FTP Sites throughout the world where Crossfire can be obtained.

The current version of the Crossfire server is 1.71.0 as of 2014-Apr-05.

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• Linux
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/files/crossfire-server/1.71.0/crossfire-1.71.0.tar.bz2/download
• Mac OS X
  http://crossfire.real-time.com/download/macosx/
• Windows
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/files/crossfire-server/snaspshot/crossfire-server-trunk-18572.exe

NOTE:

• One still needs a map set to go along with the server
  • Linux
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/files/crossfire-maps/1.71.0/crossfire-1.71.0.maps.tar.bz2/download
  • Mac OS X
    http://crossfire.real-time.com/download/macosx/
  • Windows
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/files/crossfire-server/snaspshot/crossfire-server-bigworld-trunk-18572.exe

ATTENTION Linux Users:

Mac Os X Update

• Note1: Refer to the Crossfire Wiki for a list of package dependencies for the server and client
• Note2: Refer to the Crossfire Wiki for a list of Linux distributions that have precompiled packages of the client and server, along with other instructions

ATTENTION Windows Users:

• Note1: A somewhat regular snapshot is available for the server and client, no compiling is needed - just download and install from the .exe file
• Note2: There are two (2) installation files required - the server and the maps, both available as .exe files

CVS:

CVS support is being phased out at SourceForge so for historic and archive purposes, a tarball of the CVS code repo is available for download.

• http://crossfire.real-time.com/download/crossfire-cvs-archive.tar.gz (215M)
• https://www.dropbox.com/s/53pe4dyum4bxu9p/crossfire-cvs-archive.tar.gz?dl=0 (215M)
  • MD5 (crossfire-cvs-archive.tar.gz) = 65182fa0b1750ba3e42d828afc0217a3
  • NOTE: Decompressed content size is 980M total

SVN:

The general commands to check out a module (archtypes, client, maps, server, et al) is the following:

• svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/crossfire/code/arch
• svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/crossfire/code/client
• svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/crossfire/code/maps
• svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/crossfire/code/server

See the SVN page for more information on SVN commands, syntax, options, etc.

Compile from Source:

See the Crossfire Wiki for more information on how to compile the server and client(s) from the source code.

Linux Server & Clients:

Windows Server:

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/files/crossfire-server/snaspshot/crossfire-server-trunk-18572.exe
  • Windows Server Map Set: (required)

Mac OS X - X11 CF Client:

• Via fink:
  http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/crossfire

Mac OS X - X11 GTK Client, Intel:

SVN Snapshot:

Mac OS X - X11 GTK Client, PPC:

Windows GTK Client:

The automated build process makes frequent snapshot releases.

Linux Client GTK-v2, RPM:

• X86
• X86_64

JX Client:

Snapshot build, local and remote mirror:

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/files/jxclient/
  • VirusTotal: jxclient.jar (Sourceforge)
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/files/jxclient/jxclient.jar/download
  • VirusTotal: jxclient.jar (Real Time)
• https://www.dropbox.com/s/hy3k3odw74q6ni9/jxclient.jar?dl=0
  • VirusTotal: jxclient.jar (DropBox)
• SHA256 hash sum = 27a23e2842d6246eade5b1db51316bc2e1dfbdab7cc64f072909c3f92ba54c12
• SHA1 hash sum = 2fe88c7a076e267f6dbab6ce7743db9399687f06
• md5um = c005e904a86e54811d8b553667e504d3

Gridarta (formerly CF Java Editor):

Snapshot mirror (USA):

• http://crossfire.real-time.com/download/gridarta/CrossfireEditor.jar
  • VirusTotal: CrossfireEditor.jar (Real Time)
• https://www.dropbox.com/s/8vaceuxvv0md0ex/CrossfireEditor.jar?dl=0
  • VirusTotal: CrossfireEditor.jar (DropBox)
• md5sum =873bcf81b9dac7cec43c270fca9519a7
• SHA1 hash sum =b7190b2585694d62f623f3c5c24e7270049baf5b
• SHA256 hash sum = 24ba90f9fef07d29d66df3b42c82325636f73c64d5894e60920a34084d328657

