{"id":48203,"date":"2025-02-24T06:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48203"},"modified":"2025-02-24T06:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:44:40","slug":"battle-for-wesnoth-1-18-4-released-with-changes-to-eastern-invasion-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/02\/battle-for-wesnoth-1-18-4-released-with-changes-to-eastern-invasion-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle for Wesnoth 1.18.4 Released with Changes to Eastern Invasion Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wesnoth-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35305\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/wesnoth-icon-250x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" 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>Battle for Wesnoth, the free open-source turn-based strategy game, released new version 1.18.4 few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The new release introduced some changes to the single player campaigns mode, updated the UI, translations, and fixed some bugs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wesnoth1184.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48204\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wesnoth1184-700x421.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wesnoth1184-700x421.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wesnoth1184-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wesnoth1184-768x462.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wesnoth1184.webp 1308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the <b>Eastern Invasion campaign<\/b>, achievement (S04c) now only triggers when escaping with all knights alive. Flying units (S11\/S99) can no longer enter prison cells via the river. Prisoners in S99 now escape if their jailers are killed. AI is now more forced to recruit only higher-level units when gold reserves get too high. And, Dra-Nak (if present) having incorrect traits and portraits in S12 has been fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the story mode changes, the release also switched default Pango\/Cairo backend from CoreText to Fontconfig on macOS to fix certain fonts unrecognized issues. And, search filter should now be case-insensitive for more than just ASCII characters.<\/p>\n<p>In Map Editor, there&#8217;s now a new <b>Show Tool Information<\/b> toggle option to show or hide the informational tooltip in the bottom of game window.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes are primarily bug-fixes and translation updates, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix that the palette button not clickable after scrolling in palette widget without moving the cursor.<\/li>\n<li>Fix crash when weapon specials&#8217; filters lead to infinite recursion.<\/li>\n<li>Fix the Load Game dialog forgetting the filename filter when changing directory.<\/li>\n<li>Update translations: Arabic, Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Turkish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Install Battle for Wesnoth 1.18.4<\/h3>\n<p>If you like playing games with Steam, then the new game release has already made into Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux.<\/p>\n<p>For Linux, the game is also available to install as official <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/org.wesnoth.Wesnoth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatpak package<\/a>, which runs in sandbox environment. And, Ubuntu users may open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the 2 commands below one by one to install it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install the Flatpak daemon:\n<pre>sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Install the Flatpak package:\n<pre>flatpak install https:\/\/dl.flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/org.wesnoth.Wesnoth.flatpakref<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NOTE: if this is the first time you enable Flatpak support on Ubuntu Linux, then you need a log out and back in to make app icon visible. Without logging out, you may alternatively run the command below to start game from terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak install org.wesnoth.Wesnoth<\/pre>\n<p>For Ubuntu users who prefer the classic <code>.deb<\/code> package, The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~pkg-games\/+archive\/ubuntu\/wesnoth-devel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cDebian\/Ubuntu Games Team\u201d<\/a> team has a PPA that contains the 1.18.4 package for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10. See this <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/install-battle-wesnoth-116-ppa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">step by step guide<\/a> if you don&#8217;t even know how to use Ubuntu PPA.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle for Wesnoth, the free open-source turn-based strategy game, released new version 1.18.4 few days ago. 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