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Playing

Spring is an engine! To play, you need at least one Game and a Map installed!

Single-Player

(after installing a game and map) To start a single-player game use one of the Lobbies for that. A lobby also allows to set more options and can download games and maps, too.

You can also start a game by starting the Spring engine ("Test Spring" in starmenu or "spring" in commandline):

Then select a game, map and AI and click "Test the Game"

Not all AIs will operate with every game!

Playing Online

To play online, you need the latest version of the Spring Engine. To join matches run one of the Lobbies

Lan Party

See the dedicated page Playing on a lan.

Useful Hotkeys, Etc.

For a general keyboard layout please look at the Keyboard page.

Bots / AI

Bots are AI controlled players. There are several AI projects in development. Most of them are at a playable stage.

There are bots packed with Spring, so you should already have several AI to fight against.

A list of AIs can be found at: AIs

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