StatuoTW's Guide to Swapping to Wyldfire

Heyo everyone. With Wyldfire coming out I decided to take some time and help onboard folks to the new app since SillyTavern competitors that don't make me squint are few and far between. I did some of the beta testing for the app and can confirm it's "Quite Good."

So let's talk about it real quick.

Getting Started

First off, why swap to Wyldfire in the first place? Well, mostly because SillyTavern isn't getting any updates as it stands, meaning that you'll end up having to move eventually. While SillyTavern extensions exist, well. If you remember that controversy around how the card-downloading extension would scrape your API keys? Yeah. I am not a gambling man.

On a broader level:

• Wyldfire runs locally which was a big point for me. I prefer my stuff to stay on my machine instead of having to use the internet for everything.
• Wyldfire is designed for roleplaying, while SillyTavern is not. Meaning features specifically for roleplayers are included in Wyldfire like Memory Scan, Worlds, Lexicons, Sidechats, etc.
• The Dev - Nev - is pretty chill and seems to actually use his product.
• You can import pretty much everything from SillyTavern with a few button clicks, making migration easy.
• You can customize your theme for the app in-app. It has it's own gallery for images. The interface - importantly - fuckin' works.
• MASSIVELY reduced storage size. Wyldfire uses about 1.5 gb of storage space compared to my ST's 22gb of space.
• WORLDS. Holy shit ya'll, WORLDS. When I first started Botmaking this is what I fuckin' wanted when I started making Adolion. I wanted this shit and it's here and it's in Wyldfire/Wyvern and it's fuckin' GOOD. Worlds are essentially mini-campaigns that you can drop down and adventure around in without having to tie yourself to a specific character.
• Infoboards are neat. Manage equipment, items, stats, etc. Right in a little sidebar.

Sounds Cool, What Aren't You Telling Me?

It's not all sunshine and rainbows, but here we are.

• Group Chats can't be imported? Why?
  • Group chats in ST are a fuckin' mess. If you look at the JSON for them it's a mess of character names, personas, dates, insertion depths, etc. Basically, there would be no way to reliably import them without snapping them in half.
  • This means if you're deadset on continuing a group chat roleplay you have two options:
    • Summarize it and just start anew in Wyldfire
    • Finish it in ST then move to Wyldfire.
• New UI, new learning curve. But that's why this guide exists.
• Chat Completion Presets aren't here. Just switch to using Lorebooks for your instructions it's the same thing just a different window. Only problem is you'll have to manually port over the instructions in those presets.

Alright let's kick this off.

Expectations

This Guide will help you get your first chat up and running in Wyldfire and hold your hand to getting to your first chat. A new UI/UX can be pretty intimidating for new folks so just hold on to your fuckin hat and let's do this.

This Guide is based on the release version of Wyldfire and may not reflect future updates.

Booting up Wyldfire

You can get Wyldfire from the Wyldfire Website and you do not need a Wyvern account to use it. You can have one and integrate it, but it's not necessary. Grab the zip file, extract it to your location of choice, hit the installer, and let it install in a spot where you (hopefully) won't forget it. Then launch it.

When you do boot up Wyldfire, you'll be greeted with this lovely screen.

This is a pretty simple screen. For security purposes you'll need to set up an account on your own device. This is not a Wyvern account. Set up a Username you won't forget and a password you won't forget. That circle next to Username? That's for a picture if you want to put one there. Display Name will be the name of the default persona for chats.

When you're done, hit Continue. This next screen is for Persona details. If you have Personas from ST, we're going to import them pretty soon so don't feel obligated to fill it out.

AI Awareness, so far as I can tell, just dictates some special prompt maneuvering where if you select "High" it will place your Persona closer to the bottom. For now, leave it at low and when you're done hit Continue.

The next screen is just "Get Started" so hit that.

Wyldfire Home Screen

Hey we made it. Catch your breath from that grueling effort and behold the home screen. Is it on bright mode for some reason?

• Go to Settings at the bottom left corner of your screen
• Theme
• Select "Dark" or "Light" near the top.

That should fix it.

Alright now that we've got our app open it's time to get shit imported.

Go to Library.

You'll notice that there is a big button that says Import from SillyTavern that's in the middle of the screen. That's what we're looking for, but if you need it later there's a second button near the top right that does the same thing.

Find and navigate to your SillyTavern folder. You should know where it's installed. Then go into the data folder and whatever your user folder is.

When you've selected it right, you'll see this neat little screen with a number of things to import.

So you can absolutely just hit import from here and let it do it's thing. If you click out of it, no big deal, it'll keep running in the background so just let it do it's thing. Go get a sandwich.

