StartingPoints

What would you like to learn about Wesnoth in this wiki? Play it, create with it, support for it, examine the project, view credits of it.

This is a page with starting points to exploring this wiki about The Battle for Wesnoth. In addition to the wiki, there's also a homepage, a forum, and a Gna project page.

• List of all page categories in this wiki
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Getting the Game

Downloading

• Download - get the most recent source-files and many binaries
  • WesnothBinaries - precompiled for GNU/Linux, BeOS, PDAs, ...
  • WesnothBinariesLinux - precompiled for many GNU/Linux distributions

Compiling

• CompilingWesnoth - on Unix, Mac, Windows, GNU/Linux, PDAs, ...
• UsingSourceinstall - using GNU Source Installer to automate installation and upgrades from source (Unix-likes only)
• DebuggingWesnoth - on GNU/Linux and Unix-like systems
• WesnothOnLinuxPDAs - on the Qtopia/OPIE and thepdaXrom/Zaurus C series

Playing the Game (Play)

For New Players

• GettingStarted - read me first!
• WesnothManual - the rules
• MainlineCampaigns - walkthroughs for the game-supplied campaigns

For Not-So-New Players

• AdvancedTactics - beating the AI and other people
• MultiplayerServers - where to play against other people online
• Replays - archive of replays new and old
• How to play... - learn more about various faction vs faction strategies

Reference

• HotKeysSystem - keyboard shortcuts
• CommandMode - commands you can use in-game
• ChatCommands - commands you can use when on a multiplayer server
• ServerAdministration - commands that invoke direct server response (mostly for getting information)
• Units - Units advancement trees and stats
  • Stable version
  • Trunk version
• Races - Drakes, Dwarves, Elves, Humans, Orcs, Undead, etc.
  • Factions - all major factions, mainline and user-made
• Glossary - common Wesnothian jargon, acronyms and slang explained
• Maps - 1v1 default

Tweaking the Game (Create)

Scenarios & Campaigns

• UserScenarios - user-written scenarios, campaigns and game modifications
• Wesnoth UMC Dev - where you can do collaborative UMC development
• BuildingCampaigns - how to make your own single player campaigns
• MultiplayerCampaigns - how to make your own multiplayer campaigns
• BuildingScenarios - how to make your own scenarios
• BuildingUnits - how to make your own units
• UnitAnalysis - tool to analyze units

References

• ReferenceWML and AlphabeticalWML - all about Wesnoth Markup Language
• ReferencePythonAPI - upcoming Python interface for AI

Tools & Utilities

• ExternalUtilities - scripts to help create scenarios, campaigns, and graphics
• CustomizingStartup - some tweaks for optimizing the game's startup & performance

Art related

• Art Tutorials - help in creating art
• GraphicLibrary - unit and terrain images posted on the forums
• Tiles_Status - terrain tiles: proposed and in progress.

Improving the Game

• ReportingBugs - use Gna!
• Guidelines for suggesting features - To submit a feature request, use http://bugs.wesnoth.org

Developer information

• DeveloperResources - useful links
• Changelog - the most recent changes made to the game
• WesnothRepository - accessing the source code
• HackingWesnoth - guide for programmers
• CodingStandards - for programmers
• DeveloperGuide - for those who received repository commit rights
• Missing unit animations - what's available and what's missing
• WritingYourOwnAI - write a C++ plugin
• FormulaAI - Guide to the experimental formula AI branch
• ThemeSystem - customizing the screen layout for the game and the editor
• ReleasingWesnoth - steps to follow to release a new version
• WesnothPackagersGuide - guidelines for packaging Wesnoth for different platforms
• EasyCoding - Bugs and features that are easy to implement for new coders
• NotSoEasyCoding - Bugs and features which are doable but lacking someone working on them
• WesnothGL - Guide to programming the Wesnoth OpenGL branch
• WesnothdDesign - Guide to the design of wesnothd, the multiplayer server.
• SummerOfCodeIdeas - Ideas for Google summer of code

Game translations

• GettextForTranslators - how to translate Wesnoth under GetText
• WesnothTranslations - completely unknown stats...
• WesCamp - a project for translating user-made campaigns

About the Game

• WesnothPhilosophy - Dave on Wesnoth
• Timeline of Wesnoth - the timeline of Wesnoth campaigns
• Geography of Wesnoth - description of Wesnoth and surrounding lands
• WesnothFigures - notable figures of valorous and infamous deeds in Wesnoth
• WesnothReviews - third party reviews of Wesnoth
• #wesnoth - our IRC channel
• Trailer - the Wesnoth trailer

Other

• UsefulLinks
• Wikipedia entry for Wesnoth
• WikiHaiku

About this Wiki

• Editing - learn how to edit pages
• Sandbox - experiment with the wiki
• WikiMigration - we were looking for a replacement for our old wiki (and ended up using Mediawiki)