Install shelter

There are multiple ways to install shelter, depending on which platform you are installing on.

Click the links in the sidebar to skip to the relevant section.

Information on the technical details of injection can be found on this page, but this page will simply include instructions relevant to the end user to get shelter up and running.

Desktop

I am using Kernel

We will not cover how to install Kernel itself. We expect you to know how Kernel works if you are using it.

Install the kernel package from here.

Assuming you are not using Kernel, download the shelter installer and run that.

It will install shelter using an injection method called sheltupdate. This works on all platforms and channels, does not require root access, and should never break due to a discord update.

If you previously installed shelter on desktop, you will have the legacy injector installed, and the installer will remove it for you as part of the update process, if it is able to.

In the very unlikely event that you encounter issues with Discord (e.g. not starting) after using the installer, you may have to do a manual installation instead, please see this page for more info.

If the installer is unable to remove your existing legacy injector installation, it may ask you to do a manual uninstall. The instructions for this are below.

Configuring Branches

sheltupdate supports multiple "branches", which are mods and tweaks that are injected into Discord. These are currently:

Branch Name	Description
shelter	Injects shelter
vencord	Injects Vencord ⚠️ Not an officially supported Vencord installation method
betterdiscord	Injects BetterDiscord ⚠️ Not an officially supported BetterDiscord installation method
moonlight	Injects Moonlight ⚠️ Not an officially supported Moonlight installation method
reactdevtools	Adds the React Developer Tools
spotify_embed_volume	Adds a volume slider to Spotify embeds
yt_ad_block	Blocks ads in YouTube embeds
yt_embed_fix	Makes more YouTube videos viewable from within Discord
native_titlebar	Replaces Discord's custom titlebar with Windows' native one

After installing shelter via the installer you will see a section called Client Mods in your Discord settings. There, you can configure additional branches that should be loaded alongside shelter. In order for them to apply, you will need to restart Discord fully.

Using branches but without shelter

If you want to, you can also make use of the branches without having to run shelter as well. But this requires you to configure your branches manually.

This is because the Client Mods section in the settings depends on shelter.

To configure your branches manually, you need to find your settings.json file, and modify the UPDATE_ENDPOINT and NEW_UPDATE_ENDPOINT keys:

OS	Path
Windows	%AppData%\discord\settings.json
macOS	~/Library/Application Support/discord/settings.json
Linux	~/.config/discord/settings.json
Linux (Flatpak)	~/.var/app/com.discordapp.Discord/config/discord/settings.json

On a fresh install it should look like this:

"UPDATE_ENDPOINT": "https://inject.shelter.uwu.network/shelter",
"NEW_UPDATE_ENDPOINT": "https://inject.shelter.uwu.network/shelter/",

Replace shelter with the combination of branches that you want.

You can install multiple branches by concatenating them with +s, like: shelter+vencord, moonlight+yt_ad_block+spotify_embed_volume.

WARNING

Ensure you leave a / at the end of the new endpoint, and do not put one on the old endpoint.

Manual Legacy Uninstall

If you have been asked by the shelter installer to manually uninstall the traditional/legacy injector, here are the steps to do that.

First, find your resources folder:

OS	Path
Windows	%LocalAppData%\discord\resources
macOS	/Applications/Discord.app/Contents/Resources
Linux	/opt/discord/resources
Linux	/usr/share/discord/resources
Linux	/usr/lib/discord/resources
Linux (Flatpak)	/var/lib/flatpak/app/com.discordapp.Discord/x86_64/stable/active/files/discord/resources

It should look like so:

🗁 resources
├── 🗁 app
│    ├── 🗋 index.js
│    ├── 🗋 preload.js
│    └── 🗋 package.json
├── 🗁 bootstrap
├── 🗋 build_info.json
└── 🗋 original.asar

Rename original.asar to app.asar, and delete the app folder. It should look like this:

🗁 resources
├── 🗋 app.asar
├── 🗁 bootstrap
└── 🗋 build_info.json

You're done! Go back to the shelter installer to install sheltupdate, if you were trying to do that.

Firefox

Install this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/shelter-injector/

Microsoft Edge

Install this extension: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/shelter-mv3-inj/okemjpeidkmhjpmdcpaibakdhnheblib

Other Chromium Browsers

Do not follow these instructions if you are using Microsoft Edge.

As these extensions fetch the latest build of shelter, it is not allowed on the Chrome Webstore (we got kicked off!), and as there is no easy way to comply with this, you will have to manually install the extension.

1. Download the latest version of the extension here
2. Unpack the zip to a folder somewhere safe. If you delete this folder, the extension will be uninstalled.
3. Head to chrome://extensions, and enable Developer Mode in the top-right corner
4. Click "Load Unpacked Extension", and select the folder you unpacked the zip into