Here is a new release of Stendhal for you to enjoy. Please check the announcement.

Update: We fixed the problem which caused some webstart-clients ("Play now") to crash after the update to 0.86. You will notice on first start that it will ask you again to download some additional files.

Those will replace the base client instead of just updating it so the download is a bit larger. Unfortunately there is no other way for us to fix it. The problem was caused because the Webstart files for the 0.85 base client were not signed completely. Java prevents mixing signed and unsigned files in certain conditions so that it is not possible to base any update on that version.

Here is a new release of Stendhal for you to enjoy. Please check the announcement.

Stendhal 0.85 can handle multiple characters in one account. Please see Stendhal Account Merging for details.

We like to invite everyone to a Stendhal Development meeting in Semos on Sunday the 2010-06-20, 20:00-21:00 server time. (That is 18:00-19:00 GMT).

You can learn the server time in the bottom left hand corner.

• Open points from the last meeting:
  • How to determine the danger level of a zone (based on some gathered statistics)
  • Thanks for the translations: Stendhal Gioco, Stendhal Jeu, Stendhal Juego, Stendhal Spel, Stendhal Spiel
• Recent changes and pending features for 0.85
• Ideas for new quests
• Discussing your ideas on how to improve Stendhal.

We had a Stendhal Development meeting in Semos on Tuesday, 2010-06-08.

You can see a summary of results and the full chat log at the Wiki page Stendhal Development Meeting 2010-06-08.

The next meeting is planned for Sunday, 2010-06-20, 20:00-21:00 server time. (That is 18:00-19:00 GMT). You can learn the server time from the bottom left hand corner.

Here is a new release of Stendhal for you to enjoy. Please check the announcement.

Did you know that our engine Marauroa was originally developed as base for a multiplayer online Pacman game?

About 5 years a feature was added to Marauroa supporting the management of multiple zone (game boards) at the same time.

In order to ensure the quality of new features, test cases are needed. The test case for the multi zone feature was called Stendhal.

Well, as you know it got a bit out of hand...

Here is a new release of Stendhal for you to enjoy. Please check the announcement.

Hi, this is just a short posting to let you know that the reports from the real life meeting are online. We held the meeting in the middle of March to celebrate the 10th birthday of the Arianne project and the 5th birthday of Stendhal.

Oh, and you may have noticed that we own a real domain now: stendhalgame.org. But don't worry: The old name - stendhal.game-host.org - will continue to work.

Here is a new release of Stendhal for you to enjoy. If you would like to see what is new you can check arianne.sf.net.

Update: We released 0.82.1 tonight.

• new command /clickmode to toggle between single click walking and double click walking (on popular request).
• fixed movement to drop target (only Microsoft Windows was affected)
• fixed /mute not being stored across restarts
• fixed pets not ownable

We had a big spring party in Ados on Saturday 27.03.2010. Maria was on hand to sell party food and drinks, and there was a Tournament where players challenged each other to prove their strength.

To say thank you to our players who are being so helpful this Client Quality Week, we had a raid on Saturday 6th March 11am server time.

This week we are going to concentrate on the software quality of the client and we need your help. We are having two goals:

1. Learn about any existing error and fix it
2. Reduce the impact of unknown errors. (The sound driver choked? Okay, that is bad, but the rest of the client should keep working).

Read an interview with the Arianne team here!

We're really delighted to announce that Arianne has been selected as SourceForge's Project of the Month for March.

To put this in context: SourceForge hosts over 230,000 projects, and in the past some very famous names have been Project of the Month: Mediawiki, TortoiseCVS, phpBB, Gaim, phpMyAdmin ... so it's a great achievement, it's a wonderful promotion for Stendhal and Arianne, and we really couldn't be happier.

We even appear on the main page SourceForge.net!

You can join in our success: spread the word and tell your friends about Stendhal :)

Here is a new release of Stendhal for you to enjoy. If you would like to see what is new you can check the announcement.

Update: We released version 0.81.1 tonight which fixes a client side crash on login next to an NPC without sound effects and a server side issue with negative HP caused by the "logout while dying" issue.

Kezman won the scavenger hunt, he was the the first to post a sign and name the item at the locations below. He received 12 empty scrolls, 12 home scrolls, 1 diamond and 24 gold bars.

Stendhal is 5 years old in March and the team are meeting to celebrate.

This real life meeting is for anyone who has contributed to Arianne and Stendhal, past and present. The activities will include a day of talks from key speakers from the project (past and present). Also there'll be some social events - dinner and a party. More details at Arianne Project Meeting 2010. Did you know, being a dedicated Stendhal player makes you a contributor, as you were helping test the game!

On Friday 22nd January a sign appeared in Semos:

"I hid my cat somewhere in Fauimoni. Find and bring her to semos tavern and totaling up to 48,500 HP and a few scrolls. You have until Sunday 11:59.59 server time. Good luck and thanks for your participation. Note, cats name has been changed. lol Have fun!"

