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About the Doom Wiki

Welcome to the ultimate Doom Wiki, a project to document everything related to id Software's classic games Doom and Doom II, as well as games based on the Doom engine. So far we have created 23,348 articles.

This is a wiki, so anyone can create or edit a page. New contributors should read our policies and guidelines first. If you need help, or want to discuss general aspects of this wiki, visit Central Processing.

The news board is a place where anyone can post Doom-related news.

Contents

All content

• Alphanumerically
• By category

Games & history

• Doom, The Ultimate Doom
• Doom II, Master Levels, No Rest for the Living
• Final Doom
• Doom 64
• Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Hacx
• Chex Quest, Chex Quest 2, Chex Quest 3
• Doom 3, Resurrection of Evil, Doom 4
• Doom RPG, Doom II RPG, Doom Resurrection
• All games...
• id Software
• Raven Software
• Timeline

Community

• WADs & mods
• Editing
• Source ports
• Fan-made Doom games
• People, Quotes
• Websites, IRC
• Doomworld
• idgames archive
• Speedrunning
• Speedmapping

Gameplay

• Levels (maps, walkthroughs, speedruns)
• Weapons, Ammo
• Items
• Automap
• Player controls
• Player character
• Monsters
• Other hazards
• Skill levels
• Multiplayer games
• Cheats
• Easter eggs

Media

• Cover art
• Music
• Official merchandise

Technical

• Doom engine
• Rendering engine
• Engine networking component
• Bugs & oddities
• Source code
• Release versions
• File formats
• WAD format
• Lumps
• Command line arguments
• Demos

Trivia

Did you know that there are a total of six officially-licensed games that use the Doom engine (Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Strife: Quest for the Sigil, and Chex Quest)?

(More trivia...)

Guides and how-tos

• Help pages
• How to download and run Doom
• How to play Doom on Windows XP, Vista or 7
• Walkthroughs for each level

Doom Wiki needs you!

Not sure where to start? The following things need attention the most:

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

Useful pages

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

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