TaleSpire News

[h3] The smith’s finally had their tools. Now, the work could begin.[/h3]

Symbiotes are our first supported way of modding, allowing you, the community, to make character sheets, fancy dice rollers, hand-out notes, and so much more!

With our new API, these Symbiotes can load data directly from the game enabling tight integrations. Additionally, you can load regular websites if you prefer, using your favorite online resource without having to Alt+Tab out all the time.



To make finding and installing Symbiotes easier, this release also includes the first version of the community mod browser. You can go from zero to using mods in just ten seconds:
From nothing to using a mod in under ten seconds



For devs looking to get started, we have full documentation, a repository of examples, and a video showing how to upload to our official mod repository on mod.io.

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For players, we have this little video showing how to enable and install your first symbiote and this written guide.

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Please note that while we are eager to see what gets created, we are not canceling anything from our roadmap in favor of Symbiotes. We are still firmly committed to building everything we have planned and finding the best implementations for the game.

So here we are, once again, at the start of something exciting. For us, this year is all about bringing broad modding support to TaleSpire. We’ve been building and are excited to begin landing all that work.

A final and hearty thanks go out to all those who tried the Beta and reported bugs. You folks make TaleSpire so much better!

We’ll see you all again soon!

We've been experiencing TaleSpire login problems, and this patch should address more of these.
If you're still having issues logging in after this, please report it here: https://feedback.talespire.com/ or over at our Discord.

We've been experiencing some TaleSpire login problems, and this patch should address these.
If you're still having issues logging in after this, please report it here: https://feedback.talespire.com/ or over at our Discord.

BUILD-ID: 11534579 Download Size: 2.5 MB

Symbiotes are our first supported way of modding, allowing you, the community, to make character sheets, fancy dice rollers, hand-out notes, and so much more!

Thanks to our new API, these Symbiotes can load data directly from the game enabling tight integrations. Additionally, you can load regular websites if you prefer, just using your favorite online resource without having to Alt+Tab out all the time.

[h3]How to join the Beta[/h3]

The guide explaining how to join the Beta is here: https://talespire.com/welcome-to-the-symbiotes-beta

Be sure to read the `Critical Warnings` section before joining the Beta.

[h3]Symbiotes for players[/h3]

How to install Symbiotes is documented here, but we also plan to create an in-game downloader from mod.io. Of course, modders will need some time after this release before the first Symbiotes will come out. However, before long, there's sure to be plenty of them available online - until then, we created examples to show off some of the capabilities you can play around with.

As a player, this is pretty much all you need to know for now (don't forget to check out the demo gifs further down though!), but if you're a developer or interested in becoming one, read on.

[h3]Symbiotes for modders[/h3]

Right now, we support web-view Symbiotes with an embedded Chromium-based browser, with which you can load both local HTML files and URLs pointing to websites online. The full documentation is available either as a website or to download as a Symbiote itself.
Also, do take a look at the examples we linked previously, as those should cover many of the most common API calls for Symbiotes in actual real-world use cases. Feel free to copy and adapt them as you see fit! Your feedback about the developer experience, both about the API itself and the documentation, is really important to us, be sure to let us know what you think over at our feedback portal.

[h3]Show-reel[/h3]

With that out of the way, here are a few little clips of Symbiotes in action to give you a taste of what's to come:

Tight integrations between websites and TaleSpire using the API. Here we show how the creators of dddice.com bring roll results into TaleSpire's history.

An API you can leverage to make character sheets for your favorite rule system

Using a Symbiote to add support for advantage and disadvantage rolls
We include a dice-finder that can be added with a single line and works with a variety of sites out of the box

Sending notes to players

Getting the current creature selection


Subscribing to slab copy events



[h3]This is just the beginning[/h3]

This first version of the API is just us dipping our toes in the water. We are set up and ready to enhance and expand the API for years to come, and we have many plans for where to take this next.

Modding is our big focus for this year, and we believe what is coming will start a whole new chapter for TaleSpire.

Thank you for coming on this ride with us. We simply can't wait to see what you build next!

This patch adds some (normally hidden) UI that we can use during maintenance periods to let you folks know what is happening.

We will be testing this in the upgrade we will be performing on the backend this Thursday. We are pretty stoked about this as it will give us more stability, far more insight into our systems, and new ways to scale.

You can find the maintenance time in your timezone at this link

Nothing else exciting in this release, but the next one should be fun!

Ciao

NOTE: We released some features not ready for prime-time in this latest build by accident. We've pushed a new build ID11460257 to remove these. One still remains, more on that later ;)
- Ree

BUILD-ID: 11460257 Download Size: 31.5 MB