Rusted PackFile Manager

Total War modding,
modernized.

A native Rust + Qt6 reimplementation of PackFile Manager. Open, inspect, edit and save Packs for every Total War since Empire, with first-class editors for tables, locs, scripts, animations, portrait settings, models and more.

Download
Read the manual View on GitHub

Supports Pharaoh Dynasties • Pharaoh • Warhammer 3 • Troy • Three Kingdoms • Warhammer 1 & 2 • Thrones of Britannia • Attila • Rome 2 • Shogun 2 • Napoleon • Empire

What it does

Built for serious modders. Every editor exists because someone needed it.

Pack editor

Open one or many Packs at once, navigate them as a tree, and add, extract, rename, duplicate or delete files in bulk.

DB table editor

Schema-aware grid for every supported game. Lookups, references, sorting, filtering, copy/paste from spreadsheets, TSV import & export.

Loc editor

Full localisation editing with TSV round-tripping and side-by-side reference to the vanilla source text.

Diagnostics

Catches invalid references, datacore mistakes, missing locs, broken portrait variants, animation gaps and dozens of other classes of mod bugs before the game does.

Global search & replace

Pattern or regex across the whole pack — or across vanilla and parent mods too — with one-shot or interactive replace.

Dependencies

Knows about vanilla data and parent mods. Detects ITM/ITNR rows, conflicting files and unresolved references; powers reference lookups everywhere else.

MyMod workflow

Project-style workspaces per game, with import/export, asset folders, templates, and one-click install to the game's data folder.

Pack optimizer

Strips ITM rows, datacore deletes, empty files, unused portrait variants and modding-tool byproducts to keep your final pack lean.

Translator

Generate, share and apply mod translations through the Total War Translation Hub, automatically detected by Runcher at launch.

Specialised editors

RigidModel viewer, AnimPack & AnimFragment editors, Portrait Settings, ESF, BMD, UIC, audio banks, CA_VP8 video, embedded text editor with KDE syntax highlighting.

Schema management

Schemas for every supported game ship with the program and update over the air. Patches let you tweak field metadata without touching the schema files.

Faction painter & tools

Integrated tools for faction colour editing, unit creation and translation workflows, all aware of the open Pack and its dependencies.

Built for tools, too

rpfm_server is the headless backend that powers the desktop app — and it's exposed for anything else that wants to script Total War files.

  • WebSocket protocol. Same command/response surface the UI uses, fully documented in the manual.
  • MCP endpoint. 150+ tools, prompts and resources for AI agents and any client speaking the Model Context Protocol.
  • Multi-session. Many clients, each with their own packs and dependency cache, against a single running server.
  • Reusable libraries. Drop rpfm_lib + rpfm_extensions into your own Rust project — they're on crates.io.
Server docs Library API reference 
// Connect to a running rpfm_server
const ws = new WebSocket("ws://127.0.0.1:45127/ws");

ws.onmessage = (e) => {
  const { id, data } = JSON.parse(e.data);
  // SessionConnected, ContainerInfo, …
};

ws.onopen = () => ws.send(JSON.stringify({
  id: 1,
  data: { OpenPackFiles: ["/path/to/my_mod.pack"] }
}));

Get started

Windows

Download the latest release zip, extract anywhere, run rpfm_ui.exe.

Releases

Arch Linux

Install rpfm-bin from the AUR.

AUR page

Other Linux

Install the Flatpak, or build from source — Qt6 + KDE Frameworks 6 required.

Build instructions

Need help?

Read the manual, or join the modding community on Discord.

Discord