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3 years since the last release (0.26.0) New things for Release 28 Galatians A mix between Britons, Gauls, and Germans. The only Celtic civ with Resource Wagons. Cimbri Similar to the base game's version of the civ, but with standard DE features. Heroes Several more heroes of various civs rounded out and given their features (auras, etc.). This is an ongoing process, which is mostly complete, but there is still work to do. Hope to complete for r29. Hero Scout feature Your starting Scout is slightly stronger than subsequently trained scouts and receives a medallion for ease of selection at the start of the match. Visual: New and Updated technology, unit, and structure portraits. This is an ongoing process, incomplete for r28, but quite far along. The mod uses AI to create new images, utilizing in-game screenshots as base reference for most portraits, with historical research and references to round out the process. This disclaimer is for full transparency. Sample of Unit portraits: Sample of Technology portraits: Sample Structure portraits: The mod includes 8 new main menu backgrounds as well. Sample: This is all in addition to the other DE civs, like Syracusans, Scythians, Xiongnu, Yamatai (Yayoi), Epirotes, Imperial Romans, Zapotecs, and Suebians. Over 2 years of tweaks, changes, and improvements to every aspect of the mod. Sample in-game Screenshots (with some great model work by @nifa): Here's the Github page link for the preview release: https://github.com/JustusAvramenko/delenda_est/releases/tag/Release-0.28.0 DIRECT DOWNLOAD FOR THE LATEST .PYROMOD FILE https://github.com/JustusAvramenko/delenda_est/releases/download/Release-0.28.0/0ad_Delenda_Est_r28.pyromod

When you connect to the multiplayer lobby, 0ad uses a secure, TLS-encrypted connection by default. However, up to now we also offered the ability for players to disable that encryption. This won't be possible from some time tomorrow (2026-03-06) on anymore, as we want to improve the security and privacy of our players. For the past two weeks, every player who disabled TLS-encryption in the past, and therefore connected to the multiplayer lobby with an unencrypted connection, received a notification to change their configuration to enable it. If you haven't followed these instructions or just haven't connected to the multiplayer lobby since then, here is what you have to do to continue to be able to connect to the multiplayer lobby: From the main screen of the game, navigate to "Settings" → "Options" → "Networking / Lobby" and enable "TLS encryption" there. As an alternative you can also locate your 0ad configuration file and change lobby.tls = "false" to lobby.tls = "true" there.

Some of you might remember my previous posts about the North and Central America, South America and World maps. I've now bundled all three of my continental maps into a single mod and submitted it to mod.io (currently pending approval) The mod includes: North and Central America: four biomes (polar, temperate, desertic, tropical), with special landmarks like buildable zones in Yucatan and Cuba. South America: the main South American rivers (including the Amazon), four biomes, and access to the Pacific through Chile. A full world map using a sinusoidal projection to preserve continent areas, with biomes as faithful to reality as the engine allows. Designed for epic, resource-rich battles. All maps are also available on GitHub if you want to take a look at the files or contribute: https://github.com/Baelish03/0ad-maps I'll update this thread once the mod is live on mod.io. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome — hope you enjoy them! P.s. For further details the thread for each project can be found on this forum. On those threads there were some suggestion, I will implement it! I want to remake better all these maps and to expand to all continents, so I will appreciate your help earth_maps.zip

Agreed, I personally couldn't adapt, as sound feedbacks are so important. Knowing if something spawning, dying, or sometimes added to selection etc can be crucial. Here is a small mod to make all civilians have the sounds of the previously females citizens. CiviliansFemaleVoices.zip If you would also prefer with the actors changed to all females (for consistency for example) here is one that does that. CiviliansFemaleVoicesAndActor.zip

Enhancement to freehand formations: units now actually order themselves by distance, and don't cross each other's paths. Nice when microing ranged cavs. Before : After : Committed for integration in R29 too, as part of https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8525 (use common sorting functions).

1100-1200: Pretty noob plays, always loses, except VS other noobs like him. 1300-1400: Can win if he really, really tries to, but still pretty noob. 1500-1600: Yeah, he is still a noob alright. Will lose a lot of 1v1 games, but win some 4v4s. 1700-1800: Finally starts winning some games, but it's still considered a noob by peers. 1800-2000+: A good player, someone who can be considered regular in 4v4s. 2000+: A literal God of 0 A.D., probably played the game since A17. As you can see, there is a fine line between being good and being a God here

I used chrome browser (instead of brave) to download the version 28 executable. I installed version 28 over version 27.1, without uninstalling version 27.1, now version 28 works. I don't understand why, but now it works. LOOOL Thank you very much ALL. Let's play !!

