Games on IronForge

IronForge provides self-hosted Flatpaks for games that need integration beyond the upstream defaults. Add the IronForge Flatpak repository before installing them.

Minecraft

Minecraft requires X11 compatibility, while IronForge is a Wayland-only system. The supported sh.ironforge.minecraft Flatpak integrates Gamescope as an embedded XWayland server and includes secret storage so the launcher can retain login credentials.

Install Minecraft:

flatpak install sh.ironforge.minecraft

Run it from the desktop menu or from a terminal:

flatpak run sh.ironforge.minecraft

The Flatpak supplies the required Gamescope wrapper and graphics environment; no separate Gamescope installation or command-line wrapper is needed.

Roblox

Roblox runs through Sober, an unofficial compatibility app distributed through Flathub. IronForge does not need a custom package or any Flatpak overrides.

Install the stock Sober package from Flathub:

flatpak install flathub org.vinegarhq.Sober

Start Sober from the desktop menu or from a terminal:

flatpak run org.vinegarhq.Sober

On first launch, Sober downloads and prepares Roblox. After that, choose a Roblox experience as usual and Sober will launch it.

Sober is experimental, closed-source, and not supported by Roblox. It may stop working after a Roblox update; check the Sober documentation when that happens.

Quake III Arena

The short version: copy pak0.pk3 from a purchased copy of Quake III Arena, then add pak1.pk3 through pak8.pk3 from ioquake3's patch-data download. All nine files go in the same directory.

IronForge provides the ioquake3 engine, but not the copyrighted game data. You need a Quake III Arena installation from the original CD, Steam, or GOG. If you only have an installer, install or extract it first. The only file needed from the original game's baseq3 directory is:

pak0.pk3

Next, open the official ioquake3 patch-data page, read and accept the license, and download quake3-latest-pk3s.zip. This archive supplies the eight updates:

pak1.pk3  pak2.pk3  pak3.pk3  pak4.pk3
pak5.pk3  pak6.pk3  pak7.pk3  pak8.pk3

These are complete data files, not patches that must be applied to pak0.pk3. Extract the ZIP and copy all nine files into the Flatpak's baseq3 directory:

DATA="$HOME/.var/app/sh.ironforge.ioquake3/data/q3a/baseq3"
mkdir -p "$DATA"

# Replace this path with the baseq3 directory from your purchased game.
cp /path/to/Quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 "$DATA/"

unzip "$HOME/Downloads/quake3-latest-pk3s.zip" -d /tmp/quake3-patch
cp /tmp/quake3-patch/baseq3/pak[1-8].pk3 "$DATA/"

Check that the destination contains pak0.pk3 through pak8.pk3:

DATA="$HOME/.var/app/sh.ironforge.ioquake3/data/q3a/baseq3"
ls "$DATA"/pak{0..8}.pk3

Install and run the IronForge Flatpak:

flatpak install sh.ironforge.ioquake3
flatpak run sh.ironforge.ioquake3