Personally, if you don't have a lot of single-character chats I'd just uncheck the Chats import and then import on a case-by-case basis. But this is more because I do group chats rather than single-character chats, generally. There's nothing wrong with importing everything and as far as I've tested it even gets your branches imported. Neat.

So, uh. How you doin? Good? How's uh... How's that Warhammer? You uh, you wanna just like go make some food while you're waiting? No? Just gonna stare at each other until it's done? You have pretty eyes but I gotta say I'm very uncomfortable with how close you're staring at the screen. Bad for your eyesight or something.

Did you play that new Super Nintendo?

The one with the italian guy. He jumps and they made a movie about him. Or seven.

...

Please just pull up TikTok or something while you wait I am not an extrovert. No, see, I'm turning on my phone. This conversation is over.

... Cool, all done importing? Let's continue.

Close Wyldfire.

Don't give me that look. Do it. Then Launch Wyldfire again.

• Authors Note: I ran into an infrequent Windows bug where sometimes Wyldfire would "Launch" but only as a miniaturized window. If you notice a small transparent box at the center of your screen when you launch Wyldfire but no actual Wyldfire then:
  • Shift + Right-Click the Wyldfire icon and select "Maximize."

"But Statuo, why?!" I dunno I ran into a bug on testing that if you didn't close/relaunch once some chats would fail to load. It was literally 'just me' that had this problem but I'm saving you that headache. Close and relaunch your Wyldfire. I am not asking.

Alright, cool. Importing is done. Lets move on.

Setting Up Your Connection

Much like ST, Wyldfire requires you to set up how you actually want to connect to your API of choice. Yes, this also includes local models. Neat.

However, due to the wild number of API's out there I'll only be covering three:

• Deepseek API
• Featherless
• OpenRouter

Start out by hitting AI Connections

Deepseek API

Deepseek through the API is getting Deepseek direct from Deepseek. You know - https://platform.deepseek.com - You'll need:

• An API Key
• Chat Completion Beta API URL https://api.deepseek.com/beta/v1
• Model Name deepseek-v4-flash deepseek-v4-pro or whatever is being used nowadays.

For us, we're going to be hitting the Add Custom Provider button at the top left. This will be opening up a new window.

Fill in the information like so, pasting your API key in the appropriate spot. It should look like this when you're done. Hit "Add Provider" and you should see Deepseek in your list now with a "Key Valid" option there.

MAKE SURE YOU TURN OFF "FORCE CHAT COMPLETION" HERE. We'll be coming back for this later. Move on to the next step.

Featherless

Featherless is a Sub service for models through their API. The big thing about Featherless is that they offer a variety of models at 32k context for a flat rate of $25 a month. So if you want to use more expensive models like GLM, Deepseek, etc, and use them enough that a pay-per-token doesn't make sense for you, they make a solid option. You'll need:

• An API Key
• Their API URL: https://api.featherless.ai/v1/
• We'll be picking the model in the next step.

Go ahead and hit Add Custom Provider at the top left and in the new window start filling out the information. It should look like this when you're done. If it worked, you'll see the Featherless provider with "Key Valid" beneath it. Move on to the next step.

OpenRouter

Oh man, OpenRouter got acquired by Stripe recently. Are you from the future? Is it as bad as I think it is? Anyway.

You'll need your:

• API Key

Find the box that says "OpenRouter" and hit the "Add API Key" button. Then add your API key there and hit next. If it worked, you'll see "Key Valid" in the Openrouter box. Now head on to the next step.

Setting Up A Connection

Alright so we got our provider set up, now we need to actually connect to it. Hit "Connections" at the top then hit "New Connection."

I'm going to show off Deepseek for the most part but the steps for setting up a Connection are mostly the same. You can set up multiple connections if you like and modify them on the fly later, so don't stress too much here. The complicated part was the Provider part and you're already past that.

Start by giving your Connection a Name and selecting the Provider you set up in the previous step.

Alright, set your Context Length (Context Size). For most people you're going to want 32k or 32768 Context Length. If you're running locally or a service that uses smaller context size, you'll have to refer to your documentation on those services.

See where I put this big red 2?

This is where things diverge based on your provider. For Deepseek you won't be able to put anything in here yet so keep going, the rest of you using Featherless/OpenRouter see a list of models here. This is where you select the model you'll be requesting a response from. So pick your poison. Again, you can swap these later so don't think too hard about it.

Alright, now you might have scrolled down and had a mini panic attack. Breathe. We're skipping all the scary fields.

