EverQuest In-Game Zone Maps
Just finished revising map for Temple of the Korlach (Illsalinb). Redid almost entire map to get it clean. Will be included in October updates. Original map had lot of objects in SW area of zone, but they were minor variations of floor height. I only include pillars or walls in my map. Also, much easier to see the different underwater passages and layout.
Just finished revising map for Illsalin Marketplace (Illsalina). Redid almost entire map to get it clean. Will be included in October updates.
I added a new section to the website called Map Comparisons. It can be found in the top menu. I added this section to try to show highlights of some of the differences between my map files and others. The slider tool from Twenty20 made adding these very simple and if anyone has a Word Press site and looking for something similar, I highly recommend the plugin.
The updates in this set span a few different expansions.
Original EQ
*Changed labels in multiple zones from Qeynos Catacombs to the correct zone name, Qeynos Aqueduct System.
* Qeynos Aqueduct System – revised labels referencing connections to North and South Qeynos. Added stairs and tweaked colors to make it a bit easier to see some layers.
Shadows of Luclin
* Paludal Caverns – recolored some areas from lower to upper areas.
* Changed labels in multiple zones from Shadowhaven to the correct zone name, Shadow Haven.
Planes of Power
Ragrax, Stronghold of the Twelve – redid entire map from scratch. All the maps I could find had horrible z-axis issues or were not accurate.
Depths of Darkhollow
* Undershore – added missing ramps. Recolored NW and SE areas to make it easier to see different levels and the underground areas.
Call of the Forsaken
* Agin-Hiz – added second floors to most of the houses. Also cleaned up circular buildings with nearby walls.
Ring of Scale
* Gorowyn – added multiple hunter mob locations
* Howling Stones – added multiple hunter mob locations
The updates in this set span a few different expansions.
Ruins of Kunark
* Trakanon’s Teeth – added aqueduct level
Scars of Velious
* Tower of Frozen Shadow – remapped portions of several levels to fix walls and label fake walls.
Shadows of Luclin
* Tenebrous Mountains – added missing Coterie buildings in the eastern part of zone. Also redid areas of the large castle.
Depths of Darkhollow
* Corathus Creep – remapped all the buildings & structures in the southeastern area, including the gate. Added missing NPCs and some other named mobs.
Prophecy of Ro
* Theater of Blood – added terrain, remapped theater area, added rare NPCs
* The Elddar Forest – spent quite a bit of time cleaning up all the buildings, colorized the different levels, and added missing towers. Added giant houses in western part of zone.
Call of the Forsaken
* The Dead Hills – added some Hunter locations
* Neriak Fourth Gate – added missing doors. Added pillars in western area. Fixed geometry and stairs.
The Darkened Sea
*Arx Mentis – cleaned up geometry, changed colors of some of the layers to make it easier to navigate. Added stairs. Maybe less people will get lost in this zone!
*Combine Dredge – worked on the towers. Added all levels and staircases. Note that the western tower has an upper level that is accessible by climbing one of the tentacles.
Over the last month, I’ve spent quite a bit of time trying to finish Omens of War zones. Managed to slog through the instances, and aside from a large stack of jacinth’s, glad they are complete. I’ve already finished Dragons of Norrath zones, and I will start trying to finish all of Depths of Darkhollow.
Omens of War
* The Bloodfields – redid entire map from scratch
* The Ruined City of Dranik – redid entire map from scratch
* Catacombs of Dranik (A-C) – redid entire maps from scratch
* Dranik Sewers (A & C) – redid entire maps from scratch
* Dranik Sewers (B) – took Goodurden’s map, made some minor alterations, added water features
* On all the Catacomb & Sewer maps, I added any named mob locations and traps
Depths of Darkhollow
* Undershore – added ramps and bridges leading to elevated werewolf area in the NW
The Broken Mirror
* Crypt of Decay – added quite a few collection spawn locations and ground spawns
With maps through Gates of Discord redone, and Omens of War almost finished, I made a pass through subsequent expansions.
