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The '''''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060114074340/http://www.clonk.de/ Clonk]''''' titles are a series of [[Side View]] German PC games, that put you in command of one or more of the titular clonks. As a general rule, you'll need to use them to build a functioning settlement, harvest all the gold/oil/whatever in a map, or [[Competitive Multiplayer|kill off all of someone else's clonks]]. But it might be a race. Or a [[Ten Little Murder Victims|murder mystery in progress]]. Or a game of tag. Or maybe there'll be [[Wide Open Sandbox|no goal at all.]] It varies hugely between levels, being as versatile as only normaly seen with a general-purpose platformer engine.
The original games were [[Updated Rerelease
The latest official update is ''Clonk [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Rage]]'', which was the last game finished before the head of the team had to quit. A 3D release was planned, but ended up being cancelled. Meanwhile, the game code has been released to allow continuation as an open-source game. Some fans, as well as the other members of the development team, are working on ''Open Clonk'', an attempt to bring the series in a new direction by rebuilding the engine from the ground upwards instead of upgrading Clonk Rage. There are also lots and lots of [[Game Mod|Game Mods]], although most of them, like the fanbase, are German.
''Clonk Rage'' is [[Shareware]], of the limited-content demo variety, while all the older games are available for [http://www.clonk.de/ce.php?lng=en free].
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▲* [[Abandon Ware]]: Sort of. Pre-''Clonk Endeavour'' titles, which used to be shareware, are fully available for free.
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Cannons and catapults can launch everything, from rocks, construction kits and barrels to animals. A heavy artillery cannon can even [[Human Cannonball|launch]] ''[[Human Cannonball|clonks]]''.
* [[Air-Aided Acrobatics]]:
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* [[Death From Above]]: The meteor hail spell, mainly used in settlement melees to destroy enemy structures.
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: One method of killing monsters is to repeatedly throw rocks at them.
* [[Desert Skull]]: The standard desert scenarios contain, along with [[All Deserts Have Cacti|cacti]], animal skulls as decoration.
* [[Easter Egg]]: Here and there. One mission contains a corpse that shares the name of the game's creator. Also, smoke very rarely has the shape of a [[Series Mascot|Wi]][[Ridiculously Cute Critter|pf]]. Fan-made scenarios (and some [[Promoted Fanboy|ascended former fan scenarios]], like "Dragon Rock") tend to absolutely crawl with in-jokes.
* [[Edge Gravity]]: A few pixels of your hitbox - though not one - are sufficient for preventing you from dropping off a cliff.
* [[Explosion Propulsion]]: Introduced into the game by the fan scenario "Pressurewavefight" (the title is an [[Translation Train Wreck|incomprehensibly]] [[Blind Idiot Translation|broken translation]] of the German "Druckwellenkampf". What is meant is something in the lines of "Blastwave Battle".), and officially inserted as a general gameplay element with Clonk Rage.
* [[Fake Platform]]: Unfixed bridge segments are background objects, but hard to distinguish from the fixed ones, so you might end up jumping on one of them falling into a [[Bottomless Pits]].
* [[Fast Tunnelling]]
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* [[Water Is Blue]]
* [[When It Rains, It Pours]]
* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]: If you have enough time, there's nothing stopping you from ''[
* [[Wrap Around]]: Some novelty scenarios contain a "No Borders" rule with this effect.
* [[X Meets Y]]: Often described as "''[[The Settlers]]'' meets ''Worms''".
== Official packs ==
=== Knights ===
The Knights pack is set in a [[Ye Goode Olde Days]] medieval setting. It usually features knights battling each other, either in small tournaments or large battles between rivaling castles. Castles consist of combinable modules that can be built by players, making huge [[Wide Open Sandbox]] knight levels popular too.
* [[Bow and Sword
* [[Black Knight]]: Any knight clad in black armor, which is a mysterious, expensive, rare and extremely powerful piece of equipment.
* [[Horse Jump]]
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* [[Ye Goode Olde Days]]
=== Fantasy ===
The Fantasy pack mostly features mages competing in tournaments. The original fantasy scenarios radically differ from the fanmade ones which are extremely common in network; the original scenarios feature settling elements and are generally similar to normal clonk melees, while many fanmade ones play more like a sidescrolling magic shooter; mostly due to mana being cheap and quickly regenerating, the fanmade version of the Toad Jump spell which practically allows infinite [[Double Jump|Double Jumps]], and some spells that can [[One-Hit Kill]] a target.
* [[Alchemy Is Magic]]: If the alchemy system is activated, spells require "magic components" extracted from materials.
* [[Animate Dead]]: Turns a deceased clonk into a [[Artificial Stupidity|dumb]] [[Our Zombies Are Different|Type V]] zombie.
* [[Damage Increasing Debuff]]: The Curse of Pain makes its victim take double damage.
* [[Deflector Shield]]: Forcefield walls.
* [[Doppelganger Attack]]: The Magic Copy spell.
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* [[Status Buff]]: Stoneshield and Guarding Zaps, for example.
* [[Villain Teleportation]]: In "Dragon Rock" and the like, hostile AI wizards possess teleportation. [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|You don't.]]
* [[
== Western ==▼
▲=== Western ===
A pack in a classical [[Wild West]] setting, featuring cowboys, settlers, bandits, sheriffs, cavalry, trappers, indians and so on.
* [[Bar Brawl]]: You can start them. You don't see anything of it except the saloon ejecting broken bottle shards periodically.
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* [[Everything's Worse with Bears]]
* [[Magical Native American]]: The indians have, among other things, a system of various magical amulets, each with a stat-enhancing effect and a few corresponding spells.