Screencast+from+2026-03-24+01-51-27.webm Would be nice along with some charging mechanics.

I have a feeling steam wants 0AD on their platform, I doubt these recurrent posts are spontaneous gamers registering to make so nicely written comments, explaining the benefits it would have for an open source project.

The design of the game is such that you select buildings and produce from them. This is part of managing the economy which is also in the design document. Economy automation mods are fine to use in single player or against players that have this mod, but I don’t think they belong in vanilla 0ad.

https://github.com/JustusAvramenko/delenda_est/releases/tag/Release-0.28.0 Latest release candidate^. Download and install the pyromod. If no big errors or bugs, will upload to mod.io. Thanks everybody.

Working on the splash/preview image for a video:

Hi, guys... Apologies for my absence and late reply... I randomly saw this post on reddit and decided to check the forum for the topic. I'm not principally opposed to this idea. I actually like it. But of course I'm biased because I'm the one who created that chariot model in the first place. War chariots were certainly used to an extent. As early as the Classic Kerma Period, prior to the Egyptian occupation, chariots appear in the iconography of Kushite rock art from Lower Nubia dated c. 1750 - 1500 BC., depicting battle scenes, such as the Kushite victory scene at Nag Kolorodna. As early as 950 BC, after the Egyptian withdrawal from Kush, we find the earliest archaeological evidence of chariotry in the form of a horse burial from Tombos. "Stress on her ribs and spine indicate she wore a chariot harness during her active life." Especially during the 25th Dynasty, chariotry was important. King Piye for example mentions mounting a chariot during his conquest of Egypt. In his Great Triumphal stele, it is written: "Off sailed His Majesty northward to the harbor of the Hare Nome. His Majesty’s coming forth from the cabin of (his) bark, and mounting on a chariot. The awesomeness of His Majesty reached the Asiatics, every heart trembling at him." "The remains of 24 horses in four graves were found at el-Kurru, with each group consisting of a team for a four-horse chariot. These horses were adorned with decorative and ornate trappings, such as silver plume holders, amulets, and multiple strands of beads. These horses were associated with the four Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Napatan kings: Piankhi (r. 743–712 BC), Shabaka (r. 712–698 BC), Shebitka (r.698–690 BC) and Tanwetamani (r.664–653 BC)." The actual chariots were unfortunately not, or barely preserved on account of the wood rotting away. But chariots are repeatedly depicted in reliefs of the 25th Dynasty, the Napatan period and the Meroitic period. The latest depiction of a chariot in Kushite art that I'm familiar with is a relief carved into the walls of temple M250, which is associated with battle scenes. It's located in Meroë, and dated to the 1st century BC, Meroitic period: Unfortunately, most of my visual references are stored on my old laptop which broke down and I currently don't have access to it. But fortunately, Isaac Samuel wrote a wonderful and well sourced article on the horsemen and charioteers from the kingdom of Kush: https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-knights-of-ancient-nubia-horsemen

So, uploaded DE r28 to mod.io tonight. It just needs to be approved. Thank you to all of the playtesters. There are still several things I could fix and improve for r28, but at some point you gotta move on to the next development cycle. Here's something I'm thinking of doing for Release 29 ( thanks to one of @vladislavbelov's latest pull requests):

The player who chose Judeans in a TG be like: your CC was promised to me 3000 years ago! Jokes aside, this civ actually exists somewhere on GitHub or in Endovelico. Please take a look around and see if you can port it to R28

It didn't seem right to me for the Kushites in 0 A.D. to lack a chariot unit (other than the Amanirenas hero unit), considering that they're the closest thing to non-Hellenized Egyptians in the game and chariot archers are so iconic for the Nile Valley civilizations. Ergo, I created a "Noble Chariot Archer" unit that the Kushites can train from the Stable after researching Champion Chariots. I'm posting it here on request from someone on Reddit. kushite_chariots.zip

I say let it be hectic. I think its fine for the "perfect" start to be an asymptote: never reached but only approached.

