Battle for Wesnoth

The Battle for Wesnoth Project · Wesnoth Inc.

Released: May 1, 2018
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Last updated: 04 Sep 2026, 16:17 GMT

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18 Aug 2026Developer post
Wesnoth 1.19.27
IMPORTANT This update contains a fix for a security vulnerability present back through version 1.13.5. While this should be taken care of by Steam, we strongly recommend everyone upgrade to this version. Additionally, due to the nature of the vulnerability, versions older than th
IMPORTANT
This update contains a fix for a security vulnerability present back through version 1.13.5. While this should be taken care of by Steam, we strongly recommend everyone upgrade to this version. Additionally, due to the nature of the vulnerability, versions older than this will soon be blocked from joining the 1.19 online multiplayer servers.
Campaigns

The South Guard

S01 "Born to the Banner": reduced difficulty on Hard.
Multiplayer

Update multiplayer maps:

Freelands - reduce the amount of swamp terrain, replace more of mycelium with regular fungus
Silverhead Crossing - bring P1 keep a bit closer for easier access, replace more of mycelium with regular fungus
Fallenstar Lake - replace 1 forest hex on each side with flat terrain for easier village access, replace more of mycelium with regular fungus
Den of Onis - make side passages wider, replace more of mycelium with regular fungus
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Spanish
Fixed: Dwarvish Witness was missing from 1.19.26's POT files
Fixed: Rogue Mage was missing from the POT files since 1.19.15
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Fixed several audio issues that resulted from the SDL3 migration
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18 Aug 2026Developer post
Wesnoth 1.18.8
IMPORTANT This update contains a fix for a security vulnerability present back through version 1.13.5. While this should be taken care of by Steam, we strongly recommend everyone upgrade to this version. Additionally, due to the nature of the vulnerability, versions older than th
IMPORTANT
This update contains a fix for a security vulnerability present back through version 1.13.5. While this should be taken care of by Steam, we strongly recommend everyone upgrade to this version. Additionally, due to the nature of the vulnerability, versions older than this will soon be blocked from joining the 1.18 online multiplayer servers.
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Make Boost::system optional with boost 1.69 or later (necessary for compatibility with 1.89 and later).
Resolved not all translations being available for selection on Windows builds. (GitHub #11112)
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11 Aug 2026Developer post
Wesnoth 1.19.26
Campaigns Of Pearls and Pirates Don’t show the tutorial hint about save-loading when Biased RNG is active S05 "Lady Maudie": fixed Fireships being healable. The Deceivers Gambit Fix missing siphon attack sound, which would cause a crash anytime the attack was used. S07 "The Great
Campaigns

Of Pearls and Pirates

Don’t show the tutorial hint about save-loading when Biased RNG is active
S05 "Lady Maudie": fixed Fireships being healable.

The Deceivers Gambit

Fix missing siphon attack sound, which would cause a crash anytime the attack was used.
S07 "The Great River": reduced walking time from starting keep to first enemies.
Most spells now unlock when Delfador advances a level, not at the start of arbitrary scenarios.
S07 "The Great River": adjusted map to account for Delfador's additional spell options.
S04 "The Sylvan Seer": fixed an issue where playing S03 with a familiar but not S04 would result in the familiar having 0% defense / 100% cth for S05.
S14 "Long Live the Queen": Eldred's units are now mostly on a single side, instead of spread out over several. Scenario rebalanced accordingly.
S14 "Long Live the Queen": the final boss fight now has fewer random elements, and varies less significantly with difficulty.

The South Guard

Don’t show some of the tutorial hints about RNG when Biased RNG is active
To add variety, later scenarios now feature a small number of mounted variation Walking Corpses.
S04 "Choice in the Fog": Replaced Ghoul leaders with Skeleton Archers. Side 8 now recruits a very small number of Ghouls/Skeleton Archers
S05b "Pebbles in the Flood": Mebrin now uses his nerfed stats from S06b, not regular Lich stats.

Heir to the Throne

S10 "The Siege of Elensefar": reduced lag during Li'sar's AI turn.
S24 "An Old Friend": increased difficulty.
Jeniver: increased blowgun damage from 5-4 to 7-4.
S50 "The Battle for Wesnoth": Avoid setting negative time values for time areas
Added more explanation when you first enter the overworld.
Granite Golems can no longer traverse deep water.
Fixed a bug where some loyal units could trigger the Sceptre of Fire defection event.
S01 "The Elves Besieged": increased the turn limit on lower difficulties.
S02 "Flight of the Elves": moved one enemy leader into an easily-killable position, and added several defensive chokepoints.
S50 "The Battle for Wesnoth": reinforcement waves now grow much more slowly. Burning fields now affects Asheveire's gold less.
S11 "The Silver City": approaching from the north is now easier, while approaching from the south is now harder. The two approaches should now feel more balanced with each other.
S31 "Plunging Into Darkness": fixed one map mask being unwinnable if Konrad has a prisoner and 5 max moves.
S32 "The Swamp of Dread": adjusted starting location, terrain, and enemies to increase difficulty and variety.
S42 "A Crisis of Leadership": the scenario now gains a turn limit once Konrad is spotted.
Li'sar's units now use a different color scheme, to differentiate them (and their special abilities) from regular loyalists.
Delfador will no longer be offered +2 or +4 ranged damage AMLAs if he advances when his chain special has reduced his Lightning attack to only 1 or 2 strikes.