Git:

Crossfire Mac Os X 10.8

Command to check out (read only) the Gridarta for Crossfire map editor:

• git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/gridarta/gridarta gridarta-gridarta

Crossfire is a free and open source softwarecross-platformmultiplayer online role-playing video game. Crossfire features a tile based graphic system with a pseudo-isometric perspective. All content is licensed under the GNU GPL. The client and server will run in Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, and an array of other platforms.

Description[edit]

Crossfire is a multi-player online role-playing game; it can be described as a cross-over of the ideas of Nethack, Ultima and Gauntlet.

Development history[edit]

Crossfire's development history started in mid-1992.^[2] It originally started as a Gauntletclone^[3] developed by Frank Tore Johansen at the University of Oslo in Norway.^[4] After a name change in that same year and brief hosting time at University of California, Berkeley (Jul-1999 to Jan-2001), the project now resides at SourceForge^[5] where development continues.

Crossfire started with just one indoor map and then increased to 4 indoor maps with one-way portals from level 1 to level 4. Upon clearing the last level, there was nothing more for the player to do. Spells were limited to magic bullet (the first spell), fireball, magic missile, burning hands and lightning bolt. Later, when two-way portals were implemented, development and content contribution expanded greatly.

Crossfire has since grown to encompass over 150 monsters, about 3000 maps to explore, an elaborate magic system, 13 races, 15 character classes, a system of skills, and many artifacts and treasures.

As of July 2018 the game is under active development by the community.

Gameplay[edit]

Any number of players can connect and play on the public servers, finding and using items and battling monsters. They can cooperate or compete in the same world which includes both static and randomly generated content. It is a client and server based game with the ability to be played over the Internet, on a local network setting, or on a single computer setup.

Crossfire is based in a medieval fantasy world. Players can choose any of 13 races from dragons (fire hatchlings) to quetzalcoatl as well as the more average human and elf. They can also play as one of 15 classes or professions which range from alchemist to a monk to a warrior. The game has a comprehensive skill system that attributes experience points to each skill, instead of the character earning general experience points.

Once the character creation process is complete, players enter the game world and pick from the two starting towns, Scorn or Navar. Although there are many quests, the game leans towards hack and slash adventuring with other players. The game world is quite large, making exploration a key gameplay mechanic.

Influence on other online games[edit]

Crossfire was used as the base of a number of commercial and free MMORPGs, such as Wyvern, a Java rewrite,^[6]Graal Kingdoms, which closed its code and content,^[7] and Daimonin, which only used the server code but features an isometric view and a different project philosophy focused on a single main server.^[8]Deliantra^[9] is another fork of the Crossfire project, primarily aiming to improve the quality of its code and in-game content.

Reception[edit]

In 1999 Crossfire was featured by Linux Journal.^[10] The game was downloaded over 550,000 times^[11] from Sourceforge.net between 2000 and April 2020.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Crossfire RPG game'. December 25, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
2. ^Crossfire v0.8 Announced https://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.programmer/msg/b2cf6e4b1d4d9d88?dmode=source
3. ^ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/crossfire/historic^{[permanent dead link]}
4. ^'Re: CF: the beginning of crossfire'. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
5. ^[CF-Devel] SourceForge File Release Notice: client-linux-rpm
6. ^Steve Yegge (Rhialto) on how Crossfire influenced Wyvern
7. ^Graal Kingdom acknowledging the incorporation of Crossfire code
8. ^Michael Toennies about Daimonin's connection with Crossfire
9. ^Deliantra Homepage
10. ^Crossfire featured in Linux Journal's Game Focus, (1999)
11. ^Download Statistics: All Files on sourceforge.net (April 2020)

External links[edit]

• 'Crossfire'. Freecode.
• Crossfire on SourceForge.net