Allowed add-ons and plug-ins

The rule

On this page means allowed. Run it, in any combination, on any character.
Not on this page means not allowed. Using something unlisted is against the terms of use on this server, whether or not it looks harmless.
Missing is not the same as refused. Almost everything absent from this page is absent because nobody has asked about it. Ask, and if it passes it gets added here by name, for everyone.

This list covers Ashita, which is what the DriftwoodXI launcher installs and configures for you. The same page is built into the launcher under its Allowed tab, and the two are kept saying the same thing.

What is on the list

Nine groups, 158 entries. Jump to the one that would hold what you are looking for, or use your browser's find (Ctrl+F) if you already know the name.

DriftwoodXI's own 33 Interface, HUD and windows 29 Combat information and parsers 17 Gear, jobs and macros 18 Chat, sound and logging 17 Menus, travel and everyday convenience 17 Windows, logins and sessions 5 Cosmetic, camera and models 12 Performance, plumbing and compatibility 10

How each of these was decided

The line is not whether an add-on touches the client. Half of this list patches the client, including add-ons the launcher turns on for you by default. The line is these four questions, and an add-on has to answer no to all four:

Does it play the game while nobody is at the keyboard?
Does it reach content the character has not earned or travelled to?
Does it show what the game withholds, from a job or a player that should not see it?
Does it overrule what the server would otherwise have decided?

Anything that only changes how your own screen draws, sounds, waits or is laid out answers no to all four by definition, which is why so much of this page needed no argument. Being powerful is not on the list: your squad is the most powerful thing on this server and it ships in the box.

DriftwoodXI's own 33

Written for this server and shipped with it. Every one of them also works as a typed command, so turning one off costs you the window and nothing else.

dwah LUA

dwbags LUA

dwcon LUA

dwcpx LUA

dwcraft LUA

dwengage LUA

dwfame LUA

dwfishing LUA

dwmerits LUA

dwtoau LUA

dwgambits LUA

dwjobs LUA

dwarena LUA

dwnemesis LUA

dwunleashed LUA

dwhub LUA

dwspoils LUA

dwtod LUA

dwchat LUA

dwesper LUA

dwpolitics LUA

dwleaderboard LUA

dwmacro LUA

dwmerc LUA

dwparse LUA

dwport LUA

dwquest LUA

dwraid LUA

dwreport LUA

dwscan LUA

dwsquad LUA

dwtracker LUA

dwwarehouse LUA

Interface, HUD and windows 29

Things that draw on your screen. None of them tell you anything the client was not already holding.

HXUI LUA

XIUI LUA

xivbar LUA

statustimers LUA

timers LUA

tTimers LUA Shows time remaining on the buffs and debuffs you cast and the recast on your spells and abilities, with more display options than the stock timers addon and without its crashes. Enemy debuff bars are an estimate it calculates on your own machine from retail formulas and your own gear, not a readout from the server, so on this server they will sometimes run long or short. Once after you log in at level 99 it sends the job point menu request the client sends when you open that menu, so it can read your job points, and it says so in your chat log when it does. Install it from its GitHub release zip, not the repository download: it keeps its font library (gdifonts) as a submodule, and a plain download leaves that folder empty and the addon unable to load.

recast LUA

partybuffs LUA

tparty LUA

distance LUA

targetlines LUA

crosshair LUA

clock LUA

zonename LUA

move LUA

imguistyle LUA

hideui LUA

hideparty LUA

hideconsole LUA

cleancs LUA

minimapmon LUA

mapdot LUA Draws enemies on the compass on any job. It only draws entities the server had already sent your client, so it is a display change and not a scan. Tracking a whole zone off-job is a different thing and is not allowed.

partyfinder LUA Built for another server, so it has nothing to talk to here. Allowed, and idle.

FancyTrusts LUA

GlamourUI LUA Install it from its release zip; the repository download is missing files and will not load. Two settings to know about. Its replacement chat log reads the chat packets underneath the DriftwoodXI addons, which pass their own data lines through that channel and hide them from the log — so beside them its combat tab shows a stream of raw _DWDATA records. Turn its chat windows off in /glam config and the party list, target bar and the rest sit beside the suite without complaint. And its packet-injection toggle ships off and can stay off: the mob level it would fetch is already given to you by /dwcon and /dwscan.

trainmon LUA Tracks your Fields and Grounds of Valor training regime: which monsters the page asks for and how many of each you have felled. It reads that from the chat log the game already shows you and counts your own kills, so it draws a progress window and tells you nothing the client was not holding. Install it from its GitHub release zip, not the repository download: it keeps its font library (gdifonts) as a submodule, and a plain download leaves that folder empty and the addon unable to load.

