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Heliosphere

@heliosphere.app

A community-focused, queer-led, Penumbra-integrated modding platform for FINAL FANTASY XIV. It's the one with the optional plugin that provides automatic updates […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hachyderm.io/@heliosphere, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Heliosphere @heliosphere.app · 17/09/2026

There's a new shape available for subscribers' profile pictures!

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Heliosphere @heliosphere.app · 24/08/2026

Some people have expressed that Heliosphere's front page lags their devices. Please check to make sure you have hardware acceleration enabled in your browser! If you still have issues, try the new "simple graphical mode", which removes blurs and shadows.

Heliosphere's settings with a red arrow pointing to a new switch labelled "Enable simple graphical mode (reduces lag)"

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Heliosphere @heliosphere.app · 30/05/2026

Version 4.9.0 of the Heliosphere plugin can scan your Penumbra library and convert alread-installed mods into Heliosphere-enabled mods! Please make backups in case anything goes wrong in the conversion process. Happy modding!

Screenshot of the Heliosphere UI showing a menu dropdown named "Mods" where an item named "Search Heliosphere for installed mods" is highlighted with an arrow pointing to it

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Heliosphere @heliosphere.app · 29/05/2026

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Heliosphere @heliosphere.app · 03/05/2026

Firefox appears to have rolled out local network permissions now, so Heliosphere has been updated to show its warning for all browsers, not just Chrome. If the website no longer offers to use the plugin for you, this may be why!

Screenshot of a Heliosphere download button with a warning below it:

Expecting to be able to download using the plugin? Heliosphere requires special permissions for the plugin integration to work. Click the button below to grant them.

Important: the game must be open with the Heliosphere plugin installed.

There's a button below this warning that says "Request permission" and a link below that saying "Don't show this again".

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Heliosphere @heliosphere.app · 14/03/2026

Explore the files in any mod with this new beta feature! You can download any file individually or preview any texture file, too.

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Heliosphere @heliosphere.app · 07/03/2026

A new feature is in the works! Check a box to have all loose files in your PMP automatically uploaded as an extra zip file.

Screenshot of Heliosphere's file upload form. A file called "my mod.pmp" is selected. There is a warning that displays "This PMP contains files that are not used by Penumbra. Heliosphere filters such files before upload, so PMPs downloaded from Heliosphere will not contain them.

You can upload these files as extra files that can be downloaded separately. Heliosphere can do this for you automatically if you check the box below."

Below that text is a checked checkbox labelled "Upload unreferenced files as an extra .zip file attached to version 1.0.1". A text input is beneath the checkbox, and it's labelled "Name of .zip file to be created".

Below that is a list of the extra files contained in the PMP, which are "dds/would you believe it.dds", "png/a loose file.png", and "png/another loose file.png".

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Heliosphere @heliosphere.app · 16/02/2026

We've added a tab where you can upload files in the mod "Edit" page for those of you with muscle memory from other sites!

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Heliosphere @heliosphere.app · 14/02/2026

We've added a new button and link to the mod upload page to hopefully make managing variants easier.

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Heliosphere @heliosphere.app · 08/02/2026

Added a tooltip to the PMP download stage icon and numeric progress below the progress bar. Hoping to make this UI even more informational and clear as time goes on!

Screenshot of a PMP download on Heliosphere's website. Newly added to this view are a tooltip on the icon showing what stage the download is in (currently showing "Downloading files") and a numeric progress (currently showing 2,705/12,284).

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Heliosphere @heliosphere.app · 30/12/2025

Hard at work adding more warnings about common pitfalls or misunderstandings.

A screenshot of Heliosphere's extra files upload form. A PMP file is selected to be uploaded as an extra file, which has caused an orange warning box to appear with the title "PMPs as extra files is almost never right".

The content of the warning:
Uploading PMPs as extra files is almost never what you want to do. This usually happens when a creator doesn't know about variants.

Variants allow you to upload multiple variants of a mod on the same page. Examples include separate packs for 1k and 2k textures or separate packs for different races.

If you know what you're doing, you can upload this PMP file anyway, but remember that users will not receive any of the benefits of Heliosphere for PMPs uploaded as extra files.

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