The Hammer of Thursagan

Added experimental "regroup" micro AI.
S03 "Strange Allies": expanded the map.
Lua API

`text_box` gui widget now has the gettable and settable properties `selection_start` and `selection_length` for cursor position/selection start and length of text selection respectively.
Added getter `wesnoth.game_config.random_mode`, which is only intended to be used for the tutorial hints.
add_overlay_text now accepts a border parameter
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Bulgarian, Czech, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish
Units

Frost Stoat

Arcane Resist: -20% -> 0%
User interface

Fix sound effect slider which was incorrectly affecting the music track volume.
Footprints have been reworked:

The footprint path system now gives immediate strong visual feedback when multi-turn movement is assigned.
It does this by flashing any such footprints and fades them out over 2 seconds as the unit is deselected.
Changed how the red tint that indicated how movement costs works behind the scene. (cleanup)
Custom footprints is now possible with the new key `footprints` under `[unit_type]`, `[male]`, `[female]` and `[variation]` like `footprints="large_clawed_paw"`.
8 new footprint variations added.

Restored the original footprint images as the `default` set, used by units that do not set the `footprints` key.
The `footprints` key can now also be set under `[race]`, applying to every unit of that race. A `footprints` key on the unit type takes precedence over the race one.
WML Engine

New [default_frame] tag avalible in [unit_type] in unit.cfg.

Lets us adjust the default frame with the same inputs used for the animation [frame] tags.
Example: [default_frame] image="units/monsters/wyvern/wild-wyvern.png" layer=50 [/default_frame]
This is an optional tag.

Added optional input "parallel=yes|no" to [move_units_fake] which

Cause all movement animations to animate in parallel rather than one at a time.
Defaults to "no".
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Reworked the animation engine to track time on shared wall-clock anchored timelines instead of per-animation timers, making frame timing consistent within each drawn frame and speed changes (accelerated mode) smooth and drift-free.
Fixed crashes when `[scenario]current_time=` or `[time_area]current_time=` was negative
Added optimisations for several pixel iteration functions.

Speed-ups gained between 10% and 1200%, depending on the system and function.
The feature is configurable with an advanced option "SIMD acceleration", a command line flag "--no-simd" and an env var "WESNOTH_NO_SIMD".
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28 Jun 2026Developer post
Wesnoth 1.19.25
Campaigns Heir to the Throne S01 "The Elves Besieged": reduced starting gold, but added gold pickups near enemy keeps. Added more swamp hexes. S03 "Blackwater Port": added a secondary, coastal entry point for this scenario, so Konrad can make better use of Merfolk if he has them.
Campaigns

Heir to the Throne

S01 "The Elves Besieged": reduced starting gold, but added gold pickups near enemy keeps. Added more swamp hexes.
S03 "Blackwater Port": added a secondary, coastal entry point for this scenario, so Konrad can make better use of Merfolk if he has them.
S10 "The Siege of Elensefar": rebalanced gold, income, and AI. Maddock's AI is now less likely to defend unthreatened bridges or idle his ships.
On the overworld, the waters around Elensefar now better connect to the rest of the passable coast.
After completing either Elensefar scenario, Elensefar now provides Konrad with a port on the overworld.
Slightly increased Li'sar's hitpoints. Li'sar "march" ability is no longer hidden.

Eastern Invasion

S13 "Spoils of War": removed the map's keep, to prevent player recruitment and stay consistent with the intro and victory dialogue.

Heir to the Throne

Enemy leaders should now behave more intelligently if Konrad tries to assassinate them with skirmisher and the Scepter of Fire.
S02 "Flight of the Elves": fixed Konrad gaining the wrong recruit if between 11 and 15 elves had died.
Konrad's advancements now deal more ranged damage, but less melee damage.
S04 "The Bay of Pearls": villages can no longer be destroyed during the victory cutscene, as that would affect gold carryover.

The Deceivers Gambit

S07 "The Great River": adjusted map, enemies, and starting XP. Patrol paths should now be more obvious, and more strategies should now be viable on Hard/Deadly (Easy/Normal were already very straightforward).
S08 "Ruins of Saurgrath", S10 "Houses of the Dead": spell selection is now delayed until Delfador learns what kind of enemies he's fighting.

Winds of Fate

S06 "Landfall": all new map of Elense Island and surrounding river delta by Dalas.
Packaging

The Mac Compile Stuff repository of dependencies for macOS is no longer supported. The primary supported way to get dependencies on macOS is now to use vcpkg; to check how to do that see the macOS CI job and related scripts
The migration from SDL2 to SDL3 has been completed. For distros without all the required SDL3 dependencies (probably mixer), these will need to be built and installed manually
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish
Units

Forest Lion:

9-2 charge attack changed to 11-2 marksman
cost reduced from 30 -> 25

Redtail Cat:

cost reduced from 30 -> 28

Elvish Hero: added idle animation
Jumpcat: added attack, defend, and various other animations
WML Engine

Add a [overwrite_abilities] to abilities that use the value attribute with the exception of abilities used as weapons ([damage], [chance_to_hit], etc... implemented in the [abilities] tag).
Because overwrite_specials cannot be applied to other abilities and its design and functionality leave something to be desired, an [overwrite_specials] subtag will be added to eventually replace it.

Add to [overwrite_specials] an affect attribute to suppress special abilities affecting a unit applied to a particular side (apply_to=self or opponent) and which discriminates special abilities that affect self/student from special abilities belonging to the opponent, even if apply_to=attacker/defender is used.