Scroll all the way to the bottom. You should see "Parameters" and this is where we need to Add Parameters. Not every API accepts all Parameters. So you may need to refer to your documentation for which are actually accepted.

As a baseline most providers will provide the following parameters and you should add these.

• Temperature
• Top P
• Max Context Length
• Reasoning (for reasoning models)

You may want to add in other parameters. This is the time to do so and customize it. Your parameters should look roughly similar to what I have below and again - they can be customized later, even in chat.

You're done. Hit "Create Connection" and marvel at the fact that the hard part is over.

Deepseek users just stay behind while the rest of the class goes on to the next lesson... They gone? Cool.

Hahaha. Look at those nerds. They don't even have to do some weird shit to disable thinking because Deepseek through the API for some reason doesn't just take the same "Don't think Parameter" that other API's do. Nerds.

Alright here's what we gotta do. Reopen your Connection here. You're going to disable Force Chat Completion and enable System as User.

Save your connection.

Then go back to the Provider tab. Force Chat Completion for Deepseek.

Go back to your Connection Profile for Deepseek. Remember when we skipped over the model selection? Now we're going to put the model in.

deepseek-v4-flash or deepseek-v4-pro depending on your poison.

Save your changes, you're done. Don't forget to laugh behind the Featherless and OpenRouter bros who didn't have to do this convoluted crap.

One Last Thing

There's one last thing we should set up before we get started... Unless you're using one of my Lorebook Prompts, like Voidwalker, Pioneer, etc. So if you're bringing a prompt of your own over and even if you're not, pay attention.

Go back into your connection that you just set up. Click this button to open it again.

Now, about halfway down you'll find Instruct Template. This is where you put in your System Prompt/Main Prompt/Pre-History (1) and your Final Instructions/Jailbreak/Post-history. (2)

Copy paste your stuff from your ST setup here. Unless you're using my stuff. We'll go over how to set up my stuff later.

Brief Overview Of the Main Tabs

Alright let's just cover some things real quick.

In your left sidebar (Which you can pin using the pin icon near the top of it) you'll notice you have "Recent" (this displays your recent chats so you can go back to them easy) and then lower a number of tabs.

• Home: This is where you can see your most recent chats, any favorited bots, recently edited bots, bots from your followed creators, and characters from Wyvern. You can Customize this home screen using the "Customize" button at the top right of it. The "Eye" icon at the top right of each bubble (Favorites/Chatting/etc) determines if it displays on your home screen. On top of that, you can grab the little handle and drag/drop to reorder them as you like.

• Explore: This tab lets you look around on Wyvern for any bots/worlds/lorebooks/etc. you might want to download right in the app. Downloading is a simple affair, you just hit the download button and it will appear in your Library when it's done. You can block tags you don't want to see here right above the characters. Also, Worlds take longer to download. More information and the like.

• Chats: Admittedly a bit self-explanatory. Chats are where all of your chats are stored. You can search for specific chats here, upload chats from SillyTavern, and sort them into folders/delete them at your leisure here.
• Gallery: This is where you can upload images to be used in Wyldfire. You can do things like sort the images, select which ones are for Backgrounds and the like, and even have Wyldfire watch specific folders for any new images you save to those folders.
  • Authors Note: If you want to use an image as a Background Image in your chats, it has to be LABELED AS A BACKGROUND IMAGE. If you forgot to do this, click on the image and at the top right you'll see a dropdown that probably says "Other." Click that, set it to Background.
• Notifications: You only see this one if you're signed in to Wyvern. It's what it says on the tin: Your notifications from Wyvern in Wyldfire.
• Library: This one will require a bit more digging into but your library is where all of your cards, lorebooks, worlds, etc. will be found.
• AI Connections: Just like how we set up our connections earlier, this is where you can manage the specific connections to service providers as well as fun things like Prompt Assemblies, Regex, Prompt sets, and the like.
• Assistant: This opens up a window that uses your current connection to ask you questions. What's more, it can help you create bots and if you have a tool-compatible connection, it can even help you create things in Wyldfire. It cannot - as far as I can tell - edit Wyldfire or give you details about how to navigate it. A neat thing though is that you can create assistants based on character cards and have them be the ones to help you out throughout Wyldfire and I just think that's cool. (Top, where the little Megaphone icon is, "Manage Assistants")
• Debug: Realistically you're only going to use this if you run into some weird issue and a dev asks you to give you the debug logs. But it tracks whatever you do in Wyldfire, from character creation, timestamps, what it did, etc. So if you like to get into the weeds, here you go.
• Settings: Self-explanatory. But this is where your Wyvern Account Sync is, Themes, exporting your data for easy backups, connection to Claude Desktop if you want that, and most importantly where you can update the App in the "About" tab.

