Several of our mainline campaigns are in the works for upgrades at the moment, which includes adding characters and enhancing existing scenarios. We are looking for more artwork to supplement these upgrades, including the following:
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It looks good at the bottom since the page isnt too long; i had no problem finding it.
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Hi, I'm rjdev!
Been a fan and player of this game for a long time but recently took a interest in modding and coding for this game. I'd love to learn to more and gain experience in developing more mods and maybe even creating custom campaigns, factions, and worlds. Recently worked on and published...
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Heyo!
I really want to get back to the game, but evertime i try to launch it, the game does simply not open.
It is active in the task manager, but no screen pops up.
Did anyone have the same problems? If so, how did you fix it? TIA
Is there a tutorial-style Campaign to teach newish players more advanced gameplay?
After doing battle training and a 1-2 campaigns, I think this would be useful. Battle Training doesn't go over things like resistance (to weapon types), more advanced abilities (like cure and drain), multiplayer, or...
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Genealogy-Grinch wrote: May 17th, 2026, 9:18 am
A tutoriial is needed I hope they made one. As some one that has been playing Wesnoth I keep learning every day, and I have been playing for years.
Here is a screenshot from the dev branch. Basically, there are 6 campaigns in a starting sequence for...
While I am not sure if this qualifies as an issue, I find it odd (and mildly irksome, to be frank) that Fire Guardians (which are stated to frolic in lava) and Fire Wraiths, both of whom are seemingly comprised of flame and possess only a partial resistance to fire, where as other creatures like...
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Usually 100% resistance is something to be avoided when designing a unit because it can lead to pathological situations. For example, if the Fire Guardian had 100% fire resistance, then if you had a battle with Fire Guardians on both sides, they would be (almost) unable to do any...
I don't have much experience with forums, so I apologize if I'm doing anything wrong.
The Battle For Wesnoth means my entire childhood to me. I'm over 20 years old and my whole life has been spent playing this game. So I wanted to express my gratitude, but I didn't know who or how to do it. That's...
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As someone for who wesnoth has been my favorite game since childhood (and I am now an active modder and occasional code contributor to the game), I agree, it is great how long this game stays relevant and maintained through the effort and passion of developers and modders.
I’ve beaten all the 1.18 campaigns on the highest difficulty. Now I’m looking for the biggest possible challenge. The Hardest campaing ever across all versions from 1.14 to 1.19.
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You mean only mainline campaigns? Because some add-ons I feel are much harder.
One of the hardest one to beat for me was in a dungeon where one had to use footpads to
soak up damage (or rather, dodge/evade) from trolls. I was not able to beat it;
other players did.
Some tiny quibbles: Would have been cool if the reflections vanish at night. Star and moonlight reflections? Well maybe. Wesnoth doesn't account for the phases of the moon. Well there's an idea for another addon : ) The other...
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Thanks, I'll add it to my list of potential future projects.
While playing Afterlife rated #51587 vs WarolKojtyla, he repeatedly accused me of cheating.
Obviously i didn't cheat ; i wouldn't even know how.
I repeatedly warned him that he would get banned. I repeatedly asked him to retract his...
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WarolKojtyla wrote: January 25th, 2026, 2:55 pm
You gotta be kidding me that you refuse to do anything about people misreporting games unless they do it all the time, but ban me because I think someone is cheating
No, I didn't ban you because of what you think because I can't know what yo...
Hello, I'm not new at all to this lovely game but I am new to this forum.
I stopped playing the game in high school because I was too busy.
I recently came back to the game out of pure nostalgia and was pleasantly surprised to see the changes that had taken place over the years.
The only thing...
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That should be easy to adjust, shouldn't it? Perhaps wesnoth could have something for users to ad-hoc modify the timing delays. I have not been using XML since ages but in my own code I tend to simply use YAML files for most data configuration, and in YAML it is trivial. (I only do this for simple...