Balloon LUA Draws NPC dialogue in a speech balloon beside or instead of the chat log copy. It only reads the dialogue lines the server had already sent to your chat window and sends nothing back, so it is a presentation change and not an assistant: the one key it forwards into the dialogue system is the Enter you actually pressed while it had hidden the game UI for a cutscene, one line per press and never on its own. Install it from its GitHub release zip, not the repository download: it keeps its font library (gdifonts) as a submodule, and a plain download leaves that folder empty and the addon unable to load. Its window sits on top of everything by default, so expect it to take focus from the DriftwoodXI windows while a balloon is open.

minimap DLL

Nameplate DLL

Combat information and parsers 17

Reading what already happened, and reading it in public. A parse is a record of packets you received, which is why every one of these is fine.

actionparse LUA

simplelog LUA

checker LUA

mobdb LUA

chains LUA

petinfo LUA

easyTH LUA

LootScope LUA

TrackMeBooty LUA

RollTracker LUA

blumon LUA

geocompass LUA

filterscan LUA Filters a widescan you were entitled to run. It gives no results to a job that cannot scan.

points LUA

gainz LUA

ventures LUA

sparks LUA

Gear, jobs and macros 18

Equipment swapping, spell and attachment sets, and command shortcuts. These fire when you press a key.

luashitacast LUA

LegacyAC DLL

equipmon LUA

invmon LUA

itemwatch LUA

find LUA

FindAll DLL

blucheck LUA

blusets LUA

pupsets LUA

trimspells LUA

quicksets LUA Removes a delay the client imposed on itself. The server keeps its own equip limits and those still apply.

fastswap LUA

macrofix LUA

Shorthand DLL

Sequencer DLL A sequence runs because you pressed the key that starts it. A sequence that restarts itself, or that fires on something the game said, is the automation this server does not allow.

tHotBar LUA A macro fires because you pressed its key or clicked its square, which is the same rule the built-in macro bar follows. Install it from its release zip: the repository keeps its font library as a submodule, and a plain download leaves that folder empty and the addon unable to load.

Upcast LUA Picks the highest tier of a spell or ability you already know and sends it as the plain /ma or /ja line you could have typed yourself, which is the point while levelling or level synced. It reads only your own known spell list, job levels and recast timers from the client, so a tier you have not learned or cannot use at your current rank is never chosen, and the server still checks every cast for knowledge, level and MP. The repository keeps its two files at the root rather than in a folder, so the launcher names the folder upcast for you when you install it from the GitHub URL box.

Chat, sound and logging 17

Filters, colours, timestamps, logs and alerts.

timestamp LUA

filters LUA

filterless LUA

chatfix LUA Allowed, and the launcher will not load it. It shifts the chat packet by a byte to suit servers on the layout the client used before its last update, and DriftwoodXI is on the current one — so it eats the first letter of every line the server says and misaddresses your tells. Nothing to turn on; the server needs no shim.

instantchat LUA

stfu LUA

tokens LUA

logs LUA

links LUA

ime LUA

customcolors LUA

namecolors LUA

chatmon LUA

chime LUA

changecall LUA

autorespond LUA Answering a tell while you are away is the one automatic reply this server wants. It does not act in the world.

Fancychat LUA Replaces the chat log with its own tabbed window, colours, timestamps, a compact combat log, word and tell alerts, saved logs and zone maps, and holds the game log closed underneath it. It reads the lines your client was already going to show you, and the only thing it sends that you did not click or press for is one server message request after login. Its optional combat filter blanks combat text in your own client and nothing more. It skips any line another addon has already hidden, so turn it on after the DriftwoodXI addons and the lines they hide stay hidden; if a new DriftwoodXI addon arrives later, turn Fancychat off and on again to move it back to the end of the list. It files every line by the channel it arrived on and draws its own timestamps, so the /quests feed and the timestamp and customcolors addons change nothing inside it. The plain repository download works, with no submodules and nothing missing, but it is about 100 MB of maps. Updating it replaces the whole folder, so copy out its chatcolors and filters folders first if you made your own.

