Bots are back online

Join us to celebrate blackwerewolfs 7th Birthday on the 1st of June. We will be playing a Max game that allows for hundreds of players.

As always everyone who plays a game on the 1st of June will get a special achievement

Black Werewolf Birthday game
📅 Date : 1 June 2025
🕙 Time : 12.00 Midday GMT+0
🎮 Mode : Max (300 player)
🧸 Language : Normal
Where : @bworigin

Reminder:
Join us to celebrate blackwerewolfs 7th Birthday on the 1st of June. We will be playing a Max game that allows for hundreds of players.

As always everyone who plays a game on the 1st of June will get a special achievement

Black Werewolf Birthday game
📅 Date : 1 June 2025
🕙 Time : 12.00 Midday GMT+0
🎮 Mode : Max (300 player)
🧸 Language : Normal
Where : @bworigin

[7th birthday]
After 7 great years of black werewolf we would like to thank everyone for playing. Whether you have been around since the beginning or you have only started playing recently. It has been great playing with all of you.

Looking forward to many more years together.

Bots are being updated again. Should be a quick update.

Bots back online

[Help translating bots]
If you would like to help us keep our bot translations up to date in the many languages we try support or add support for another language please reach out in @blackwolfhelp

[Help make games better]
Hey, we looking for some players who want to help label game data so that we can improve the game balancing system. This can be quite time consuming, you will need to look at the roles in the game and tell us if the game was balanced or unbalanced.

If you would like to help, please each out in @blackwolfhelp

[Update: Role Rebalancing & Quality of Life Patch]


For Everyone

Balancing Changes
- Arsonist: The Arsonist’s weight has doubled, jumping from 3 to 6. Expect to see this role a bit more often, and with a bigger impact!
- Tanner: The Tanner’s weight has been increased. Starting at being equal to a Wolf at 5 players, decreasing to its normal weight as player number increases.

If you would like to contribute to help develop our next generation balancing system, please reach out in @blackwolfhelp.

Quality of Life
- Live Name Updates: If a player changes their name mid-game, it will now update automatically for everyone. No more confusion or mismatched names—what you see is what you get.

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Premium Groups

New Feature: Duplicate Names Allowed
Premium groups now have access to a new setting: *Allow Players with the Same Name*. Enabling this will turn off the name checker, letting multiple players join with identical names. Want a lobby full of “Bob”? Go for it. Ultimate chaos, now available.

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Happy wuffing.

Bots are back online

[Help translating bots]
If you would like to help us keep our bot translations up to date in the many languages we try support or add support for another language please reach out in @blackwolfhelp

Small system update happening, bots should be back once the games complete and we can reboot.

Bots are back online

[Bot Update]

Apologies for the instability while I pushed out the last bit of this update.

Premium Groups
* Option to have roles shuffle when Mind bender dies: When mind bender dies instead of the same role being given back to the player, the roles of all bent players are shuffled and assigned randomly, forcing players to be on another team.


All Groups:
* Custom games will fail to start unless there are multiple teams. If players continue to abuse custom games in order to generate fake stats, we will remove all stats from custom games from the bot.
* The player and group dashboard has been updated to exclude custom games by default, they can be added in via the filters.
* Thief, Necromancer and doppelgänger code review: The entire thief, Necromancer and doppelgänger code base has been reviewed and significantly rewritten in order to reduce issues like having yourself as a role model.
* The Van Helsing Achievement text has been fixed to reflect that you need to kill 10 cult in order to get it.

[Introducing the Watchman]

New Role:
The Watchman 🔭 watches over the city, looking at who others are visiting.

* The number of people who can be watched is defined by y = min(20, max(1, (19/185) * X − 20/37)).
* Prowler can remove the watches on a wolf by checking the wolf.
* Sorcerer always sees watchman as watchman.
* If watchman watches a wolf there is a 50% chance the wolf will be notified and an additional 50% chance of being told who the watchman is
* If the Priest, Serial killer or Arsonist are watched then they are always notified with a 50% chance that they know who the watchman is.
* Nightstalker and Puppetmaster are always told who the watchman is when they are watched
* If there is an attempt to eat, kill, bend or cult the watchman all watches are reset.

This role comes with 2 new gifs which are sent to the watchman: SomeoneElseWatching, NoLongerWatching.

Role info to start:
Weight: 15
Killed By PPM: 75%
Killing thief: 0%
Killing cult: 0%
Being converted to cult: 40%

Available in Mighty, Romance, Normal, Max and Chaos modes.

As with all new roles, this role is for sponsored groups to start while it's refined.

This role was inspired by a submission from former admin in @bworigin, Pinaak. Please contact me if you would like your contribution achievement. If you would like to submit a role or achievement, please see this message. https://www.tg-me.com/BlackWolfAnnouncements/655

It's server upgrade day.
As a tech enthusiast, I love upgrading servers. I will notify onces the upgrades are complete.

[Update 10am]
Bots are temporarily online, feel free to play, they will block games when they need to go offline again

[Update 2pm]
The next stage of the upgrade will only take place tomorrow. Bots will continue to be online until then.

Updates are complete until next weekend

Small quick update today

Update Complete