VellumFE

Play GemStone IV in a client you can shape around your character — and be hunting in about five minutes.

Why you’d use it

You already know the game. What you want is a screen that tells you what you need mid-swing: vitals where your eye already goes, spells and effects visible without a SPELL check, thoughts and combat in their own windows instead of scrolling past you in one column.

VellumFE gives you that on one core with five ways to play — a terminal client, a native desktop window, your phone’s browser, an Android app, and an iPhone app. The same character, the same highlights, the same settings, whether you’re at your desk or on a couch.

And you configure all of it inside the client. Every feature ships an editor. Hand-editing a config file is a thing you may do, not a thing you have to do.

Get playing

Pick how you want to start. All three paths reach the same client.

vellum-fe --port 8000 --character YourCharacter

vellum-fe --direct --account ACCOUNT --character YourCharacter --game prime

What you get

• Windows you place. Drag any window where you want it, size it, and it stays there. Add windows for thoughts, deaths, ESP, or any game stream you care about — see Text Windows.
• Highlights that do more than color. A rule can recolor a line, play a sound, rumble your controller, replace the text, send the line to a different window, or hide it outright. See Set up highlights and sound alerts.
• Connect your way. Through Lich as a detachable client, or directly to play.net with no Lich running.
• 36 built-in themes, ten of them accessibility variants — high-contrast (light and dark), deuteranopia, protanopia, tritanopia, monochrome, low-blue-light, photophobia, ADHD-focus, and reduced-motion.
• Speech built in. Windows can read new lines aloud, so a thought or a death reaches you without a glance. See Speech.
• Rebindable keys, hotbars of command buttons, and gamepad support.
• Graphics on the desktop — skins, per-window frames, an injury doll, hand icons — with the terminal and phone rendering the same information as text.

Where your settings live

Everything lands under ~/.vellum-fe. Two layers matter:

• global/ — settings shared by every character: highlights, keybinds, colors, hotbars, skins and images.
• profiles/<character>/ — that one character’s overrides of any of the above, plus their layout, history, and log.

Point the whole thing somewhere else with --data-dir or the VELLUM_FE_DIR environment variable — handy for a portable install on a stick.

You change all of this in-app: type .settings for the settings editor, or .help for every command. The full list is in the Command Reference.

Where to go next

• Getting Started — download, launcher, first connection.
• How-To Guides — build a hunting layout, make vitals flash when you’re hurt, wire a combat hotbar.
• Frontends — what each of the five can and can’t do.
• Widgets — every window type, one page each.

Getting help

• Discord: discord.gg/6nKhWRTkSN — help, layout showcases, beta testing, release announcements.
• GitHub Issues: github.com/Nisugi/VellumFE/issues
• In-game: find us on amunet.