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*[https://www57.atwiki.jp/cataclyj/pages/185.html Japanese wiki 日本語]
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'''Information based on stable version (0.8 Romero), released on September 16, 2013'''
-->{{quote|You emerge from the shelter into the dim light of an overcast day, and look around for the first time since the disaster.


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The world as you knew it is gone and in its place, a twisted mockery of all that was once familiar.


You emerge from the shelter into the dim light of an overcast day, and look around for the first time since the disaster.
Everything was cast aside in that frantic race for the shelter. You have no food, nothing to drink, no weapons. Nothing but your ingenuity and the fierce determination to survive against appalling odds.


The world as you knew it is gone. A ruined world stands in its place, full of nightmares come to life. Nothing can ever go back to the way it was, before the Cataclysm, but you have to be strong. You have to survive. You have to persevere. If you don't, death will be one of the better outcomes.
A grim prospect faces you. Perhaps worse even than the nightmares of last night, when you were tortured by dreams of the dead themselves rising to jealously tear life from the living.


Above your head, storm clouds gather, and the rain stings and hisses against your skin. You shoulder your backpack, and start walking. The world has gone to hell, but you get the sinking feeling that there are darker days ahead.
You cast your eyes up the road and begin to walk towards a house in the far distance. Things may be bad right now, but you've got a sinking feeling that there are darker days ahead.}}


Humanity is dying. Terrible creatures, zombies and worse, have begun to fill the space they left behind. You have survived the initial cataclysm and now you must survive with what little skills and talents you have. Your first order of business is to find tools and weapons. But be quick about it, the zombies are approaching, you can hear them in the distance.
'''Beware''': The wiki is out-of-sync with releases, and mostly out-of-touch with the latest experimentals. You should find the general guides most useful, but details might be off, for items and recipes, it is better to use the [https://nornagon.github.io/cdda-guide/# Hitchhiker's Guide to the Cataclysm]. Please consider contributing!
Then you need to decide what to do next. You can flit from house to house in the neighborhood, hoping to not run into any trouble. You can hit up a library, and read some books to increase your skills. If you are lucky, you may know of a compound nearby where survivors are gathering. If not, you may want to start hiking. But remember, zombies aren't the only things out there. Just be sure to bring provisions.


Also remember to keep your spirits up! If you don't you will never survive. Without good spirits you won't have the gumption to learn or do anything productive at all! After all, what is the point in existing in such a saddened state?
[http://cataclysmdda.org/ Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead] (aka Cataclysm DDA, C:DDA, or CataDDA) is an open source [[wikipedia:Roguelike|roguelike]] set in a post-apocalyptic and fictional [[wikipedia:New_England|New England]]. It's a continuation of Whale's original [https://github.com/Whales/Cataclysm Cataclysm], which expands it with numerous new creatures, buildings, gameplay mechanics and many other features.


But if you can survive you will become inured to the hardships, and may find exciting things such as bionics, which can give you amazing powers not usually seen in mortal hands. Or if you are really lucky, you may find a radioactive site, decide to chance fate, and gain a mutation. Usually bad, but sometimes very very good. Who knows, the choice is yours.
You can [[download]] compiled versions of Cataclysm DDA for Linux, Mac and Windows systems, or [[How_to_compile|compile]] it yourself by grabbing the [https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA source code]. You can also visit the [https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ forums], the [https://web.libera.chat/?channel=#CataclysmDDA IRC channel], or the [https://discord.gg/jFEc7Yp C:DDA discord server], or any other part of the [[community]], for specific questions or just to meet other players.


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[http://www.cataclysmdda.com Cataclysm: DDA] is an open source zombie-survival [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike Roguelike]. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a continuation of Whale's Cataclysm. While originally made for the Linux operating system, Cataclysm: DDA also supports Mac and Windows systems and all versions can be downloaded [[download|here]].
Yet with care and a little luck, many things are possible. You may try to eke out an existence in the forests silently executing threats and providing sustenance with your longbow. You can ride into town in a jury-rigged vehicle, all guns blazing, to settle matters in a fog of smoke from your molotovs. You could take a more measured approach and construct an impregnable fortress, surrounded by traps to protect you from the horrors without. The longer you survive, the more skilled and adapted you will get and the better equipped and armed to deal with the threats you are presented with.


The game challenges players to not only acquire essential supplies to survive, but to battle with a wide range of zombies and other terrifying beasts and bastards that will continue to threaten the life of the player. The game challenges players to play with a plan on mind as they try to survive both the day and the night.
In the course of your ordeal there will be opportunities and temptations to improve or change your very nature. There are tales of survivors fitted with extraordinary cybernetics giving great power and stories too of gravely mutated survivors who, warped by their ingestion of exotic substances or radiation, now more closely resemble insects, birds or fish than their original form.}}


Visit the forums [http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/ here]


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The Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead Wiki

 You emerge from the shelter into the dim light of an overcast day, and look around for the first time since the disaster.

The world as you knew it is gone and in its place, a twisted mockery of all that was once familiar.

Everything was cast aside in that frantic race for the shelter. You have no food, nothing to drink, no weapons. Nothing but your ingenuity and the fierce determination to survive against appalling odds.

A grim prospect faces you. Perhaps worse even than the nightmares of last night, when you were tortured by dreams of the dead themselves rising to jealously tear life from the living.

You cast your eyes up the road and begin to walk towards a house in the far distance. Things may be bad right now, but you've got a sinking feeling that there are darker days ahead.
 

Beware: The wiki is out-of-sync with releases, and mostly out-of-touch with the latest experimentals. You should find the general guides most useful, but details might be off, for items and recipes, it is better to use the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Cataclysm. Please consider contributing!

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (aka Cataclysm DDA, C:DDA, or CataDDA) is an open source roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic and fictional New England. It's a continuation of Whale's original Cataclysm, which expands it with numerous new creatures, buildings, gameplay mechanics and many other features.

You can download compiled versions of Cataclysm DDA for Linux, Mac and Windows systems, or compile it yourself by grabbing the source code. You can also visit the forums, the IRC channel, or the C:DDA discord server, or any other part of the community, for specific questions or just to meet other players.

 Surviving is difficult: you have been thrown, ill-equipped, into a landscape now riddled with monstrosities of which flesh eating zombies are neither the strangest nor the deadliest.

Yet with care and a little luck, many things are possible. You may try to eke out an existence in the forests silently executing threats and providing sustenance with your longbow. You can ride into town in a jury-rigged vehicle, all guns blazing, to settle matters in a fog of smoke from your molotovs. You could take a more measured approach and construct an impregnable fortress, surrounded by traps to protect you from the horrors without. The longer you survive, the more skilled and adapted you will get and the better equipped and armed to deal with the threats you are presented with.

In the course of your ordeal there will be opportunities and temptations to improve or change your very nature. There are tales of survivors fitted with extraordinary cybernetics giving great power and stories too of gravely mutated survivors who, warped by their ingestion of exotic substances or radiation, now more closely resemble insects, birds or fish than their original form.
 


You can freely contribute to this wiki by updating outdated info, proofreading, expanding stub pages or creating new entries. Editing a page is as easy as clicking the [edit] link next to a section or the Edit tab found at the top of every page. You will, however, need to register a user account to do so. Here you can find more information about how to contribute to a MediaWiki wiki.