The use of 'overwrite_specials' attribute and [overwrite] subtag in specials are deprecated
Added new version macros:

WESNOTH_VERSION_MAJOR (e.g. "1")
WESNOTH_VERSION_MINOR (e.g. "19")
WESNOTH_VERSION_REVISION (e.g. "23")
WESNOTH_VERSION_SPECIAL (e.g. "dev")
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

The wmllint tool has been updated to handle a several new deprecations and now runs on mainline without outputting warnings or changing any files
Fixed the manual link not working for non-English languages
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24 May 2026Developer post
Wesnoth 1.19.24
Campaigns The South Guard S04 "Choice in the Fog": both choices should now be more similar in difficulty S06a "Vengeance": increased the survival turns, but decreased initial enemy gold/units. Heir to the Throne S07 "Muff Malal's Peninsula": fixed incorrect portrait for Muff Mala
Campaigns

The South Guard

S04 "Choice in the Fog": both choices should now be more similar in difficulty
S06a "Vengeance": increased the survival turns, but decreased initial enemy gold/units.

Heir to the Throne

S07 "Muff Malal's Peninsula": fixed incorrect portrait for Muff Malal in the time over event.
S28 "The Lost General": fixed "Cavefish" achievement triggering if you didn't recruit/recall any units at all.
S50 "The Battle For Wesnoth": Asheviere should now more intelligently resist assassination strategies.
S50 "The Battle For Wesnoth": fix "Canon" achievement being awarded even if you hadn't played "The Dwarven Doors".
Fix replays with Li'sar's Heavy Infantrymen causing desyncs.

The Deceivers Gambit

S04 "The Sylvan Seer": use new Silverback image from Renlie_Cocoa.
Multiplayer

Added new "Undead Siege" song by Tomek Szczęsny.
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Resolved not all translations being available for selection on Windows builds. (GitHub #11112)
Fixed movement and attacks remaining not being reset after undoing a recall.
Fixed intermittent crashes due to using an invalid cache reference.
Android

Fixed automatic language selection not working.
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23 Apr 2026Developer post
Wesnoth 1.19.23
Campaigns Heir to the Throne Granite Golem: added "regenerates +4" ability, cost reduced from 35 -> 30, damage reduced from 35 -> 32 Fix Elrian's Tath event triggering even if you hadn't yet completed Isle of Alduin. Fix Elrian's Tath event not trigering after completing Th
Campaigns

Heir to the Throne

Granite Golem: added "regenerates +4" ability, cost reduced from 35 -> 30, damage reduced from 35 -> 32
Fix Elrian's Tath event triggering even if you hadn't yet completed Isle of Alduin.
Fix Elrian's Tath event not trigering after completing The Sceptre of Fire.
S06 "Isle of Alduin": fix Konrad and Elrian discussing Seimus too early.
S22 "Glamdrol": end when turns run out, not when side 1's last turn ends.
S30 "The Sceptre of Fire": made Giant Spider AI more predictable.
S43 "Cliffs of Thoria": fix the Horn of Glamdrol healing Warven before he's been spotted.
S50 "The Battle For Wesnoth": rebalanced to encourage dominating the map rather than rushing Asheviere.
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
WML Engine

WFL: fixed serialization of empty map literals
WFL: fixed double multiplication when converting a config attribute to a decimal value
Removed deprecated macros

`EARLY_FINISH_BONUS_NOTE`
`NO_EARLY_FINISH_BONUS_NOTE`
`NO_GOLD_CARRYOVER_NOTE`
`NEW_GOLD_CARRYOVER_NOTE_100`
`NEW_GOLD_CARRYOVER_NOTE_40`
`NEW_GOLD_CARRYOVER_NOTE_20`
`MISSILE_FRAME_FIREBALL`
`MESSAGE`
`STORY_PART_SPEECH`
`LOYAL_UNDEAD_UNIT`
`ON_SIGHTING`
`MAKE_AI_SIDE_PERSISTENT`
`DRAKE_FLYING_ANIM`
`NO_INTERRUPT_NO_UNDO`
`ENABLE_NIGHTBLADE`
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Fixed crashes when starting some campaigns when playing on Steam+Linux
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09 Apr 2026Developer post
Wesnoth 1.18.7
Translations Updated translations: Bengali, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Hungarian, Portuguese (Brazil) Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes Fix time of day sounds not playing.
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Hungarian, Portuguese (Brazil)
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Fix time of day sounds not playing.
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30 Mar 2026Developer post
Wesnoth 1.19.22
Campaigns Heir to the Throne S22 "Glamdrol": fixed a lua error that would occur if Konrad completed the scenario without pledging any gold to the Stoneskins. Liberty S04 "Unlawful Orders": Kestrel's keep no longer gets blocked by his Lieutenant on turn 4. S04 "Unlawful Orders": f
Campaigns

Heir to the Throne

S22 "Glamdrol": fixed a lua error that would occur if Konrad completed the scenario without pledging any gold to the Stoneskins.

Liberty

S04 "Unlawful Orders": Kestrel's keep no longer gets blocked by his Lieutenant on turn 4.
S04 "Unlawful Orders": fix enemy soldiers having names.

