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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 with a selection box. If you select a wall alongside a villager, the game will prioritize the villager and its interface.

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.

Global queue​

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.

The golbal queue can display buildings separated or together depending on the setting of the Switching global details queue option on the patch menu:

• If the feature is disabled, the global queue will always display buildings of the same type combined.
• If the feature is enabled, the golabal queue will display buildins separated or combined, depending on the Extebded help setting (On/On or On/Off).

Advanced Tech​

This feature allows to see the main economic and military technologies available, in order to keep track of unresearched upgrades.

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 has the funtionality to enable a different score visualization. This score has very little differences from the original one during games but displays a lot more information and statistics when whatching recordings.

You can change the display by using the statistics button next to the minimap.

The option Show Watch record grid adds a background to help readability.

The patch now icludes a Delete all feature, to mass delete selected units. In order to avoid crahes, by default only a single key can be binded to this action. If your setup allows for it, you can bind a combination such as Shift+Del with the Delete selection combination option.



Additionally, you can enable a Confirmation message to prevent you from deleting Town Centers and other essential buildings.

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.