Actually Starting a Chat

Oh man we made it. You doing good? Need a cheetos and mountain dew break? No? Look at you with the stamina!

Alright lets keep going then.

Go back to Library and use the filters to find a card of your choice. It doesn't matter which, we're just getting started here. I'm going to pick Xaria because dance with Xaria.

Click on the card and hit "Start New Chat." If you had previous chats imported it'll ask you to load a chat or start a new one. I'm going to start a new one because of unprotected handholding with Xaria.

Congrats, we made it to the chat screen! Now you can start chatting using the bar at the bottom of the screen. Send a message to make sure your API is working. If it isn't, hit the gear icon near the top middle of the chat and make sure your API is selected (it should be highlighted on the right-hand side). Technically, we're done here. For those of us who want to learn extras, keep going.

Adding in Stuff. Lorebooks, Group Chats, etc.

Did you send a message when I told you to above? Send a message. Do it now, we actually need to do it to activate the chat and it's specific options. The Message doesn't actually have to complete and you can cancel the message as soon as you send it (same button on the chat bar where you hit to send), but you do have to send something.

Hit the Gear Icon near the top middle of the chat. This opens up your Sidebar. You should see a number of options here, but notably you should have a few tabs that you won't have if you didn't send a message, you rebel.

Cool, let's start with the basics.

Selecting/Creating a Persona

You'll want to hit this button in the sidebar to select your Persona. If you imported them, you'll see them here.

Ignore my generic personas here. Presuming you set up importing your Personas you'll see them here. You can also create a new persona if you like.

Set up your default Persona if you haven't already by hitting the three dots at the top right of a persona and selecting "Set as Default."

Then you can set your "Chat Default" for this chat the same way, but by selecting "Set as Chat Default."

Finally click on the card of the Persona you want to use. Just double check it to make sure everything imported correctly. In this screen you'll notice more options than you had with SillyTavern. In example Character Outfits, Tags, and Pronouns. You can define those here if you want. Hit Save Changes when you're done and let's continue.

Adding Lorebooks

You might have a Lorebook you want to add and yes, if you're using my prompts this is how you'll add them in to your chats.

Start off by selecting the Chat Log Management Tab which is the leftmost Speech Bubble tab in your sidebar. Scrolling down, you'll find Lorebooks. Hit Add. This will open a new window for adding in Lorebooks. Search for the lorebook you want to add, select it, then hit "Add Selected."

If everything went well, you'll see the lorebook you added in in the Chat Log now. What's more if you mouse over the lorebook you'll see three dots. This allows you modify lorebooks on the fly in your chats. This is also how you'll be enabling/disabling entries for things like Voidwalker. Reference below, make sure you hit both save buttons one if you scroll up, and the main save button.

That's adding lorebooks. Lets move on.

Group Chats

Group Chats are still a thing in Wyldfire but they work a little differently than you'll be used to in SillyTavern.

Start off by opening the Sidebar if you closed it. Hit the leftmost speech bubble on the sidebar to open Chat Log Management. Then, scroll down to characters. You should see the character you started with there. Hit "Add."

I'm going to add Cecilia into this chat. Select who you want to add in and then "Add Selected."

When you're done, you should see both characters in the chat now and a new option called "Turn Order." Turn Order lets your characters respond automatically after you send a response. You can use that slider to enable it and fine-tune who responds. For now, we'll leave it off.

So let's cover How do we select who responds?

You'll notice a new button has appeared next to where you type in text. This button lets you dictate who responds next in your chat, or you can let the system automatically choose who should respond for you. Select who you want to respond, then hit the "Send" button and it will respond as the character. In my case, I'll select Xaria.

And that's how you do Group Chats. You can experiment as you go on, but those are the basics.

Miscellaneous Chat Features - Edit, Continue, Reassign Sender, Branch, Review Pass, View Prompt, etc.

Wyldfire has all the usual features you'll expect from your chats and you can find most of these options at the top right of the bubble for the AI's message. The first icon is for editing the message, the second for continuing, and the three dots is to open up the extra options.

• "Manage Swipes" lets you do just that.
• Edit/Continue are self-explanatory.
• "Review Pass" asks the AI to take a look at the response and then asks it to fix it for you.
• "View Prompt" lets you see the prompt.
• "Branch" works the same as Branches in ST.
• "Rewind To" deletes all messages after the post. You will get a warning notification if you accidentally click it.
• "Reassign Sender" lets you assign a specific character for the response to be sent as. This DOES NOT regen the response, just makes it be sent as a character in the group chat.
• "Delete" is self-explanatory.