The Deceivers Gambit

S04 "The Sylvan Seer": Silverback image is now smaller at lower difficulties.
S04 "The Sylvan Seer": fix Delfador being counterspelled even when outside the counterspell AOE.
S04 "The Sylvan Seer": mirror Kalenz now transforms into a Lich when you move adjacent, not after your first attack (fixes an issue with inconsistent strikes/attack type).
S04 "The Sylvan Seer": fix Delfador's familiar retaining 100% hit / 0% defense even after this scenario had ended.
S04 "The Sylvan Seer": fix final kill not awarding XP.
S04 "The Sylvan Seer": fix mirror magical attacks not displaying 100% hit chance.
S05 "The Deceiver": fix your first recall being non-undoable.
S05 "The Deceiver": Garard now waits one more turn before attacking the orcs.
S10 "Houses of the Dead": Malal's zombie spawns now scale over time.
S14 "Long Live the Queen": Wesnoth now autosaves at the start of the boss fight.
S14 "Long Live the Queen": boss fight terrain now uses cobble instead of tile hexes, to be easier to distinguish through the red tint.
S14 "Long Live the Queen": fix Delfador's first move being non-undoable.
S14 "Long Live the Queen": fix Delfador's magical attacks sometimes being usable with 0% accuracy even when counterspelled.
Spells: fix Blizzard freezing chasm hexes.
Spells: fix Time Dilation affecting units on your recall list.
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Fixed the minimap not displaying on absurdly large maps.
Fixed AI behavior when fighting a unit with 0 max XP.
Fixed the :fps command causing Wesnoth to crash.
Fixed multiple bugs in [set_variables] caused by replacing its C++ implementation with a lua implementation.
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09 Mar 2026Developer post
Wesnoth 1.19.21
Campaigns A Tale of Two Brothers Add achievements and relevant code. Dead Water S05 "Tirigaz": the orcs now use real ship units, instead of static images. Orcish gold reduced to compensate. Dusk of Dawn S02 "A Dream": remove "fearless" trait, but spawn more higher-level woses ins
Campaigns

A Tale of Two Brothers

Add achievements and relevant code.

Dead Water

S05 "Tirigaz": the orcs now use real ship units, instead of static images. Orcish gold reduced to compensate.

Dusk of Dawn

S02 "A Dream": remove "fearless" trait, but spawn more higher-level woses instead.

Eastern Invasion

S02 "Escape Tunnel": Now uses the core Dwarvish Miner unit, instead of a modified 8 gold version.
S04b "Ill Humours": AI Dunefolk are no longer immune to the swamp's poison (although their AI shouldn't let them move into poison range regardless).
S04b "Ill Humours": Gweddry now gains control of the Dunefolk villages when they switch sides.
S05 "Northern Outpost": Randomness no longer influences the minimum/maximum number of bandits who spawn.
S06b "Soradoc": Removed a mechanic that wasn't explained in the objectives - Yannic will no longer be rescued automatically after you've defeated three enemy leaders.
S07a "Capturing the Ogres": Gweddry can no longer gain gold, in addition to his preexisting 0 upkeep.
S07a "Capturing the Ogres": Ogres will now become more aggressive after 10 turns, preventing an infinite turn gold/XP exploit.
S07b "Ogre Crossing": Suriving AI ogres now flee if Grug is killed.
S07b "Ogre Crossing": Objectives now explain that the ogres will join you once you reach the north shore.
S09 "Castle in the Ice": slightly reduce number of wolves and drakes.
S10 "Dark Sanctuary": Orc spawn now scale even further after many turns have elapsed (especially on Skirmish/Easy difficulty), making infinite survival impossible.
S11 "Captured": Reinforcement orcs now use income, not a one-time gold boost.
S11 "Captured": The Skirmisher ability no longer lets you to bypass the orcish guards.
S11 "Captured": Dacyn can no longer be healed without alerting the orcs.
S13 "Spoils of War": Changed dialogue to clarify what's going on before the scenario start.
S13 "Spoils of War": Owaec can no longer recall units (he's separated from the army), even if you manage to claim a keep.

The Hammer of Thursagan

Shortened turn limits on several long scenarios.
Decreased player gold from 100 to 80 on most scenarios.
S08 "The Siege of Kal Kartha": increased enemy gold.
S10 "The Underlevels": Karrag can now be optionally fought before you kill all other leaders, and the scenario has been rebalanced accordingly.

Heir to the Throne

Fixed a serious issue where the "Replacement Weapons" tweak would trigger on all sides' recruits, not just Konrad's.
If Konrad reaches Elensefar while Delfador is still with him, the player is no longer forced to give up Delfador in return for his raven.
If Konrad completes his first battle without gaining any recruits, Delfador now gifts Konrad his raven.
Moremirmu: significantly increased hitpoints, but decreased speed and damage.
Jeniver: increased gold generation from 4 to 5, increased blowgun damage from 4 to 5.
Clarify and expand a number of dialogue hints relating to special events and interactions.
S01 "The Elves Besieged": added a turn limit and rebalanced enemies.
S02 "Flight of the Elves": made enemy gold more predictable. Fixed Konrad winning after killing only 2 enemy leaders, instead of all of them.
S03 "Blackwater Port": Haldiel and Simyr are now loyal companions, but killing all enemy leaders is much harder.
S06 "The Isle of Alduin": Elrian is now a loyal companion, but the scenario requires you to choose between gaining Elrian or learning to recruit Mages.
S07 "Muff Malal's Peninsula": Moremirmu is now in a safer position, and much less likely to get bad RNG and die early.
S15a "Valley of Death I": added a new item reward, to 1) make this scenario a more viable pick and 2) allow for item-heavy playthroughs.
S22 "Glamdrol": allying with the Stoneskins now costs less gold, but Konrad will lose if he doesn't pillage enough gold to meet his pledge.
S30 "The Sceptre of Fire": made Li'sar more difficult to assassinate with Fire Wraiths. This strategy should still be possible, but it should now require more significant investment.
S30 "The Sceptre of Fire": Delfador can now continue recruiting even while searching for the Sceptre.
S47, S48, and S50: a few enemy units will now defect when the Sceptre is first used against human opponents.
S50 "The Battle for Wesnoth": added an epilogue for Blackwing the raven.

