{"id":35304,"date":"2021-10-25T16:34:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=35304"},"modified":"2021-10-26T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T09:58:49","slug":"wesnoth-1-16-0-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/10\/wesnoth-1-16-0-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle for Wesnoth 1.16.0 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wesnoth-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wesnoth-icon-250x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wesnoth-icon-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wesnoth-icon-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wesnoth-icon-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wesnoth-icon-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wesnoth-icon.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After more than 2 years of development, the new major Battle for Wesnoth 1.16.0 was finally available to download.<\/p>\n<p>With Wesnoth 1.15.x development releases, it introduced <b>new campaign: Wings of Victory<\/b>, an Intermediate level Drake campaign with 11 scenarios. A new new single player or coop survival scenario, <b>Isle of Mists<\/b> is added. <\/p>\n<p>The add-on World Conquest II (now called World Conquest) has translations support. And users now has ability to add translated titles and descriptions to add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>It has overhauled the Dunefolk to improve balance against the six Default factions. Most of the Dunefolk faction&#8217;s units have new and-or updated animations. There is also a new unit called falconer, which is a branch in the skirmisher line.<\/p>\n<p>For multiplayer, it added roll N chat command, new Information button in the lobby to show server related information and ongoing tournaments being held. It&#8217;s possible to press F1 to view in-game help in the multiplayer lobby. And, the Private Replay checkbox is available in the game create screen.<\/p>\n<p>It also merged several experimental AI candidate actions (CAs). The campaign AI Controller feature is now deprecated, and has been removed from mainline campaigns.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/battleforwesnoth.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/battleforwesnoth-600x338.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/battleforwesnoth-600x338.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/battleforwesnoth-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/battleforwesnoth-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/battleforwesnoth.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Other changes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesnoth.org\/start\/1.16\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Battle for Wesnoth 1.16.0<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many changes to unit stats across the board<\/li>\n<li>Several new fauna units added.<\/li>\n<li>Many new zombified sprites, monsters, animations, and so forth.<\/li>\n<li>Campaign changes and fixes.<\/li>\n<li>WML and lua API changes.<\/li>\n<li>Require system higher than Windows 7 \/ macOS 10.11<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Install Battle for Wesnoth 1.16.0 in Ubuntu Linux:<\/h3>\n<p>The Windows EXE, macOS dmg and source tarball are available to download at the link below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/wesnoth\/files\/wesnoth-1.16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Wesnoth 1.16<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Linux user may play the game via Steam or itch.io. It&#8217;s also available to install separately via the universal Flatpak package in <b>Ubuntu 20.04<\/b>, <b>Ubuntu 21.10<\/b>, <b>Ubuntu 18.04<\/b> and even older releases. And below will tell you how:<\/p>\n<h4>1.) Setup Flatpak daemon.<\/h4>\n<p>Firstly, search for and open terminal from start menu (activities overview). When it opens, run command to install the daemon:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<p><i>For old Ubuntu releases, e.g., Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04, you need to add <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~flatpak\/+archive\/ubuntu\/stable\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this PPA<\/a> first.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak-600x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"102\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak-600x102.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak-450x77.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next, add the <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flathub<\/a> repository that hosts the software packages via command:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https:\/\/flathub.org\/repo\/flathub.flatpakrepo<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-600x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-600x100.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-450x75.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>2.) Install Battle for Wesnoth as Flatpak.<\/h4>\n<p>After setting up the daemon, run the command below in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak install flathub org.wesnoth.Wesnoth<\/pre>\n<p>Both Wesnoth 1.14.x and 1.16 are available in the repository. You need to type number to choose which to install, and type y to confirm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/flatpak-wesnoth116.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/flatpak-wesnoth116.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/flatpak-wesnoth116.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/flatpak-wesnoth116-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When everything&#8217;s done successfully, launch the game from start menu (searching from activities overview) and enjoy!<\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall Wesnoth Flatpak:<\/h3>\n<p>For any reason, you may run command in terminal to remove the package:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.wesnoth.Wesnoth<\/pre>\n<p>And clear unused runtime via <code>flatpak uninstall --unused<\/code> command.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than 2 years of development, the new major Battle for Wesnoth 1.16.0 was finally available to download. With Wesnoth 1.15.x development releases, it introduced new campaign: Wings of Victory, an Intermediate level Drake campaign with 11 scenarios. A new new single player or coop survival scenario, Isle of Mists is added. 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