Polestar 0.3.4

Party play now works on Forever: form a party with friends who run Polestar and it starts by itself. The Lookup data is rebuilt and catches up with last month's fixes, so Nearby services finds food, ammunition and general goods vendors, pick-up guides follow quest chains, and dungeon pages show each quest's XP. The guide window tells you when a level-up opens a dungeon's quests, and this update fixes the routes and guide window reports since 0.3.3. Polestar is still a beta for World of Warcraft: Forever.

Polestar is still a beta. If something's off, tell us on Discord or GitHub Issues.

Install or update

• With the Polestar Client: it updates Polestar for you.
• With the CurseForge app: update Polestar Guides.
• By hand: download Polestar-0.3.4.zip below (not "Source code"). Delete every old Polestar folder from World of Warcraft/_classic_beta_/Interface/AddOns/ (_forever_ from launch), then unzip this one there.
• Then /reload (or restart the game): this release adds no new addon folders.

Polestar_Recorder-0.3.4.zip is optional. SHA256SUMS holds the checksums.

For players

Play together

• Party play works on Forever: Polestar now recognises party members by their full first and last name, so party sync, the party line and the party panel see each other. In a group with someone else running Polestar, nothing needs turning on: sync starts by itself and the party panel opens the first time their Polestar is heard (close it and it stays closed; /polestar party brings it back and says why when nothing can show yet). The Characters page keeps two characters with the same first name apart, and the Recorder leaves out your last name too (thanks uNBEx).

Dungeons

• When a level-up, or a quest you hand in, opens a dungeon's quests to you, a card on the guide window says so, once per dungeon ("Wailing Caverns is open to you: 3 quests to pick up"). Pick up the quests opens a guide for them in a new tab, and Open in Dungeons shows the dungeon's page. Turn it off on the card or under Options > Discovery > Dungeons (thanks mcclaskiem, #836).
• "Pick up the quests" follows your own faction for every quest and giver, whatever the page's Horde / Alliance / All switch shows. Blackfathom Deeps no longer sends Horde characters to Darnassus for the Alliance's In Search of Thaelrid (thanks jiskim, #1026).
• The Deadmines pick-up guide sends you for Murloc Gills before Moonbrook Espionage: Alba Fairmoon offers it only once both Murloc Gills and The State of the Mines are handed in (thanks Slugstur, #991). The Moonsilver Blade quests before Old Fire-Eye (Shadowfang Keep) are listed in their order, as players' recordings show.

Lookup, Nearby services and dungeon pages

• The data behind Lookup, Nearby services and the Dungeons pages is rebuilt only from sources we're allowed to ship (the game client, Forever's quest data, our recordings and public facts) and catches up with this month's fixes: Nearby services now finds food and drink, arrow, bullet, bow and gun and general goods vendors, pick-up guides follow quest chains such as The Wrath of Rath'mael's (thanks lif3l3ss and boldarblood37), dungeon pages show each quest's XP, Onyxia's attunement can be guided, lookups leave out stray spawns, and your own race's vendor mounts no longer ask for Exalted. The Forever-only racial mounts (the Reins of the Striped Dawnsaber, the White Kodo, the Black Skeletal Horse) now name their vendor.

Routes and guides

• Ashenvale: Va'xug Firefure's A Void Path is taken once Never Coming Back is handed in to him, on the same visit, instead of together with it, when he doesn't offer it yet (thanks soockee and jiskim, and CDVolvik for the same fix in the quest data).
• Ratchet, the Crossroads, Sun Rock Retreat and Tarren Mill: the guide binds your hearthstone at the inn after the givers beside the ones you just visited (Mebok Mizzyrix's Raptor Horns by the WANTED poster, Mankrik, Maggran Earthbinder, Apothecary Lydon), instead of sending you up to the inn and back to them (thanks Bill).
• Druid Cat Form: the arrow for the Great Cat Spirit's quests leads to where it stands, on the hill by the bridge in southern Moonglade, instead of a spot about 90 yards east of it (thanks Snowiee, #1003).
• Arrow: from Rut'theran Village to the top of Teldrassil, the route takes the portal up to Darnassus and walks on from there, instead of a walk straight up the tree or a loop back down the portal (thanks Dante).
• Walking paths are rebuilt for Darkshore and The Barrens.

The guide window

• The "You've reached the end" window no longer opens in the middle of a guide when you talk to a quest giver before handing in the quest that unlocks their next one (Regthar Deathgate and Kolkar Leaders in The Barrens, with 46 steps still to go). A guide's last step ends the guide early only when you have really done it. A class or race quest done elsewhere no longer ends a leveling guide either: Cat Form, done early in its class guide, used to end The Barrens halfway for Druids (thanks MrM00se).
• The look-ahead lines ("Then out here: …", "Then: Gakin the Darkbinder · Turn in The Binding"), Along the way and Up next wrap onto a second line instead of cutting names off with "…". Opened, a look-ahead line names only the place or the person, since its goals are listed right under it (thanks to a player on Discord).

Options and other addons

• Nameplate icons: a new setting, Options > Questing > Quests > Nameplate icon position, moves the quest skull and your progress (3/10) from the left of the health bar to its right or above the name, so another addon's quest icon no longer covers them (thanks VenoMan).
• With Waypoint UI installed and Options > Navigation > Blizzard waypoint on, its marker follows the guide by name: a turn-in, or a quest objective at one spot, tracks the quest itself; any other goal is a pin named after the step ("Talk to Executor Arren") instead of "Map Pin". Polestar only clears the pin or tracked quest it set, never one you chose.

For guide authors and contributors

• forge data codex reads no installed addon for a release build: the item sources players' recordings show come from the committed snapshot data/codex/recorded.json, and a collectible guide's buy step names the item's vendor. forge release pack refuses a Codex built from a third-party gear list, and warns when the Codex was built from another data build than data/forever (thanks lif3l3ss and boldarblood37).

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who reported these on GitHub and in #bugs, and to everyone playing in groups and telling us what broke.

Every change is in the full changelog.