Baghound is a loot & DPS companion for Realm of the Mad God Exalt — a stable, read-only packet sniffer that tracks your DPS, loot drops, collection, fame, chat and quests in real time, wrapped in a clean pixel-art interface.
It began as a hardened fork of RealmShark + Tomato — the MIT-licensed projects that do the core sniffing work — and grew into its own application: Baghound. It keeps every upstream feature, fixes the bug that makes upstream stop capturing after about 30 seconds, and adds a large set of original features on top:
- A pixel-art interface — every screen built in a crisp retro style, with five live-switchable themes (Dark, Light, Midnight, Ember, Purp).
- A detailed DPS logger — a live per-player leaderboard with damage dealt, damage taken, projectile hit %, and the HP each player nexused at, plus a full saved history of every past boss.
- Statistics tracking — your fame over time as a per-character graph, a per-day fame table, and a Dungeon Stats screen that features your most-run dungeons.
- A collection log — a permanent record of every notable item you've seen drop, a live "still-owned" view with automatic dismantle/loss detection, and shareable text / image export.
- Loot drops posted to Discord — your best drops, as a clean ROTMG-styled image card, to any number of channels.
- A RealmShark bot bridge — feed guild loot tracking / PPE / seasonal competitions ("Loot Goblin").
- In-app updates — checks for new builds in the background and installs them in a couple of clicks, all from the status bar — no pop-ups.
EULA-safe. A read-only network sniffer — no packet injection, no game files shipped or modified. Same compliance posture as upstream RealmShark.
Like the tool? You can support development on GitHub Sponsors — completely optional, and Baghound stays free to use either way.
RealmShark and Tomato are great projects — Baghound smooths off the rough edges and keeps everything you'd want in one place:
- It doesn't stop after ~30 seconds. Upstream has a long-standing capture bug that quietly halts on longer sessions. Baghound fixes it, so capture lasts as long as you're playing. (Details in What this build adds.)
- Latest features and guild bridging, together. Newer upstream builds dropped the loot-bridge settings — so anyone feeding a guild tracker (Loot Goblin / PPE / seasonal) was stuck on an old version, missing newer features. Here the RealmShark bot bridge is built in and kept current.
- It keeps itself current on its own. Upstream improvements are merged in automatically every week, so the base never goes stale — with nothing for you to do.
- Updating is safe. Every version is kept as a permanent download, so if a build ever misbehaves you can roll straight back (see Older versions & downgrading).
- And it tracks more. A detailed DPS logger, a Statistics tab, a persistent collection log, Discord loot cards — all wrapped in a full pixel-art interface. See How Baghound compares.
Nothing here changes how the game is played — it's the same read-only sniffer. It just stays running, stays current, and keeps your guild bridge working.
Stock Tomato — the upstream release Baghound tracks — does the core
sniffing well, but it ships as a bare .jar, has a capture bug on long
sessions, and has no loot-sharing, collection or statistics tooling. Baghound
keeps the entire upstream feature set and builds a full application around
it.
| Stock Tomato | Baghound | |
|---|---|---|
| Core sniffing — DPS, loot, chat, quests | yes | yes — kept, and synced from upstream weekly |
| Capture survives long sessions | stops after ~30s | fixed — two concurrency bugs replaced |
| Loot tab fills from the first dungeon | only after a reconnect | fixed |
| Crash hardening — desync, bad packets, out-of-memory | — | guarded throughout the pipeline |
| Packet IDs kept current after Deca patches | manual | fetched live from the Crucible API on launch |
| Game assets — items, enemies, sprites | manual | extracted live from your install on launch |
| Stock Tomato | Baghound | |
|---|---|---|
| Visual style | older theme | full pixel-art redesign, every screen |
| Themes | one | five, switchable live — Dark, Light, Midnight, Ember, Purp |
| Tab bar | fixed | drag-to-reorder, order saved per machine |
| Settings | scattered menus | one Settings tab; saved per-user, survive updates |
| First-run Npcap check | — | guided onboarding |
| Stock Tomato | Baghound | |
|---|---|---|
| DPS readout | damage dealt only | live leaderboard + per-player damage taken + nexus HP% |
| Per-boss history | — | every run saved locally, browse any time |
| Leaderboard export | — | copy as text or as an image card |
| Fame tracking | — | per-character fame graph — 7 / 30 / 90-day and all-time |
| Daily fame breakdown | — | per-day fame table |
