As we welcome 2025, we want to take a moment to thank our amazing community for all the support throughout the past year. Our community has once again grown massively in size, and we couldn’t be more excited to see new players join the fun.

A massive thank you to all the talented mappers, testers, developers, content creators, and artists who’ve poured their time and creativity into making DDNet better with every update. Our deepest gratitude also goes to all moderators who keep our servers in check and welcoming for everyone.

And lastly, we also want to express our heartfelt appreciation to those who have generously supported our project through donations. As DDNet continues to grow, so do our server costs. Last year’s donations weren’t enough to fully cover last year’s expenses, but we remain committed to improving and growing DDNet. If you’re able to contribute, no matter the amount, it would mean the world to us and help us continue building a vibrant and exciting future for DDNet.

We’re also kicking off the year with the annual DDNet Photoshoot event! Join us and the community to capture your tee on this year’s map. There are plenty of spots for everyone, so bring your friends and take part in the fun! (Pssst, there may even be some secrets hidden around for those who want a cooler shot.) To get a better idea, check out last year’s photoshoots from 2024, 2023, and 2022.

With gratitude, The DDraceNetwork Team

Congrats to Colo-Colo for being the first person to have finished an Insane map (Springlobe 3) 100 times (253 hours in sum)! His last finish was in 3 hours with a team of 40 players:

• I See You, Fourvride, Tae, yishun, Anxton, Stimero, I.K.U, n9, Atsuko, DiegoBlaster21, Timondr, chanchita, Cyclic~, carinhadaskina, <BµmM>, z0rba, Ryu, Nixmo, PlantKnight, EduFlan, Grk0ne, Mery ♥, blum, Pichulita :3, paradise, WR4SK, Grizzy, sinecly’s cat, sylveon, .-., Bschil, ~Thunder~, fox, UdechileCampeon, لارقام✈, rqza, Zero Two, Cireme, Souly and of course Colo-Colo!

Edit: ty4. also has over 100 finishes on Justice 2, a much shorter map though.

👋 It’s been a while since we last ran a tournament. Let’s fix that with our December 2024 tournament! 🎅

What are the rules?

We will be releasing secretly tested maps randomly over the month. You will be able to earn points by:

• Finishing maps: 10 points for finishing each map
• Ranking into top 10 of one or several maps by the end of the event, ranging from 10 points to 1 point per map depending on your rank

How long will it last?

Event starts on Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 6:00 PM with the first map release and ends on Monday, December 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM!

How to participate?

Just join any of our server and vote any of the map release through December within the “NEW MAP” subcategory. You can stay tuned with the rankings.

Thanks a lot to snailx3 for organizing, Welf for organizing and testing, Knuski, catseyenebulous, J$ON, Welshi, meloƞ for testing, and to every mapper contributing to the event!

Recently, we lost control of the domain ddnet.tw due to a botched transfer between registrars. Older clients (pre 16.4) rely on this domain for info, maps, updates, and more, meaning they are no longer safe to use.

A former community member has managed to buy the expired domain. Unfortunately, they refuse to return it, forcing us to discontinue support for these older clients.

While we have monitored the situation and have not observed any malicious activity yet, we can't guarantee this will remain the case, and we don't want to take unnecessary risks.

What to do:

• Do NOT click the "update" button in the client, as this could compromise your system.
• Download a fresh copy of the client from our website.
• Avoid clicking or using links from ddnet.tw.
• Fix or report places where the ddnet.tw domain is used instead of ddnet.org on our Discord.

If the domain is returned to us in the future, we may be able to restore functionality for these old versions. Until then, these clients will remain banned on DDNet servers.

UPDATE:

The person who took over the DDNet.tw domain was SP | Someone. His goal was to make sure old clients keep working. He has graciously returned the domain to us without even accepting payment, so old clients will work again! Thank you SP | Someone!

The Photoshoot 2024 is finished! Check out the final image:

Thanks to all donors donating a total of 3314 € and sponsoring servers DDNet is now fully funded until the end of 2023!

I’m happy to announce we don’t take donations any more until next year! Thanks to everyone for donating money and time to make DDNet better!

Multeasymap by Cøke, Tridemy, Welf & TPaul will soon be the first map with 1 million finishes!

