MagicMap 2.0.0

MagicMap 2.0. Your minimap, zooming out to the whole world on the game's own terrain, with Blizzard's live blips still on it and Blizzard's indoor maps inside buildings. Press M and it grows into a big map. 2.0 is MagicMap rebuilt from the ground up: smoother, steadier, and it now knows where you are inside cities, caves and buildings. Please keep opening issues for anything odd; a screenshot helps a lot.

Install

1. Download MagicMap-v2.0.0.zip below.
2. Unzip it into World of Warcraft/_classic_beta_/Interface/AddOns/ (WoW Forever's folder), so you end up with Interface/AddOns/MagicMap/MagicMap.toc (not MagicMap/MagicMap/...). If you're updating, delete the old MagicMap folder first.
3. Restart the game (a /reload isn't enough the first time) and make sure MagicMap is ticked in the AddOns list.
4. In game the map sits on your minimap's spot. /mm help lists the commands; /mm swaps it with Blizzard's minimap.

You don't need QuestieDB or any other addon: the quest facts MagicMap shows are built in.

What's new since 1.0

• Indoor maps. Inside a building, cave or city you see Blizzard's own indoor minimap pictures, placed on the map: the floor you're on whole, the floors below faded and the ones above ghosted where they overlap yours.
• City maps. On the big map in a capital (Ironforge, Orgrimmar, Undercity, Stormwind...), the whole city's buildings at once, with the city's own area names (The Great Forge, the Cleft of Shadow, the Trade Quarter...). Gear → Map → City maps turns it off.
• Rebuilt. The map does its work in small, timed slices, so zooming, dragging and growing it stay smooth, and an error in one part is caught and reported once (/mm errors) while the rest keeps running.
• Blizzard's look. The terrain as Blizzard drew it, on each map's dark water, with Blizzard's HD icons for quests, places and gathering nodes. Zone borders show on the big map.
• Crowded icons grouped. Overlapping icons become a small pill; click it to see them all.
• New controls. A quest line at the bottom left (the quest you follow and its progress, else your quests in this zone), and a zoom reset button above + while you're zoomed away from the default.
• A tidier gear menu. Map, Quests, Places, Nearby (rares, treasures, your party and Blizzard's tracking types), Other addons; Use Blizzard's minimap and Reset to defaults; then Settings.
• More remembered blips. Mailboxes and services seen before are kept up to 5000 a continent (1.0 kept 300); rares you see are remembered for every character on your account.
• A fresh start for your settings. 2.0 saves under a new name, so 1.0's window place, layers and remembered rares aren't carried over.
• Gone since 1.0: colour-matched tiles and the sea texture, the unexplored shade, and the estimated circles for quests the game gives no area.

What it does

• The minimap: square on your minimap's spot, wheel and +/− zoom, drag to pan, glides back to you a few seconds after a pan, move and resize it, /mm reset.
• The big map: M or the red button grows it; M, the button or Escape shrinks it; L still opens Blizzard's map. Click the zone name to pick any continent, map or instance; click a zone to fly there.
• Blizzard's blips: herbs, ore, the mailbox and tracked NPCs around you with their icons and tooltips; town services and blips seen before when zoomed in; Blizzard's duplicate tracking switched off while MagicMap draws it, and always put back.
• Quests: your quests in Blizzard's art and difficulty colours, quests to pick up, rich tooltips, objective areas as the game draws them. Click one to follow it.
• Where to go: a hand-inked walking line to your corpse, the quest you follow or your waypoint, around cliffs, lava and water. Ctrl-click for a waypoint, Shift-click for a /way line, right-click for the menu.
• Places and people: flight points, dungeon entrances, graveyards, points of interest, party and raid members, rares and treasures, your corpse.
• Other addons: HereBeDragons world-map pins (Questie, HandyNotes...) on the map and minimap pins (GatherMate...) around you, nothing drawn twice.

Known limits

• For WoW Forever only, on the client build it was made for (1.60.1), and English (enUS) clients only.
• Instances (dungeons, raids) hide your position: they're shown whole, without your arrow, the line or blips.
• Blizzard's blips are sensed only within about 230 yards of you.
• The map stays north up; with Rotate Minimap on, other addons' minimap pins hide.
• Routes are walking only: no flights, boats or portals. No per-character settings.
• Other minimap addons (SexyMap, square-minimap addons) may conflict; while FarmHud has the minimap, MagicMap steps aside.

License and credits

MagicMap is free software under the GNU GPL, version 3. Its quest, NPC, object and item data is derived from QuestieDB and Questie, used under the GPLv3 terms they extend to copies of their work, with thanks to their authors and contributors: see LICENSE and NOTICE.md in the zip. MagicMap isn't affiliated with Questie or Blizzard.