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The articles below explain how to play Community Patch 1.6 on Voobly.

Select both, the v1.6 RC user patch, as well as the v1.6 Game Data mod in your game settings.

Please make sure, you enable the following settings:

• Enable: Force Desktop Resolution in Game
• Enable: Disable display scaling on high DPI settings
• Enable: Render in 32-bit color
• Enable: Run as administrator
• Enable: Run in Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode

With the v1.6 Game Data mod, you can set the language in the patch options.

After changing the language, start the game on your own. The game will close inmediatly which means the patch changed the language.

In case you don’t use english, make sure to start the game on your own after every update before playing with others.

When the Community Patch is installed, the mod will use the default hotkey file “player1.hki” located in the root AoE2 folder, see picture.



When you modify the hotkeys, a new "player1.hki" will be created in the mod's folder. If you leave your hotkeys there, the file will be deleted with future updates.
Take this file and overwrite the default one in the root AoE2 folder. This hotkey file will also work on other mods, regardless of the new hotkeys, and will not be erased by updates.

The patch now includes the posibility of selecting multiple walls. Multiple selection of walls can be done in two ways:

• Double clicking on walls works with foundations but not finished walls.
• Square selecting works with all walls. If you select a wall alongside a villager, the game will prioritize the villager and its interface.

This two multiple selection options can be enabled simultaneously in the patch options in the game room.

Resource Interface​

The Community Patch now has two different resource interfaces:

• The original resource interface that only display the resource amount.
• The new Advanced Interface, that adds villager distribution per resource, idles counter and global production queue.

Both interfaces should be compatible with any computer. You can activate the Advanced interface in the patch options.

In order to see the global queue, you need to activate the Extended help, that displays the descriptions of units. This can be done via a button next to the minimap or by pressing F1.

Command bar position​

If you want to use the Advanced Interface, you also have to enable the UserPatch position of the command bar.

The patch now includes several “select all” hotkeys, such as idle villagers, Town Centers, military buildings, etc.

The select all hotkeys are disabled by default for performance reasons. Activate them in the patch options.



The patch now includes hotkeys to select all units or buildings of a given type. The options are:

• Select all idle villagers
• Select all idle military
• Select all idle trade carts
• Select all Town Centers
• Select all Barracks
• Select all Archery Ranges
• Select all Stables
• Select all Siege Workshops
• Select all Docks
• Select all Markets
• Select all Monasteries
• Select all Castles
• Select all Krepost
• Select all Donjons
• Select all military buildings

Bear in mind that the function that detects the hotkeys works properly if you have villagers working on any resource except for wood. This won’t be an issue in a normal game but keep it in mind if you are testing. If you don’t have villagers working, hotkeys are linked to the presence of the score and take longer to respond.

Modifying hotkeys​

If you want to set up your own “select all” hotkeys, bear in mind the following:

• You must not have the same hotkey for different buildings, as this may produce odd behaviours and bugs. The only exception to this is the Donjon and Krepost, as in a normal game you can not build both.
• Hotkeys that use the key Shift may conflict with “create five units” hotkeys.

If you have the global queue disabled, the patch won’t check if you introduce these errors.
Here is the process for configuring the hotkeys when you don’t have global queue:

1. When you download the patch, the hotkeys will be disabled.
2. Start the game in single player and go to the hotkey configuration menu inside the game. There you will see a section for “Select all”.
3. Configure the hotkeys of your choice.
4. Once you do that, the hotkeys you choose will be saved with the rest of them in the hki file located in the mod’s folder. This is different from the way the patch with global queue stores them.

Error with the hotkey binding​

We recomend that, when binding the select all hotkeys, you configure them ONE AT A TIME, going back to the game to check that they work. If the hotkey doesn’t seem to work, open and close again the hotkeys menu.

This is because you need to make sure the game saves the hotkeys file and changing several hotkeys at once may result in them not being properly saved. Every time you close the hotkeys menu, they are saved in the .hki file.

The patch now includes the option to auto-save games while playing, to provide a secondary backup file in case of crashes.

This feature will save the game every 6 minutes and create a file called “Auto_restore.msz” in the folder “v1.6 Game Data\SaveGame\Multi”.
Some notes on the new feature:

• When the game is saved, you’ll notice a momentary freeze.
• The feature is disabled by default, you can activate it in the patch options as the interface or the language.
• As long as one of the players has the feature active, the auto-save will be in effect.

In our Voobly community we communicate mostly in the English language. Most of our work is done in English, but we hope that all Voobly documentation, software and installation will be available in many languages one day. We are constantly working towards that goal, however, many obstacles are still ahead. Voobly consists of volunteers, and we are generally looking for new volunteers who have some technical knowledge, an interest in gaming, and some free time. You too can help Voobly; take a look at the Enrollment info page.