Overall
* Standarized color of paths across all zones. Changed the following: Butcherblock Mountains, Lesser Faydark, Steamfont Mountains, Lake of Ill Omen, The Overthere, Wall of Slaughter, Crescent Reach, Blightfire Moors, Goru’kar Mesa, Loping Plains, Hills of Shade,Bloody Kithicor, Oceangreen Hills, Oceangreen Village, Old Field of Scale, Sarinth, Grelleth’s Palace, Plane of Shadow, The Dead Hills,Bixie Warfront, Neriak Fourth Gate, Demi-Plane of Life, Demi-Plane of Decay, and Al`Kabor’s Nightmare.
* Standardized color of bridges across zones: The Halls of Betrayal, Warsliks Wood, Ethernere Tainted West Karana, Goru`kar Mesa, Pellucid Grotto, Direwind Cliffs, The Accursed Nest, East Freeport, North Kaladim, South Kaladim, Tutorial, Toxxulia Forest,The Feerrott, Rivervale, Felwithe, and Clan Crushbone
Ruins of Kunark
* Burning Wood – removed double labels
* Frontier Mountains – mountain touchups
Scars of Velious
* The Wakening Land – colored layers of tower going to Plane of Growth
Omens of War
* The Bloodfields – added path. Continued geometry cleanup.
Depths of Darkhollow
* Caverns of the Lost – Removed over half of the 3035 lines in original map
* Coven of the Skinwalkers – recolored layers to clearly see different levels of zone
* Living Larder – Removed over half of the 2032 lines in original map
* Shadowspine – Cleaned up geometry. Added doors.
* Shadowed Grove – Cleaned up all the geometry. Looks much better.
* Snarlstone Dens – Removed over half of the 2650 lines in original map
* Sporali Caverns – Removed over half of the 2410 lines in original map. Recolored layers.
* Stoneroot Falls – general map cleanup. Colored upper levels of ramps. Lot more to do.
* Undershore – general map cleanup. Colored upper levels of ramps. Lot more to do.
* Queen Sendaii’s Lair – Cleaned up map
Prophecy of Ro
* The Elddar Forest – Removed over half of the 10836 lines in original map.
* Tunare’s Shrine – cleaned up map
* Deathknell, Tower of Dissonance – colored layers
The Serpent’s Spine
* Crescent Reach – general geometry cleanup.
* Blightfire Moors – added steps for castle in the NW.
* Frostcrypt – recolored Goodurden’s map, added stairs, and did geometry revisions.
* The Steppes – Removed/Consolidated 3356 lines out of original 5370.
* Sunderock Springs – Removed/Consolidated 4010 lines out of original 7421.
* Valdeholm – Recolored levels. Cleaned up geometry. Added stairs and much more.
The Buried Sea
* Thalassius, the Coral Keep – recolored the layers
Secrets of Faydwer
* Loping Plains – general geometry cleanup.
* Hills of Shade – general geometry cleanup.
Underfoot
* The Foundation – general geometry cleanup.
* Fungal Forest – recolored rivers and different zone layers
* Lichen Creep – separated colors on layers. Also show all dangerous falling spots near castle area with yellow lines
* Pellucid Grotto – redid buildings in west side of zone.
House of Thule
* Sunrise Hills – changed color of hills in middle areas of zone from black to grey. The hills are not hard barriers.
* Sanctum Somnium – colored main level of zone black. Used other colors for layers. Clearly marked pit traps.
Veil of Alaris
* City of Bronze – attributing original map from Unknown to Zigie. Found name in geometry of map. Recolored layers
* Sarith, City of Tides – recolored some of the layers
* Sepulcher of Order – recolored zone. Can now clearly see the two layers. Converted all non-walls to grey.
* Valley of Lunanyn – adjusted zone lines.
* Windsong Sanctuary – recolored portal path out
Rain of Fear
* Shard’s Landing – recolored different layers. Easier to see second floors in houses in the cave
Call of the Forsaken
* Neriak Fourth Gate – Recolored zone layers. Added stairs in buildings.
