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pfQuest database pack for OctoWoW - the TurtleWoW database with the Octo pack folded in, so you do not have to pick one. Not my data: by Shagu, The Kludge Bureau and paokkerkir.

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- - items-turtle.lua
  - objects-turtle.lua
  - professions-turtle.lua
  - quests-turtle.lua
  - units-turtle.lua
  - zones-turtle.lua
- areatrigger-turtle.lua
- items-turtle.lua
- meta-turtle.lua
- minimap-turtle.lua
- objects-turtle.lua
- patches-turtle.lua
- quests-itemreq-turtle.lua
- quests-turtle.lua
- refloot-turtle.lua
- units-turtle.lua
- zones-turtle.lua
- loot.blp
- slay.blp
- data-turtle.xml
- enUS-turtle.xml
- load.lua
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CHANGES-octo.md
LICENSE
overwrites.lua
patchtable.lua
pfQuest-announce.lua
pfquest-arrow.lua
pfQuest-config.lua
pfQuest-lootpanel.lua
pfQuest-nameplates.lua
pfQuest-octo.toc
pfQuest-partyprogress.lua
pfquest-questlog.lua
pfQuest-rareinfo.lua
pfQuest-worldmap.lua
README.md

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A [pfQuest](https://github.com/roby-brok/pfQuest) database pack for the
[OctoWoW](https://octowow.st) server (WoW 1.12.1), maintained by **Roby_Brok**.
Part of my [OctoWoW addon setup](https://github.com/roby-brok/octowow-addons).

**None of the data here is mine.** This pack is two existing packs combined, nothing more —
see [Credits](#credits). It exists because running both of them at once does not work.

---

## Why this exists

pfQuest database packs assign their tables outright rather than merging into them:

```lua
pfDB["quests"]["data-turtle"] = { ... }
```

So with `pfQuest-octo` and `pfQuest-turtle` both installed, the one whose folder sorts last
simply replaces the other. `pfQuest-turtle` wins on the letter *t*, and `pfQuest-octo` is parsed
at every login and thrown away — roughly 15 MB of work for data that never gets used, and the
quest links point at the wrong server's website.

Picking one meant giving something up: the turtle pack has far more quest data, the octo pack has
the OctoWoW corrections and links. This pack is both, so there is nothing to choose between.

## What is in it

The TurtleWoW database as the base, with the Octo pack folded in on top:

| | octo pack alone | this pack |
|---|---|---|
| quests | 5,175 | **6,842** |
| units | 9,928 | **11,095** |
| objects | 15,163 | **15,857** |
| items | 9,301 | **12,672** |
| corrections | 137 | **162** |

`overwrites.lua` carries three things in order — the 23 records the Octo DB has that the
TurtleWoW build lacks, then the Octo pack's 137 corrections, then the TurtleWoW pack's own 2.
Records come first so anything indexing into them finds them present. The generated files under
`db/` are byte-identical to the TurtleWoW build; nothing there was hand-edited, so a future
database refresh will not silently drop any of it.

Quest links point at [octowow.st/db](https://octowow.st/db).

The pack's own code changes and fixes are listed in **[CHANGES-octo.md](CHANGES-octo.md)**.

## Install

**Requires [pfQuest](https://github.com/roby-brok/pfQuest)** (or [pfQuest-legacy](https://github.com/roby-brok/pfQuest-legacy) without `ClassicAPI.dll`). This is a database pack, not
a standalone addon.

**Through the launcher:** add `https://github.com/roby-brok/pfQuest-octo` as a custom git
addon. Nothing else to do.

**By hand:**

1. **[Download the latest release](https://github.com/roby-brok/pfQuest-octo/releases/latest)** —
   take *Source code (zip)* at the bottom of the release page
2. Unpack it. The zip gives you a folder with the version on the end — `pfQuest-octo-1.3.0`
3. **Rename it to `pfQuest-octo`** and copy it into `Wow-Directory\Interface\AddOns`
4. Restart WoW

**Renaming is the step that goes wrong.** WoW skips a folder whose name does not match the
`.toc` inside it — in silence, with no error and no entry in the addon list. If the pack seems
not to exist after installing, this is why.

**English only, from 1.3.0.** Earlier versions shipped five extra language folders. They are
gone: the pack is one folder now, which is what lets a launcher install it at all. Quest text
in other clients stays English; nothing else changes. If you still have `pfQuest-octo-deDE` or
any of its siblings from an older install, delete them — nothing loads them any more.

**Remove `pfQuest-turtle` if you have it.** Its data is already included here, and leaving both
installed puts you right back in the situation this pack was built to avoid.

## Credits

Everything here is other people's work, combined and nothing else. All of it is MIT licensed,
copyright Eric Mauser (Shagu), and that licence is retained in full.

* **[Shagu](https://github.com/shagu)** — wrote pfQuest and the original database packs.
* **[The Kludge Bureau](https://github.com/The-Kludge-Bureau/pfQuest-turtle)** — the TurtleWoW
  build this pack's database comes from.
* **[paokkerkir](https://github.com/paokkerkir/pfQuest-octo)** — the Octo pack: the OctoWoW
  corrections, the extra records and the database links, which are the whole reason to combine
  rather than just use the turtle pack.
* **Gurky, Antealis, HumbleKagu, KasVital, Haaxor1689, IcemanHHW, fatpowaranga** — pack
  contributors, as credited in the original `.toc` files.
* **Shadowtoots** and **[Bennylavaa](https://github.com/Bennylavaa/pfQuest-turtle)** — the QoL
  modules shipped since 1.2.0 (tracking arrow, settings rework, continent pins and quest filters,
  rare loot panel, nameplate icons, objective announce, party progress and quest-log options). Written by Shadowtoots for pfQuest-epoch, ported by him to the Turtle pack, and offered
  for this one. Adapted here, not authored here — see [CHANGES-octo.md](CHANGES-octo.md).
* **[VMaNGOS](https://github.com/vmangos)** — the underlying database the extractor reads.

If you maintain either source pack and would rather this did not exist, or want it credited
differently, open an issue and I will sort it out.

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