The Director - Automated Roleplaying and Scene Instructions

You know how ST had nineteen different extensions built to tell the AI to do story stuff? Well it's built in to Wyldfire. The Director Tab can be found in your Sidebar and allows you to track everything from NPCs, to pending events, memories, and story beats, then it asks the Director to remind the AI of these things before it generates your response.

The way it works is that when you activate the Director, it will send the information located in the Director tab to the AI before your response to basically give it an overview of things before it generates the response. You can set it to do this every time or only when you activate it with the Megaphone at the bottom in your chat window.

If you hit "Run Director" It will analyze your chat and suggest things regarding the scene focus, notes, intentions, etc. You can fine tune these as they're put in and it lets you run the Director Agent before every generation if you want. Otherwise, in your chatbar you'll see a little megaphone icon. If you click on it, that activates Director for that generation.

We can do some neat things with the Director. You can use the whisper function to tell the AI about specific things it wouldn't otherwise know about. Tired of the AI going "Ah yes, this dungeon is filled with GOBLINS"? You can use Directors Whisper to inform it that, no, in fact it's filled with Draugr and this is the fifteenth dungeon with Draugr in it.

Fuckin' Bethesda.

This is mainly useful for keeping your bots on track regarding the story beats and can add a bit of extra intelligence to your gens, especially if you had a side mission in the middle of your roleplay (getting Tacos before the big Friday Night Beatdown was incredibly important.)

The Sidechat! Ask the AI How It's Going, Perform a Memory Scan for automated entries.

The Sidechat is essentially a second screen that allows you to ask the AI to document things for you, from specific Lexicon (lorebook) entries, to summaries, to even performing a memory scan of your entire chat and having it pick out key events, memories, items, NPCs, etc.

Using this can make documenting your chats much easier, and allows for more long-term memory management of events and things as it suggests everything from keywords to important events.

Keep in mind, that when it adds in Lexicon entries you will need to reopen your chat or refresh the page to see them.

Anything added in can be found in the Chat "Lexicon and Summaries" tab.

The Lexicon Tab

Speaking of the Lexicon tab. The Lexicon tab is basically a per-chat lorebook of various things that happen. You can add in specific NPCs to characters that are tied to them, summaries, (including a more reliable prompt to generate summaries), and specific lorebook lexicon entries. A lot of this work can be handled by Wyldfire automatically using the Memory Scan function.

Memory Scan

Alright so what does Memory Scan actually do? Real talk, this is probably my favorite feature of Wyldfire so far.

Memory Scan essentially scans your entire chat (or however many messages you ask it to scan) and then offers suggestions on Lexicon entries for you to add in. You still have to manually approve the entries before they get added in and you can even keep chatting while you're having the Memory Scan go on. The major benefit of this is that instead of doing all the bookkeeping yourself, you can just make the AI do it.

The AI will automatically suggest everything from NPCs that might be important, to key memories for characters, to events that happened in the story, then assign them keywords so they automatically trigger in the context of the chat just like a regular lorebook.

This is, essentially, one of your greatest tools in long-term chats because it allows you to focus on the chat while the AI handles everything else. You can even set it to go off every certain number of messages. It also helps in group chats because it can create character entries, this means you can grab characters from other creators, throw them into a chat, and let memory scan create lexicon entries for the characters that each character can see, giving them information on how they feel about certain characters.

There is some danger with this of course. With these lexicon entries, changes in mood may not be present until you run the memory scan again or edit the entries. But this is still a useful tool in your arsenal to consider, especially if you use it mainly to keep track of events, locations, memories, etc.

• Statuo, my memory scan FAILED! If the AI doesn't find anything it can generally just tell you "Lmao no" and say it's an Empty Response. You may disagree, this means you usually have to create the Lexicon information yourself.

Anyway, whenever your scan is done, select which entries you want to keep (Before/After means "Before or After Character Definitions" by the way) and then scrol ldown and hit "Save."

You'll have to reload the chat for the Lexicon entries to appear.

Display and Custom Themes

Cool, so we've got some basics down right? Let's talk about customizing our Wyldfire.

The first thing you'll find is the Display Tab in the Sidebar. This lets you customize a bit of the chat. You can change things from Avatar Size to Font Size and border styles. Experiment with the options here until you find something you like.

