MultiplayerServerWML

Multiplayer Server WML

This page describes the WML used to communicate with the multiplayer server (wesnothd).

The login procedure

• server request (optional)
  • [version]

• client response
  • [version]
    • version The client's version string.

• server request
  • [mustlogin]

• client response
  • [login]
    • username The username the client would like to have.

• server response
  • [join_lobby]

• server response
  • [gamelist]
    • [game] (repeated)
      • id A unique id of the game.
      • name The title of the game.
      • mp_scenario The id of the scenario.
      • mp_era The id of the used era.
      • mp_use_map_settings Does the game use the map settings specified in the scenario.
      • mp_fog Does the game use fog.
      • mp_shroud Does the game use shroud.
      • mp_village_gold The number of gold per village.
      • experience_modifier The experience setting.
      • mp_countdown Does the game use a timer.
      • mp_countdown_reservoir_time Upper limit of the possibly available time.
      • mp_countdown_init_time Initial time.
      • mp_countdown_action_bonus Time bonus per action.
      • mp_countdown_turn_bonus Time bonus per turn.
      • map_data The map data.
      • hash The hash value of the map_data.
      • observer Are observers allowed or not.
      • human_sides The number of sides played by humans.
      • slots The number of vacant/max slots.
      • turn The current turn/max turn.
  • [user] (repeated)
    • name The username of the player.
    • game_id The ID of the game the player is in (version 1.3.7+svn).
    • location The name of the game the player is in.
    • available "yes" if the player is in the lobby; "no" if in a game.

Many of the keys under [game] are described more indepth on the ScenarioWML page.

Error messages

• [error]
  • message The error message.

Chat (lobby and in-game)

• [message]
  • sender (optional - filled by the server) The sender of the message.
  • message The message itself.
• [whisper]
  • receiver The receiver of the whisper
  • sender (optional - filled by the server) The sender of the whisper.
  • message The message itself.

Updating the lobby state

• [gamelist_diff] server message - basically a diff from two [gamelist]s; the keys listed are the ones that actually occure in practice
  • index The index of a user.
  • [insert_child] A new user logged on.
    • [user]
      • name The name of the user.
      • available "yes"
    • [delete_child] A user logged off.
  • [change_child]
    • [user]
      • [insert] A user joined/left a game.
        • available "yes" when the user left a game. "no" when the user joined a game
        • location The name of the game the user joined.
      • [delete]
        • location "x" when a game was left.
    • [gamelist]
      • index Index of the game in question.
      • [insert_child] A game started.
        • [game] All the usual keys of [game] possible, see above.
      • [delete_child] A game ended.
        • [game]
      • [change_child] Something changed in a game.
        • [game]
          • [insert]
            • slots The number of free slots in the form: free/max slots
            • turn The turn number in the form: current turn/max turns
          • [delete]
            • map "x" comes with every turn or slots change for games with shroud
            • mp_scenario "x" comes with turn and slots changes for games with no scenario id

• [observer] or [observer_quit] server message - players joining([observer_quit] - quitting the lobby "game")/quitting([observer] - joining the lobby "game") a game
  • name Username of the player/observer.

Game setup (the phase from creation to start)

To create a game the client sends:

• [create_game]
  • name The title of the game.
  • human_sides (obsolete) The number of sides played by humans.

followed by a message with the scenario options as under [game] (see above) plus the scenario data ([time], [era], [side], etc. see ScenarioWML)

• [join]
  • id The id of the game.
  • observe Join the game as an observer.

• [side_secured] server response upon successfully taking a side by a player
• [failed] server response upon an unsuccessful try of taking a side by a player
• [scenario_diff] ScenarioWML diff (side changes, etc.)

• [start_game] sent by the host to start a game
• [leave_game] sent by the client when it leaves a game; sent by the server to make a client leave a game

In-game communication

• [store_next_scenario] sent by the host - the scenario data (see ScenarioWML) to advance to the next scenario
• [load_next_scenario] sent by the client to request the data for the next scenario
• [next_scenario] data for the next scenario (see ScenarioWML), sent by the server on request

• [info] sent by the host on game end - info about the game state
  • type "termination"
  • condition the termination reason

• [change_controller] a player gives away one of his sides
  • side the side to change controller
  • player the nick of the player to take control
  • own_side "yes"

If a player leaves this is sent to the host for all sides he owned.

• side_drop The number of a side that dropped because a player left.
• controller The controller of that side. ("human", "ai", "network", "none")

• [muteall] the host mutes/unmutes all observers - toggles
• [mute] the host mutes an observer - toggles
  • username the username of the observer - if not specified the servers returns a list of muted usernames
• [kick] or [ban] the host kicks/bans a player/observer
  • username the username of the player/observer

• [turn]
  • [command] (repeated) can contain all the tags you can find in a replay: [recruit], [move], [end_turn], etc.
    • [speak]
      • message
      • description the sender
      • team_name the name of the team the message is for - empty if it's a public message

Administrative commands

• [query]
  • type The type of query. See ServerAdministration for details.