WIDELANDS(6)

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💖 WIDELANDS 💖 — the manual page, bestie edition

okay so this is the man page for widelands, section 6 of the manual (User Commands, iykyk) 🎀 she's a real-time build-up strategy game and she is literally iconic. buckle up.

✨ NAME ✨

widelands — a real-time build-up strategy game 🏰

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

widelands <option0>=<value0> ... <optionN>=<valueN>

like. you just throw options at her. as many as you want. slay.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So the vibe is: you spawn on a tiny lil piece of land with basically nothing except a few useful resources 🍓. And from that, bestie, you build an entire empire with many thousands of inhabitants. no big deal.

To get there you're gonna have to:

  • build up an economic infrastructure 💅
  • explore the land around you 🦋
  • and face enemies who are trying to rule the world exactly like you are 😭

it's giving main character energy on both sides fr fr.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --<config-entry-name>=value — overwrites a config file setting. that's the whole thing. name it, set it, done 💖
  • --help — shows you the full list of options (go look, there's more than this page tells you)
  • --version — shows the version ✨

🌈 LONG DESCRIPTION 🌈

In Widelands you're the regent of a small tribe 👑. You start out with literally nothing but your headquarters — a kind of castle where all your resources are stored. over the course of the game you build an ever-growing settlement, and every single member of your tribe does their part producing more resources: logs, food, iron, gold and more — all to feed that growth 📈.

But you are not alone in the world, bestie. sooner or later you meet other tribes. Some of them may be friendly and trade with you 🫶. But if you want to rule the world, you're gonna have to train soldiers and fight. periodt.

Widelands offers a unique style of play. for example: a system of roads plays the central role of your economy 🛣️. All the goods that get harvested and processed by the tribe have to be transported from one building to the next. This is done by carriers, and those carriers always walk along the roads. So laying out the roads as efficiently as possible? that's your job. no pressure 💀

Another refreshing aspect of the game is the way you command your tribe. There is no need to tell every single one of your subjects what to do — that would be impossible, because there can be thousands of them 😭. Instead, all you've got to do is order them to build a building somewhere, and the builders will come. Same energy with war: whenever you want to attack an enemy, just place an order to attack one of their barracks, and your soldiers will march to fight ⚔️.

You're really a ruler: you delegate in times of war and in times of peace! that's the whole mood fr fr.

Widelands offers a single-player mode with campaigns; the campaigns all tell the story of a tribe and its struggle in the Widelands universe 📖✨.

However — and this is the good part — settling really starts when you unite with friends over the Internet or LAN to build up new empires together... or to crush each other in the dusts of war 💥. Widelands also offers an artificial intelligence to challenge 🤖.

Widelands is extensible, so you can create your own type of tribe with their own sets of buildings 🏗️. You can create new worlds to play in, and you could even create new types of worlds — who says you can't build a settlement on the moon? 🌙 literally nobody said that. go off.

🌸 MORE INFORMATION 🌸

For more information and support you can find the website, the wiki, and the forum for questions or general support at:

https://www.widelands.org/

You can also find the bug tracker at:

https://github.com/widelands/widelands/issues

If you wish to help with translating, visit:

https://www.widelands.org/wiki/TranslatingWidelands/

(translators are the real MVPs, no cap 🫶)

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Many people have contributed to the development of Widelands throughout the years. See the in-game authors list for more information 👑.

ok that's the whole page bestie, every last flag and URL accounted for 💅✨

and a lil sign-off for the record: this is widelands build-21, dated July 2020 🎀 go build an empire, you got this 💖🦋🌸

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