But what if we want to go even further? Well, for that, we need Themes. "But Statuo, I don't know CSS!" That's fine we have AI for that now. Follow me. At the bottom left, select "Settings" and then the "Themes" tab. There's plenty of built-in themes here but if we want a custom theme, such as custom text and whatnot, we gotta scroll all the way down to making a new theme.

On the next page, you'll see a new Theme page. Give it a name, select a base to start off of if you want, then hit "Ask Assistant."

This opens a new window where you can tell the AI what you want. If you want something like specific colors, dialogue colors, window opacity, font selection (Dyslexic font, anyone?), you can ask the AI to make it for you here. It's designed to work in the Wyldfire theme menu, so it will output what you need and then ask you to approve the changes it made.

When you're done, you should save it. For some reason the new theme doesn't appear in the tab until you go back to the Themes tab and then select "Manage Themes" again. At which point it should show up. Play around with it, see what you like.

Custom Themes - Some Tips

Alright so you're not good with CSS and neither am I. That's all well and good let's go over Best Practices real quick for setting up your own custom themes.

Pick a Default Theme To Base Yourself Off Of

Find a default theme with the colors you like (for Dark Mode, Discord/Featherless is a pretty solid starting point) and work from there.

Modify One Thing At A Time.

It can be tempting to vomit a bunch of instructions at the AI Assistant, but this is going to lead to a massive wall of "Approvals" that will make things look bad. Start with one thing, ask the AI to modify it, approve the changes. Then preview those changes to make sure it looks how you want it to look.

The "Primary" Variable Affects A Lot Of UI Elements

You'll find this funny little variable in the variables menu.

The "Primary" Variable affects everything from the color of Dialogue text to the color of text throughout the UI. Make sure you pick one you like. I'm a nerd so I picked my favorite color of Orange.

Be Specific And Ask the AI

It can be difficult to tell what parts of the UI you're actually modifying when you're asking the AI to fix something, so don't be surprised if it doesn't get it right on the first try. You can also just ask the AI Assistant "Which field modifies the chat window?" Asking a few clarifying questions about the output can get it to modify what you actually want it to modify.

Have This "Disable the Frosted Chat UI" and "Slightly Darker Italicized Text" CSS Code

/* Italicized text — slightly darker grey. */ em, i { color: hsl(0 0% 58%); } /* Semi-translucent chat message surface — 70% opaque dark overlay lets the wallpaper show through at ~30% strength while keeping messages readable. */ [class*="message-container"], [class*="messages-container"], [class*="messageContainer"], [class*="messagesContainer"], [class*="message-list"], [class*="messages-list"], [class*="conversation"], [class*="Conversation"], [class*="thread"], [class*="Thread"], [class*="chat-content"], [class*="chatContent"], [class*="chat-scroll"], [class*="chatScroll"] { background-color: hsl(220 9% 13% / 0.9) !important; background-image: none !important; backdrop-filter: none !important; -webkit-backdrop-filter: none !important; }

Yeah just slap that right into your CSS field near the bottom. I have this mainly cuz it makes the text harder to read if you have a background by default but this lets you disable that blur effect and get a roughly nearly opaque background. If you want to modify the Alpha Channel (How transparent it is) you can modify this line, specifically the "0.9" at the end governs how opaque it is. Lower = More Transparent, values from 0-1:
background-color: hsl(220 9% 13% / 0.9) !important;

A lot of my UI modifications are basic because I'm a pure, basic lad. Feel free to muck around with this stuff and give it your own spin. Worst case scenario, you can just go back to using a default theme or something.

Syncing to Wyvern

While not something you have to do, you can sync to Wyvern. What does this do?

• If you turn on a slider and chat with a publicly available bot on Wyldfire, message numbers can be added to the bot's total message counts, giving your favorite botmakies an ego boost.
• If you're a botmakie, you can publish bots straight from Wyldfire to Wyvern.
• Signing in to Wyvern lets you get notifications from Wyvern in Wyldfire and lets you see your feed in "Home" for recommended bots and the like.
• It also lets you download bots from Wyvern right in the application.
• Eventually (maybe even by time of posting) you'll be able to like/comment/etc. directly from in the application, further boosting your favorite botmakies ego.
• You can sync chats to Wyvern and back, this lets you use Wyldfire at home and Wyvern on your phone without having to stop your roleplay. Do note, the character has to EXIST on Wyvern for it to Sync. So upload any characters you want to use privately to Wyvern before turning on this feature.

It Does Not

• Automatically publish your bots.
  • You have to go onto the bot screen and hit "Publish to Wyldfire."
• Make your chats visible to anyone.
• Sell your soul to Nev.
  • He still has to go around offering contracts from what I know. Very tedious.

