How to install the latest version on Mac OS X

Warning: The game is currently under heavy development, and many features are currently missing. This release is an alpha version, not a completed playable game - please check our site and forums for future updates!

A DMG package is now available for OS X. It requires Snow Leopard (10.6) or later and a 64-bit Intel Mac. Download the DMG, open it, then drag-and-drop 0ad.app to the location of your choice, typically the Applications directory.
​Download the OS X .dmg package (372 MB).

Compiling on OS X

You need two files:

• ​0ad-unix-build.tar.xz (8 MB) or ​0ad-unix-build.tar.gz (9 MB)
• ​0ad-unix-data.tar.xz (281 MB) or ​0ad-unix-data.tar.gz (346 MB)

The .xz files are smaller but may require you to install ​XZ Utils.

Extract both files to the same location:

# Extract .xz version into the current directory:
tar xvJf 0ad-r11339-alpha-unix-build.tar.xz
tar xvJf 0ad-r11339-alpha-unix-data.tar.xz

# Or, if your tar is older than 1.22:
xz -cd 0ad-r11339-alpha-unix-build.tar.xz | tar xv
xz -cd 0ad-r11339-alpha-unix-data.tar.xz | tar xv

# Or, if you downloaded the .gz version:
tar xvzf 0ad-r11339-alpha-unix-build.tar.gz
tar xvzf 0ad-r11339-alpha-unix-data.tar.gz

Then follow the build instructions using the files from this release instead of downloading from SVN.

How to get info on new releases

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