The Pterodactyl-based game server panel that's faster, smaller, safer, and more accessible

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Welcome to Hydrodactyl

Hydrodactyl is under development and pre-release. Some UI elements may appear broken, and there might be some bugs. If you experience any issues, please share them with us through our Discord community.

Hydrodactyl is a modern, performance-focused game server management panel forked from Pterodactyl. It delivers smaller bundles, faster builds, and an accessible, reimagined interface.

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Changes from vanilla Pterodactyl

Smaller bundle size and faster build times using Vite and Turbo. Hydrodactyl's initial download size is over 100 times smaller than Pterodactyl. This has real upsides, even if you're not a developer.
Hydrodactyl loads faster! Better caching means that everything just feels snappy.
More secure. Hydrodactyl's modern achitecture means most easily exploitable CVEs simply do not exist. We've also set implemented SRI and integrity checks for production builds.
We believe in accessibility. Hydrodactyl builds with the latest Web accessibility guidelines in mind, and is entirely keyboard-navigable. Even context menus, and screen-readers are easily compatible.
Hydrodactyl's friendly, approachable interface means that anyone can confidently run a game server.

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Install with Docker

Set up Hydrodactyl using Docker installation

Install on other platforms

Community guides for different platforms

Configuration

Learn how to configure your Hydrodactyl instance

Wings Setup

Configure Wings as your game server backend

Local Development

Learn how to develop Hydrodactyl locally on your computer

Quick Migrate

If you already run Pterodactyl in Docker, you can quickly switch to Hydrodactyl by updating your panel image:

-image: ghcr.io/pterodactyl/panel:latest
+image: ghcr.io/blueprintframework/hydrodactyl:latest

To install Hydrodactyl from scratch, check out the installation guide. Windows is currently only supported for development purposes.

Copyright & Attribution

Hydrodactyl is built upon the work of previous open-source projects and their contributors:

All original copyright notices, license notices, and attributions must remain intact when redistributing this software.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all source code within the BlueprintFramework/hydrodactyl GitHub repository is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Hydrodactyl's website and documentation, hosted on the BlueprintFramework/hydrodactyl-docs GitHub repository, are licensed under the AGPL-3.0 license.

Hydrodactyl Documentation