| Dungeon stats | — | most-run podium with boss sprites, peak + previous-peak DPS |
| Stock Tomato | Baghound | |
|---|---|---|
| Collection log | — | lifetime grid, dated log, All / Shiny / Normal filter |
| Live "still-owned" collection | — | auto dismantle / death / loss detection, vault self-correction |
| Hand-correcting the collection | — | click + arrow editing on both grids |
| Collection export | — | copy as text or as an image |
| Loot drops to Discord | — | rendered ROTMG-style image cards |
| Multi-channel posting | — | post every drop to any number of webhooks at once |
| Guild loot bridge — Loot Goblin / PPE / seasonal | dropped from recent builds | built in and kept current |
| Stock Tomato | Baghound | |
|---|---|---|
| Download | bare .jar + manual JDK 21 |
one-click Windows .exe, bundled Java runtime |
| Updating | manual re-download | background check + no-pop-up status-bar self-update |
| Older versions | — | every version kept as a permanent downloadable archive |
| Builds & releases | manual | automated CI, with weekly upstream sync |
Compared with other ROTMG sniffers, the goal is a build that doesn't go stale and tracks more than the rest. Most sniffers are RealmShark-based and drift out of date as Deca patches the game; Baghound resyncs with upstream every week, fetches packet and asset changes live on launch, and updates itself — while staying a strictly read-only, EULA-safe sniffer (no packet injection, no game files modified). On top of that it goes far deeper than a stock sniffer: a combat log that keeps a full per-boss history, a Statistics tab that charts your fame and ranks your dungeons, a persistent collection log that knows what you still own, Discord loot cards, a guild bridge, and a five-theme pixel interface — all original to Baghound.
You need three things. Do them in order.
Download from https://npcap.com and run the installer. Important: when the installer asks, tick the "WinPcap API-compatible mode" checkbox. Without it Baghound can't read network traffic.
Baghound reads its item / enemy / projectile database from your local ROTMG client on first launch. If you can play the game, you have what you need.
- Go to the latest release
and download
Baghound-windows.zipfrom the Assets section. (If you see "no releases yet" or a 404, CI hasn't finished its first build — check the Actions tab and wait for the green check.) - Unzip it anywhere (Desktop is fine).
- Open the unzipped
Baghoundfolder and double-clickBaghound.exe.
No separate Java install needed — the bundle ships its own Java runtime.
A plain .jar would force every user to first install a matching Java
runtime (JDK 21) and launch the tool from the command line — a real hurdle
for most players and a constant source of "wrong Java version" problems.
The .exe is built with jpackage: it bundles its own private Java
runtime, so it just double-clicks and runs, with nothing else to install
and no version conflicts. It is a normal Windows app, not a command-line one.
- Launch ROTMG Exalt.
- Launch
Baghound.exe(either order is fine). - Click the Start Sniffer button at the bottom-right of the window.
- Join a dungeon. The DPS Logger, Loot and Chat screens populate live.
On first launch Baghound takes a few seconds to extract assets from your ROTMG install. This is normal and only happens once per game patch.
The status bar along the bottom shows whether capture is running, the build identifier (handy when reporting an issue), and the update control.
Every screen is built in Baghound's own pixel-art style — custom panels, tables, charts and controls, consistent end to end. The screens sit behind a tab bar you can drag to reorder; your chosen order is saved per-machine.
Baghound ships five themes, switchable from Settings → Theme:
- Dark — the charcoal-and-gold default.
- Light — a warm-paper light theme.
- Midnight — deep indigo with a cyan accent.
- Ember — dark and warm with a glowing orange accent.
- Purp — deep violet with a bright purple accent.
Themes apply instantly — pick one and the whole interface recolours on the spot, no restart needed.
The DPS Logger is a full damage breakdown for every boss you fight — live as it happens, and saved afterwards.
- Live leaderboard — every player in the fight ranked by DPS, with total damage dealt and their share of the boss's HP.
- Damage taken — how much damage each player took during the fight, racking up live alongside the damage they dealt.
- Nexus HP% — when a player nexuses out, the exact HP% they escaped at is shown next to their name.
- Per-boss history — every run is saved locally, so you can scroll back through past dungeons and bosses long after the session has ended.
- Shareable exports — copy any boss leaderboard as text, or as a clean image card, straight to your clipboard.
