The official client for Forged Alliance Forever (FAF)
- Use Temurin 25 or Oracle JDK 25 (others might not work)
- Clone the project with Git
- using SSH:
git clone [email protected]:FAForever/downlords-faf-client.git - using HTTPS:
https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client.git
- using SSH:
- Open the project into IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate or Community (free)
- Make sure you have
Enable annotation processingenabled in the settings - Select
Mainas run configuration next to the hammer button in the top right - Compile and start the application by pressing the play button
A video tutorial is available here. Don't forget to Enable annotation processing.
Learn how to install the client on Linux here.
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Thanks to ej-technologies for their open source license. We use Install4j to build installers. |
| Thanks to bugsnag for their open source license. We use bugsnag for our error reporting. | |
| Thanks to YourKit for their open source license. | |
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Thanks to Twemoji Twitter for their open source license. We use and display emojis in the chats. |
Please take a look at the contribution guidelines before creating a pull request.
Have a look at our wiki.


