--- title: "Petalwar community: start your commanders’ server on mssgs" description: "Start a Petalwar community on mssgs: voice for every team, Join now on a friend’s match, clips and ranks. Free, no ads, from the makers of Petalwar." canonical: https://mss.gs/en/petalwar language: en --- Petalwar community # A community for Petalwar? Create one here. Petalwar and mssgs come from the same Dutch team, and they work together: your friends see you playing Petalwar, and Join now takes them straight into your lobby. Give your commanders a home base and name it below. - Free - No ads - From the makers of Petalwar What your team sees in the mssgs desktop app: the call, the latest chat and clip mode, over Petalwar. ## Create your Petalwar community Pick a name for your team, clan or alliance. We hold it for 24 hours while you open mssgs. Free, no card needed. You finish up in the app or in your browser. Built for commanders ## Everything your team needs, in one place A community on mssgs is a server of your own: text and voice channels in categories, roles for your ranks and invites you control. ### Voice for every team A voice channel per team. On the desktop, hold a key or a side mouse button to talk, with noise suppression that filters out your keyboard. ### Your call over the game The desktop app shows who is in the call, who is speaking and the latest chat on top of Petalwar, so nobody alt-tabs mid-match. ### Join now from mssgs Connect Petalwar under Options → MSSGS and your friends see Playing Petalwar under your name. Host a match and they get Join now, straight into your lobby. ### Clip the play Clip mode keeps the last stretch of your screen, so one key saves the push that broke their petals. ### Ranks as roles User groups with a name and a colour for recruits, veterans and commanders, each with its own permissions. ### Match nights Plan an event and everyone answers Going, Maybe or Can’t. Pin the house rules where everyone sees them. ### Recruit on your terms Invite links and QR codes with an expiry and a usage limit, or open the doors to everyone. **VPN forbidden** refuses VPN, proxy and Tor. ### News in a channel Webhooks post updates from other services straight into a channel, and slash commands do what your community decides. ### No ads, no tracking Servers in the Netherlands, one-to-one chats end-to-end encrypted, and nothing you write is used to train AI. In the game ## Petalwar, in its own pictures Captures from the current build: the battlefield, and the menus where a match begins. *A base under construction, the ground factory selected.* *Multiplayer: join by code, find games nearby, or host one.* *Skirmish: pick a map and the faction you will command.* *The title screen, where every match starts.* Pictures from Petalwar. Art by Rebuild Native. Tap a picture to see it full size. ## Your server in three steps - 1 Name it Type your team’s name in the form above. We hold it for 24 hours. - 2 Open mssgs On your phone, your computer or in the browser, and finish up there. - 3 Bring your commanders Share the invite link, or press OPEN MSSGS in Petalwar’s lobby and paste the match invitation into your community. ## About Petalwar Petalwar is a real-time strategy game in the spirit of Supreme Commander. Three factions fight over one valley, and every base grows around a Heartbloom that five petals ward from harm. It is in development, and the early builds for Mac and Windows are on [petalwar.com](https://petalwar.com/); Linux follows. [Everything about the game](https://mss.gs/en/petalwar/game) Petalwar and mssgs are both made by Deverence Group B.V. in the Netherlands. Petalwar communities on mssgs are made by players, for players. ## Questions from commanders Yes. A community with text and voice channels, roles and invites costs nothing, and neither does the game overlay. [Premium](https://mss.gs/en/premium) is optional: it raises the upload limit from 25 MB to 50 MB and messages from 2,000 to 5,000 characters, among other things. In Petalwar, open Options → MSSGS and press CONNECT, then allow it in mssgs. From then on your friends see Playing Petalwar under your name, with the map and your faction. Petalwar can only set that status: it reads nothing and cannot post as you. When you host a match, friends who have connected Petalwar too see Join now under your name. One press takes them into your lobby, on the same Wi-Fi or across the internet through petalwar.com. A full match shows no Join now. Into the community, yes: mssgs runs in the browser as well as on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux, so an invite link works for everyone. The game overlay, clip mode and Join now are part of the [desktop app](https://mss.gs/en/downloads). On [petalwar.com](https://petalwar.com/): the early builds for Mac and Windows are there, and Linux follows. The game offers a newer version on its title screen when there is one.