CroakWatch v1.46

v1.46 — Placeholder accuracy

Fixes a reported problem where a named's placeholder list slowly filled up with nearly every mob in the area. Thanks to vharuchai who reported and helped testing.

• Placeholders are now identified by behavior, not proximity. A mob has to actually hold the named's spawn spot for a while before CroakWatch calls it a placeholder — a real PH sits there waiting to be killed, while wanderers passing through no longer get adopted.
• CroakWatch also tells identical-looking mobs apart now (two "a moss viper" spawns are two different mobs, not one), and ignores mobs on floors above or below the spot.
• Spawn spots earn trust. A spot is verified once CroakWatch has watched the named spawn there more than once — and only verified spots are watched for placeholders. This stops a roaming named from turning random patrol positions into fake camps. Hover a named in the list, or check the Location panel, to see which spots are verified.
• Sharing got safer: exports include verified spots only, and spots you import start unverified — someone else's file tells you where to camp; your own eyes still do the confirming.
• Zone Watch lines now carry >> and << markers so arrivals and departures are readable at a glance.

If a named's placeholder list already picked up junk, clear the PH field for it (Spawn Settings > PH > Save) — CroakWatch will relearn correctly from here.

v1.42 — Exact item matching

• Loot Watch and item tooltips now respect exact names. Previously a watch for silk cloth also counted Silk Cloth Sandals — and the hover card could show the wrong item's stats. Now you decide per entry:
  • silk cloth — partial match, as before (still catches Sandals, Robe, anything containing it)
  • "Silk Cloth" — in quotes: that exact item only
• The rule holds everywhere it matters: the drop alert, your inventory/bank counts, the group's counts, and the tooltip card.
• Item cards opened from the drop feed and Top Drops always resolve exactly, since those names come straight from loot lines.
• Note: counts cover inventory and bank — shared bank isn't included.

Thanks to CannonBallDex for the request and the code suggestion.

v1.40 — Zone Watch: departure alerts

A quick community-requested addition:

• Zone Watch now tells you when players leave, not just arrive. A quiet console note and a Camp Watch feed entry — no sound, so the intruder alarm keeps its meaning. Great for knowing when camp competition clears out during AFK stretches.
• Small print: "left the zone" means they vanished from the spawn list — zoned out, camped, or died; the game doesn't say which.

v1.39 — Choose your frog

CroakWatch gets a face — actually, seven of them.

• NEW: Themes — pick your look in Options > Theme, applies instantly: Green Frog (the new default — painted swamp header, mossy colors), RedFrog (charcoal-wine and ember), Blue Frog (deep water and ice), the original purple/gold Classic, plus three Classic color variants without the artwork. Your choice is remembered per server.
• Painted header — frog mascot and CROAKWATCH artwork across the top, with the window controls neatly overlaid. And yes: click the frog to minimize.
• The sentinel — the empty camp-details panel now shows a brooding frog statue scene instead of blank space (each theme has its own).
• Small touches everywhere: frog badge on the minimized icon, skull and frog glyphs on the Recent Croaks / Croak Stats headers.
• Meaning never changes with the look: green UP, yellow outsiders, teal hints stay the same colors in every theme.
• The install now includes an assets/images folder — RedFetch and normal zip extracts handle it automatically.

If you liked the old look, it's still there: Options > Theme > Classic.

v1.27 — Trade camp intel with your server

CroakWatch camps can now be shared. Your knowledge, your friends' knowledge — one file, one click.

• NEW: Export — one button (Options > Sharing, or /croakwatch export) writes a share file of everything your CroakWatch has learned on this server: the named, their spawn spots, placeholder lists, and learned respawn times, organized by zone. Nothing personal goes in it — no kill counts, no loot history, no notes, not even your character name. Post it on the forums or Discord for others on your server.
• NEW: Import — got a share file from a server veteran? Drop it in your Config/croakwatch folder and CroakWatch offers its named in the same checklist picker as the catalog: pick what you camp, import, done. Spawn spots and placeholder lists come along; respawn times arrive as starting hints that your own kills refine.
• Safety built in: files from other servers are ignored automatically, share files can't touch named you already track, and imported files are loaded in a locked-down sandbox.
• Your own exports don't clutter your picker — a share file only appears when it actually offers something you don't have.
• Under the hood: internal restructuring so the growing feature set stays within Lua's limits.

