FoundryTool Install

v1.22.0

There are two separate tools for Foundry;

Plutonium - which is a native module for FoundryVTT that operates within foundry to enable its features. (for more information see Plutonium Features)

and Rivet, which is a browser extension that connects the browser with the 5eTools website to pass through certain actions and requests allow you to integrated 5eTools site functionality into your Plutonium session. (for more information see Rivet Features)

Manual Install of Plutonium

Plutonium currently does not support installation via Manifest URL, so the installation will be done manually ( see How to install modules manually on the foundryVTT wiki for more information)

Download the .zip for the Plutonium module from the link provided to you;

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FOR PC ▸ extract files to your C:\Users\<You>\Appdata\Local\FoundryVTT\Data\modules\plutonium directory.*

Paste this into the Explorer address bar %localappdata%/FoundryVTT to open into the directory quickly.

FOR UNIX ▸ extract files to your $foundryDATAdir/Data/modules/*

FOR MacOS ▸ extract files in ⁨Users ▸ User⁨name ▸ ⁨Library ▸ ⁨Application Support⁩ ▸FoundryVTT⁩ ▸ ⁨Data⁩ ▸ ⁨modules⁩*

Restart the FoundryVTT server

Log back into Foundry VTT as the GameMaster

Click the Help button

Click Manage Modules under the game system heading (eg. D&D 5th Edition) See image to the right.

Find the newly installed module and place a checkmark next to 5eTools module Plutonium, then click Update Modules at the bottom of the list to activate it.

* Please make sure when extracting that the code resides in C:\Users\<You>\Appdata\Local\FoundryVTT\Data\modules\plutonium directory - and not C:\Users\<You>\Appdata\Local\FoundryVTT\Data\modules\Plutonium\plutonium directory. (ie extract the zip's contents into the C:\Users\<You>\Appdata\Local\FoundryVTT\Data\modules directory).

For Plutonium 0.14.1+

For Plutonium 0.14.1 or later, and if you're NOT using Forge. To make full use of the Art Browser you need to do some modification of the server.

• Copy the plutonium-backend.js file from server/ to:

FOR PC ▸

• If you installed "for current user only" on Windows: %appdata%/../Local/Programs/FoundryVTT/resources/app
• If you installed "for all users" on Windows: Program Files/FoundryVTT/resources/app

FOR UNIX ▸

/home/$USER/.local/share/FoundryVTT
/home/$USER/FoundryVTT
/local/FoundryVTT

FOR MacOS ▸ ~/Library/Application Support/FoundryVTT

• Pray that nothing explodes

extract files to your C:\Users\<You>\Appdata\Local\FoundryVTT\Data\modules\plutonium directory.*

Paste this into the Explorer address bar %localappdata%/FoundryVTT to open into the directory quickly.

FOR UNIX ▸ extract files to your $foundryDATAdir/Data/modules/*

FOR MacOS ▸ extract files in ⁨Users ▸ User⁨name ▸ ⁨Library ▸ ⁨Application Support⁩ ▸FoundryVTT⁩ ▸ ⁨Data⁩ ▸ ⁨modules⁩*

Finally, modify the final line of %appdata%/../Local/Programs/FoundryVTT/resources/app/main.js from:

require("init")(process.argv, global.paths, initLogging);

to

require("init")(process.argv, global.paths, initLogging)
	.then(() => {
		const {json: jsonBodyParser} = require("express");
		const {Plutonium} = require("plutonium-backend");
		const router = global.express.app._router;
		const ixJsonParser = router.stack.findIndex(it => it.name === "jsonParser");
		// Replace the original JSON body parser with our version
		global.express.app.use(jsonBodyParser({limit: "5mb"}));
		router.stack[ixJsonParser] = router.stack.pop();
		router.post("/api/plutonium", Plutonium.post.bind(Plutonium));
	});

Installation of Rivet

Uncompress the source file into a directory of your choice and note the location.

For Chrome (like)

• Open the Extension Management page by navigating to chrome://extensions.

The Extension Management page can also be opened by clicking on the Chrome menu, hovering over More Tools then selecting Extensions.

• Enable Developer Mode by clicking the toggle switch next to Developer mode.
• Click the LOAD UNPACKED button and select the extension directory.

For Firefox

• Enter about:debugging in the URL bar
• Click This Firefox on the left
• Click Load Temporary Add-On... and select manifest.json.