This is a far deeper combat log than a stock sniffer's damage-only readout — the whole picture of a run, per player, in one table.
The Chat tab is a unified chat window for every message Baghound sees in the game — public, party, guild and PMs — all in one scrollable feed.
- Channel filters — toggle Guild / Party / PM / Public on the right to narrow the feed to just the conversations you care about.
- Clear Chat — a button at the top of the panel wipes the visible log to start a fresh slate.
- Read-only — Baghound can only see chat; it never sends messages. As with the rest of the sniffer, no packet injection.
The Statistics tab turns your tracked play into readable history.
- Fame Graph — your fame over time as an area chart, with 7-day, 30-day, 90-day and all-time ranges, plus headline tiles for fame gained, best day, daily average and current streak. The graph is per character — it always tracks the character you're playing, and switching characters never blends their fame together.
- Fame Table — a per-day breakdown: fame gained, dungeons run, and your best single run that day.
- Loot — your logged loot drops.
- Dungeon Stats — your dungeons ranked by how often you've run them. Your most-run dungeon is featured at the top with its boss sprite; the second and third sit beside it; the rest follow in a table. Each dungeon also shows your peak DPS — and your previous peak, so you can see your record improve.
The Collection tab keeps a permanent record of every notable ("top") item the sniffer has seen drop — across every session, stored locally so it survives updates. Items are recorded the moment a bag drops; you don't have to pick anything up. The same "tops" filter the Discord posting uses decides what counts (see What posts to Discord).
- Grid — every top item in a fixed grid; the ones you've collected are lit, the rest dimmed, so it fills in as you play. A filter switches between All, Shiny and Normal. Click an item, then use the on-cell arrows or Up/Down keys to adjust its count by hand.
- Live — a second grid that tracks only the items you still own. When a character dies, or an item is dropped, disenchanted, dismantled, fed to a pet or traded away, it dims out here — while your lifetime Grid stays complete forever. The live grid is editable too, and it self-corrects: anything it can see in your vault is restored automatically, so a mis-detected loss never sticks.
- Log — a dated list with per-item counts. Shiny items are marked, since a shiny and its normal version share the same name.
- Copy as text / Copy as image — export your collection to share; the export follows whichever grid filter (All / Shiny / Normal) is selected.
- Skin history — your character skin history auto-imports on first launch, so the grid isn't blank when you start. Pet skins are honour-based (added by hand) since they aren't publicly listed anywhere.
Sign into baghound.app and the sniffer syncs your collection, characters, DPS history, fame and dungeon stats to a shareable profile page. Friends and guildmates can view your collection grid, fame graph and past dungeon runs without you sending screenshots around.
- Free accounts get a 2-week Pro trial on signup — full access to everything while you try it out.
- After the trial you keep a free tier (your profile stays public, recent runs and a count-only collection summary remain visible); Pro unlocks the full DPS history, collection grid, fame breakdowns and more.
- Account linking is via the sniffer's License tab — there is no separate password to manage.
Baghound posts your best loot drops to a Discord channel as a clean, ROTMG-styled image card. It is read-only and per-user — nothing posts until you connect your own webhook (see Setup below).
Only "tops" are posted — the loot Realm players actually care about. A drop is posted if it is:
- a UT (untiered) item
- an ST (set) item
- a ring or ability of tier 7 or above
- armour or a weapon of tier 14 or above
- a skin or pet skin
Everything else — consumables (potions, marks), low-tier gear — is ignored. The filter runs per item, so even a white bag only posts the tops inside it, not its filler. (Sprite Wand is excluded by name.)
Each posted drop becomes one image card with a row per item. Every row shows:
- the item's actual in-game sprite, black-outlined like the game
- a coloured border that encodes the enchant count — green (1), blue (2), purple (3), gold (4)
- one diamond per enchant along the sprite's bottom-left (1-4)
- twinkling sparkles scattered around the sprite if the item is shiny
- the rarity — Uncommon / Rare / Legendary / Divine — from the enchant count (Divine = 4 enchants)
- type, tier (or UT/ST), Soulbound, damage, on-equip stats, MP cost, feed power, XP bonus and the item's description — all pulled from the game's own data
It posts once per bag — running off a bag and back onto it will not repost it.
The Discord tab also has a Send Test Loot button. It posts a sample card covering each enchant tier and a shiny item, so you can see exactly what real drops will look like in your channel before you ever get one.
