Desktop · Albion Butler Capture
The capture app logs the loot picked up around you while you play, and sends it through Albion Butler to your raid: who took what, from whom, what it’s worth, and whether it reached the chest. Nothing to drag into Discord.
Windows x64 and Apple Silicon Macs. Free, and it never touches the game.
Loot logging
What the app is for. You play as usual, and the guild sees where the loot went.
In gameEvery pickup near you is logged: who took what, from whom, and how many.
The capture appPaired once with /capture pair, it uploads as it logs. No files to drag.
Albion ButlerSorts the lines into your raid and merges every member’s captures.
On the webThe raid’s loot page and your own haul: picked up, handed in, still owed.In Discord
Three posts the app keeps fed. Press a number to see what that part means.
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Siphoned Energy — Your guild−1,204 · Holt−342 · Brann+664 · Aerin+453 · Dorn+40 · Sable0 · Tovik
From territories this period: +12,400 Guild spent this period: −9,894 Owed to depositors: 4+1,157
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Full list 5Albion ButlerAPPWhat the bot does with it
When an officer opens the raid’s loot session, it takes every paired member’s uploads from the raid’s time, even lines logged before it opened.
A pickup three members saw counts once, and says how many saw it. A line only one person logged is marked.
Paste the guild chest log, and the report shows who handed in what, and who still owes.
At your server’s market prices, at quality 1 so it leans low. It fills in the settle window, and the officer decides.
Your guild and the guilds in your alliance count as ours. Enemies looting your dead are listed, never counted.
Your haul across every server you raid with, free on every plan, and which raid counted each upload.
Also kept current
The energy logLog rows and the guild’s energy total, so the energy board keeps itself current.See the energy board
The daily bonusesThe day’s production bonuses for your server. One member’s app fills the board for every guild there.See the daily boardSet it up
Windows: choose Run anyway at the SmartScreen warning, then Install capture driver for Npcap, with its admin-only option left unticked. Mac: drag it to Applications, right-click and Open, and enter your password once.
Run /capture pair in your guild’s server. Type the 8-character code into the app within 10 minutes. Up to five computers per member.
Play as usual. Your loot waits for your raid’s session, and the energy and bonus boards update themselves.
Private by design
Loot lines, nearby players’ included, item trades, the energy log and total, the daily bonus rotation and error reports. Nothing else is uploaded.
Where you are on the map is never kept, and your pairing token is encrypted by the operating system.
Pickup lines are deleted a week after the raid’s loot session closes. Each player’s totals stay.
Automatic sending can be turned off, and a paired computer can be removed with /capture revoke.
Under the hood
How it works, and what it never does.
The code is public on GitHub under GPL-3.0. Anyone can read exactly what it does.
It reads the game’s network traffic as it goes past. It never types, clicks, moves or changes anything in Albion, and it sends nothing to the game.
Sandbox Interactive’s technical lead said in 2017 that tools which only look and analyze are fine. This app only looks and analyzes. It never changes the game or plays for you, and it isn’t made or endorsed by Sandbox Interactive.
Capture runs on AO Loot Logger (GPL-3.0), the community loot logger, as a separate program. On Windows it uses Npcap; on a Mac it needs your permission to read network traffic.
What it logs goes to your guild’s bot, and only while upload is on.
Capture is AO Loot Logger by madvac, after Matheus Sampaio’s original. The loot page’s prices come from the Albion Online Data Project.
Honest limits
Where it stops, and why, before you run into it.
Only what happens near youIt logs only what the game sends to your computer: the pickups near you. A second member’s app fills the gaps.Prices need your serverPrices are per game server, so estimates need your server set on the killboard, on any plan.Windows and Apple SiliconIt runs on Windows x64 and Apple Silicon Macs only.
No VPN, no cloud gamingIt can’t read the game through either.
The Mac build isn’t notarized yetIt opens with right-click → Open, and updates by hand.Albion’s rules are yours to checkYou’re responsible for making sure running it complies with the rules of Albion Online.Questions
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No. It listens to the game’s network traffic with pcap, the way the Albion Data Project client does, and never changes anything in the game.
02 / 05
No. Loot logger files can still be dropped in the raid’s officer thread, and the energy log pasted by hand. The app saves the dragging and the pasting.
03 / 05
Your lines wait. The raid’s session takes them when an officer opens it, and a run outside any raid says it isn’t attached to one yet.
04 / 05
No. The capture app is the small, stable one for the guild. The full desktop app, with sessions, loot and fights, is in private beta.
05 / 05
On Windows it checks every hour and installs when you quit. On a Mac, download the new version from this page.