MariaDB [teeworlds]> select record_maps.Server, record_race.Map, count(*), record_maps.timestamp
from record_race join record_maps on record_race.Map = record_maps.Map
group by record_race.Map order by count(*) desc limit 20;
+-----------+-----------------+----------+---------------------+
| Server    | Map             | count(*) | timestamp           |
+-----------+-----------------+----------+---------------------+
| Novice    | Multeasymap     |   997272 | 2020-09-20 00:09:00 |
| Novice    | Tutorial        |   905901 | 2022-02-27 14:54:00 |
| Novice    | Sunny Side Up   |   775311 | 2020-08-06 20:00:00 |
| Novice    | Kobra           |   600805 | 2014-01-19 19:43:00 |
| Novice    | LearnToPlay     |   437767 | 2020-01-03 15:00:00 |
| Novice    | 4Beginners      |   306107 | 2020-08-22 15:01:00 |
| Novice    | Just2Easy       |   299821 | 2015-02-23 17:43:00 |
| Novice    | Epix            |   287380 | 2014-12-22 17:36:00 |
| Novice    | Kobra 2         |   268702 | 2014-04-05 18:56:00 |
| Race      | run_g6          |   224059 | 2015-07-23 12:22:00 |
| Novice    | Kobra 4         |   193360 | 2015-08-02 19:59:00 |
| Novice    | StepByStep      |   187375 | 2015-12-08 18:20:00 |
| Novice    | Tsunami         |   174655 | 2020-08-18 19:01:00 |
| DDmaX.Nut | NUT_short_race6 |   162317 | 2016-03-11 18:24:00 |
| Novice    | Linear          |   159836 | 2020-10-10 15:00:00 |
| Race      | run_ankii       |   157997 | 2015-09-14 12:00:00 |
| Race      | run_blue        |   153518 | 2015-09-24 12:00:00 |
| Novice    | 4Nubs           |   144308 | 2015-06-16 13:54:00 |
| Novice    | Gold Mine       |   137480 | 2015-03-07 16:49:00 |
| Novice    | Tangerine       |   135862 | 2020-08-29 15:00:00 |
+-----------+-----------------+----------+---------------------+
20 rows in set (17.067 sec)

Check it out yourself on ddstats.

This is especially impressive since the map was released less than 3 years ago!

Who will get the 1 millionth finish? I’ll update this post once the finishes are in.

Edit: Congrats to Quit, nouis) & deenouis for getting the 1 millionth finish on Multeasymap!

MariaDB [teeworlds]> select Name, Time, Server, Timestamp, rank() over (order by Timestamp asc) as "x-th Finish" from record_race where Map = "Multeasymap" limit 11 offset 999996;
+----------+---------+--------+---------------------+-------------+
| Name     | Time    | Server | Timestamp           | x-th Finish |
+----------+---------+--------+---------------------+-------------+
| deenouis |   971.9 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:18 |      999997 |
| nouis    |   971.9 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:18 |      999997 |
| Quit     | 1206.62 | RUS    | 2023-08-17 18:46:20 |      999999 |
| deenouis |   809.5 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:20 |      999999 |
| nouis    |   809.5 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:20 |      999999 |
| deenouis |  784.44 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:22 |     1000002 |
| nouis    |  784.44 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:22 |     1000002 |
| deenouis |  751.72 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:23 |     1000004 |
| nouis    |  751.72 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:23 |     1000004 |
| Yumiko   |  639.44 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:29 |     1000006 |
| bencie   |  639.44 | GER    | 2023-08-17 18:46:29 |     1000006 |
+----------+---------+--------+---------------------+-------------+
11 rows in set (2.140 sec)

Hi everyone,

We’re introducing a change that will have an impact on how new map releases are handled. From now on, after a map has been officially released, we are granting the map author a generous 2-week grace period.

During this period, map authors will have the opportunity to address and fix any map skips that may have been overlooked during the initial testing. Once the time’s up, there will be no more fixes, except for design bugs that don’t mess with gameplay and QoL patches addressing, for example, softlocks, provided they do not affect the leaderboard rankings.

It’s important to note that during this grace period, ranks might have to be removed if the map fixes significantly alter the gameplay.

We introduce this new rule for two essential reasons:

• Firstly, it’s all about our commitment to creating a dynamic and thriving speedrunning community. With this update, players no longer have to worry about whether a skip is allowed or fear losing their hard-earned rank due to map fixes, after the grace period ends.

• Secondly, it’s worth noting that this specific rule was not formally announced in the past. Maps were previously fixed based solely on the mappers’ requests at any given time. Now, we have a clear and fair process in place for everyone.

Admins’ Discretion: It’s important to note that the admins reserved the right to circumvent this rule if a situation arises where it is absolutely necessary. We’ll always strive to be fair and make informed decisions, especially in special cases or extraordinary circumstances.

Once again, thank you all for being a part of this fantastic community. Your creativity and commitment to pushing the boundaries of the game and the fantastic techniques and ingenious big brain skips you all showcase never fail to astound us.

If you wish to discuss this new rule, join our discord.

The Photoshoot from nearly 2 months ago is finished! Check out the final image:

Thanks to Ryozuki DDNet’s database now has a Datasette instance running. It is updated daily, you can run your own queries on our official database and explore the data graphically. You can share interesting queries you generate.