The Darkened Sea
* Degmar, the Lost Castle – labeled and colored the secret, locked doors
* Thuliasaur Island – added all structures around dock area. Redid giant houses. Added missing walls in lizard areas. Added grey terrain lines. More labels.
It’s been about a month, time for another set of maps! In this set, in pre-LDoN zones, I’ve tried to standardize the colors of paths, added tons of succor locations. Since I’ve reworked most of the zones prior to LDoN, I spent quite a bit of time in Omens of War and Gates of Discord. Most of these maps were done a long time ago with automap on. Spent countless hours on Sewers of Nihilia instances, Barindu, Riwwi, Bloodfields, Dranik’s Hollows instances, Sewers of Dranik, and Wall of Slaughter. In Prophesy of Ro, I redid the coloring of the upper layers making it easier to understand the zone. While in a 3-D mode, I reworked a few zones in The Darkened Sea, including the colors for the layers in Tempest Temple (along with redoing all the coral formations near Caverns of Endless Song. Also, spent far too much time in Degmar, I added missing information, straighted out walls, did stairs, and recolored the different layers of zone. Took quite a bit of time, but even without a height filter on, it is much easier to see how to get around this zone.
Next the next map set should include all the remaining OoW and GoD zones I have not cleaned up. I should also have the remaining Darkened Sea maps redone. After that, I’ll be filling in the gaps between those two.
Original EQ:
* Erudin – added Dusty Broken Shield ground spawn and tweaked zone perimeter for it.
* Erudin Palace – added Old Silver Coin ground spawn
* Gorge of King Xorbb – added Emerald-Tipped Staff ground spawn
* Nedaria’s Landing – redid dock area. redid building in N part of zone. Added 2nd floor to houses. Added quite a few missing NPCs
* Rivervale – added Torn Old Pouch ground spawn
* North Qeynos – Changed color of path
* Stonebrunt Mountains – Changed color of path
* Qeynos Hills – Changed color of path
* Jaggedpine Forest – Changed color of path. Also redid buildings in dock area and building in the north (it was a blue rectangle).
Scars of Velious:
* Iceclad Ocean – added all NPC’s, added ground spawns
Luclin:
* The Bazaar – added succor location
* Echo Caverns – added all NPC’s. Adjusted zone lines. Added secret door.
* Shadowhaven – changed color of teleport pad back to Nexus.
* The Deep – added succor location
* Ssraeshza Temple – added succor location
* Vex Thal – added succor location
Planes of Power:
* Plane of Justice – added succor location
* Plane of Air – added succor location
* Plane of Nightmare – added succor location
* Plane of Tactics – added succor location
* Tower of Solusek Ro – added succor location
* Plane of Innovation – added succor location
* Plane of Water – added succor location
* Plane of Storms – added succor location
* Bastion of Thunder – added succor location
* Ruins of Lxanvom – added succor location
Legacy of Ykesha:
* Crypt of Nadox – Added Cryptic Page ground spawn
* Dulak’s Harbor – added succor location
* Hate’s Fury – added succor location
* Torgiran Mines – added succor location. Added Eerie Ore ground spawns
Gates of Discord:
* Barindu, Hanging Gardens – redid zone perimeter, buildings, and layers of pyramid
* Natimbi, the Broken Shores – adjusted zone line to Qinimi
* Qinimi – redid Ukun kennel area, nearby houses, and numerous buildings. Added ground spawns.
* Riwwi – cleaned up houses. Cleaned up balcony overlooking arena.
* Sewers of Nihilia, Pool of Sludge – redid large portions of map.
* Sewers of Nihilia, Lair of Trapped Ones – redid map from scratch.
* Sewers of Nihilia, Purifying Plant – redid large portions of map.
* Sewers of Nihilia, the Crematory – redid large portions of map.
Omens of War:
* Asylum of Anguish – remapped large portions of zone.