Basic User Experience

Alright lets go over some basics real quick.

Importing Things

Alright, so you downloaded a card or lorebook from some other website and now you want to import it into Wyldfire. How do we do that?

Easy. Top Left > Create > Import Character Card for Character Cards. This will open up a new window asking you to give it the file.

For Lorebooks you'll do the same thing but hit "Lorebook" instead.

For Lorebooks, you'll open the new screen, hit "Import" and then Save your Lorebook.

In-Chat Modifying Stuff

Parameters

You know the parameters like Top P, Temperature, etc? You can modify those in-chat. Just open the Sidebar, your AI Connections Tab, and then hit the dropdown for "Connection Details and Parameters." You can modify it right there and even add in new parameters.

Editing Characters/Lorebooks

You can edit Characters and Lorebooks from the chat too. In the Chat Log window in your sidebar, scroll down and find your character/lorebook. When you mouse over it you'll see three dots. Click that, then edit.

Add a Background and Change the Chat Log Name

You can change the background you use per chat and the Chat Log Name in the Chat Log Management window.

Starting a New Chat, Swapping Branches, and Swapping to a New Chat with the Same Character

You can easily do this by selecting the dropdown menu at the top of your chat with a character. (This is why it's useful to name your chat logs, helps you differentiate between them more easily.)

The Botmakie Experience

Alright, so lets tackle how Botmakies can use Wyldfire. If you're used to the ST UI lets break you of those habits and get you into new habits.

Starting off, your create button is at the top left. Hit that, then Card/Lorebook depending on your poison. For now, I'm going to presume we're going with Character Cards. Lorebooks will be further down.

Creating a Character

Alright, so you opened up your screen. If you're an experienced Botmakie a lot of this isn't new to you. But for completionist sake (tryna hit 100%) lets go over the UI real quick.

So I'm going to presume you have some familiarity with Botmaking going into this. In addition, I'm going to assume you're familiar with SillyTavern since you're here. If you don't, that's fine. I have a separate guide on Botmaking you can find here to help you learn and get started.

• 1: Display Name: This is what the name shows as in your library. More importantly, this is the same thing as Display Name for Wyvern. In other words, if you choose to upload this this is the name people will see when they are browsing Wyvern.
• 2: In Chat Name: This is what the {{char}} macro will reference. So you want this name to be what the actual character's name is. You should fill this out before uploading to Wyvern.
• 3: AI Description: This is the same thing as the Description field in SillyTavern. This is where the bulk of your character definitions will go.
• 4: Example Scenes: This is Example Dialogue from SillyTavern, but it's formatted differently. It has the same pitfalls and benefits as Example Dialogue.
• 5: Avatar: This is your character image. Banner above it also lets you upload a specific background and banner image that people will see if they click on your card.

Alright, let's scroll down a bit and continue.

• 1: Tagline: This is the text that appears on the "Preview" character card. Keep this short and punchy if you plan to upload the card, elevator pitch time for your character card to prospective users.
• 2: Character Note: This is injected further down into context than character definitions, so it can be useful if you want to reinforce character personality stuff. This is similar to the Character Note field in SillyTavern.
• 3: Creator's Notes: These are the notes that users see when they click on your full character card. This is your chance to tell people things they'll need to know about the bot.
• 4: Scenario & Greetings: Ho-lee-Fuck Batman. You know one of the most requested features I heard about was "I want a Scenario field per intro." And here we are. Advanced Greetings lets you set a Scenario field entry per greeting. That's right, while SillyTavern limited you to one Scenario, now you can have as many as you have greetings, baby! Wyldfire has you fuckin' covered.
• 5: Content Rating: This is really only important if you plan on uploading to Wyvern. This dictates what your card is uploaded as when you hit "Publish to Wyvern." In case you missed it, here's the link to the Wyvern Content Guidelines.
  • "Stat, can you summarize the Content Guidelines?" No. Read it, there's even a TLDR version. Do your due diligence before uploading.
• 6: First Message: The Default Intro for your bot. Of note is that if you hit the "Advanced Greetings" slider for separate scenarios, your UI will look a bit different because it lets you show a "Picker" for intros for users as well some extra fields for per-greeting scenarios and the like.
• 7: Tags: Tags for your bot. In Wyldfire you can use custom ones but keep in mind Wyldfire has specific ones you need to select.
• Not Shown, but Scroll down like five centimeters. Greetings: If you didn't hit Advanced Greetings you'll see Greetings further down. This lets you add additional greetings.