Hello! I’m creating this discussion so we can share opinions on which lich is more powerful, whether in lore or in actual power. On one hand, we have:
Javian, a lich from The Awakening of Wesnoth, who traveled long distances with his great army.
Malifor: Although he was defeated by some peasants,...
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It's definitely Jevyan! He was way too nerfed in The Rise of Wesnoth; if the campaign was lore accurate, he would be far stronger than he appears to be. He's more than a thousand years old, and posses too much knowledge.
Malifor was just a crazy necromancer who cloistered himself in his little...
Has anybody else added existing factions from one era into another era? I added four factions to the Ageless Era recently, just for my own play on a local game. I put the four factions into the "misc units" folder of Ageless Era: Icadon, Toybox, and Undergrowth factions from The Era Of Horrors, and...
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You might want to talk to Ravana about merging your work into main line Ageless Era.
Which might or might not be feasible depending on how you coded it and the quality of the factions themselves.
But as a player I always find it the more the merrier, so please go ahead and give it a try. I am...
Started game 55245 in afterlife vs Feigd. He immediately wanted to get out of the disfavourable game.
He claimed he missclicked his leader out of the castle. Nothing of the sort showed on my side. I refused the rematch, and insisted on playing the game.
How does the scenario editor work in 1.18?
When i create a new scenario, the game asks for an ID which is then created as a folder with content here:
C:\Users\Frost\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.18\data\add-ons\2026\scenarios (2026 being the "ID" i've assigned).
When i save the scenario or restart...
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It was, it's just that now it's generating the whole add-on structure which, so it needs to go where add-ons usually go.
It appears my thread in Scenario & Campaign Development has been removed without notifcation or reason?
Atleast i cant find it nomore. A notification with a reason would have been nice to say the least.
My scenarios, are infact that. Scenarios. Which is why i published them both in scenarios and...
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If it is applicable for multiplayer than it does not go to scenario.
I just developed a new site (web app) that implement a ranked system based on FIDE ELO and allows users to host tournaments with different rules (knockout, leage, swiss, mixed swiss + knowckout). the url is: https://wesnoth.playranked.org/
The users can report normal matches or tournament...
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Hi All
Testing new features:
- auto report from replays - no need to upload save, the replay is automatically associated.
- no need to register and unified logon with wesnoth forums
New add on available in the add on server, it is called ranked
Currently using Wesnoth 1.18.5 (macOS 12.7.6) as noted in code block at end of post. (Upgraded to Wesnoth 1.18.6 after posting this. All issues still apply.) I've asked for these changes in the past, but not in a single post. So if you're bored some day/month/year... If commenting, PLEASE specify...
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Saw that Wesnoth 1.18.6 was up, so U upgraded, but all issues still apply.
It wastes a lot of time, and sometimes causes game to freeze... I don't understand why didn't you just disable this feature in this version, if it doesn't work properly anyway?
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This is so annoying, is there really no way to just download the addons with no auto joining!?
AI sometimes makes idiotic moves which can be frustrating, and even without those exceptionally stupid moves the AI is still extremely bad and doesn't know how to play afterlife.
So... What if someone made afterlife where players can control their copies instead of AI doing it? Did anything like...
I can't remember the campaign but can remember one of the scenarios: in a swamp, fighting against mermen, meet a Saurian and his Queen has been taken captive. You have to free the Saurian Queen and a certain number of prisoners and get back to basecamp or kill all the bosses. You enter the dungeons...
Hello,
I noticed that there’s only a Campaign game mode available, and I can’t find an option to choose a different faction from the one set for the campaign.
If I want to play as the Northerners, Dunefolk, or Drakes, what steps should I take? Do I need to download an add-on, or is there another...
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chesterenaud wrote: January 12th, 2026, 9:48 am
Hello,
I noticed that there’s only a Campaign game mode available, and I can’t find an option to choose a different faction from the one set for the campaign.
Factions are found in multiplayer - campaigns don't really have factions. There should be...
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