I’ve been trying for about an hour now to get wildcard tokens to work. I followed the documentation provided here Tokens | Foundry Virtual Tabletop
Even wildcard token that worked before are broken now. The only ones still working in my game are done via Too Many Tokens - Online
Is there anything I can do about it? Or am I just screwed until further updates?
Yes, got the same issue. Was just debugging it because Foundry Discord does not report this as an issue, seems to be related to Forge’s interaction with Foundry
For a Image with the path:
https://assets.forge-vtt.com/*********/extra/Portraits/WolvesDogs/*.png
I get the error
foundry.mjs:23633
Error: Error retrieving wildcard tokens. Directory https://assets.forge-vtt.com/******/extra/Portraits/WolvesDogs does not exist or is not accessible in this storage location
Note if you select a SPECIFIC art asset in that folder the Token works fine, just doesn’t like Wildcards
Version V13 Stable 2 (Build 342)
Confirming the same issue and result as fashtas on the same build
Just out of interest sake, some wildcards work but I can’t see a pattern
If you point to “Core Data” this folder works:
icons/creatures/invertebrates/*.webp
this doesn’t
cards/backs/*.webp
Not spaces, not length, not which database, no idea so far (Not dashes in the filenames, both these examples have the same style filenames), both folders contain same types of files and both contain more than 1 file
More information. Vanilla foundry seems to work fine, I got Wildcards working on anything I tried but again I got the same error with the Core Data /cards/ folder on a default Foundry setup
Seems to be some sort of V13 issue but what it is I can’t say
Edit: Default Foundry install on Local machine wildcards, no addons
Thanks for the reports @fashtas and @rascalpanda and @ms_succubus . I’ll mark this down to look into tomorrow, since we were actually supposed to have just fixed some rather significant wildcard issues recently.
Hello,
Is there any solution/workaround to that issue ?
Thanks a lot for your dedication.
I want to report that i have the same issue. only “Core Data” works as fashtas said
Error still in latest build: v13 Stable 4 (Build 345)
I think that I have read somewhere on the Forge Discord that this issue would be addressed in the current (or next) sprint, but no idea about when that would be…
Some of us would be really interested to receive an update status of that issue.
Thank you again.
This is happening with all of the premade character tokens in Kingmaker as well for PF2E. I have to manually ensure that the token has a picture in it because it drops on the vtt table as the white placeholder image for characters and I get the error message you are all getting.
I’m here to say that I’m having this issue as well.
Also weighing in. This is causing us to have to pause several of our games that reply on shapeshifting mechanics or the like, so this is REALLY disruptive. One of our modules has bad bugs only fixed in V13+, and then in V13 this bug also stops our game.
Also having this problem. Only some tokens generate the “error retrieving wildcard token” popup, but the Kingmaker module specifically has the only cases with the tokens as the placeholder image whenever the popup appears.
Just noted latest Foundry fixed “A” bug with wildcards in Release 13.346 | Foundry Virtual Tabletop
June 26, 2025: Wildcards do not work correctly in v13 · Issue #12885 · foundryvtt/foundryvtt · GitHub
Funnily enough thats MY bug report I posted to their Discord, someone must have grabbed it and posted to their bug tracking system
Not so funny is it does not fix the issue, it only fixes one part of it, the bit where wildcards don’t work in Core Data/cards/ (For example) but DO work in Core Data/icons/
The other aspect (No wildcards work anywhere else) they just say in comments to contact your service provider and get them to fix it…
Just to let you know that this bug has been fixed thanks to Foundry build 346 combined with yesterday’s release by Forge.