Tip for veterans: export after a good camping stretch — your locs and learned timers are exactly what a newcomer to your server needs.

v1.23 — Named catalog for EMU + smarter zone books

• NEW: Named Catalog (EMU players, this one's for you) — servers without the achievement system no longer start empty. In zones the catalog knows, a Catalog button appears in Camps: pick the named you camp from a checklist and import them in one click. First zone shipped: Old Sebilis, with more zones coming in future updates — the button reappears automatically when your zone's list grows.
• Imports are safe by design: named you already track are never touched, and an imported respawn time is just a starting hint — your own kills replace it automatically.
• The button only shows where it's actually useful: zones with an achievement (Live) never see it.
• Event zones get their own book — Hardcore Heritage revamps share names with classic mobs but are totally different fights. CroakWatch now keeps HH data separate (look for the [HH] tag by the zone name), so event-season timers never corrupt your classic-zone data — and your HH book reopens intact next season.
• NEW: /croakwatch resetzone — wipe the current zone's tracked data and start fresh (asks you to confirm, and refills from the achievement where one exists). Great for post-event cleanup.
• NEW: Help tab — every slash command listed with what it does, plus tips.
• Camp Watch: new Options toggle to keep "entered the zone" lines out of your console (the feed still catches everything).

Installs as usual — the zip now contains two files (init.lua + catalog.lua); RedFetch and manual extracts both just work.

v1.15 — Second-toon protection (Monitor Mode) + attribution donut

Run CroakWatch on more than one character? This one's for you.

• NEW: Monitor Mode — if you start CroakWatch on a second character on the same server, it now detects your first one automatically and switches itself to a protective watch-only mode: all alerts, timers, and sounds work, but it won't touch your saved data. No more instances overwriting each other's kills and notes. You'll see a teal [MONITOR] tag so you always know which is which.
• Characters on different servers (or different computers) are unaffected — each runs at full power with its own save.
• When your main instance closes, monitor characters warn you that kills are no longer being recorded.
• New /croakwatch status command tells you at a glance what role an instance is running.
• NEW: kill donut — the Stats tab's This Session section now shows a mini pie of who's landing your kills (you / pets / group / outsiders), matching the ledger colors.
• Stats layout polish: the session loot summary no longer cuts off the tribute value, and the two session ledgers line up properly.

Note: the protection only works between up-to-date copies — make sure every character runs v1.15.

CroakWatch v1.08 - who really got the kill?

• Kill credit now goes to the right hunter. CroakWatch reads the kill messages and knows whether you, a group member, a merc, or one of your pets landed the blow - all of it counts as yours. Pets are recognized even under their random names (Zeneker, Gobaner...).
• Outsider alert. If someone outside your group kills a named you're tracking, the timer still restarts (the respawn clock started either way) - but it's not counted as your kill, and the kill shows in yellow so you can't miss it.
• Recent Croaks is now a color-coded ledger - teal for pet kills, green for group/mercs, yellow for outsiders - and it survives restarts (keeps the last 24 hours). Go AFK overnight, wake up, and see at a glance if anyone was working your camps.
• The Stats tab got a full redesign: collapsible sections, a one-line zone summary, session kill + loot ledgers side by side with an "Outsiders only" audit filter, a two-column all-time record, and a leaderboard with kill bars.
• Hover anything to learn it. Every new stat, color, and term explains itself in a tooltip - CroakWatch teaches you as you use it.
• Accuracy fixes: a long-standing silent double-count on manually-added mobs is gone, and group-member kills that some servers never reported now register properly.

CroakWatch v1.01 - install fix

• Fixed: "script won't load" after downloading v1.00. The zip's contents were loose instead of inside a croakwatch folder, so manual installs didn't land where the loader looks. The zip now extracts to a proper croakwatch/ folder - drop it in your lua folder and go.
• If v1.00 wouldn't load for you: delete the loose init.lua and assets from your lua folder, grab v1.01, extract, done.
• The zip is also leaner - just the script and its sound files, nothing else.
• No gameplay changes.

CroakWatch v1.00 - the America 250 Release!

Two hundred fifty years of independence - and now your camps are free too. CroakWatch hits 1.00!

• Group item counts - every watched item shows grp 4/6: how many of your group already have it. Hover for the who's-who (counts their banks too). Know the moment everyone's got their drop - declare independence from that camp and move on!
• Item cards everywhere - hover any item name (watch list, drops, a named's loot) for its icon and full EQ-style stats: container slots, weight/value/tribute, classes, resists, effects. Ctrl+Right-Click opens the real in-game item window.
• Loot Watch upgrades - partial names now match no matter the capitalization ("glowing seb" works!), sort by name or count, see your inventory/bank counts per item, and hover the box with an item on your cursor to add it instantly.
• Coin tracking - plat looted from corpses and group splits, this session and all-time (Stats tab).
• Loot worth tracking - the total vendor value and tribute value of everything you loot. Watch your fortune grow, patriot.
• Fixes - notes no longer type in ALL CAPS, and group counts no longer get stuck on "no data."

Happy 250th, and happy hunting!