Hi! Casual-ish Thief player here. I've played the duology and a couple of fan missions as well as The Black Parade.
I want everything. As in, every known fan-mission ever made in one massive zip-file. Maybe seperate them between The Dark Project and The Metal Age, and I'll extract them to their seperate directories and just full-on indulge in Thief. You know that weird Doom CD with 1000 levels? That, but for Thief. A ginormous burger I can nibble on whenever I feel like it.
You may be thinking, "Are you insane? Are you seriously asking for someone to take the precious time to package and organize every recorded fanmission just so you can conveniently binge fan-made content without having to download each and every one?" To that I say: Yes! Unless it's already been done, which, who knows? It may have.
Any person who's posting on this forum must be a die-hard fan, so please, tell me: Does this exist? Is "Thief Fan Missions: The Complete Collection" a real thing? Even if it's outdated, I'm fine, don't worry. And if it doesn't exist, I'll just ride into the sunset and you all can forget about this post. Thank you!
https://taffersparadise.com/
Just go here and download everything. Should not take very long.
\Fan missions -> one-click downloads.
I do not recall such a collection you described, but since you also sound very enthusiastic, you can do it in like 2 hours max.
Definitely a great idea!
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was a user named KoMaG, who would send out CDs or perhaps DVDs with almost every fan mission on them. Historians think it was about six or seven CDs back at that time.
Years came and went by, and then there was one day when KoMaG announced he would not continue that service anymore. The internet had been become more than just a reality by that time - it was a broad and glorious data highway, and one could rather easily download the majority of fan missions from the net. Game developers likewise went from putting their software onto a CD/DVD to offer them for download (after the interested player paid the price for that game). And so ended the time of little round plastic discs being sent by postal service, and the great and glorious times of downloading everything on one's own had finally begun.
Unfortunately, the FMs rarely came in bundles or campaigns together, so players had to download them almost one by one. And so it went on to this day, and people don't have to pay for little plastic discs anymore, but have to start lots of downloads instead. Cheaper, but more labour is required.
- THE END -
No one has done this yet, AFAIK. I think the main reason is size. All 2024 FMs would (for instance) stack to just under 2 gigs by themselves. Other years with some of the bigger contest entries would be much larger, maybe 2-3 times that. These ain't no Doom wads. Now multiply that times 25 years of Dromeding, and you can see the problem. Of course missions from the early years wouldn't be nearly as big, but still.
At one point, I thought about packaging older FMs by year, which seemed more manageable. Never got around to it though.
Looks like you're going to have to do it the hard way, like everyone else.
Taffers Paradise website still doesn't have a single package download. But there is one below.
Well then there are some packages here.Even if it's outdated, I'm fine, don't worry.
None of below packages is a complete list, but they are good for start.
An archive of ThiefMissions.com (25G), made in 2022 by Noenko.
Taffers Paradise copy of 2024 (40G) - also Noenko.
KoMaG, 2022 (41G) - same as above.
https://rutracker.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5237022
42 GiB of T2 FMs. Torrent.
if anything they should do collections of thief 1, thief gold, thief 2 to keep it a bit less in size, compared to doing all fan missions at once, also they would have to include the latest updates for each games fan missions
Hey there,
this should help you, too.
Here the missions are already divided for Thief 1, Thief 2 and Thief 3.
Kind regards
Last edited by Brody; 3rd Mar 2025 at 10:18.
Good stuff, didn't know about all these torrents/downloads, I feel like they should be stickied somewhere for future reference.
Quick FYI on that, even though this archive was made in 2022, Thiefmissions is really only complete thru 2013. There's a few random missions from later years, but it's nowhere near a complete collection (post 2013).Originally Posted by Marzec
I seed all three of FM torrents listed above.
Is this collection of FM's from Darkfate?
according to the automatic translation script I run with my browser it appears to be a darkfate archive.
It just so happens that I updated my personal collection of fan missions for Thief Gold and Thief 2 earlier today and then I decided to check what's going on in the TTLG forums (if anything) - and I found this thread.
Thanks to my OCD I have over the years kept what I consider a very well curated and comprehensive collection of (almost) all TG and T2 FMMs. You know, just in case I ever decide that I want to play them all...The collection should be pretty complete, since at various times I scoured several of the available hosting sites for all published missions; so, as long as the missions were hosted on those sites they should be in my collection.
I'd be happy to share these collections, but I don't know anything about file uploads or hosting. They are pretty big (TG: 304 files, 4.0GB; T2: 1045 files, 43.8GB), so it would be best if I could upload them somewhere to share. So, if anyone can give me detailed instructions on how I can do that then I'd be happy to help!
I still have mine.A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was a user named KoMaG, who would send out CDs or perhaps DVDs with almost every fan mission on them. Historians think it was about six or seven CDs back at that time.
Years came and went by, and then there was one day when KoMaG announced he would not continue that service anymore. The internet had been become more than just a reality by that time - it was a broad and glorious data highway, and one could rather easily download the majority of fan missions from the net. Game developers likewise went from putting their software onto a CD/DVD to offer them for download (after the interested player paid the price for that game). And so ended the time of little round plastic discs being sent by postal service, and the great and glorious times of downloading everything on one's own had finally begun.
Unfortunately, the FMs rarely came in bundles or campaigns together, so players had to download them almost one by one. And so it went on to this day, and people don't have to pay for little plastic discs anymore, but have to start lots of downloads instead. Cheaper, but more labour is required.
- THE END -
I unpacked the archive - it is appears to be nearly complete. it's missing a few english translations but other than it's a good archive to download.
Please excuse the late reply, I simply overlooked this question.
Yes, that is indeed from Darkfate
best Regards
Oh, I like reading that, I've always done it that way.
I downloaded and collected files from all well-known and lesser-known sites at regular intervals.
Last edited by Brody; 17th Mar 2025 at 04:04.
Thank you for confirming,
I am currently uploading these to Archive.org, but it will most likely take a day or two, due to Internet Archive's slow upload speeds.
Will post a link here once it is done.
Last edited by Noenko; 17th Mar 2025 at 07:13. Reason: Minor grammar
It is now uploaded. I had to re-zip the files into .7z, for some reason Internet Archive did not like the files as is. I haven't touched any of the FM's though.
Link: DarkFate (2025-03-16)
As soon as my file checks are done I will be seeding the torrent permanently.
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