Heir to the Throne, Classic

Fix unachievable tutorial achievement.

Of Pearls and Pirates

Added to mainline.
This is a new peasants + merfolk campaign, and an extension to the tutorial.
5 scenarios, novice level.

Son of the Black-Eye

Jetto now starts as Orcish Slayer.

Winds of Fate

Lower recall costs further.
Adjust and replace some characters that tie-in with the other campaigns.
S01 "The Hunt": fewer forest lions.
S06 "Landfall": tweak enemy starting gold
S08 "Overlook": more consistent enemy spawn recognition
S09 "Ancestor": add wind ambience by Alexandr Zhelanov
S11 "Crosswind": fix issues with non-clasher units attempting to read their secrets
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish
Units

Ships:

Adjusted gold costs for most ships.
Removed the "naval" weapon special, allowing ships to ram targets on coastal land.

Wose Shaman

Hitpoints: 56hp -> 60hp
Cost: 27g -> 31g
Swamp defense: 30% -> 40%
Melee damage: 12-2 impact -> 14-2 impact
Ranged damage: 11-2 impact slows -> 6-3 impact slows

Added the Redtail Cat.
User interface

The campaign menu now has a landing page instead of defaulting to the first campaign (PR #10825)
Abbreviated “vision” and “jamming” in the sidebar, so that the number fits on-screen
Fixed the in-game help not showing a list of units with a particular weapon special.
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01 Feb 2026Developer post
Wesnoth 1.19.20
Campaigns Dusk of Dawn Remove custom "Troll Earth-Shaker" Rocklobber advancement to avoid confusing beginners. Eastern Invasion Add weather effects to several scenarios. The Deceivers Gambit S13 "Revelry, Revisited": fixed way too many enemies spawning after many turns had elapse
Campaigns

Dusk of Dawn

Remove custom "Troll Earth-Shaker" Rocklobber advancement to avoid confusing beginners.

Eastern Invasion

Add weather effects to several scenarios.

The Deceivers Gambit

S13 "Revelry, Revisited": fixed way too many enemies spawning after many turns had elapsed.
S13 "Revelry, Revisited": added more dialogue between the orcs and humans.

The Hammer of Thursagan

The first scenario is now slightly easier.
Terrain

Added graphics for rails going over water and chasm.
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish
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31 Dec 2025Developer post
Wesnoth 1.19.19
Campaigns Heir to the Throne The finale's farm burning difficulty option now explains which option is the standard and which option is especially challenging. The finale's farm burning difficulty option will now trigger automatically if you miss it. Once unlocked, Carcyn now also
Campaigns

Heir to the Throne

The finale's farm burning difficulty option now explains which option is the standard and which option is especially challenging.
The finale's farm burning difficulty option will now trigger automatically if you miss it.
Once unlocked, Carcyn now also includes a port on the north shore.
Fix Li'sar not using her elite recruits in Crossroads and Siege of Elensefar.
Lua API

Add new wml.valid_var function to validate a WML variable path
Bugfix: Indexing a vconfig now returns a table with tag/contents keys
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Catalan, Czech, French, Finnish, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish
WML Engine

Add a 'priority' attribute to abilities and weapon specials with values (`[chance_to_hit]`, `[damage]`, etc).

Values set by lower priority specials are considered as the base value for higher priority specials' calculations.

Using `[chance_to_hit]` with a negative priority is now preferred over giving weapons `parry` and `accuracy` attributes, as the sidebar UI shows it.
You can now test if a WML variable is empty with `[variable]blank=yes`
It is now possible to place `[set_variables]` (note the plural) in `[modify_side]` and `[modify_unit]`
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Fixed giving quick trait to leaders with 4 moves in multiplayer.
Removed the `SPECIAL_NOTES_ARCANE` macro, the note is automatically added to any unit with an arcane attack.
Fixed a crash when a unit has no random traits available.
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31 Dec 2025Developer post
Wesnoth 1.18.6
Multiplayer 5p - The Wilderlands: Fixed lag during AI turn (issue #10419) Translations Updated translations: Ancient Greek, Arabic, Bengali, British English, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, French, Galician, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish User interface The load-game d
Multiplayer

5p - The Wilderlands:

Fixed lag during AI turn (issue #10419)
Translations

Updated translations: Ancient Greek, Arabic, Bengali, British English, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, French, Galician, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish
User interface

The load-game dialog can now see the directories used by the development version (1.19.2 and later)
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19 Nov 2025Developer post
Wesnoth 1.19.18
Campaigns Dusk of Dawn Added to mainline. This is a new troll campaign. 4 scenarios, novice level. Heir to the Throne Add new "Heir to the Throne" revision to mainline. Rename existing HttT campaign to "Heir to the Throne, Classic" Merge "Battle Training" into HttTC. The Deceiver
Campaigns

Dusk of Dawn

Added to mainline.
This is a new troll campaign.
4 scenarios, novice level.