Xhiphin Zohos, from Fado, called for help, because somehow many caged creatures had been let loose. The bandits who did this were in disguise. Luckily, there was a lot of help to kill the creatures, which had gone wild after being captive for so long.

Semos was in danger this New Year, from creatures which threatened to invade. Legions of creatures started to appear in the Semos Mine Towns, and a cast of blackness fell over the island.

Mayor Sakhs had been forewarned of the disaster, and he called warriors to help defend Semos.

Semos is decorated for Christmas! There are holly wreaths, sparkling lights, big trees and baubles. If you're very lucky you might find Santa Claus out delivering gifts - he could be anywhere outside and keeps moving - listen out for a "Ho ho ho!".

Merry Christmas from the Stendhal team.

On 22nd November 2009 we had a development meeting in Semos Townhall.

If you are interested in the results, please have a look at the Wiki page Stendhal Development Meeting 2009-11-22. You will find a blue navigation box on the right hand side which will lead you to result logs of the various areas. The complete chat log is included as well.

The meeting was generally seen as being very inspiring and helpful. We should repeat it in a couple of weeks. This meeting was about 3 hours. So it was getting quite a bit tiring for lasting to long. The next meeting should therefore be limited to one hour.

Thanks again for participating.

Hendrik

Hi,

Stendhal 0.79 is mainly a bugfix release. We fixed an incompatibility with the most recent Ubuntu Linux version 9.10 and a server side crash. Here is a complete list of changes.

With these fixes out, we are looking forward to adding new interesting features and expanding the world of Stendhal. Therefore we are inviting everyone to a development meeting on Sunday 22. November 17:00 in Semos Townhall server time. Please have a look at the bottom left corner of this page to learn the current server time.

Here is a new release of Stendhal for you to enjoy. If you would like to see what is new you can check arianne.sf.net.

Have fun during the Semos Mine Town Revival Weeks.

Here is a new release of Stendhal for you to enjoy. If you would like to see what is new you can check arianne.sf.net.

Have fun!

The database maintenance is finished. The important tables have been converted.

The gameEvents table has been archived as we have done a couple of times in the past. This means that the table is still available for admins with database access to look things. But the recently killed box on the website will only show kills starting today.

There is some more maintenance required but we are confident that we can do that without further downtime.

Thanks for your patience.

We need to do some database maintenance and for that the server must be taken down and the website will only work partly.

From 8.00am server time on Monday 17th August till approximately 20.00 (rough guess), the server will be down. It may take less or more time than anticipated - you will be able to see if the server is online at the 'server stats' box.

Here is a new release of Stendhal, which has been ported to the latest version of the game engine Marauroa. This is invisible inside the game, but if you would like to read more you can check arianne.sf.net. Thanks!

As a side note: We only restarted the server once during the 0.75 period to install a little bug fix. So the problem which caused the server to run out of memory is obviously fixed now.

If you want to say a small thank you to the developers and people who contribute to Stendhal, you could nominate the team, which is called Arianne RPG, for an award. Sourceforge is the site where Stendhal and the rest of the Arianne project is hosted and it is where you get your downloads from, and where the forums and bugs trackers are. They are running these awards so that the users of each project make nominations. The prize is fame and happiness :) Select which category you think Arianne deserves, probably Best Project for Gamers is the best. Please click on the image below and thank you for your support :)

Recently we held a poll for players to vote for who they thought were the nicest players in Stendhal. This is because we value niceness in this game! There was a great response from everyone, the players really wanted to thank and reward those who had been kind to them.

Pirates raided Ados from their ships which were anchored at the city. They attacked the town hall and castle but brave players defended the buildings and people. IschBing, Maja and Mein_Dino were particularly courageous.

During the raid the pirates got stronger and stronger - not just smugglers and buccaneers but evil pirates and leaders too. The leader pirates seemed to hint of a captive girl on their ship. The players became worried, and wondered - is this the lost girl Susi? At one time the whole of Ados was looking for her. After they heard Susi shout for help they were sure she must be captive - but where? She said she could see water, so Peka and IschBing realised that the place to go was the pier. The other players followed. Once on the ships a wide search began for the lost girl. Mein_Dino found Susi first and the players led her back to Ados. She was reunited with her parents Mr and Mrs Ross.

Susi had been captured on her way back from the Semos Mine Town revival party, two years ago. Last year there was no party as everyone was still so sad at Susi going missing. This year we celebrate the party again. Go to arianne.sourceforge.net to learn more.

A dedicated server for our game!

We have a dedicated server for the game thanks to a generous benefactor! We did the move to the new server at the same time as the release of 0.68.1. For news of the changes please see http://arianne.sourceforge.net