EQ Auction Forge v1.4.5

Update recommended for everyone — especially if you're on 1.4.4 or older.

I was using the wrong api url for the price-check service (https://tlp-auctions.com), so I had to fix that. Older versions point at the old address and will stop being able to price-check or pull Recent Postings once it goes away. 1.4.5 moves to the new address so pricing keeps working. If you do a lot of EC trading, grab this one.

While I was in there I also fixed a certificate error that could pop up on some Windows machines during price checks — it now uses Windows' own certificate store, so it just works on more setups without any fiddling.

Also new in 1.4.5:

• Remove from watchlist on the fly: in the log monitor, right-click a BUY lead and pick "Remove '' from watchlist." It updates the live matcher and the editor immediately — no reopening anything.
• Smarter watchlist matching: uses exact phrase matching, so one line listing several items can't trigger a phantom match by stitching two of your items together.
• Better update notice: the "update available" nudge no longer gets clipped on narrow windows, and there's now a one-time "download the update?" prompt at startup so you don't miss it.
• Version display fixes: the title bar, Help, and --help now show the real version instead of a stale number.

Install: unzip the whole folder and run EQ_Auction_Forge.exe from inside it. Keep items.txt.gz next to it, same as always. No installer, no dependencies — your saved auction lists, settings, and aliases all carry over.

Scans clean — 0 detections on VirusTotal across all engines.

Heads up: Windows SmartScreen may still show an "unknown publisher" notice (this is an unsigned hobby build) — "More info → Run anyway." That's separate from antivirus; it just means the build isn't code-signed yet.

EQ Auction Forge v1.4.4

Maintenance release. No feature changes — this is purely a packaging fix for the antivirus false positive some of you ran into (Windows Defender quarantining EQ_Auction_Forge.exe, with a handful of other scanners flagging it too).

What was wrong: the app used to ship as a single self-extracting .exe (PyInstaller "onefile"). That unpack-to-temp-and-run pattern is exactly what a lot of real malware does, so antivirus heuristics flagged it — even though nothing in the app changed and it's the same open-source Python you can read on GitHub. It was a false positive, not an infection.

The fix: 1.4.4 is built a different way (Nuitka, as a normal program folder instead of a self-extracting exe). The dropper-shaped behavior antivirus was reacting to is simply gone — the new build scans completely clean, 0 detections across every major engine, including Microsoft Defender and BitDefender. I am also going to report the older flagged build to the antivirus vendors as a false positive, so those warnings clear on their end too.

What changed for you: the download is now a folder instead of a lone exe — it ships the program plus its support files together. Unzip the whole folder and run EQ_Auction_Forge.exe from inside it; keep items.txt.gz next to it, same as always. Everything else is identical — your saved auction lists, settings, and aliases carry over untouched.

Install: unzip the folder, run EQ_Auction_Forge.exe, keep items.txt.gz next to it. No installer, no dependencies.

Heads up: Windows SmartScreen may still show an "unknown publisher" notice since this is an unsigned hobby build — "More info → Run anyway." That's a separate prompt from the antivirus issue and just means the build isn't code-signed yet.

EQ Auction Forge v1.4.3

Bug-fix release. Fixes items that share a name in the DB linking the wrong item in game.

What was wrong: ~5,400 item names in the database are shared by two (or more) genuinely different items — e.g. there's a newbie Mistmoore Battle Drums and a level-95 raid one, and Apothic Robe is really two items. The macro matched items by name, so it could embed the wrong item's link — you'd post the cheap drum and the link in the tunnel would pop the raid drum.

The fix: it now matches by the item ID that's already in your /outputfile inventory dump, so the link is always the exact item you're holding. Prices and vendor values use the ID too. Old saved auction lists still load (they fall back to name matching, same as before).

Nothing else changed — no new features, no settings to touch. If you were on 1.4.2, just drop in the new exe.

Install: unzip, run EQ_Auction_Forge.exe, keep items.txt.gz next to it. No installer, no dependencies.

Heads up: Windows SmartScreen may warn since the exe is an unsigned build — "More info → Run anyway," or just run the source from GitHub if you'd rather.

EQ Auction Forge v1.4.2

First non-beta 1.4 release. Here's the big stuff since 1.3.7:

• Live Log Monitor (beta) — watches your log and pings you the second someone WTB/WTS something on your watchlist. Aliases, keyword matching, and sound alerts. Click a match to copy a /tell <name> to your clipboard (alt-tab to EQ, Ctrl-V); right-click to silence a spammer. Spot deals while you're tabbed out.
• Vendor Value — punch in your Charisma and it estimates the NPC vendor price for every item, so you know what's worth tunneling vs. just dumping on a merchant.
• Smart 3-band macro — pricey items become clickable links, mid-tier becomes compact text (still price-tracked), and vendor trash gets pulled out and listed by bag slot.
• Krono rate auto-syncs from TLP Auctions at startup, with a Sync button and a "synced @" timestamp so you always know it's current.
• Pricing smarts: amber flags when recent asks are undercutting your price, undercut % that rounds to a clean number, and a "match recent median" button in Recent Postings.

Install: unzip, run EQ_Auction_Forge.exe, keep items.txt.gz next to it. No installer, no dependencies.

Heads up: Windows SmartScreen may warn since the exe is an unsigned hobby build — "More info → Run anyway," or just run the source from GitHub if you'd rather.

