Astra

A FFXIV launcher that supports multiple profiles and Dalamud plugins. It also supports Windows, macOS and Linux natively!

Beta Notice

Astra is beta software. At the moment, there are a few caveats that are good to know if you use these features:

• There is no game patching support, but the launcher will still prompt you to update.
• The Steam support is untested.

Despite this, the launcher is still usable, and I use it myself on a regular basis on Linux. If you have more questions, I suggest reading the FAQ.

Features

• Can bootstrap a new FFXIV installation if it can't find one. You can skip the installer entirely!
• Can use native (Windows) and Wine-based (macOS, Linux) versions of FFXIV.
• You can use Dalamud plugins, which is downloaded within the launcher just like XIVQuickLauncher.
• Can connect to the official Square Enix servers as well as Sapphire servers.
• Multiple profiles!
  • For example, you can have a regular Square Enix profile and a testing Sapphire profile. Or maybe one for DX11 and another for DX9?
  • These also have seperate, saved logins.
  • All settings can be configured per-profile!
• Securely saving username and/or password. These are saved per-profile, and are encrypted using your system wallet, and will never be stored unencrypted.
• Encrypted game argument support similiar to what XIVQuickLauncher and the official ffxivboot does, preventing other programs from snooping your login token.
• Enable several Linux-specific Wine performance enhancements such as enabling Fsync/Esync/Futex2.

Installation

Pre-compiled binaries are not yet available. However if you use Arch Linux, there is a PKGBUILD available in the AUR for tagged releases and straight from git. You may install it through makepkg or your favorite AUR helper:

$ aur sync astra-launcher

Usage

There's lots of information located on the wiki! Here's pages dedicated to using/building Astra on it's supported platforms:

• On Windows
• On macOS
• On Linux

Contributing and Support

Astra is primarily hosted at sourcehut, with the project located here. There is multiple ways to contribute patches:

• You can send a PR through the Github mirror.
• If you have a sourcehut account, you can use the web contributing interface.
• If you do not want to use Github or sourcehut, you may always send an email on the astra-dev mailing list.

If you do send a patch through the mailing list, please prefix the subject with PATCH so it's properly filtered.

If you wish to report an issue or discuss something, the the same astra-dev mailing list for now. I highly encourage you to send an email through the mailing list instead of contacting me privately if possible, so other people may benefit from the solution.