Heir to the Throne

Add new "Heir to the Throne" revision to mainline.
Rename existing HttT campaign to "Heir to the Throne, Classic"
Merge "Battle Training" into HttTC.

The Deceiver's Gambit

Revised Delfador and Garard's dialogue (again)
"Stirrings of War" and "The Ambassador" are now regular battle scenarios.
"Fort Garard" now grants all Loyalist recruits; Delfador no longer has to wait until "Ring of Swords"
"The Sylvan Seer" part 1 puzzle now varies with campaign difficulty.
"Ring of Swords" now has a slightly larger map.
"Galcadar" no longer restores your recall list from TDG part I.
"The Traitor" no longer has special village razing mechanics.
Deoran is now a battle unit, not a support unit with complicated abilities.
Most AI allies now go last in the turn order, so they're more predictable.
Various other adjustments and bugfixes.

The South Guard

Restored S01's intro storytext.
Moved some S03/S04 scenario hints to S01/S02.
Added some additional hints to S03/S04.
Replaced most maps' ford terrain with bridge.
Added a more stylish UI for S02x's companion selection choice.
Allied sides are now at the end of the turn order.
Fixed several RNG-related tips not triggering.
Various minor bugfixes and tweaks.
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, Finnish, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish
Units

Dwarvish Miner:

hitpoints 25hp->22hp
experience 20xp->24xp
cost 11g->10g

Merman Hoplite:

hitpoints 52hp->58hp
cost 45g->44g

Merman Triton

cost 46g->41g

Merman Netcaster:

ranged damage 9-2 -> 8-2
cost 26g->25g

Merman Entangler:

cost 42g->37g

Merman Spearman:

hitpoints 43hp->47hp
cost 22g->25g

Merman Javelineer:

hitpoints 58hp->60hp
melee damage 8-2 -> 9-2
cost 55g->48g

Mermaid Enchantress:

experience 46xp->75xp

Mermaid Siren:

ranged damage 15-3 -> 14-3
cost 42g->58g

Mermaid Priestess:

experience 61xp->73xp

Mermaid Diviner:

cost 49g->57g

Skeleton Rider:

axe damage 6-3 -> 10-2
hitpoints 36hp->38hp
experience 33xp->46xp
cost 14g->17g
resistances now identical to Chocobone
improved movement costs and defense

Bone Knight

trample damage 7-2(charge) -> 10-2(charge)
hitpoints 50hp->58hp
movement 8mp->7mp
cost 26g->32g
resistances now identical to Chocobone
improved movement costs and defense

A registry for abilities has been added as `[units][abilities]`. Any ability defined there can be added to a `[unit_type]` by just specifying their `unique_id` in the new key `[unit_type]abilities_list`, like this: `abilities_list=heals_8,cures`. The unique id for an ability is the value of its new `unique_id` key which falls back to `id` if unspecified. The `abilities` key is also supported under `[effect]apply_to=new_ability`.
A similar registry for weapon specials has also been added as `[units][weapon_specials]`. The corresponding key is `specials_list` and is supported inside `[unit_type][attack]` as well as in EffectWML `apply_to=new_attack` and `apply_to=attack`'s `[set_specials]`. `unique_id` is also supported inside weapon special definitions.
User interface

New key `title_position` added to `[part]` that allows changing the position of the title text.
Enemies that can't be attacked are not highlighted when showing a unit's potential movement.
WML Engine

Remove [filter_adjacent_student] and [filter_adjacent_student_location] from abilities used like weapons because shorthand from existing filters[filter_student][filter_adjacent] and [filter_student][filter_location][filter_adjacent_location].
Deprecate [filter_adjacent] and [filter_adjacent_location] from abilities and weapons specials because shorthand from existing filters[filter][filter_adjacent] and [filter][filter_location][filter_adjacent_location] for abilities or [filter_self][filter_adjacent] and [filter_self][filter_location][filter_adjacent_location] for weapon specials.
Fixed [resistance_defaults] leaking on random maps, causing OOS errors in unrelated content.
Fixed a crash when the sides defined for a scenario are not all consecutive.
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Build System:

Changed CMake to not directly pull in boost-system (fixing build issues on archlinux using boost-libs >1.89.0-2)
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02 Nov 2025Developer post
Wesnoth 1.19.17
Editor Move items/unit/labels when map is resized Translations Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, Polish, Spanish Units Sergeant: Crossbow damage changed from 4-3 to 6-2 Lieutenant: Crossbow damage changed from 5-3 to 7-2 General: Crossbow damage changed from
Editor

Move items/unit/labels when map is resized
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, Polish, Spanish
Units

Sergeant:

Crossbow damage changed from 4-3 to 6-2

Lieutenant:

Crossbow damage changed from 5-3 to 7-2

General:

Crossbow damage changed from 7-3 to 10-2

Grand Marshal:

Crossbow damage changed from 8-3 to 12-2
WML Engine

~PAD() added as an IPF (image path function). It allows the sides of an image to be padded with transparent pixels. Can be used to artificially offset images.
WML formulas can be used in abilities/specials 'max_value' and 'min_value'.
Add [clear_chat], [store_zoom], and optional scrolling support to [scroll_to] and [scroll_to_unit]
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Wesnoth 1.19.16
Campaigns Liberty Changed some of Maddock's dialogue to stay consistent with The Deceiver's Gambit. Difficulty scaling now follows the same pattern as the other beginner campaigns: 1x enemies, 2x enemies, 3x enemies. Use the new Elensefar map from the revised Heir to the Throne.
Campaigns

Liberty

Changed some of Maddock's dialogue to stay consistent with The Deceiver's Gambit.
Difficulty scaling now follows the same pattern as the other beginner campaigns: 1x enemies, 2x enemies, 3x enemies.
Use the new Elensefar map from the revised Heir to the Throne.
Various minor bugfixes and tweaks.