* [[Trap Master]]: The [[Hunter
* [[Western Characters]]:
** [[Cowboy]]: Though they do way [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|less cattlekeeping]] than gunslinging - there ''isn't even cattle''.
** [[The Sheriff]]
** [[Outlaw]]
** [[Hunter
* [[The Wild West]]
== Semi-official packs ==
=== Metal and Magic ===
The "Metal and Magic" pack combines contents and gameplay mechanics of the ''Knights'' and ''Fantasy'' packs and adds a great amount of new elements, like religion or assassins. Unlike most other Clonk packs, it has an elaborate [[Backstory]]. The magic system is rebalanced to allow fair fights between mages and knights.
* [[Animate Dead]]: Paladins are capable of this, creating ghosts or [[Dem Bones|skeletons]], depending on which god they follow.
* [[Ballistic Bone]]: The mystic can launch these with enormous velocity using power drawn from an animal skull.
* [[The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In]]: Played straight with both claymores and throwing knifes.
* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: Especially in terminology, the religion in this setting partially resembles [[
* [[Culture Chop Suey]]: Kanderia is a mash-up of different medieval countries of the Arab World, plus some indian and ancient persian influences thrown in.
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Mages have a staff which they assign to one of the classical four western elements.
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* [[Wreathed in Flames]]: The "hot blood" spell plays this straight, and makes simply walking into your enemies a valid tactic even for a mage.
=== Hazard ===
The Hazard pack is a [[Cyberpunk]] shooter pack. The gameplay differs radically from standard Clonk gameplay.
* [[Action Bomb]]: Pyrocites.
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== Fanmade packs ==
=== Eke Reloaded ===
Eke Reloaded is an action shooter pack with a military setting. Though it deals with a civil war and an alien invasion, it has a tongue-in-cheek tone and parodies cliches of soldiers, military games and the Action genre in general. Unlike most other Clonk packs, it has an official backstory.
* [[Badass]]: The Special Force Trooper is a deliberate parody of this. He '''''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|kicks down trees]]'''''.
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* [[Cycle of Hurting]]: If multiple stippels attack you and fling you against a wall.
* [[Denial of Diagonal Attack]]
* [[Enemy
* [[Every Bullet Is a Tracer]]: Inverted. Bullets are ''entirely invisible''.
* [[Friendly Fireproof]]: With the "No friendly fire" rule.
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* [[Walkie-Talkie Static]]
* [[You Always Hear the Bullet]]
== Single scenarios ==
=== Blastwave Battle ===
An unusual competitive scenario with two player teams. The unusual thing about it is that unlike in most Clonk scenarios you cannot directly reach your opponent to throw objects at them at close range, as the middle half of the map is a [[Bottomless Pits|bottomless pit]], and you [[One-Hit Kill|instantly die]] anyway if you manage to get across. Instead, you're supposed to [[Explosion Propulsion|utilize blastwaves]] to propel flints and other items to the enemy side, in order to either deplete all respawns of the enemy team by killing their clonks repeatedly or destroy their generator. There's also some money management thrown in, thanks to an interest rate system.
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* [[Mirror Match]]: Both teams start out with the same map layout and ressources. This carries over to mods with a dynamic map generator.
=== Keepers ===
A tactical team scenario with [[RPG Elements]]. Inspired by the [[Multiplayer Online Battle Arena]] genre.
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* [[Cool Sword]]: The Blade of the Anti-Mage.
* [[Cycle of Hurting]]: The warhammer is well capable of stunlocking enemies.
* [[Damage Increasing Debuff]]: Battlecry and Swarm percentally increase their subject's damage. Battlecry's power depends on its user's skill level, while Swarm consists of many locusts, and the effect strength depends on the amount of locusts that reached their target.
* [[Dem Bones]]: One kind of creeps.
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: The warhammer is an even slower, but stronger and stunning upgrade of the axe.
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* [[Standard Status Effects]]: Burn, Freeze, Poison, Silence and Stun. The Elemental Overload spell tweaks these, turning Freeze (which normally just slows movement) into a periodic stop effect and Burn into lava chunks, which in turn can themselves deal fire damage over a short time.
* [[Trick Arrow]]: Several of the archer's spells enchant arrows, for example to home on target, to chain them down or to leave a burning trail in the air.
* [[Unstable Equilibrium]]: Skilled players will keep getting kills and obtain better equipment and enhanced skills which make getting more kills more likely and taking one less likely. Like in other [[
== Pollen ==▼
▲=== Pollen ===
A tactical knight melee with an unusually high focus on ambience.
* [[Petal Power]]: The legendary pollen swords.
== Tower Of Despair ==▼
▲=== Tower Of Despair ===
A hard puzzle scenario with an unique module system. In development.
* [[Bonus Dungeon]]: The Sewers, full of treasure, and the Backdoor Path, a [[Harder Than Hard]] late-game shortcut.
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* [[Only Smart People May Pass]]: The point of the entire tower.
* [[Running Gag]]: The Egg rooms.
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* [[Save the Princess]]
* [[Spikes of Doom]]: Deal negligible damage only, but [[Knockback]].
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* [[Threshold Guardians]]: The Guardian of Wisdom and the Guardian of Knowledge.
=== zOMG Revolution ===
A ...strange survival scenario. Many waves of sometimes unusual things fall from the sky, accompanied by wacky commentary and trippy graphical effects.
* [[Death Throws]]: And temporarily cracks the [[Fourth Wall]].
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