Community Projects

Various open source resources and projects

This is a list of various open source resources and projects related to FFXIV. Please leave an issue if your project is listed here and you'd like to remove it.

Programs

XIVLauncher

A popular custom launcher with extra features. Good reference for the login flow (including Steam/Free Trial accounts) and the patching system.

Dalamud

A plugin framework and API, meant to be used with XIVLauncher. Almost all official plugins are open source.

Libraries

Lumina

Library for reading and interacting with FFXIV game files and Excel data.

SaintCoinach

Another library for reading and interacting with game files/Excel data. Provides community maintained metadata on Excel data types.

Ironworks

Yet another library for game data, but in Rust.

kobold

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language

TypeScript

Another library for game data, in TypeScript.

FFXIVClientStructs

A C# library containing community-maintained structs in the client, and Python scripts to help reverse engineer the game binary in IDA/Ghidra.

Tools

SaintCoinach.Cmd

A command line interface for SaintCoinach. Features commands to export raw game files, the UI images, and music.

Godbert

A GUI interface for browsing Excel data and viewing territories, powered by SaintCoinach.

FFXIV Explorer

A GUI for browsing the game files. You may be interested in this fork adding more features.

Websites & APIs

Thaliak

An API for game versions and patch information.

ResLogger2

A list of file paths in the game files, crowdsourced via a Dalamud plugin.

XIVAPI

A general-purpose API for FFXIV. Most useful if you can't embed a library into your application or need Lodestone information.

Networking

Sapphire

A server emulator. Not always up to date, but still a great reference on many things.

Machina

A general library for packet capture with specialized FFXIV functionality.

Velcro

A set of tools to capture network data and store it into an SQLite database.

Nari

A library to parse ACT logs.

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