Create

Interested in creating your own scenarios and campaigns? One of Wesnoth's best features is its extensibility. Players can create new maps, units, races, scenarios, art, music, and even entire campaigns. Access to the "guts" of the game is both simple and difficult; if you have an ASCII text editor you have everything you need to build your own world. However, learning the Wesnoth Markup Language (WML) takes some effort. This section will guide you through the process of creating and distributing your own content.

Read this first

Before you modify or add anything, it is important to understand how the game stores and organizes its data. This article will explain the game's directory structure and introduce the userdata directory

• EditingWesnoth

What can I create?

Battle for Wesnoth Map editor

• Maps
• Scenarios - discussion of what goes into a scenario file
• Campaigns - how to put it all together into a campaign
• Multiplayer Maps and Scenarios - a specialized look at maps and scenarios
• Units
• Multiplayer factions and eras
• Art and Music
• Distributing content - all about the campaign server

What have others done?

Quick descriptions of the campaigns and scenarios that have been published on the campaign server.

• User contributed campaigns

This there are a multitude multiplayer maps and discussion of the campaigns on the Wesnoth forum

• Multiplayer development forum
• Scenario and campaign development forum

The world of Wesnoth

Many campaigns do not take place in Wesnoth, but many do. There is definitely a certain flavor to campaigns that are intended to take place somewhere in the world of Wesnoth. Stake out a time period or a map locale and tell a story.

• The history of Wesnoth
• The geography of Wesnoth
• The races of creatures in Wesnoth
• Wesnothian poetry

Miscellaneous

• WML Reference - a quicklink
• FAQ - if you have a question, post it
• Campaign server web interface - An alternate way to download user campaigns