EQ Auction Forge v1.3.7

EQ Auction Forge v1.3.7

New in 1.3.7

• Sortable columns — click any header on the item or auction list to sort; click again to reverse. Sort the item list by Location (bag items grouped together) to grab a whole bag at once; sort the auction list by Price after a price check to find the cheap stuff fast.
• "Bags only" filter — hide equipped/bank gear and show just what's in your inventory bags.

Also since v1.3.3

• Vendor floor / trash band + startup update check (1.3.6)
• Custom User-Agent for TLP Auctions (1.3.5)
• Macro pricing threshold — splits cheap items to text, movers to links (1.3.4)

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Install: download the zip, unzip, run EQ_Auction_Forge.exe (keep items.txt.gz next to it).

EQ Auction Forge v1.3.3

EQ Auction Forge v1.3.3

Fixes

• No more half-price postings. Macros no longer append xN for stacked items — tlp-auctions' scraper was reading Helm of Rile 95p x2 as two-for-95p and reporting half the real price. Quantity still shows in the in-app Qty column.
• Newbie junk filtered out. Worthless starter items (Backpack, Dagger, Skin of Milk, Bread Cakes, Gloomingdeep Lantern, Dreamweave / Ethereal Dreamweave Satchel, Small Box) are now dropped automatically when loading an inventory dump.
• Phantom "Name" entry fixed. The KeyRing sub-header at the bottom of every /outputfile dump was sneaking in as a fake item.

Install

Unzip and keep EQ_Auction_Forge.exe and items.txt.gz in the same folder, then run the exe.

EQ Auction Forge v1.3.2

EQ Auction Forge v1.3.2

Quality-of-life polish for building lists faster:

• Stacks combined with quantity — Duplicate or stacked inventory items (spells, potions, multiple copies of gear) are merged into a single entry showing the total count. The quantity carries through to the macro, e.g. <Singing Steel Bracer> 500p x2. Both lists now have a Qty column.
• Shorter prices — Prices now use a single p suffix instead of pp (e.g. 500p, 2kr 500p), saving a character per item so more fits per macro line.
• Explorer-style selection — Shift-click a range, Ctrl-click to toggle, or Ctrl+A to select everything. Press Enter to add the selection, Delete to remove rows from the auction list. The auction list is now multi-select too, and Set Price applies to every selected row at once.

Download

Grab EQ_Auction_Forge_v1.3.2_Windows.zip below, unzip, and run EQ_Auction_Forge.exe. Keep items.txt.gz in the same folder.

EQ Auction Forge v1.3.1

EQ Auction Forge v1.3.1

New tweaks for faster auction building:

• Multi-select items — Shift/Ctrl-click a batch in the item list and use Add Selected → instead of double-clicking each one.
• Price Check from the inventory list — new Price Check button under the items list checks your selected items without adding them to the auction.
• Recent Postings — new button shows the last 8 individual sales for one item (time, WTS/WTB, price, seller) so you can sanity-check the going rate.
• Undercut % — set a percent next to PC All to automatically price your items just under the median (e.g. 5 = 5% under).
• Alphabetical sorting — the item list is now sorted A→Z so things are easier to find.

Download

Grab EQ_Auction_Forge_v1.3.1_Windows.zip below, unzip, and run EQ_Auction_Forge.exe. Keep items.txt.gz in the same folder.

EQ Auction Forge v1.3.0

EQ Auction Forge v1.3.0

What's new

• Smarter INI picker — when you choose your character file to write macros into, the app now checks it first. It hard-blocks the wrong files (eqclient.ini, UI_*.ini layout files) with a note telling you the right one to grab, warns if a file doesn't look like a character INI, and keeps re-prompting until you pick a valid one. Much harder to clobber the wrong file by accident.
• Server-filtered file list — the picker now defaults to showing only the selected server's characters (e.g. *Frostreaver*.ini), so you're not scrolling past every character on every server.
• Remembers your folder — the picker reopens where you last browsed.
• Startup fix — fixed a stray character that could stop the script from launching.

Download

No Python needed: grab EQ_Auction_Forge_v1.3.0_Windows.zip below, unzip it (Desktop/Downloads — not Program Files), keep EQ_Auction_Forge.exe and items.txt.gz together, and double-click the .exe.

Developers / other platforms: use the Source code (zip) and run python EQ-Auction_Forge.py (Python 3.8+ with tkinter; no pip packages).

See the README for full usage. EverQuest must be closed when writing to your INI file.

EQ Auction Forge v1.2.0

EQ Auction Forge v1.2.0

What's new

• Faster price checks — now uses TLP Auctions' new bulk endpoint, so checking a full auction list is far quicker. PC All prices items 10 at a time in a single request each, instead of one slow call per item.
• Server list trimmed to Frostreaver — once a TLP gets the Bazaar, tlp-auctions data dries up, so Frostreaver is the only listed server for now (the box is still editable if you need another). New TLPs / EQ Legends can be added later.

Download

No Python needed: grab EQ_Auction_Forge_v1.2.0_Windows.zip below, unzip it (Desktop/Downloads — not Program Files), keep EQ_Auction_Forge.exe and items.txt.gz together, and double-click the .exe.

Developers / other platforms: use the Source code (zip) and run python EQ-Auction_Forge.py (Python 3.8+ with tkinter; no pip packages).

See the README for full usage. EverQuest must be closed when writing to your INI file.