Frequently Asked Questions

We have a dedicated Comparison page where you can see differences and planned features.

Yes! We have a newer version of them planned, but the original ones will always work.

You'll receive an easy guide to migrate from Pterodactyl to Pelican. It will be at least as easy as upgrading was originally.

Yes. And easier manual updates too.

Yes, it'll be backwards compatible. Any new changes for the API will be put in a new and separated version.

They can be posted on our Github!

No, Blueprint extensions will not work with Pelican.

To our knowledge, almost all of these solutions use the Panel's API to function. We will be supporting the same API, so everything should work the same.

Yes!

They can be posted on our Github!

Currently it's not planned. But new features are being built into Wings and are on the way!

Yes, the original latest version of Wings will remain compatible with Pelican. We are working on adding new features and improvements to Wings that will greatly improve your experience.

Yes, we plan on supporting them in the future.

They can be posted on our Github Discussions

Not at all. We also gave the previous team 2 months of advance notice.

Difference of visions, directions, and opinions.

If they could, they would. But they can't, so they shan't.

We can't say that. That's up to the Maintainer of Pterodactyl. Pelican and Pterodactyl are separate projects.

The plugin system was released with beta30!

No. Pterodactyl "addons" are just code modifications. Our codebase now greatly differs from pterodactyls. Pelicans plugin system will be a "real" plugin system where plugins don't touch any core files.

No. And the creator of blueprint won't port blueprint to also support pelican:

[I] do not have the capacity to work on multiple Pterodactyl forks [and I] do not believe making an extension framework for a platform promising it's own addon system is worth our time.

No. Pelicans plugin system will be a "real" plugin system where plugins don't touch any core files.

No. You can do whatever you want with your plugins, it's your code.

Pretty much anything you want! They can add new pages, change existing ones (to some extent), add new languages, change the theme (color/ font/ css) and more.

The first iteration will have some limitations but we will continuously improve the capabilities of plugins.

You can find information on that here.

You can find detailed information on that here.

Yes! Everything that was shown as little sneak peaks (+ more!) is available as plugin, for free and open source.

You can find the official plugin repo here.