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Replay Time Machine
Author ewq.eth Website link is here https://dark-forest-replay.netlify.app/ In 2021, we explored the dark. In 2025, I found a way back. I built a time machine for Dark Forest not a recording, but something living. ✨ It’s alive. ✨ August 2021. Ethereum was chaos in motion. NFTs were exploding into culture. DeFi felt infinite, every protocol a frontier. ✨ And somewhere beyond the noise, a small group of explorers entered a different kind of space. A world not hosted, but emerged. ✨ Planets, art...

Function as Entity: A New Attempt at Porting Dark Forest to MUD
Author: cherryblue & ddy Introduction: In this article, we review the development of Dark Forest Ares over the past year and more, analyzing the foundational design architecture and scalability of Dark Forest as an onchain MMO game. We also discuss the concept of “Function as Entity”, which represents a new attempt in our efforts to port Dark Forest to MUD. Dark Forest is a fully onchain MMORTS game that utilizes zkSNARKs and operates on EVM-compatible chains. Since the release of Dark Forest...

The birds in the Dark Forest community keep singing
We look back on the past not only out of a deep-seated nostalgia for that era but also in the hope of learning from past experiences and using those lessons to perform better in the future. The official Dark Forest team maintained the project for approximately two and a half years, from 2020 to 2022 Q1. During that time, they launched a total of 8 public test rounds: versions 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, and 0.6.1 through 0.6.5. Each testing round typically lasted one to two weeks. Player numbers generally...
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Happy to announce that Dark Forest Ares Round 4 has come to a successful end!
We hold Dark Forest Ares Round 4 on Redstone Mainnet 🏁🔴🪨 Thank you to Redstone for providing infrastructure support!
Dark Forest Ares is a forked version of classic Dark Forest maintained by DFArchon team. From early 2023 to mid-2024, we released 4 different game versions.
In the next phase, we are preparing to port Dark Forest to MUD. If you would like to provide funding support or participate in development, please contact us asap.
1300 USDC Prize Pool provided by DFArchon
300 USDC Prize Pool provided by AGLD DAO
We will transfer the funds directly to the union leader, who will then distribute them among the union members.
AGLD will contribute a prize pool of 1500 USDC for the player community 300 USDC will be allocated to the top three unions in DFAres v0.1 R4.
Thank you very much to AGLD DAO for your support !
more information please check here: Adventure Gold DAO and DFArchon Partnership Announcement


2. player prizes
2.1 Artifacts
You can send the artifacts to Spacetime Rip and withdraw artifacts. The artifacts NFT will be transferred from the game to your game address.t.
2.2 Ares Epic NFT
In round 4, players who claim planets to earn score can mint.
step 1. open https://dfares.xyz/
step 2. open Ares Epic Mint plugin
step 3. input the main account (required) Input the name. NOTE: We will send the bonus to the main account provided here.
step 4. click [Mint Ares Epic] to mint Ares Epic NFT for you.https://www.redstone.market/collection/0x04aa4eca2a4cc7f9a911440a614392a52da98167 You can use redstone.market to transfer the Ares Epic NFT.

Twitter promotion prize pool 100 USDC
@Markkos89 @davidryan59 @hopeee_www @BenGiove
@crisgarner @joseebasanta @koheingt @HabacucMX
@cheng_weipeng @scsuab @shyampkira @FilosofiaCodigo
@apatriksvensson @inoob359Farcaster promotion prize pool 100 USDC
@scsuabIt is true, on Farcaster, we only received one tweet from a player.
Let’s congratulate this player win the entire prize pool.


Thank you for playing in Dark Forest Ares v0.1.4: Union! We’ll see you in next round :-D
— DFArchon Team
Happy to announce that Dark Forest Ares Round 4 has come to a successful end!
We hold Dark Forest Ares Round 4 on Redstone Mainnet 🏁🔴🪨 Thank you to Redstone for providing infrastructure support!
Dark Forest Ares is a forked version of classic Dark Forest maintained by DFArchon team. From early 2023 to mid-2024, we released 4 different game versions.
In the next phase, we are preparing to port Dark Forest to MUD. If you would like to provide funding support or participate in development, please contact us asap.
1300 USDC Prize Pool provided by DFArchon
300 USDC Prize Pool provided by AGLD DAO
We will transfer the funds directly to the union leader, who will then distribute them among the union members.
AGLD will contribute a prize pool of 1500 USDC for the player community 300 USDC will be allocated to the top three unions in DFAres v0.1 R4.
Thank you very much to AGLD DAO for your support !
more information please check here: Adventure Gold DAO and DFArchon Partnership Announcement


2. player prizes
2.1 Artifacts
You can send the artifacts to Spacetime Rip and withdraw artifacts. The artifacts NFT will be transferred from the game to your game address.t.
2.2 Ares Epic NFT
In round 4, players who claim planets to earn score can mint.
step 1. open https://dfares.xyz/
step 2. open Ares Epic Mint plugin
step 3. input the main account (required) Input the name. NOTE: We will send the bonus to the main account provided here.
step 4. click [Mint Ares Epic] to mint Ares Epic NFT for you.https://www.redstone.market/collection/0x04aa4eca2a4cc7f9a911440a614392a52da98167 You can use redstone.market to transfer the Ares Epic NFT.

Twitter promotion prize pool 100 USDC
@Markkos89 @davidryan59 @hopeee_www @BenGiove
@crisgarner @joseebasanta @koheingt @HabacucMX
@cheng_weipeng @scsuab @shyampkira @FilosofiaCodigo
@apatriksvensson @inoob359Farcaster promotion prize pool 100 USDC
@scsuabIt is true, on Farcaster, we only received one tweet from a player.
Let’s congratulate this player win the entire prize pool.


Thank you for playing in Dark Forest Ares v0.1.4: Union! We’ll see you in next round :-D
— DFArchon Team
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