In any competitive game where there is a winner and a loser, the fundamental expectation is that the conditions are equal for everyone involved. That’s the very foundation of competition. When two players sit down to a game of chess, neither side is allowed to use any hidden advantages. The same principle applies to online matches. Once the sense of fairness is compromised, the match itself stops meaning much. The surprising part is that we even have to explain something this basic. What I’ve noticed is that the game’s easily moddable structure and the looseness of the rules are being exploited. And in all the years I’ve occasionally played this game, I have never seen anyone join a game and say: “Hey guys, just so you know, I’m using a mod that lets me do certain things faster.” Not once. I’m not saying these players are deliberately hiding it but they certainly don’t mention it unless someone asks. Yes, some of the usual suspects are known to people who spend time on the forum. But not everyone spends time on the forum. Being active on the forum is not one of the fundamental requirements of this game (some players don’t even speak English.) Many people simply log in to play the game through the multiplayer lobby and that’s completely normal. They shouldn’t be expected to browse forums just to find out whether certain players are using advantage providing mods. A player who simply joins the multiplayer lobby expecting a fair match has no way of knowing that a particular opponent is using a mod that provides an advantage. That player can easily walk into a game assuming equal conditions and end up losing under unfair circumstances without even realizing why. Some people also seem to reassure their own conscience by saying things like “it doesn’t actually provide an advantage.” But if you ever run into a match where they’re forced to play without their mod (usually because a host insists on a clean game) you can quickly see how much they struggle without it. I won’t even get into a debate about why these mods provide an advantage, because that’s exactly the kind of discussion they want. Something that drifts the topic into ambiguity. I guess they expect something like laboratory results, but even if you somehow show them that, their response will just be to question the validity of the lab. I can’t even justify explaining it since anyone with a bit of common sense can see the inequality for themselves. Creating mods is perfectly fine, no one is against that. But if a mod gives you an advantage, then you should be playing against others under the same conditions and you should honestly disclose your mods to every new player you encounter (although, I’m afraid these mods could spread like a plague, as new players may be tempted to use them to succeed quickly.) To be honest, I wasn’t even aware that things like this were happening in this game. Realizing that some players I thought were simply very skilled, were actually cheaters, was disappointing. I hope this issue will be addressed and that the community as a whole realizes how much these practices undermine the quality, integrity and spirit of the game.

I am still working on it. I made the dumb move (lol) of adding a new civ (Galatians), so I need to finish up their heroes before I bundle the mod. I'm aiming for this weekend.

I’m just convinced that you edited your original message to try to make me look bad

Hello everyone I’m currently working on a new olive tree model for the Erechtheion and the olive mill. It’s still a work in progress, but here are the first results. I attached the blend file down below! For the foliage, I modeled an olive branch, textured it, and turned it into a foliage card to use for the tree. This is my first time working on a project like this, so please don’t hesitate to give feedback, I would really appreciate it! Have a great weekend! - Emma OliveTrees.blend

OH YEAH BRIDGE ME DADDY

storehouse and farmstead technologies apply only to civilians. thoughts?

Yeah I probably should save some keystrokes but I'll repeat it again here: We are not ready for the influx of new players, on a forum/lobby moderation standpoint. We are not ready for the influx of new players with the current mod situation Regarding licensing we can't link with the steam api directly we would need to make a launcher. We haven't looked yet into the specific of submitting a cross platform game. We need to take what happened other games that did https://ftp.fau.de/fosdem/2020/K.3.201/gamedev_spring_steam.mp4 into account Regarding auto updates, the game is now on the Windows Store https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n5vvjr2dz9w?hl=fr-FR&gl=US which i believe supports it. I've merged this conversation with the other one.

I don't have much to add to what @Stan` and @ShadowOfHassen said. I do try to keep up with hot topics people are talking about here, but I can't always read everything. @seregadushka Since this is an open source project, the best/fastest way to get an idea into the game is by implementing it yourself. When people suggested for you to do it in a mod, it wasn't meant maliciously. It is not uncommon around here for people to test their ideas in a mod first and then to get them into the base game eventually. If you don't want take that path, however, that is completely fine; contributing directly from the start is also possible. See: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/GettingStartedProgrammers https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/SubmittingPatches Keep in mind, though, that in any case, consensus has to be reached for a patch to be accepted and merged.

