XIV Docs - Launching Dalamud

Launching Dalamud

If you’re developing your own launcher, you might be interested in integrating Dalamud support. Here’s a detailed walk-through of setting up a proper Dalamud environment.

Grabbing .NET Runtime #

You’ll need a .NET environment to actually launch Dalamud, since it’s based it uses .NET. It won’t try to use your system .NET, and will require to put it into a separate directory.

In order to determine which .NET runtime you need, first check dalamud-distrib using the following URL:

https://goatcorp.github.io/dalamud-distrib/version

This will return a JSON containing keys for RuntimeVersion. This is the required .NET runtime, which then can be fetched directly from Microsoft:

https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Runtime/%1/dotnet-runtime-%1-win-x64.zip

https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/WindowsDesktop/%1/windowsdesktop-runtime-%1-win-x64.zip

You can then extract both zip files into some directory, henceforth called $RUNTIME_DIR.

Grabbing Dalamud #

Now you can grab dalamud from dalamud-distrib:

https://goatcorp.github.io/latest.zip

You can then extract this zip file, and the resulting directory will be referred to as $DALAMUD_DIR.

Note: You can find out the version of Dalamud you have installed by reading the dependencies file, located under $DALAMUD_DIR/Dalamud.deps.json.

Grabbing Dalamud assets #

These are not grabbed by Dalamud (for some reason) and instead you must download these yourself. These include fonts, icons and other things which are required for regular operation.

You can find the asset manifest at:

https://goatcorp.github.io/DalamudAssets/asset.json

This is simply a long JSON describing where to find the assets, the current version and where to put them. The directory you put assets in will be called $DALAMUD_ASSET_DIR.

Launching Dalamud #

Now with all of your ugly ducklings in a row, you can begin launching Dalamud! First, please make sure these environment variables are set on the game process and all relevant processes and children. Please double check these, as Dalamud may silently fail without them.

DALAMUD_RUNTIME should be set to your$RUNTIME_DIR.
If you are in Wine, please set XL_WINEONLINUX.

Launch $DALAMUD_DIR/Dalamud.Injector.exe.
- You may be able to launch the injector without any additional configuration, but it’s recommended to set these.
- Arguments:
  1. The arguments for the game.
  2. Base64-encoding of a JSON dictionary which may contain these options:
    - WorkingDirectory - overrides the working directory for Dalamud
    - ConfigurationPath - the file path of dalamudConfig.json
    - PluginDirectory - the directory for the installedPlugins folder
    - AssetDirectory - should point to $DALAMUD_ASSET_DIR.
    - DefaultPluginDirectory - the default directory for the devPlugin folder.
    - DelayinitializeMs - how much Dalamud should wait before injection
    - GameVersion - the (base) game version string
    - Language - language code of the game
    - OptOutMbCollection - whether or not to opt out from anonymous marketboard statistics collection
If successful, the game should freeze for a few momements and Dalamud will successfully inject!