Release: Redwall Wiki Turns 8

Today, the Redwall Wiki officially celebrates its 8th anniversary!

While Redwall Online Community activity has dwindled over the past few years, we're proud to be here and still serve as an active website and hub for Redwallfans across the globe.

This year, Redwallers truly went above and beyond by donating to the Soma Games Redwall: The Warrior Reborn Kickstarter, which achieved more financing than they were seeking.

If you haven't played Redwall AbbeyCraft: The Corsair's Last Treasure yet, we highly recommend you do, and when the server is available for all users, be sure to look for us and say hello.

Stay tuned to the Redwall Wiki, as we'll be continuing to release special Redwall-related features, the next of which you can look for in the coming weeks.

We really do appreciate everyone's support.

Soma Reveals Redwall Game Plans

In a video update for backers of the Redwall: The Warrior Reborn adventure game project, Chris Skaggs of Soma Games mentioned a few details of the company's plan for the effort.

He stated that they want to have "three playable races," which could possibly include "mice, badgers, and squirrels."

The game will have "lots of exploration" and "[puzzles] will be a central aspect."

As of this writing, the Kickstarter has raised $9,281, which is a mere $1,719 away from becoming fully funded. At that time, various stretch goals for additional locations, character species, and more hours of game play will be unlocked.

If you haven't donated yet, or you just want to send more cash, the link is right here.

Redwall Adventure Game Kickstarter Launched

Soma Games has officially launched their much-anticipated Kickstarter project for Redwall: The Warrior Reborn, their Redwallvideo game effort.

They hope to raise $11,000, and while the game is being developed an interactive Minecraft map will be constructed for the community.

Rewards for donations include a name check in the game's credits, an invitation to attend a launch feast featuring Redwall cuisine, game artwork, special sculptures and more.

The company describes their "biggest goal" as "engag(ing) the kinds of fans that live and breathe Redwall."

While no new details about the game are available at this time, it would appear as if they're awaiting donor input before progressing too much.

If you're interested in sending them some money (and you should be), click here to view the page.

As of this posting, they've already raised over $2,000

Redwall Adventure Game Update

Last June, we announced the debut of the Redwall: The Adventure Game project, an officially-licensed video game that was going to feature a new contribution to the Redwall mythology.

Unfortunately, we haven't had any real updates since that time, and their Facebook page indicated that they were facing financial challenges. As with many Redwall-related projects in the past, it was difficult to see what was going to happen.

Until now.

Yesterday evening, Soma Games announced their partnership with the other developers. The Oregon-based company is responsible for producing various apps and games such as Wind Up Robots and Bok Choy Boy, and their largest title, Stargate Gunship, is scheduled to launch in the near future.

You can see Soma Games founder Chris Skaggs discuss the making of Stargate Gunship here.

I've recently communicated with Chris to find out what the long-term plans are for the Redwall adventure game. The company is truly interested in engaging with fans to make sure the game is done correctly and in a respectful way, and their first step will be to launch a Kickstarter to raise funds and build a community relatively soon. As with any Kickstarter, different awards and exclusives will be available for those who donate on specific levels, and a special Minecraft map will be constructed while the game is under development.

As the collaborative effort for the game has just been announced, there is still a lot of information that at this time is not available, or is still in the process of being sorted out. They hope to expand upon previous concepts, however not everything has been formalized yet. Chris describes their idea as a "progressive adventure," with an RPG and puzzles.

In the meantime, until the Kickstarter is launched, enjoy some conceptual artwork below. These people deserve our support, so let's give it to them. They are very enthused about ensuring proper treatment for Redwall.

Redwall Cooking - October Ale

This week, I prepared a classic beverage for the Redwall Cooking series: October Ale.

Now, this recipe suggests that either ginger beer (this is a non-alcoholic beverage) or ginger ale can be used, however as I'm not the biggest fan of ginger beer, and could only find it sold in 6-pack form, I personally could not justify purchasing it. I would have had 4-5 bottles sitting around that I would never end up drinking, thus I went with ginger ale.

The recipe also does not specify as to whether dark or white grape juice should be used, I chose white grape juice.

The beverage itself tastes like a sparkling grape drink, much like a sparkling apple cider. I thought the grape flavor was a bit strong, as I really envision this drink in the series to be more of a real ale, like a beer.

If you are of legal drinking age in your part of the world, it's easy to see how this could be made into more of an adult beverage with the addition of vodka.

• Ginger ale - $0.84
• Grape juice - $2.48

Bon appétit!

Redwall Cooking - Hotroot Soup

As it's winter time, and cold in many places of the world, I've chosen the first entry in our Redwall Cooking series to be none other than Hotroot Soup!

However, there is a major disclaimer here: I don't like shrimp. At all. So as a replacement ingredient, I chose chicken.

As I was cooking just for myself and the recipe serves two to four people, I halved the amounts of leeks, onion and potatoes required. Even though I did this, there was still more than enough vegetables in the dish - in fact, each bite contained more vegetables/meat than actual liquid.

I found the soup to be very tasty, although I think if you want it to be very spicy, you need to have a very heavy hand with the chili pepper. I put in slightly more than the recipe called for, and it wasn't very 'hot' at all.

In each feature, I'll reveal the cost breakdown for ingredients that I DIDN'T already have in my kitchen. If I've listed the cost of an item in one article, I won't be repeating it in another.

• White onion - $0.77
• Potatoes - $0.88/lb
• Leeks - $1.99/lb (or 1 leek for $0.16)
• Vegetable broth - $2.88

Bon appétit!

A New Year, A New Feature

It's a new year, and we are introducing a new feature series here at the Redwall Wiki. As this is being written, The Redwall Cookbook is en route to our library here at HQ.

In the interest of producing more content, which as there has been very little news has been quite difficult, we will be launching a new feature series.

In the past, many Redwall home cooks have prepared dishes inspired by theRedwall series, some of whom who have been kind enough to share and upload the recipes and pictures.

However, we have not heard of anyone preparing every single dish in The Redwall Cookbook for consumption and review. And it is to that end we are taking up this task just for our readers, fans, contributors, editors and followers.

Fear not, as I do enjoy both cooking and eating, neither are something I find difficult or not enjoyable.

Over the coming months, every recipe will be prepared, photographed, eaten and reviewed, and all of it will be posted here.

I'm going to be shooting for 2 recipes a month, possibly more if there is time.