Utility HuntBuddy 2.34

This one is almost all zone data. The list got shorter and more honest: 571 zones down to 554, because seventeen of them were not places you can go.

• Revamped zones are now labelled 1.0 and 2.0. Twenty-four zones exist in two versions - the classic one and the rebuild that replaced it. Chardok, Skyfire Mountains, Velketor's Labyrinth, Vex Thal, Cobalt Scar, Freeport, the Ros, Innothule Swamp and more. Until now they appeared twice with the same name and you had to read the expansion column to tell them apart. 1.0 is the original, 2.0 is the revamp.
• Zones you cannot enter on Live are hidden there. Classic East, West and North Freeport, Steamfont Mountains and the Plane of Hate still exist in your game folder but not in the game - Live replaced them years ago. They still show on EMU, where most servers do have them.
• New: Settings - Show all zone versions. Turn it on and nothing is hidden. Useful if your server runs the older generation of a zone, or if a zone you know exists is missing.
• Ten zones removed that were never really zones. Loading screens, an empty half of Gloomingdeep, the Muramite Proving Grounds mission instances, and several files that shipped with the client but never opened. One of them, "The Burned Woods", crashes the game if you try to travel to it - it was a cut zone from a 2012 expansion that never shipped.
• Better names, from better sources. High Keep, Northern and Southern Felwithe, North and South Kaladim, Feerrott the Dream, Kithicor Forest, The Arena, The Void, The Open Sea and Temple of Marr all had placeholder or truncated names. No two zones in the list share a name any more.
• EMU gains classic Highpass Hold, the original canyon between the Karanas and Antonica. It is missing from MacroQuest's zone list entirely, so HuntBuddy never had it.
• Hunting Only now explains itself - hover it. It hides mission hubs, arenas, guild halls, cities and housing, and it deliberately keeps zones with no level data, because that is a gap in the data rather than an empty zone.

HuntBuddy 2.31 - the zone data rebuild

The version numbers changed. HuntBuddy used to use three-part numbers like 2.3.90. It now uses two-part numbers. 2.31 looks smaller than 2.3.90 but it is the newer build - same script, renumbered. Next ones are 2.32, 2.33 and so on.

• The zone list was rebuilt from scratch. Every zone, level range and experience number now comes from a named source instead of a hand-typed table - MacroQuest's own zone list, the ProjectEQ database, and the game files on your own PC.
• All 33 expansions now included - 571 zones, Classic through Shattering of Ro. The newest thirteen expansions were missing entirely before.
• Level ranges come from the monsters actually in each zone, excluding decorative wildlife, merchants, guards and quest NPCs. A newbie zone with two level-50 guards at the entrance is still a newbie zone. A range of -- means no data exists, not that the zone is empty.
• New Hot Zone tab showing all three possible hot zones for every bracket, 20 to 105, with the active ones highlighted.
• Travel to any zone with a Go button on every row, plus Group Travel, Stop and Pause (needs MQ2EasyFind).
• Four tabs - Zones, Hot Zone, Settings and Help - and eleven themes including four new map palettes.
• Fixes: zones with no level info were invisible (18 of them); the level filter capped at 125 and hid all of Shattering of Ro; 272 zones were missing on Live; typing ( in the name filter crashed the window; marking a favourite could mark a second unrelated zone.

Two things after updating: your saved theme resets once - just pick it again, all the old ones are still there. And if you installed by hand, delete themes.lua and theme_loader.lua from your lua/huntbuddy/ folder; they're no longer used.

Commits​

2.3.87 Fixes Platinum button color mismatch

Corrects an issue where the Platinum button's text color
was not properly popped after being toggled. Captures the
state before toggle to ensure correct color application
and removal, resolving color inconsistencies.

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2.3.86 Improves zone filtering and sorting

Refactors zone data and filtering logic for better performance and accuracy.

Adds server mode (EMU/Live/Lazarus) to expansion filtering, addressing duplicate zone entries and expansion caps. Implements precomputed string keys for zone name, level, and ZEM sorting, resolving sorting issues. Introduces functions for normalizing zone names and handling missing data.

Updates zone data with server-specific ZEM values and expansion assignments.

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2.3.47 Fixed HuntBuddySettings.ini, now in Config folder, please delete old ini manually (in your MQ folder main)

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2.3.28

Added new favorites type, Platinum

Fixed memory
Centering
Stability
Table Height fix
Favorites Persistence fix

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main'

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2.2.1

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Update README.md

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2.2

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Initial commit

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Commits​

2.3.87 Fixes Platinum button color mismatch

Corrects an issue where the Platinum button's text color
was not properly popped after being toggled. Captures the
state before toggle to ensure correct color application
and removal, resolving color inconsistencies.

Click to expand...

(c5a06b1) ~RedFrog24

Commits​

2.3.86 Improves zone filtering and sorting

Refactors zone data and filtering logic for better performance and accuracy.

Adds server mode (EMU/Live/Lazarus) to expansion filtering, addressing duplicate zone entries and expansion caps. Implements precomputed string keys for zone name, level, and ZEM sorting, resolving sorting issues. Introduces functions for normalizing zone names and handling missing data.

Updates zone data with server-specific ZEM values and expansion assignments.

Click to expand...

(4bc1e7f) ~RedFrog24

Commits​

2.3.47 Fixed HuntBuddySettings.ini, now in Config folder, please delete old ini manually (in your MQ folder main)

Click to expand...

(b9c5826) ~RedFrog24

Commits​

2.3.28

Added new favorites type, Platinum

Fixed memory
Centering
Stability
Table Height fix
Favorites Persistence fix

Click to expand...

(c6bc939) ~RedFrog24

Commits​

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main'

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(346a52e) ~RedFrog24

2.2.1

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2.2

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Initial commit

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(925a8be) ~RedFrog24

- style bleeding - Ty Grimmier