A continuation of Freeserf, a SerfCity/Settlers1 clone in C/C++. Freeserf was created by jonls and wdigger

Forkserf adds:

• advanced AI for non-human players with greatly improved road building logic
• fixes for Freeserf bugs
  • major crash bugs from iterator invalidation during normal gameplay
  • crash & other bugs related to combat
  • some minor visual & audio issues
  • crash & other issue with food resource delivery
  • serfs become forever stuck on roads and block the road
  • missing ambient sounds
• new features (mostly as optional checkboxes)
  • auto-saving
  • enhanced Pig Farms
  • serfs can be transported in Boats!
  • empty building sites don't burn
• internal game mechanics changes to fix gridlock issues that existed even in the original game
  • timeout & retry of building resource requests
  • prioritized transport of resources that can be immediately used
  • faster clearing of Lost serfs
• debugging tools
  • mark positions with colored dots
  • mark specific serfs and their state
  • "boot" specific serfs by setting them to Lost state
  • trace road pathfinding
  • identification & colored highlighting of arterial roads
  • hidden resource overlay (THIS IS CHEATING!)
• no multiplayer yet, sorry

Details about all of the above are on the wiki: https://github.com/forkserf/forkserf/wiki

coming soon

coming soon, check https://github.com/tlongstretch/freeserf-with-AI-plus-binaries for the moment

Copy the data file(s) from the original game to the same directory as freeserf. Alternatively you can put the data file in ~/.local/share/freeserf. You may use data file(s) from DOS or Amiga game version.

• DOS data file is called SPAE.PA, SPAD.PA, SPAF.PA or SPAU.PA, depending on the language of the game.
• Amiga files gfxheader, gfxfast, gfxchip, gfxpics, sounds, music.

Keyboard gameplay controls:

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5: Activate one of the five buttons in the panel.
• b: Toggle overlay showing possibilities for constructions.
• TAB/SHIFT-TAB: Open next notification message; or return from last message. removed for now because of alt-tab issues
• +/-: Increase/decrease game speed.
• 0: Reset game speed.
• p: Pause game.
• j: Switch player.
• y: AI/debug overlay (only shows for AI players)
• g: grid/serf state debug overlay
• h: hidden resource overlay (THIS IS CHEATING!)

Other keyboard controls:

• F10: Return to main menu to start a new game
• s: Enable/disable sounds playback
• m: Enable/disable music playback
• CTRL+f: Switch fullscreen mode on/off.
• CTRL+z: Save game in current directory.
• [/]: Zoom -/+
• CTRL-MouseWheel: Zoom -/+
  *note there's a bug where if you resize the game window after zooming you need to zoom again or cursor gets messed up

To play back the sound track that is included in the original data files, SDL2_mixer has to be enabled at compile-time and a set of sound patches for SDL2_mixer has to be available at runtime. See the SDL2_mixer documentation for more information.

To load a save game file:

$ freeserf -l FILE

Freeserf will (try to) load save games from the original game, as well as saves from freeserf itself. The game is paused after loading so press p to start the game.

Run freeserf -h for more info on command line options.

Please report bugs at https://github.com/forkserf/forkserf/issues.

The main source repository for this project is at https://github.com/forkserf/forkserf. See the HACKING document in the source code root for information on how to compile and how to contribute.