Son of the Black Eye

Units now have access to customized AMLA.
Units granted AMLA: Orcish Sovereign, Great Troll, Orcish Warlord, Orcish Slurbow, Direwolf Rider, Goblin Pillager, Troll Warrior, Troll Rocklobber, Orcish Nightblade, Saurian Flanker, Saurian Javelineer, Saurian Seer, Saurian Prophet
Please note that the AMLAs are only active inside the campaign.

The Deceiver's Gambit

S11x, S13, S14: Eldred's dialogue is now "small" instead of "x-small"
S13: tweaked the opening cutscene to give Garard and Eldred more privacy.
S13: changed some of Eldred and the orcs' dialogue.
S14: revert ruffians to orcs.
Credits: "Story continued in" changed from "Asheviere's Dogs" to "Liberty"
Multiplayer

5p - The Wilderlands:

Fixed lag during AI turn (issue #10419)
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Spanish
User interface

On Android, back button now works similarly to Escape on desktop.
Updated the load-game dialog support for other versions' files, ready for 1.20
WML Engine

Changing the weapon special [defense] into an ability which modifies the value of [defense] in certain exceptional situations.
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

On Android, in-game command prompt now correctly shows on-screen keyboard.
Fixed delays and visual glitches when animated terrain scrolls onto screen (issue #9220)
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25 Aug 2025Developer post
Wesnoth 1.19.15
Lua API Toggle panel now have the event handler `on_double_click`. If set, it will be fired when the user left double clicks on that widget. For other widgets, they can be wrapped inside a toggle panel for this to work. Translations Updated translations: Ancient Greek, Bengali, B
Lua API

Toggle panel now have the event handler `on_double_click`. If set, it will be fired when the user left double clicks on that widget. For other widgets, they can be wrapped inside a toggle panel for this to work.
Translations

Updated translations: Ancient Greek, Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Galician, Hungarian
Units

Arcane resistance of all Drake race units changed from -10% to -20%
Dune Soldier:

Blade resistace decreased form 20% to 10%.

Dune Rover:

Blade resistace increased form 0% to 10%.
Hp decreased from 33 to 32.

Dune Explorer:

Blade resistace increased form 0% to 10%.
Gold cost increased from 29 to 31.

Dune Wayfarer:

Blade resistace increased form 0% to 10%.
Gold cost increased from 55 to 58.

Dune Burner - line:

+1 mp, +10% pierce resistance, +20% impact resistance, cold resistance set to 0%.

Dune Burner:

Ranged damage decreased from 7 to 6.
Xp increased from 36 to 40.

Dune Scorcher:

Xp increased from 60 to 64.
Gold cost increased from 23 to 30.
Hp increased from 47 to 51.

Dune Firetrooper:

Gold cost increased from 41 to 44.

Elvish Sylph:

The Elvish Sylph, Shyde, and Enchantress received massive buffs in 1.18. Those have been partially walked back in #8749, but these units still remain outliers in power at their respective levels - especially now that most undead have -40% arcane resist.
A dexterous Sylph, for example, is better than a Great Mage in almost every possible aspect - damage, movement, hitpoints, melee, support (slows), and defense.
This change brings most of their stats back down to their 1.16 levels (or slightly stronger), but deliberately leaves the Sylph and Enchantress's slowing attacks unnerfed; I think those attacks are somewhat weak in comparison to their much more deadly arcane attacks.
cost 135 -> 110, hitpoints 68 -> 60, faerie fire 13-5 -> 10-5 (ranged arcane).

Elvish Enchantress:

Same reasoning as the Sylph changes, but much smaller in magnitude.
cost 62 -> 57, faerie fire 11-4 -> 10-4 (ranged arcane).

Elvish Shyde:

Same reasoning as the Sylph changes. As a flying, slowing, magical healer with 6mp, the Shyde was powerful even before the numerous buffs she received in 1.18. This is a reversion to her 1.16 values.
cost 58 -> 52, hitpoints 51 -> 46, entangle 7-3 -> 6-3 (ranged impact), thorns 10-3 -> 8-3 (ranged pierce), faerie touch 7-2 -> 6-2 (melee impact).

Added resting, defense, and standing animations for the Fire Dragon.
WML Engine

Add 'radius' attribute to [illuminates] abilities
Added [defense] special to modify the base cth while being overridable by chance_to_hit using value (allows to combine an addition with marsksman without increasing value when base value remains below 60).
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Wesnoth 1.19.14
Campaigns Eastern Invasion Terraent arcane resistance from 30% to 40%, melee arcane 9-5 to 8-5, cost: 82 -> 80 Editor Fixed side default income getting incremented to 2 each time a scenario is saved Multiplayer Add presets to allow saving and easily reusing game settings. Tran
Campaigns

Eastern Invasion

Terraent arcane resistance from 30% to 40%, melee arcane 9-5 to 8-5, cost: 82 -> 80
Editor

Fixed side default income getting incremented to 2 each time a scenario is saved
Multiplayer

Add presets to allow saving and easily reusing game settings.
Translations

Updated translations: Ancient Greek, Arabic, Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, Hungarian
Added new Japanese font that has support for bolding text and fix font order so italics works.
Units

Arcane Resistance of all Skeletal Type Undead changed from -20 % to -40%.

