Patches for Battle for Wesnoth

1. Features

1.1 Invulnerability cheat

With this patch, the wesnoth binary honours the following environment variables :

DEATHLESS_SIDES=num[,num]...: Value is interpreted as a list of side numbers separated by white space or commas. All units on any of the specified sides are unkillable.
DEATHLESS_TEAM=str: Value is interpreted as a team name. All units on the specified team are unkillable.

"Unkillable" means that the hit points of the unit never drop below 1, no matter how much damage it takes.

For example, to start the game with units from teams "One", 2 and 4 unkillable :

DEATHLESS_SIDES=2,4 DEATHLESS_TEAM=One ./wesnoth

Notes :

The cheat is not absolute. It will not save units from wind damage in Bad Moon Rising III / Snowblind.
The team names for DEATHLESS_TEAM can be difficult to infer. The matching is case-sensitive and the names shown in the in-game stats table sometimes have a different case than the internal variables against which the value of DEATHLESS_TEAM is compared.
When playing against the computer, DEATHLESS_SIDES=1 is a good first guess.
Dwarvish Ulfserkers make wonderful recruits with this cheat. Because they have the "berserk" weapon special, they are practically guaranteed to end the turn with at least one empty hex around them. Thus, a pair of DU working together is unstoppable : on odd turns, DU #1 cleans the hex in front of DU #2 so DU #2 can advance and vice-versa on even turns.
Unkillable units are magnets for enemies. Because they look like easy prey (hit points stuck at 1), the AI tends to keep sending units against them, neglecting other concerns such as securing more villages.

1.2. Local Player -> Computer Player

For Multiplayer -> Local Game, this patch changes the default for the second and subsequent players from "Local Player" to "Computer player" as it used to be in Battle for Wesnoth 1.2.

1.3. Fast keyboard scroll

[home], [end], [pu] and [pd] scroll 10 times as fast as [left], [right], [up] and [down] respectively.

Alternative names for [pu] and [pd] : page up, page-up, pgup, page down, page-down, pgdn.

2. Download

BfW version	Feature	Download
1.2.8	Invulnerability cheat	`wesnoth-1.2.8-aym1.diff`
1.4.4	Invulnerability cheat	`wesnoth-1.4.4-aym1.diff`
1.4.4	Local Player -> Computer Player	`wesnoth-1.4.4-aym2.diff`
1.8.2	Invulnerability cheat	`wesnoth-1.8.2-aym1.diff`
	Local Player -> Computer Player	`wesnoth-1.8.2-aym1.diff`
	Fast keyboard scroll	`wesnoth-1.8.2-fast-kbd-scroll.diff`

This is http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/wesnoth/, last updated 2010-08-22