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When installing for the first time, remember to download the Asset Pack v2 from the original author's page https://bambosh.dev/unofficial-homestuck-collection/#download wherever you can find it in these turbulent times, and unpack it anywhere you like on your system.

Broken asset pack selector workaround

The asset pack selector menu looks still broken, if unofficial-homestuck-collection fails to start after a fresh install, try manually editing ~/.config/unofficial-homestuck-collection/config.json, setting localData.assetDir with the absolute path to your unpacked copy of the Asset Pack v2.

@pokemonpasta hi!

Thank you for sharing a link to that article. I wasn't keeping up with upstream closely enough (and HS drama in general, being kind of an outsider to that community myself), and that link answered some doubts I've had in the back of my mind for a while.

For example, I was notified that Bambosh's original repository was taken offline in the time window before it being reinstated and transferred to GiovanH's account. At the time, the "official" fork was already made and the homestuck.github.io page had been put in place. I took those in good faith and sincerely hoped things were going towards an official partnership with less of a grey area around content distribution.

I see how things stand now, and with the "official" fork being effectively unmaintained, I think I'll switch upstream back to the original repo (now on Gio's account) as soon as I can get to it.

It also occurs to me that, now that the asset pack v2 is being hosted directly by HS Inc., it would be possible to include it directly in these packages (or in an optional dependency for maximum flexibility), but I'm not sure it can be trusted to stay there (unmodified, ideally) in the long run. Maybe the "extremely copy-pastable" magnet link is really the best way to go for people to download on their own terms...

Hi, in case you're unaware there has been an extensive article written by gio concerning the takedown of the UHC, and everything might be in a volatile state for a while - in particular the upstream of this package, which is the homestuck official fork, might be taken down or heavily altered, or who knows what else.

https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/08/08/uhc-end/?campaign=hsd

I had to install libxss which is not in the dependency list.

Both the -bin and non-bin versions of this package will pull in a precompiled libvps transitively through sharp. I don't believe the libvips dependency is actually ever used by the package.

The prebuilt libvips was built for processors with SSE4 support, which means that any processors without SSE4 support (as mine) will crash with Illegal instruction (core dumped). If this is happening, you can delete /opt/unofficial-homestuck-collection/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/sharp/vendor/8.14.5/linux-x64/lib/libvips-cpp.so.42 and the program will fall back to the system libvips, which will be already installed from the arch repos as a dependency of this package (at the time of writing), and which is not built to use SSE4 instructions. After deleting that file, the package is fully functional for me (including the asset pack selector, which now seems to be fixed).

As can be seen here, the upstream github has been moved to https://github.com/homestuck/unofficial-homestuck-collection.

crashes whenever i run.

A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
SyntaxError: Unexpected string in JSON at position 46
    at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
    at ElectronStore.Conf._deserialize (/opt/unofficial-homestuck-collection/resources/app.asar/node_modules/conf/dist/source/index.js:67:43)
    at ElectronStore.get store [as store] (/opt/unofficial-homestuck-collection/resources/app.asar/node_modules/conf/dist/source/index.js:278:43)
    at new Conf (/opt/unofficial-homestuck-collection/resources/app.asar/node_modules/conf/dist/source/index.js:131:32)
    at new ElectronStore (/opt/unofficial-homestuck-collection/resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-store/index.js:69:3)
    at Module.<anonymous> (/opt/unofficial-homestuck-collection/resources/app.asar/background.js:29713:11)
    at __webpack_require__ (/opt/unofficial-homestuck-collection/resources/app.asar/background.js:26:30)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/unofficial-homestuck-collection/resources/app.asar/background.js:3964:14)
    at __webpack_require__ (/opt/unofficial-homestuck-collection/resources/app.asar/background.js:26:30)
    at Module.<anonymous> (/opt/unofficial-homestuck-collection/resources/app.asar/background.js:46662:17)
[65776:0113/204926.813598:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(439)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

@yatagarasu try running with the --in-process-gpu flag as vann suggests. From what I've seen it's sometimes needed just for the setup process, you should be able to leave it out on subsequent runs.

In case that doesn't work and you have to edit the config manually, the schema has slightly changed. You can add the assetDir config key directly to the root of the json document, next to the __internal__ section, like this:

{
  "assetDir": "/home/.../Asset Pack V2",
  "__internal__": {
    "migrations": {
      "version": "2.5.2"
    }
  },
  // etc.
}

where do i add the localData.assetDir line? my config looks like this: __internal_: migrations: version: "2.5.6"

if you crash with "GPU Process Isn't Usable. Goodbye" or something similar just run the binary with "--in-process-gpu"

here's the image i used for the svg.

https://envs.sh/df4.png