StartingPoints

Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based fantasy strategy game.

Defeat all enemy leaders using a well-chosen cadre of troops, taking care to manage your resources of gold and villages. All units have their own strengths and weaknesses; to win, deploy your forces to their best advantage while denying your foes the chance to do the same. As units gain experience, they acquire new abilities and become more powerful. Play in your own language and test your skill against a smart computer opponent, or join Wesnoth's large community of on-line players. Create your own custom units, scenarios or campaigns, and share them with others.

Battle for Wesnoth is released under the GPL. Prebuilt packages are available for most operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux, or you can build your own from source code.

Getting the Game

Downloads

• WesnothBinaries - precompiled for GNU/Linux, BeOS, PDAs, ... (or Windows and Mac OS X)

Compiling

• CompilingWesnoth - on Unix, Mac, Windows, GNU/Linux, PDAs, ...
• WesnothOnLinuxPDAs - on the Qtopia/OPIE and thepdaXrom/Zaurus C series

Playing the Game

For New Players

• GettingStarted - read me first!
• WesnothManual - the rules

For Not-So-New Players

• AdvancedTactics - beating the AI and other people
• MultiplayerServers - where to play against other people online

Reference

• CommandMode - commands you can use in-game
• Wesnoth Unit List (without frames)
• Experience Tree
• Factions
• Movement, defense and resistance tables
• WesnothAcronyms - common wesnothian acronyms explained

Further Information

• WesnothPhilosophy - Dave on Wesnoth
• ReportingBugs - use Savannah
• #wesnoth - our IRC channel

Scenarios, campaigns and graphics

• MainlineScenarios - campaigns included with the official distribution
  • WesnothStoryline - brief outlines of the scenarios
  • ScenarioDiscussion - walkthroughs and notes for mainline campaigns
• UserScenarios - user-written scenarios, campaigns and game modifications
• WesnothHistory - the Ages of Wesnoth
• WesnothGeography - description of Wesnoth and surrounding lands
• RaceDescriptions - Elves, Humans, Dwarves, Orcs, Drakes, Undead, Others
• GraphicLibrary - unit and terrain images posted on the forums

Tweaking the Game

• ReferenceWML - all about Wesnoth Markup Language
• BuildingCampaigns - how to make your own campaigns
• BuildingScenarios - how to make your own scenarios
• WesnothMapEditor - summary of controls
• CastleTutorial - how to create tileable castles and other castle-like tilesets
• ExternalUtilities - scripts to help create scenarios, campaigns, and graphics

Improving the Game

Developer information

• DeveloperResources - useful links
• Changelog - the most recent changes made to the game
• WesnothCVS - accessing the source code
• CodingStandards - for programmers
• UnitDescriptionRewriting - coordinating the revision
• Missing unit animations and sounds - what's available and what's missing
• WritingYourOwnAI - write a C++ plugin
• ThemeSystem - customizing the screen layout for the game and the editor
• HotKeysSystem - keyboard shortcuts
• ReleasingWesnoth - steps to follow to release a new version
• WesnothPackagersGuide - guidelines for packaging Wesnoth for different platforms
• WesnothPreferences

Ideas

• FrequentlyProposedIdeas - before you propose an idea, check here!
• NewUnits - units that exist only in theory
• NewTerrains - tile status
• To submit a feature request, use http://bugs.wesnoth.org

Other

• UsefulLinks
• WesnothLSM - presentation at LSM
• Wesnoth player's map - add yourself to the map!
• Wikipedia entry for Wesnoth - expand the stub!
• WikiMigration - we are looking for a replacement

About this Wiki

• Editing - learn how to edit pages
• Sandbox - experiment with the wiki
• Recentchanges - pages that have been changed recently