Community Portal
Getting Started
The Aground wiki needs your help to expand and improve! If you would like to join in and help us:
- Register- If you do not yet have a wiki account, make one for free Here. Edits made without an account will make your IP address public.
- Explore- Before contributing to the wiki we greatly recommend you see existing pages and their source code for a good reference. You might even find a page you want to improve while looking around. Maybe try checking out a random page.
- Talk to us- If you need help or just want to chat, feel free to join the Aground discord server
- See Important Guides/Info- To make sure all content meets our quality standard, we have made multiple pages dedicated to helping new contributors understand what is expected of them. We greatly recommend you check out our Content Policy.
- Start Contributing- The best way to learn and improve is just doing it! Reverting changes is very easy so don't worry too much about messing things up. Check out the to-do list if you don't know what to start with.
To-Do List
This section is dedicated to things that need some sort of fixing: if it is creating a completely new page or editing an existing one. The community admins will occasionally check up on this page and update the statuses.
Pages to Create
| Page | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Blueprints | Merge the general blueprints tables with the "how to obtain" one, and maybe give it a title. | Pending |
Pages That Need More Content
Most pages that are incomplete are marked as Stubs. See the list of Stubs here.
When making or editing a page you can add {{Stub}} to mark it as incomplete for everyone else.
| Page | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Item pages | Most item pages are automatically generated but need more content. Check Article Stubs | Pending |
| Modding | This page is barely usable, it needs a lot of work. | Pending |
Missing Pages/Files
Some pages/files are linked to but don't exist. You can find a list of them at Special:WantedPages and Special:WantedFiles.
File formats
If possible, upload files in a lossless format such as PNG instead of a lossy one like JPG.
General maintenance
The wiki will always have some incomplete pages, pages with broken links/redirects, and many issues like that. Lists containing pages with these issue are all found here, and we would appreciate if you also helped us fix these things.
Notes By The Admins
If you see a page that should be deleted, please add {{delete}} to the page.
Any {{delete}} template put without a reason will immediately be removed, and repeated purposeful violations might result in limiting your ability to contribute to the wiki. To add a reason to the {{delete}} template add a "reason" parameter to the template.
Example: {{delete|reason=this is a deletion reason}}
Helpful Tools and Templates
Links To Useful Tools
- An easy way to search and filter through every page or file in the wiki
- An extensive list of pages containing things that need maintenance.
- A way to filter files by the user that uploaded them
- General statistics about the wiki and it's contributors
- Pages that are used often; should be prioritized when deciding what pages to improve and clean up
And most importantly: The sidebar- There are lots of useful tools there and most of the links mentioned above can be reached from the sidebar.
Spoiler Template
To avoid spoiling the game for new players, AxoCat has made us an amazing spoiler template. The documentation can be found here.
As for what should be considered a spoiler: it is not always clear but generally secrets and anything outside of the science path or magic path main quest-lines should be marked as spoilers. If you're unsure of if something should be marked as a spoiler discuss it with us.
Searching the game files for info
All of Aground's data is very accessible and is placed in YOURGAMEDIR\data\core (for the demo) and YOURGAMEDIR\data\mods\full (for the full game).
These data folders contain spritesheets used in-game, and almost all of the game data in the form of .xml files. You can learn a bit more about understanding these xml files in the UAMT Discord server (an unofficial modding server).
If possible it is best to use information obtained directly from the game files when contributing, for the sake of ensuring the information is accurate.