Call for Moderators

We’re seeking motivated people from all regions to help improve our community.

As always you can apply on our Forum. But you can also apply on Discord: Channel.

Requirements:

• You are 16 years old or above.
• You have spare time to volunteer towards the community.
• You have not previously been banned on all DDNet servers.
• You must be proficient in written English.
• You can work well with others.
• Accept an annual salary of no more than $0.

Preferred Qualities:

• Previous experience as a Moderator on a forum, server or game, but not required.
• A good understanding of the game mechanics and RCON console commands.

Looking forward to working with you!

It’s time for the first tournament of the year! We will play the brand-new Brutal (★★★★★) map Naufrage 4 by SickCunt & panik:

The Tournament will be played on Sunday, Feburary 23 at 18:00 CET on special Tournament servers in every DDNet location! No one has seen the map yet and the first finish will win!

Thanks to meloƞ, Kicker, Knuski & ♂S1mple♂ for testing the map! The results will later be available on the Tournament page.

The Photoshoot 2025 is finished! Check out the final image:

As we welcome 2025, we want to take a moment to thank our amazing community for all the support throughout the past year. Our community has once again grown massively in size, and we couldn’t be more excited to see new players join the fun.

A massive thank you to all the talented mappers, testers, developers, content creators, and artists who’ve poured their time and creativity into making DDNet better with every update. Our deepest gratitude also goes to all moderators who keep our servers in check and welcoming for everyone.

And lastly, we also want to express our heartfelt appreciation to those who have generously supported our project through donations. As DDNet continues to grow, so do our server costs. Last year’s donations weren’t enough to fully cover last year’s expenses, but we remain committed to improving and growing DDNet. If you’re able to contribute, no matter the amount, it would mean the world to us and help us continue building a vibrant and exciting future for DDNet.

We’re also kicking off the year with the annual DDNet Photoshoot event! Join us and the community to capture your tee on this year’s map. There are plenty of spots for everyone, so bring your friends and take part in the fun! (Pssst, there may even be some secrets hidden around for those who want a cooler shot.) To get a better idea, check out last year’s photoshoots from 2024, 2023, and 2022.

With gratitude, The DDraceNetwork Team

Congrats to Colo-Colo for being the first person to have finished an Insane map (Springlobe 3) 100 times (253 hours in sum)! His last finish was in 3 hours with a team of 40 players:

• I See You, Fourvride, Tae, yishun, Anxton, Stimero, I.K.U, n9, Atsuko, DiegoBlaster21, Timondr, chanchita, Cyclic~, carinhadaskina, <BµmM>, z0rba, Ryu, Nixmo, PlantKnight, EduFlan, Grk0ne, Mery ♥, blum, Pichulita :3, paradise, WR4SK, Grizzy, sinecly’s cat, sylveon, .-., Bschil, ~Thunder~, fox, UdechileCampeon, لارقام✈, rqza, Zero Two, Cireme, Souly and of course Colo-Colo!

Edit: ty4. also has over 100 finishes on Justice 2, a much shorter map though.

👋 It’s been a while since we last ran a tournament. Let’s fix that with our December 2024 tournament! 🎅

What are the rules?

We will be releasing secretly tested maps randomly over the month. You will be able to earn points by:

• Finishing maps: 10 points for finishing each map
• Ranking into top 10 of one or several maps by the end of the event, ranging from 10 points to 1 point per map depending on your rank

How long will it last?

Event starts on Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 6:00 PM with the first map release and ends on Monday, December 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM!

How to participate?

Just join any of our server and vote any of the map release through December within the “NEW MAP” subcategory. You can stay tuned with the rankings.

Thanks a lot to snailx3 for organizing, Welf for organizing and testing, Knuski, catseyenebulous, J$ON, Welshi, meloƞ for testing, and to every mapper contributing to the event!

Recently, we lost control of the domain ddnet.tw due to a botched transfer between registrars. Older clients (pre 16.4) rely on this domain for info, maps, updates, and more, meaning they are no longer safe to use.

A former community member has managed to buy the expired domain. Unfortunately, they refuse to return it, forcing us to discontinue support for these older clients.

While we have monitored the situation and have not observed any malicious activity yet, we can't guarantee this will remain the case, and we don't want to take unnecessary risks.

What to do:

• Do NOT click the "update" button in the client, as this could compromise your system.
• Download a fresh copy of the client from our website.
• Avoid clicking or using links from ddnet.tw.
• Fix or report places where the ddnet.tw domain is used instead of ddnet.org on our Discord.