Menus, travel and everyday convenience 17

Delay removal and menu handling. The server still decides every one of these actions; the addon only spares you the wait or the keypress.

enternity LUA

stepdialog LUA

instantah LUA

ahgo LUA Opens the auction window without walking to the counter, and the server still refuses every auction command outside a zone that has an auction house. You save the walk across Jeuno, not the trip to Jeuno.

ahcolors LUA

allmaps LUA

cartographer LUA

sellit LUA

craftmon LUA

autojoin LUA

cfhblock LUA

debuff LUA Sends the cancel that the menu would have sent. The server decides what may be cancelled and refuses the rest.

casper LUA Stops other players body-blocking you, in your client only. Everyone else still sees you where you are.

nolock LUA Removes the camera lock the client applies when you engage.

ButterFeet LUA Removes the client-side root during ability animations and on engage. It grants no speed and no range; the server checks both.

config LUA

VanaCompass LUA An in-game discovery guide: purchasable spell scrolls, vendor gear and supplies, crafting materials, monster drops, NM spawn areas, quest and mission walkthroughs, and your current map grid. It was written for this server and it reads your own character state over the same two commands the tracker and the travel window already use, so it learns nothing a DriftwoodXI addon was not going to hand you anyway. Its Port button issues the ordinary travel command and the server re-checks the unlock, the gate and the fee exactly as it does when you type it. The repository is itself one addon, so paste the GitHub URL and the launcher installs the whole tree under VanaCompass. One thing to expect: it does not carry the echo helper the DriftwoodXI addons use, so each command it sends appears once in your log when it syncs or ports.

Windows, logins and sessions 5

Getting into the game and knowing which window you are looking at. Your squad is how DriftwoodXI expects you to play several characters, from one window, and these tools are allowed alongside it rather than instead of it.

Multisend DLL

activemon LUA

autologin LUA

logincmd LUA

hideobs LUA

Cosmetic, camera and models 12

Nobody else sees any of this. It is your client drawing your game differently, and it changes nothing the server records.

xicamera LUA

noname LUA

renamer LUA

chamcham LUA

clearcolor LUA

singlerace LUA

sexchange LUA Redresses your model on your own screen. Your character sheet is untouched and nobody else sees it.

bigmode LUA Allowed, but it throws on load against the Ashita build this server ships, so the launcher leaves it out of every set.

NoMount LUA

toon DLL

screenshot DLL

XIPivot DLL Overlays DAT mods such as HD textures and remade maps without touching the game files. The launcher ships a current build and loads it at boot when enabled; overlay folders go in polplugins\DATs and are managed in game with /pivot.

Performance, plumbing and compatibility 10

Frame rate, memory, rendering distance and the plugins Ashita needs to run at all.

fps LUA

freemem LUA

affinity LUA

aspect LUA

drawdistance LUA

mipmap LUA

addons DLL

thirdparty DLL

hardwaremouse DLL

winefix DLL

1. It plays while you are not there. Anything that fights, heals, gathers, crafts, sells or travels with nobody at the keyboard. That includes command repeaters, chat-triggered command runners and the external healing and fishing bots. Driving a squad of your own characters is not this, and neither is a macro you pressed. The test is whether the keyboard is attended.
2. It reaches content you have not earned. Opening closed doors, walking through gates, warping to places the character has never stood, unlocking travel the character never unlocked, Mog House functions in the field, or acting through the death state. Content on this server opens one expansion at a time and one quest at a time, and a key item is meant to be the thing that opens it.
3. It shows you what the game withholds. Rendering hidden or invisible entities, revealing what a GM has hidden, tracking a zone from a job that cannot track, or reading another player through anything they did not choose to show you. Reading your own client is fine. Reading past what the server sent you is not.
4. It overrules the server. Editing your own combat state, forging packets the client would never send, spoofing distance, recast, TP or results, or anything aimed at another player, another player's client, or the server itself. This one has no gentle end.

Asking about something that is not here

Ask in Discord, or send it in from inside the game with /dwreport. What helps is a link to where it came from and a line on what it does for you. Anything that only redraws your own screen is nearly always a yes, and the answer gets published here either way.

Running something unlisted while you wait for an answer is the wrong thing to do. Please wait for an answer from the staff.