpha/assets (which has all the .pak files in)
• oo2core_8_win64.dll

The unpack takes about 70GB of space, so ensure to have that much free.

Dependencies

• Python3
• numpy

Setup

Install Python 3 from here.

Run python3 -m pip install numpy

Usage

Extract this repository into your game directory, usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\New World {Playtest/Alpha/Closed Beta}.

Edit unpacker.py at line #130 from:

if __name__ == '__main__':
    direc = 'New World Alpha/assets/'
    out_direc = 'unpacked_out/'
    gf.mkdir(out_direc)
    unpack()
    input('Unpack done! Press any key to quit...')

To:

if __name__ == '__main__':
    direc = '../assets/'
    out_direc = 'unpacked_out/'
    gf.mkdir(out_direc)
    unpack()
    input('Unpack done! Press any key to quit...')

Then simply run python3 unpacker.py