crossfire(6)

💖 CrossFire 💖

okay bestie, so you found crossfire(6) in the CrossFire Game Server Manual and you're like "what is this" — don't worry, I got you. This is the manual page for the CrossFire game server, the whole multiplayer adventure-and-arcade thing. Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

CrossFire — a multiplayer adventure and arcade game server. yes, the server one, not the client, we'll get to that.

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

crossfire-server [-<options>]

like… that's it. that's the whole invocation. the options are where the ✨spice✨ lives.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So CrossFire is a multiplayer graphical arcade and adventure game, and ngl it lowkey has flavours from a bunch of other games — specifically Gauntlet (TM), NetHack, Moria, Angband, and Ragnarok. the way it ate and left no crumbs 💅

Here's the cute part: any number of players can move around in their own window, finding and using items and battling monsters. and you can choose to cooperate or compete in the same world — so it's giving "friendship" but also it's giving "betrayal", both valid, both iconic 💀

CrossFire runs as a client/server model, so heads up: you will also need one of the clients to actually play. with a client you can either:

• connect to a server someone else has set up, or
• run your own server and connect to that (main character energy, honestly)

At now clients exit for the X-Windows, GTK, Java, and Windows NT environment. 🫶

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -csport <port number> — specifies the port that should be used for the client/server connection. the literal doorway, bestie.
• -d — turns on some debugging.
• +d — turns debugging off. super useful if DEBUG was defined at compile time.
• -detach — this will run the server as a demon. 😈 (yes, "demon", that's what the page says, we don't ask questions)
• -h — prints out a list of server options. your little cheat sheet.
• -log <file> — specifies a file to send output to. only has meaning if -detach is specified, so like… don't expect it to do anything otherwise.
• -mon — turns on monster-debugging. the monsters get the spotlight 👑
• -o — prints out info on what was defined at compile time.
• -s — displays the highscore list. who's on top? 🏆
• -score <name | class> — displays all highscores with matching name or class.
• -v — prints out version and contributors. give the devs their flowers 💐

🌸 the DUMP_SWITCHES section 🌸

okay so the following options are only available if DUMP_SWITCHES was defined at compile time. and important: you can only use one of them without any other option. one. singular. no combo deals, bestie. 🙈

• -m — dumps out suggested experience for all monsters.
• -m2 — dumps out abilities.
• -m3 — dumps out artifact information.
• -m4 — dumps out spell information.
• -m5 — dumps out skill information.
• -m6 — dumps out race information.
• -m7 — dumps out alchemy information.
• -m8 — dumps out gods information.
• -m9 — dumps out more alchemy information. (they really said "alchemy part two" and honestly? respect)
• -mt <name> — dumps out a list of treasures for a monster.
• -mexp — dumps out the experience table.
• -mq — dumps out the list of defined quests.

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📁 FILES 📁

Configuration files for crossfire-server are stored in:

PREFIX/etc/crossfire/

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• cfclient(6)

(that's your client, go say hi)

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💀 BUGS 💀

Please read the REPORTING BUGS section in README. that's the move. go read it, fr fr.

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

• (C) 1994 Mark Wedel (mwedel@scruznet.com)
• (C) 1992 Frank Tore Johansen (frankj@ifi.uio.no)

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and that's the whole page, bestie. now go run a server, cooperate or compete, and remember: only ONE dump switch at a time. 🫶✨

okay so this was the crossfire(6) page from the CrossFire Game Server Manual, dated Feb 04 2004 — yes it's vintage, and yes it's still slaying. mwah 💅🎀🌸