@seregadushka Hi. "Fighting UI" is pretty popular discussion in RTS world. My opinion is that 1) RTS should not be played like (turn-based) strategy games (like Chess, Go, Civilization, HOMM, etc.). You still need "real-time" element. Some people prefer more clicking and some people more thinking. I'd say RTS genere is balance between the 2. Between chess and Counter strike or similar games for example. 2) For easier discussion, people mentioned BW and AOE2 (I'd add Warcraft 3) as very success ~30y old games with old mechanics that still works and a lot players play it. I'd add to discussion: there's different type of successful RTS games that automated a lot of things: Supreme Commander FAF and it's ascends Beyond All Reason and Zero-K. Even if those games are automated, they are also popular (well BAR is). But you still have clicking there, more or less. So what's catch? I think it's about switching focus of clicks. In BW/AOE most of clicking is focused on production and micro. In SupCom-type games it's switched to general macro. In PvP (player vs player) clicking in RTS is inevitable. 3) I would also add BattleAces as failed game. There's no macro and everything is automated and it failed hard. TBF, I don't say it's same as what you suggest. You will get point why I added it to discussion. 4) Regarding this automation discussions, there will always be different vision between competitive players and casuals. B/c of this, you will always have unsatisfied group of people however you balance it. So it's about authors to decide how they balance it. 5) I will add 1 more example: NBA basketball 3 pointer range. This is short history: - 1979 (Oct 12): NBA officially adopts the 3-point line, initially viewed as a "gimmick," with a 23’9” radius and 22’ in the corners. - 1994-1995 Season: The NBA shortened the distance to a uniform 22 feet around the entire basket to boost declining scoring, a change that lasted three seasons. - 1997-1998 Season: Due to higher percentages and increased usage, the NBA reverted the line back to the original 23’9” distance (22’ in corners). You can blame NBA for what they did in 1997 as artificial made obstacle. We can say "hey decrease range and make basket 2x bigger". And some people will like it I am sure, but NBA would lose a lot if doing that. My personal opinion is that 0AD is already a bit too much automated, but it's still fine. Adding more could ruin game.

Hello @seregadushka and thank you for sharing your opinions about this feature. As mentioned earlier in this thread, we value feedback, but we're never in capacity to address it all due to lack of sheer developer resources. That's why we usually encourage those who can to go the developer route or to find someone that can, because that makes changes much more likely to happen. I understand this is frustrating, but that's just how it works. Everyone here is doing things for free on their free time so no one can really be forced to do anything. As you saw in this thread what seems to be the biggest pain point you have in the game is inconsequential for some (but surely not all) other players. Everything here is about balance and compromise. Now to address your concern itself it was discussed at length in the past, and the developers made the choice to go one way and autociv (the mod) went the other way. Relevant links with documentation under the form of discussions https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/38261-auto-queue-for-0-ad/ https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/6669 https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/6743 https://code.wildfiregames.com/D3865 https://code.wildfiregames.com/D4144

Just sliding in for a quick qualification. I am not in an official member of the Wildfiregames team. But I've made contributions before, and try to help out where I can, helping with issues, writing tiny PRs, copy editing, history research, helping with the flatpak (when I'm not to stupid to figure out 0 A.D.'s build process and have to have Stan help me) stuff like that. I haven't written a single line of code for 0 A.D. Eventually when I have time I'd love to though! It really is pretty easy to get involved with 0 A.D. The devs are very patient and friendly, and the GitTea repo is pretty easy to figure out how to open an issue or PR and get that feature you want in the game. 0 A.D. is open source after all. All the devs are volunteers with lives, commitments, and jobs. Yes, they made this amazing game just for fun, and consequently they work on the features that make the game (and their dev work) the most fun for them. If someone else has new idea that would make the game fun for them, they are more than welcome pitch in and try to get it added. In fact, if they have any questions on the process I'll do my best to help!

There are many QOL features in ModernGUI that I really appreciate. I think you’ve done an excellent job giving players the flexibility to customize the GUI to their liking, and you’ve kept alive features from other discontinued mods that are highly valued by the community. However, regarding the automation of the training system, I feel you’ve gone too far. I also think you’re overlooking something very important: the player’s awareness in the heat of battle. We are not perfect machines that remember to perform all the necessary actions at the exact right moment to keep our economy running smoothly. Your mod does an excellent job of removing a large part of that burden. The users of your mod can see it for themselves, which is why I find it frustrating that you don’t seem to recognize the advantages it provides.

