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Welcome to the VASSAL Wiki

This the VASSAL wiki. Here you can find documentation, game modules, and other user-contributed content.

Help us clean up the wiki! The wiki is a mess, due to long neglect on our old site. This wiki could be a useful resource for the community, but we need your help in order to make it so. Please consider editing a page to improve the wiki. PDF guides have updated online wiki pages.

• User's guide (PDF)
• Overview
• Getting Started
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Troubleshooting Common Problems
• Tips and Tricks
• Vassal Development Roadmap
• Running VASSAL on Android

Modules

• Module Section Information
• The Module Library
• Module creation
  • Designer's guide (PDF) (Has some good info but very out of date)
  • Designer's Frequently Asked Questions
  • Module page creation
  • Modules creation tutorial
  • Module creation tutorial from a hex'n'counters template (work in progress)
  • Modules creation manual
  • Modules creation Video 101
  • Modules creation Video 201
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Updating an older module for version 3.4 and later
• Reference Manual

Engine Development

• Bug Reporting and Error Logs
  • Reporting a Bug
  • Bug Tracking Process
  • Error Logs

• Guides for getting started developing for VASSAL
  • Using Git - How to get VASSAL source code.
  • Using an IDE to edit and debug VASSAL code
    • Recommended Setup - Getting started with IntelliJ
    • Alternative setup - Eclipse setup with maven
  • Building Vassal
  • Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (l10n) Guidelines

• Guides for creating Custom Java Classes for VASSAL
  • Custom Classes Intro

• Ongoing Development Projects
  • Development In Progress
  • Developer's Blog
  • Vassal 4

Wiki Cleanup

• Pages containing raw HTML