Every user configures their own channels — nothing is hard-coded, so a fresh download posts nowhere until you set it up. No Discord bot needed.
- Create a webhook. In Discord, open the channel you want drops posted to → Edit Channel → Integrations → Webhooks → New Webhook → Copy Webhook URL.
- Paste it into Baghound. Open the Discord tab, paste the webhook URL into a row, optionally give it a name (e.g. your server's name), and click Save.
- Add more if you like. Click + Add another webhook for each extra channel — every drop is posted to all of them at once.
Once saved, a row collapses to a status line showing the connection and the webhook's name; the URL itself is hidden. Each row has Edit (change the URL or name), Copy webhook link (copy the URL to share), and ✕ (remove). The list persists between launches.
Discord's API only exposes the webhook's own name, not the server or channel name — that's why you can give each webhook your own label.
- Paste the webhook URL (
https://discord.com/api/webhooks/...), not the channel link from your browser — they are different things. - The URL is saved locally on your PC and is never uploaded anywhere.
- Treat the webhook URL like a password — anyone who has it can post to that channel. To share one loot channel with friends, give them the same webhook URL to paste into their own copy.
Separately from the Discord webhook above, Baghound can feed the RealmShark loot bot ("Loot Goblin") — guild loot tracking, PPE vs seasonal, competitions. This connects to each player's existing RealmShark data; it is not a fresh tracker of our own.
Open the Bridge Review tab and fill in the Bridge Settings:
- Endpoint — the RealmShark ingest URL
- Guild ID — your guild's id
- Link Token — the token from RealmShark's
/mysniffercommand - CSV Path (optional) — the tracked-items list
- Tick Enabled, then Save Bridge Settings
You get the endpoint, guild id, and link token from RealmShark's bot/Discord
(/mysniffer → Configure Characters). The Bridge Logs tab shows live
bridge activity; the Bridge Review tab also lists which drops were sent vs.
skipped.
The Settings tab gathers every option in one place:
- Sound & Pings — a volume slider plus toggles for chat pings (PM, party, guild) and loot-bag pings (white, orange, red, gold, egg, blue, trade).
- Loot Filter — which loot-bag colours appear in the loot logger.
- Theme — the live theme picker (see Themes).
The Chat tab has its own Clear Chat button, and settings are saved per-user so they carry across updates and re-downloads.
As a user, you don't have to do anything. Baghound keeps itself current automatically:
- New items, enemies, sprites — pulled live from your ROTMG install on every launch, so they appear the moment you patch the game.
- Packet ID changes after a Deca patch — fetched live from the Crucible API on every launch; no restart needed.
- New features from upstream RealmShark/Tomato — a scheduled job merges them in every week, and a fresh build is published automatically.
- New builds of Baghound itself — Baghound checks for a newer release on every launch and installs it automatically before the main window opens. You'll briefly see an "Updating…" message during loading, then the app reopens on the new version with your settings and collection log carried over. If you stay running through a release, the status-bar button also flags a mid-session update you can install with one click.
You can also update by hand at any time — just re-download
Baghound-windows.zip from the
latest release
and use that folder.
Every published version is kept permanently on the
Releases page,
each under its own tag (v2.0.0, v2.0.1, …).
- The
latestrelease always points at the newest build — this is what the Install section links to and what most people should use. - Each versioned release (
v2.0.0,v2.0.1, …) stays on the page permanently. Once a newer version supersedes it, it is left frozen — a stable point you can always come back to.
If a new build ever misbehaves, you can roll back: open the
Releases page,
pick an earlier vX.Y.Z release, and download its Baghound-windows.zip.
An older build keeps working indefinitely.