the romans probably took it

Hello everyone, I am not here to contest a moderation decision nor to deny the legitimacy of a sanction when behavior crosses the line. Moderation exists and their work is sacred. What I want to share, however, is a reflection on what we sometimes lose when a player leaves (or is removed) durably from 0 A.D. JC is not an angel, he has had words too much, moments of anger, perhaps even statements that none of us would want to see reappear in the chat or on the forum. That deserves warning and sanction. On the other hand I am convinced that exclusion, even temporary, is not justified. If the moderators judge it useful, they can mute him permanently from the lobby. Then the players must protect themselves from him: There is autociv to mute a player or simply avoid him like a nuisance in the games. He did not seek to harm in a dangerous way against the project. Like DDoS or that kind of thing. Every player also represents something else: hundreds of hours spent playing, testing, reporting sometimes very technical bugs memorable games (good or catastrophic) that made dozens of people laugh, rant, progress a sincere love for this free project, born more than twenty years ago from passion accumulated knowledge on mechanics, civilizations, strategies, which he shared (even if sometimes with a bit too much salt) 0 A.D. is not a commercial game with a moderation budget. It is a project carried by volunteers, passionate people, and a relatively small but faithful community. Every regular player who leaves is a real loss for this ecosystem. We can afford to have a different functioning. We can claim to have a game above the others. A dogma to protect and leave in free access. Sanction firmly, yes. But applying a ban, is sometimes punishing the community as much as the individual. Many of us have already been young, impulsive, under caffeine at 2am after a raging defeat, or simply clumsy with our words. Some of us were lucky: a warning, a temporary mute, a private discussion with a more patient moderator… and we are still here today. I am not asking for general amnesty nor for the immediate return of JC. I am simply asking that we ask ourselves the question: Can we dehumanize him and consider him only as a lambda player who must have access to the game. Like a basic right. I am not even talking about second or tenth chance, he will do it again for sure. It is not by laxism that I propose to unban him. I consider that what happens in the games is private therefore not moderatable. If he wants to be the biggest villain on earth, he can, it is up to the player to avoid him. Thank you for reading until here. Whatever happens, I will continue to love this game and the people (even the ranters) who make it live. Kindly,

Or.... add Blocking & Muting to the base game's code. Alone, they would be a worthwhile basic features.

Continuing with the initiative, I mention it so that it becomes visible.

Such a neat, helpful little mod, but its thread is taken over by a completely irrelevant discussion... Sad.

@ittihat_ve_terakki I can truly understand that people consider the lack of appropriate audio feedback to be a problem. From a gameplay perspective, it’s reasonable to see that as an issue, and something should be done about it. But... This is merely your assumption. I’ve already seen many people adopt the term “Civilian” without any issue. Historically, agriculture was a task carried out by the whole of civil society—within families or communities. I think this change aims to represent that. And what you’re saying here is nonsense. You’re taking the historical accuracy argument to an extreme. It doesn’t even make sense to debate it. If you want to keep playing without your comfort being challenged, the favor has already been done for you — enjoy. Honestly, what exactly is the problem? I’m genuinely struck by the reaction of some people, who I’m really seems to be motivated far more by ideological concerns than anything else. I’ve read comments in the lobby claiming this is part of a “woke agenda” (absurd argument) and that we should add r4pes to the game to be historically accurate.... Seriously, is having male models working on farms as civilians really that upsetting? It’s kind of funny.

Wildfire Games sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience R28 may have caused to your life.

@nifa Pull Request: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8775

It's a conspiracy and @AlexHerbert is in on it too

I think stopping the birth of new units due to lack of resources is a big mistake by the developers. According to this strategy, the game turns into a punishment. I have to constantly check the condition of the barracks. The unit production queue should be restored automatically when resources become available. My mouse will break before I enjoy the game. This is incorrect. This can be considered a bug.

I see what you mean, but I find calling it “having additional possibilities to actually control the production” is an euphemism. ModernGUI actually does more than just provide control. You can set the percentage of each unit type, and as long as you have resources and houses, it automatically queues units, calculating in milliseconds how many each building can train and executing all orders, freeing the player to focus on other tasks. Of course, you’ll still need to check the barracks occasionally and make other decisions, but IMHO “highly automated” fits this behavior well. I don’t want to turn this thread into another ModernGUI discussion, but I felt it’s important not to misrepresent its functionality in the context of this debate.

New background images (created using AI):

Am I the only one who hates how overrated boudica is? (no offense to @Boudica, I like you)

Buenos días tardes o noches: Aquí le dejo una previa sobre el Boceto de la facción Asmonea @p3p : Desculpen las molestias*

P.S. I am also currently facing a problem with adjusting the normals. As you can see, it creates some strange-looking shadows. Maybe someone here has more experience with this and knows what might be going on.

The new version has mainland balanced fixed. It is also on the mod downloader now: feldmap.zip This is version 3.0.1

What @guerringuerrin said, already better, the gendered civilians could be a good addition, but sharing audio with citizen-soldiers creates a small UX regression. Sound feedback matters. This thread isn't intended to be for a rejection the feature, however could be a highlighting for potential refinement. @guerringuerrin tried to orient the discussion on getting the sounds fixed but that didn't help .

I closed more old/outdated issues and issues I'm pretty sure were actually fixed and other issues. If Devs think it's annoying feel free to ask me to stop.