Heliosphere

You can pet the dog on our website. If you give her enough pets (rubbing your mouse cursor around on top of her), hearts will start popping out!

20.01.2026 20:11 — 👍 87    🔁 37    💬 0    📌 1

Original post on hachyderm.io

The pride flags on our website up by our mascot (Sunny) will now show every unique flag available in our flag pack before allowing repeats. Before, it was true random sampling.

If you are capable of making pride flags in that style and want one added, let us know!

(Originals […]

20.01.2026 19:41 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A neat thing about Heliosphere is that it only needs to save one copy of any files that are uploaded inside mods. If two different mods share the same file, Heliosphere only keeps one copy of that file.

All told, this has saved us 743.31 GiB of storage space so far!

08.01.2026 16:42 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

We have completed maintenance to migrate our database to PostgreSQL 18, which was long overdue but had complications that delayed it. This should make Heliosphere even faster! As always, please report any issues that may arise on the forums.

08.01.2026 13:47 — 👍 36    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Call for documentation contributors Are you good at writing technical documentation or guides? Do you know how to use various parts of Heliosphere? Would you like to make it easier for other people to use those parts? If you answered yes to all of those questions, please feel free to contribute to our documentation repository...

Heliosphere is always looking for volunteers to help improve our documentation! If you know how to use Heliosphere and would like to contribute some technical writing, please check out the link below.

https://forums.heliosphere.app/threads/call-for-documentation-contributors.5/

04.01.2026 07:16 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

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.

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

30.12.2025 13:17 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

We updated the affects database on Heliosphere (finally), so mods that affect newer items that weren't being detected should be mostly fixed!

29.12.2025 18:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This account is now officially bridged to Bluesky, so people on there can also get Heliosphere news!

Happy holidays!

25.12.2025 05:32 — 👍 51    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0