Part of the 0 A.D. Gameplay Manual

GUI Overview

1. Ribbon

Resources

From left to right: Food, Wood, Stone, and Metal.

Faction icon

The Athenian shield.

Each civilization has a corresponding shield, which appears in the middle of the ribbon when you play as that civilization.

Menu

Click to open the in-game menu

2. Game View

Displays the part of the in-game world that you're currently looking at and interacting with. It's here most of the actual game is played.

3. Bottom area

The bottom area is where you get an overview of the game world, information on the current object, and can interact with the currently selected object.

Minimap

The minimap is a small-scale representation of the in-game world.

Dots are used to represent units, buildings, and other in-game objects. Your units are displayed as dots in your player colour, the enemy units in their colours. Water is blue, and ground is a shade of green/grey etc depending on the ground texture.

At the bottom right of the minimap is a picture of a person lying down, the number to the bottom right of this picture is the amount of idle units you currently have. Clicking this button will select one idle unit. Holding the alt key and clicking this button will select all idle units.

At the bottom left of the minimap is a button which toggles diplomacy colors on and off.

At the top left of the minimap is the ping button. After clicking this button, you can click anywhere on the minimap to send a location ping to you allies.

View rectangle

The reddish rectangle displays what area of the map the "camera" is currently looking at, in other words: what area of the in-game world is currently displayed in the middle area.

The black area

The black represents the area you have yet to explore and that is covered by Shroud-of-Darkness.

The dimmed area

The dimmed area represents the area covered by Fog-of-War.