Serflings
Engine for The Settlers (1993) | Category: Recreated engines
Author: nicymike | Curator: Modbadger
Engine for The Settlers (1993) | Category: Recreated engines
Author: nicymike | Curator: Modbadger
Serflings is a remake of the classic strategy The Settlers 1 (or Serf City), faithfully reproducing the original gameplay while adding modern conveniences: support for high resolutions, network games, compatibility with original save files, and much more.
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Serflings is a great way to relive memories of the classic game with enhanced graphics and new features.
Features already included
Most of the features from the original game (see below for missing features):
All trainings
All missions including passwords and ending animation
Custom games as singleplayer
Fully functional AI as present in the original game
Saving and loading of games, including full support of savegames from the original game
All main functions of the original game
All map functions
All menus for statistics and settings
Supported languages: German, English, French, Polish
Arbitrarily high resolutions
Smooth scrolling
Zoom
Automatic pathfinding on path construction including a preview function
Network games over LAN (1 vs 1) including team games
Indication of the work radius for buildings
Optional control without special click (middle click)
Changing game speed
The state of completed missions will be saved
Display of mission and game goals
Representation of different types of food in mines
Additional information about transport in window for castle or stock
Still missing or planned features
Original game: Replacing an existing building by a new one
Original game: Timers for menus or buildings
Original game: Scrolling while building a path
Disable some types of messages
Tooltips
Messages for missing resources for Stonecutter and Fisherman
Lobby for network games and network games with up to four players
Additional languages
Support for Amiga game files
You may use the following additional keys:
1 - 5: Buttons in south panel
Space: Building help
Arrow keys: Scrolling
Mouse wheel: Zoom
TAB: Open the next new message
ESC: Close a window in game
p: Pause
+ and -: Adjust game speed
0: Reset game speed to default
v: Toggle video mode VGA/SVGA
F11 or Alt+Enter: Toggle fullscreen
s: Toggle sound
m: Toggle music
F3: Toggle display of debug information
You may pass the following command line arguments to the game:
--enable-preview: Activates preview mode for new functions which are still in development
--validate-data: Executes a simple check for the original game data
--system-info: Displays internal information about the environment of Java and the identified hardware
How to install an engine Serflings
Extract the files to any folder.
Copy the data file from the original game to the same folder as Serflings.
Alternatively, you can place the data file in ~/.local/share/Serflings
You can use the data file from either the DOS or Amiga game version.
In the DOS version, the data file is named SPAE.PA, SPAD.PA, SPAF.PA, or SPAU.PA depending on the game language.
In the Amiga version, these are the files gfxheader, gfxfast, gfxchip, gfxpics, sounds, music.
Play!
If the History Edition was installed in the default path, copying is not required.
The game will look for files in the following paths in the given order:
Current directory; usually the location of the exe or jar file.
Subdirectory data.
(Windows only) Default path for History Edition: C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\games\thesettlers\loca
The remake is compatible with both DOS version files and History Edition files.