VISIBILITY: If you scroll down on the left hand side of the window, just below "Tags" you'll see Visibility. This is somewhat decorative for now and the important thing is that you will always be prompted if you want to upload something to Wyvern. I believe the intent is that eventually Nev wants you to be able to publish your character straight from this window, so these visibility settings are for that. As of time of writing, this is not implemented in Wyvern (but this may change.)

Real quick though, on Visibility.

• Public: When published, everyone can see your bot.
• Draft: Work in progress, only you can see it (and on Wyvern but not Wyldfire, you can invite collaborators to work on the bot with you).
• Friends Only: You can invite friends on Wyvern to see this character, but people at large will not be able to see it.
• Private: Only visible to you. Important note, if you publish your character this is the ONLY setting that means your bot does not get checked by the moderators. Any other setting and if you upload it, moderators will check your bot.

Alright let's scroll all the way back up.

You may have noticed these little tabs here at the top. These allow you to further customize your bot so let's cover an overview of these real quick.

Advanced Tab

The Advanced Tab lets you modify specific things about the character that the average botmakie won't need. Things such as System Prompt (Pre-history/Main Prompt), Final Instructions (Post-history/Jailbreak) and other things that you may find useful. Such as a Visual description for AI Image gens.

You can do things like customize how the characters text appears, add in specific settings, time cycles for characters (default is fine in most cases), locations, lorebooks, Regex, and even Infoboards.

Since you're here in the Advanced tab, I'm going to assume you're somewhat familiar with this stuff. But this is how you fine-tune your bot. I really recommend that unless you know what you're doing and why you're doing it, you don't muck with these.

Gallery Tab

You can add in a gallery for characters. This allows players to swap between various images per character or use backgrounds you upload specifically for this character. It's exactly what it says on the tin.

NPCs

These are sub-characters in the characters backstory. For example, a character's parents could be included here. But importantly...

You can add in images for each of these characters.

This makes it so when you create an NPC and they want to talk, even in single-character chats they'll have their own chat bubbles for their character. It's actually pretty fuckin' neat and I highly recommend you give this a shot at some point.

Sprites

Remember how Expressions in ST barely worked and was a pain in the ass? Well here it is in Wyldfire with a more robust UI. Enjoy.

Creating a Lorebook

Alright remember where the create button is from five minutes ago? Here we are with Lorebooks now. Lets roll right into it.

• 1: Lorebook Name, Image, and Description: Exactly what it says on the tin. Name your lorebook, give it an image if you want, and add in a description for it.
• 2: Status and Maturity Rating: Mostly important if you plan on uploading it. This determines what your Lorebook - when uploaded - is rated as.
• 3: Export, Import, and Save: This is how you'll give your lorebook to other people and how they'll import it. Save, importantly, saves every entry currently in development.
• 4: Add Lore/Lexicon and Search Entries: Alright, Adding Lore is the same thing as your entries in the ST lorebooks. But, what about Lexicons?
  • Lexicons are essentially Mini-Character/Chat Lorebooks. As of time of writing, Lorebook Lexicons do nothing. Character/Chat Lexicons however do work and they let you do things like carry over memories and events from one chat to another or just have better memory retention in longer chats.
• 5: Lore Entries/Lexicon Entries: Same thing as it is in ST. This UI lets you check your entries.

Alright, if you're here I'm going to presume you have some familiarity with Lorebooks. But lets cover this real quick anyway.

First off let's note that you can move entries up and down by grabbing the little handle to the left of each entries name. Your Entry name is near the top.

• 1: Position in Context: This lets you finetune Depth insertion if you want. The default is just "Before Character" and that's where most of you will want to leave it. However, when you set it to Depth you can also set these lorebook entries to be sent as "User" or "Assistant" for the User/AI LLM respectively.
• 2: Keywords: Keys and Keywords are one and the same. They work the same way as ST Lorebooks. When you're entering one in, you need to hit Enter or it won't save. You'll see in my screenshot I have "Meme Key" as a keyword.
• 3: Content: This is the same thing as it is in the SillyTavern Lorebook content field. This is what's actually sent to the LLM when your entry is triggered.

Scrolling down you'll see some more options. Like whether the entry is constant, enabled, case sensitive, etc.

Wyldfire lorebooks can also Scan Personas for keywords so be careful with that. More importantly, the advanced section contains some goodies like having a Message Delay or having a lorebook entry stick after it's sent, and even a cooldown for preventing it from triggering again for a certain number of message.

This can be useful if you're clever. Message Delay means you can have an entry that triggers at low depth to have a monster jump out only after players find an item, in example.

DON'T FORGET TO SAVE YOUR LOREBOOK.