The list for core skeletal Undead units includes: Skeleton, Revenant, Deathblade, Draug, Death Squire, Death Knight, Skeleton Archer, Bone Shooter, Banebow, Lich, Ancient Lich, Skeleton Rider, Bone Knight
Campaign units include: Pyre Wight and Barrow Wight from *Eastern Invasion*.

Dwarvish Thunderer: cost decreased from 17 gold to 16 gold.
Ghoul, Necrophage, Ghast: pierce resistance changed from 30% to 10%, impact resistance changed from 0% to 20%, arcane resistance changed from 10% to 30%.
Paladin: arcane resistance from 30% to 40%, melee arcane 9-5 to 8-5, cost: 82 -> 80
Dunefolk Horse Archer, Marauder, Raider, Rider, and Windbolt sprites were cleaned up and various animations added.
Cleanup and add defend animations for the Dunefolk Firetrooper and Scorcher.
User interface

On touch devices, double tap no longer shows context menu. It can still be accessed via long press. Single tap selects the unit. Another single tap on a hex shows hover info, which was previously not available. Single tap select followed by double tap on a hex moves the unit. Dragging now indicates the path and defense.
Fixed various graphical bugs with ship units.
Fixed units' weapons tooltip to correctly account for effects from the [damage_type] ability
Various UI refinements, primarily to the new Celes theme
WML Engine

The legacy FormulaAI API has been removed.
Added new WFL functions: `nearest_loc`, `run_file`, `debug_label`, `is_shrouded`, `is_fogged`
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Fixed a WML error being printed in Secrets of the Ancients.
Fixed non-permanent multiplayer server bans not working.
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Wesnoth 1.19.13
Translations Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, Italian Units Added Dune Rover attack, defend, and standing animations User interface Fixed sidebar unit tooltip no longer taking damage resistances into account Fixed the progress bar for sub achievements not up
Translations

Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, Italian
Units

Added Dune Rover attack, defend, and standing animations
User interface

Fixed sidebar unit tooltip no longer taking damage resistances into account
Fixed the progress bar for sub achievements not updating correctly
WML Engine

Added [era] auto_sort key to control automatic alphabetical sorting.
add 'name_affected' and 'description_affected' that are displayed in unit sidebar for abilities used like specials.
modify [affect_adjacent] tag to allow abilities to affect all units in a given radius who is to 1 by default
modify [filter_adjacent] tag to allow to filter all units in a given radius who is to 1 by default
Abilities with id=poison that aren't in a [poison] tag will no longer inflict poison
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Fixed opening the map editor or starting a campaign crashing on some systems
Hovering over the grey bat in SotA no longer causes a crash
Li'sar is no longer a disco queen
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1.19.12 (Beta)
Add-ons client Fixed downloading an add-on causing a crash. Campaigns Son of the Black Eye S15: improved AI behavior. The Deceiver’s Gambit Easy and Normal difficulties are now more challenging Delfador now references Elende's prophecy much more in Part II Numerous minor dialogue
Add-ons client

Fixed downloading an add-on causing a crash.
Campaigns

Son of the Black Eye

S15: improved AI behavior.

The Deceiver’s Gambit

Easy and Normal difficulties are now more challenging
Delfador now references Elende's prophecy much more in Part II
Numerous minor dialogue changes, scenario tweaks, and bug fixes
Various dialogue tweaks in Part II to better-resolve some of Part I's lingering plot threads.
S11: use simple_attack MAI for AI-vs-AI fighting, to reduce lag
S11: reduced number of Orcish Adepts/Shamans, and added a voiceline when one of them is attacked
S13: replaced Orcish Adepts/Shamans with regular cannon-fodder units.
Multiplayer

Added support for server-side queueing.
Translations

Updated translations: British English, Czech, Esperanto, Finnish, Italian
Units

Added and updated a variety of boats.
User interface

It is now possible to mark certain units as favorite in Unit List and Recall dialogs. Units can be sorted by whether they are favorite or not.
Fixed Wesnoth freezing when using a textbox.
Add support for marking units as favorites in the recall list.
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02 Jun 2025Developer post
Wesnoth 1.18.5
Editor Clear old time-of-day schedule before saving new one, resolves scenario file bloat (issue #10115). Networking Resolve crash on attempting to download MP replay from server, when using cURL 7.85.0 or later (issue #10139). Terrain Fix bluff/gulch terrain overlays being consp
Editor

Clear old time-of-day schedule before saving new one, resolves scenario file bloat (issue #10115).
Networking

Resolve crash on attempting to download MP replay from server, when using cURL 7.85.0 or later (issue #10139).
Terrain

Fix bluff/gulch terrain overlays being conspicuously visible on the minimap display (bug #8924).
Translations

Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Esperanto, Finnish, Italian, Japanese
User interface

Fixed an issue with the Help browser over-scaling portraits up on configurations with a pixel scale higher than 1 (e.g. macOS and Retina screens), causing blurry rendering and lacking enough room for text.
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

Fix failure to build with recent versions of Visual Studio due to missing `` include.
Support compilation with GCC 15.
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