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FTL: Hyperspace

Install FTL: Hyperspace on Windows manually

These steps are the same wherever you bought FTL.

  1. Steam settings

    Section titled “Steam settings”

    Skip this if you did not buy FTL on Steam.

    Two Steam settings will undo your work if you leave them alone. Right-click FTL: Faster Than Light in your library and open Properties.

    Show me how to open PropertiesRight-clicking FTL in the Steam library and choosing Properties

    Turn off Steam Cloud

    Section titled “Turn off Steam Cloud”

    Under General, untick Keep games saves in the Steam Cloud. Left on, it restores outdated saves with broken state which can keep Hyperspace from launching.

    Show me the checkboxThe General tab of FTL's Steam properties with the Steam Cloud checkbox unticked

    Turn off automatic updates

    Section titled “Turn off automatic updates”

    Under Updates, set automatic updates to Only update this game when I launch it.

  2. Roll FTL back to 1.6.9

    Section titled “Roll FTL back to 1.6.9”

    The Windows build of Hyperspace only runs on FTL 1.6.9. If Steam, GOG or Epic gave you anything newer (and they will have), roll it back first.

    1. Open FTL-Version-Rollback and choose Code → Download ZIP, then extract it.
    2. Copy the extracted contents into your FTL folder, next to FTLGame.exe. That is usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FTL Faster Than Light.
    3. Run rollback.bat.

    Your original executable is kept as FTLGame_orig.exe, so this is reversible.

  3. Install the Hyperspace binary

    Section titled “Install the Hyperspace binary”

    Download FTL.Hyperspace.x.xx.x-Windows.zip from the latest release and extract it. Inside you will find:

    • Hyperspace.ftl keep this for step 5
    • README.txt
    • DirectoryWindows - Extract these files into where FTLGame.exe is/
      • Hyperspace.dll
      • lua-5.3.dll
      • xinput1_4.dll

    Copy the three files from that folder into your FTL folder, next to FTLGame.exe. Leave Hyperspace.ftl where it is for now.

    On Steam, right-click FTL: Faster Than Light in your library and choose Manage → Browse local files. Steam opens the folder for you, which is safer than typing the path by hand.

    Show me where that is in SteamRight-clicking FTL in the Steam library and choosing Manage then Browse local files

    Bought it elsewhere? The folder is wherever you installed it. On Windows a Steam copy is usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FTL Faster Than Light.

  4. Set up a mod manager

    Section titled “Set up a mod manager”

    You need a mod manager to patch .ftl files into the game. Pick one. The rest of this guide follows whichever tab you choose.

    Actively maintained, reads the same mods as Slipstream, and can install Hyperspace for you.

    1. Download the build for your machine from the ftlman releases page. Windows users want ftlman-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.zip.
    2. Extract the ftlman folder anywhere you like. It does not have to live in your FTL directory.
    3. If FTL is currently modded, revert it to vanilla first. Coming from Slipstream, that means opening Slipstream, unticking every mod, and patching.
    4. Run ftlman. A Steam install is detected automatically; otherwise open Settings and paste your FTL folder into FTL data directory.

  5. Patch Hyperspace in

    Section titled “Patch Hyperspace in”

    Put the Hyperspace.ftl from the ZIP into your manager’s mods folder, tick it, and apply. Tick any other Hyperspace-based mods after it.

  6. Check it worked

    Section titled “Check it worked”

    Launch FTL. About halfway through the loading screen, and again on the menu, a small version string appears in the top right. That is Hyperspace reporting itself, and it means the binary is loaded.

    If your mod’s main menu comes up with no errors, you are done.

Hyperspace is now installed and ready to play. Everything below is optional.

Adding Multiverse

Section titled “Adding Multiverse”

Multiverse is the largest mod built on Hyperspace, and it installs differently from everything else.

  1. Open the Multiverse release thread and scroll to DOWNLOAD RAW FILES (OTHER PLATFORMS, UPDATES, MANUAL INSTALL). Ignore the installer above it, that one is Windows-only and does its own thing.
  2. Download both files listed there, the Assets File and the Data File.
  3. Put both .zip files in your mod manager’s mods folder.
  4. Patch them in this order, and nothing else:
  • Tick Multiverse Assets first, then Multiverse Data
  • Leave Hyperspace unticked
  • Press Apply

Uninstalling

Section titled “Uninstalling”

Delete Hyperspace.dll from your FTL folder. To go back to 1.6.14, delete FTLGame.exe and rename FTLGame_orig.exe back to FTLGame.exe.

Removing the mod in your mod manager alone does not undo the install.