Questions, bug reports, feature requests, or just want to follow development? Join the Baghound Discord — support tickets, release announcements, and a place to share builds with other players. For bugs you can also open an issue on GitHub.
| Problem | Fix |
|---|---|
| "Npcap not found" or no packets ever show up | Reinstall Npcap with the WinPcap API-compatible mode checkbox ticked. |
| Baghound opens but the DPS / Loot tabs stay empty | Click the Start Sniffer button (bottom-right), and make sure ROTMG is open. |
Item names show as ??? or numbers |
The asset extraction didn't find ROTMG. Confirm Exalt is installed via the official launcher. |
| Drops aren't posting to Discord | Open the Discord tab and check it shows "Connected". Remember only tops post (UT/ST, T7+ rings/abilities, T14+ armour/weapons, skins) — a brown/blue bag of filler won't. |
The .exe won't launch after swapping in a new JAR |
Don't hand-swap files — download a fresh Baghound-windows.zip and use that whole folder. |
| Multiple ROTMG clients open | Not supported by upstream RealmShark — only one client at a time. |
| Anything else | Open an issue with what you tried, what happened, and the build id shown in the status bar. For a tracking bug (loot, collection, fame), also attach the debug logs from %USERPROFILE%\.rotmg-sniffer\debug\. Grab them right after you stop the sniffer — each new session (starting the sniffer again, or relaunching Baghound) wipes the logs fresh, so collecting them after a restart gives an empty file. |
Upstream RealmShark/Tomato does all the core work — DPS tracking, loot detection, chat, quests, asset extraction, packet parsing. Baghound keeps all of it and adds the following.
1. Stability & crash fixes. The headline fix is a patch to the upstream packet sniffer. Upstream has two compounding concurrency bugs:
- Lost-wakeup race — the producer's
notifyAll()can fire in the window between the consumer's drain and its nextwait(), leaving the consumer blocked forever. - Incorrect hand-rolled ring buffer — wrap-around state desyncs, the
resize path can leak the read pointer past unread data, and
isEmpty()can returntruewhile data sits in the buffer.
Either bug alone produces the "capture stops after ~30s" symptom; together
they make it virtually certain on long sessions. Both are replaced with a
java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue and a CountDownLatch. The build
also hardens the packet pipeline against desync-driven crashes (guarded asset
loading, packet-constructor recovery, out-of-memory containment).
2. Pixel-art UI redesign — every screen rebuilt in Baghound's own retro style, with five live-switchable themes (Dark, Light, Midnight, Ember, Purp) and a drag-to-reorder tab bar.
3. DPS logger — detailed combat log — on top of upstream's per-player damage tracking, Baghound records each player's damage taken, shows the HP% players nexus at, keeps a persistent per-boss history of past runs, and exports any leaderboard as text or an image card.
4. Statistics tab — a per-character fame-over-time graph with selectable ranges, a per-day fame table, and a Dungeon Stats screen that ranks and features your most-run dungeons with their boss sprites.
5. Collection log — a persistent, cross-session record of notable drops: a lit/dim grid, a live "still-owned" view with automatic dismantle / death / loss detection and vault-backed self-correction, a dated log, and shareable text / image export.
6. Loot drops to Discord — the "tops" filter and the rendered loot card, postable to any number of channels.
7. RealmShark bot bridge — guild loot bridging (the Bridge Review / Bridge Logs tabs), ported from the PPETomato build.
8. In-app updates — silent auto-update on every launch, plus a no-pop-up, status-bar self-update for mid-session releases.
9. Automated builds & releases — CI builds the Windows .exe, publishes a
rolling latest release plus a permanent per-version archive, and merges
upstream weekly.
Baghound is built and maintained by Skydraex.
The core sniffing engine — DPS tracking, loot detection, chat, quest UI, asset
extraction, packet parsing — is the work of the RealmShark / Tomato authors
at https://github.com/X-com/RealmShark. That engine is MIT licensed and
its original notice is reproduced in
THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md, as that license requires.
The RealmShark bot bridge (the Bridge Review / Bridge Logs tabs) is ported from the PPETomato build, a RealmShark variant that adds guild loot bridging.
Everything original to Baghound — the stability and crash-hardening patches,
the pixel-art interface and themes, the DPS logger, the Statistics tab, the
collection log, the Discord loot webhook, the in-app updater, the build / CI /
upstream-sync automation, and the baghound.app
companion website with its Cloudflare Workers backend — is © Skydraex, all
rights reserved. Baghound builds on RealmShark and Tomato, which are
MIT-licensed (see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md) — that
licence is kept intact and the upstream attribution is preserved in full as
the MIT terms require.
Baghound itself is proprietary. The compiled application distributed from
this repository's Releases is licensed under the terms in LICENSE.md:
personal use only, no redistribution, no reverse engineering, no derivative
works. The upstream RealmShark/Tomato engine remains MIT and you retain your
rights to that engine itself — but the combined Baghound build, including all
original additions, is not open source.