If the domain is returned to us in the future, we may be able to restore functionality for these old versions. Until then, these clients will remain banned on DDNet servers.

UPDATE:

The person who took over the DDNet.tw domain was SP | Someone. His goal was to make sure old clients keep working. He has graciously returned the domain to us without even accepting payment, so old clients will work again! Thank you SP | Someone!

The Photoshoot 2024 is finished! Check out the final image:

Thanks to all donors donating a total of 3314 € and sponsoring servers DDNet is now fully funded until the end of 2023!

I’m happy to announce we don’t take donations any more until next year! Thanks to everyone for donating money and time to make DDNet better!

Multeasymap by Cøke, Tridemy, Welf & TPaul will soon be the first map with 1 million finishes!

MariaDB [teeworlds]> select record_maps.Server, record_race.Map, count(*), record_maps.timestamp
from record_race join record_maps on record_race.Map = record_maps.Map
group by record_race.Map order by count(*) desc limit 20;
+-----------+-----------------+----------+---------------------+
| Server    | Map             | count(*) | timestamp           |
+-----------+-----------------+----------+---------------------+
| Novice    | Multeasymap     |   997272 | 2020-09-20 00:09:00 |
| Novice    | Tutorial        |   905901 | 2022-02-27 14:54:00 |
| Novice    | Sunny Side Up   |   775311 | 2020-08-06 20:00:00 |
| Novice    | Kobra           |   600805 | 2014-01-19 19:43:00 |
| Novice    | LearnToPlay     |   437767 | 2020-01-03 15:00:00 |
| Novice    | 4Beginners      |   306107 | 2020-08-22 15:01:00 |
| Novice    | Just2Easy       |   299821 | 2015-02-23 17:43:00 |
| Novice    | Epix            |   287380 | 2014-12-22 17:36:00 |
| Novice    | Kobra 2         |   268702 | 2014-04-05 18:56:00 |
| Race      | run_g6          |   224059 | 2015-07-23 12:22:00 |
| Novice    | Kobra 4         |   193360 | 2015-08-02 19:59:00 |
| Novice    | StepByStep      |   187375 | 2015-12-08 18:20:00 |
| Novice    | Tsunami         |   174655 | 2020-08-18 19:01:00 |
| DDmaX.Nut | NUT_short_race6 |   162317 | 2016-03-11 18:24:00 |
| Novice    | Linear          |   159836 | 2020-10-10 15:00:00 |
| Race      | run_ankii       |   157997 | 2015-09-14 12:00:00 |
| Race      | run_blue        |   153518 | 2015-09-24 12:00:00 |
| Novice    | 4Nubs           |   144308 | 2015-06-16 13:54:00 |
| Novice    | Gold Mine       |   137480 | 2015-03-07 16:49:00 |
| Novice    | Tangerine       |   135862 | 2020-08-29 15:00:00 |
+-----------+-----------------+----------+---------------------+
20 rows in set (17.067 sec)

Check it out yourself on ddstats.

This is especially impressive since the map was released less than 3 years ago!

Who will get the 1 millionth finish? I’ll update this post once the finishes are in.

Edit: Congrats to Quit, nouis) & deenouis for getting the 1 millionth finish on Multeasymap!

MariaDB [teeworlds]> select Name, Time, Server, Timestamp, rank() over (order by Timestamp asc) as "x-th Finish" from record_race where Map = "Multeasymap" limit 11 offset 999996;
+----------+---------+--------+---------------------+-------------+
| Name     | Time    | Server | Timestamp           | x-th Finish |
+----------+---------+--------+---------------------+-------------+
| deenouis |   971.9 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:18 |      999997 |
| nouis    |   971.9 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:18 |      999997 |
| Quit     | 1206.62 | RUS    | 2023-08-17 18:46:20 |      999999 |
| deenouis |   809.5 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:20 |      999999 |
| nouis    |   809.5 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:20 |      999999 |
| deenouis |  784.44 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:22 |     1000002 |
| nouis    |  784.44 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:22 |     1000002 |
| deenouis |  751.72 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:23 |     1000004 |
| nouis    |  751.72 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:23 |     1000004 |
| Yumiko   |  639.44 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:29 |     1000006 |
| bencie   |  639.44 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:29 |     1000006 |
+----------+---------+--------+---------------------+-------------+
11 rows in set (2.140 sec)