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About DoomWiki.org

The Doom Wiki is an extensive community effort to document everything related to id Software's masterpiece games Doom and Doom II, other games based on the Doom engine, Doom 3, Doom (2016), Doom Eternal, and more. We have created 23,413 articles to date.

This site is a wiki, so everyone is encouraged to create and edit articles. New contributors should read our FAQ first. If this is your first time using a wiki, be sure to check out the basic editing instructions as well. If you need additional help, or wish to discuss general aspects of this wiki, pay a visit to the Central Processing discussion board.

See the news board to read and post news about ongoing or upcoming events in the Doom universe.

Atlas

Games and history

• Doom, The Ultimate Doom
• Doom II, Final Doom, Master Levels, No Rest for the Living
• Doom 64, PSX Doom, Jaguar Doom, and others...
• Heretic, Hexen, Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
• Strife, Veteran Edition
• Chex Quest, Chex Quest 2, Chex Quest 3
• Hacx, Harmony, Urban Brawl
• Freedoom, Blasphemer, Zauberer
• Doom 3, Resurrection of Evil, BFG Edition, The Lost Mission
• Doom (2016), Doom VFR, Doom Eternal
• Doom RPG, Doom II RPG, Doom Resurrection
• All games...
• id Software, Raven Software, Rogue Entertainment
• Timeline

Community

• Cacowards, Top 100
• Doomworld
• Editing tutorials
• Fan-made Doom games
• The idgames archive
• People and Quotes
• Source ports
• Speedmapping
• Speedrunning
• WADs and mods
• Websites, Forums, IRC

Media

• Artwork
• Cover art
• Music
• Official merchandise

Gameplay

• Automap
• Cheat codes
• Easter eggs
• Environmental hazards
• Items: powerups, weapons, bonuses, and more.
• Levels: maps, walkthroughs, and speedruns.
• Monsters
• Multiplayer games
• Player character
• Player controls
• Skill levels
• Weapons and Ammo

Technical

• Bugs and quirks
• Command line arguments
• Demos
• Doom engine
• Environment variables
• File formats
• Lumps
• Networking component
• Release versions
• Rendering engine
• Source code
• WAD file format

All content

• Alphanumerically
• By category

Trivia

Did you know that John Carmack was sent to juvenile detention after attempting to break into his school computer lab with thermite?

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Featured Article - July 2018

SLADE

SLADE is a modern, open-source, cross-platform map editor (and, since version 3, also a WAD editor) for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux created and maintained by Simon Judd (sirjuddington) (with code contributions by Gez to version 3).
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Guides and Tutorials

Find out how to get into the world of Doom quickly with these step-by-step guides:

• Help and how-tos
• How to download and run Doom
• How to play Doom on Windows
• Walkthroughs for each level
• Comparison of source ports

DoomWiki.org needs you!

Looking for something to do? Here are some of the Doom Wiki's greatest needs:

• Add citations to articles
• Add information on Hacx levels, items and weapons
• Add to article stubs
• Clean up articles
• Complete walkthroughs for all stock levels
• Create wanted articles
• Doom editing tutorials
• Doom 3 material, especially Doom 3: BFG Edition content
• Doom (2016) material
• Investigate unclear image copyrights
• Replace screenshots using an incorrect aspect ratio
• Review articles with disputed content
• Review pages marked for deletion or merging
• Write about Doom II RPG topics
• Write about PWADs, especially winners of major awards, or complete unfinished map articles

Useful articles

Find critical information for editing the wiki with these resources:

• Administrators
• General source material
• New articles and files
• Special pages
• Upload images (see the Special:Upload page)
• You can find a list of useful templates on Category:Templates