* Bloodfields – remapped almost entire zone. Looks significantly better.
* Dranik’s Hollows (A) – remapped large portions of zone.
* Dranik’s Hollows (B) – remapped large portions of zone.
* Dranik’s Hollows (C) – remapped large portions of zone.
* Riftseeker’s Sanctum – dropped number of lines from 16661 to 5910
* Noble’s Causeway – minor touchups
* The Ruined City of Dranik – remapped large portions of zone.
* Sewers of Dranik (B) – remapped large portions of zone.
* Wall of Slaughter – Was midway through redoing this zone, and realized Goodurden already redid it. Merged what I had with his.
Prophecy of Ro:
* Relic – split upper areas of zone into two distictly colored areas. Much easier to understand layout.
* Skylance – partial cleanup of geometry
The Serpent’s Spine:
* Blackfeather Roost – Optimized lines and cleaned up teleport pads.
The Darkened Sea
* Tempest Temple – added missing NPCs. Redid most of coral area. Recolored and cleaned up zone geometry. Much easier to understand layout.
* Katta Castrum: Deluge – added missing NPCs
* Brother Island – added missing NPCs.
* Caverns of Endless Song – added missing NPCs. Recolored and cleaned up zone geometry. Much easier to understand layout.
* Degmar, the Lost Castle – added missing NPCs and ground spawns. Cleaned up geometry, recolored zone layers to make it easier to understand the zone.
* Thuliasaur Island – general geometry cleanup. Added some structures around dock area.
New set of map files. Something across almost all the expansions:
Original EQ:
*Everfrost Peaks: Added building in northern caves. Added ground spawn locations for Barbarian skeleton pieces and a few others I found.
*North Qeynos: Added ground spawn for Old Silver Coin.
*South Qeynos: Added entrance to Qeynos Aquaducts located in the water off the dock area (#19 from EQAtlas maps).
*Qeynos Hills: Added ground spawns for Ebon Lotus and Library of Erudin collectible cards.
*The Jaggedpine Forest: Added ground spawns for Fertile Earth and Ervonis’s Axe.
*The Hole: Added ground spawn for Outcast’s Journal, Old Paineel Book, and Ancient Book Cover.
*North Felwithe: Added ground spawn for Old Silver Coin.
Ruins of Kunark:
*Skyfire Mountains: Added 3 islands in center of lava lake. Added ground spawn of Skyfire Pumice on one of them. Also added Fusable Igneous Ore and Golden Dagger.
*Temple of Droga: Clarified the one-way fall in SE area of zone.
Planes of Power:
Plane of Disease: Labeled Gryme’s Crypt Key on locked door (and unpickable).
Lost Dungeons of Norrath:
The Chambers of Eternal Afflictions: Added doors and missing walls/stairs in SW corner of zone.
Gates of Discord:
Ikkinz, Chambers of Destruction: Cleaned up map.
Txevu: Remapped entire zone from scratch. All the maps I could find looked horrible, and most were upside down! Labeled all locked doors.
Qvic: Clarified zone-in location to Txevu.
Qinimi: Cleaned up map
Tipt: Labeled Harshly Spiked Key on locked door to Riddler area (and unpickable).
Omen’s of War:
Dranik’s Scar: Remapped entire zone from scratch. Added hill terrain. Looks much better.
Noble’s Causeway: Merged over 5,400 lines out of map with no loss of quality. Cleaned up large portions and added lots of details.
Wall of Slaughter: Started remapping this zone and realized Good had redone it recently. Fused his map with mine, but I’m still adjusting the upper castle areas.
Depths of Darkhollow:
The Hive: First cut and cleaning up this zone. Recolored and removed lot of confusing duplicate lines. Lot left to do, but holding off until I’m done through OoW.
The Serpent’s Spine:
Crescent Reach: Remapped the skeleton building in the NE newbie area. Added groundspawns. Labeled locked door in the inn area as pickable.
Blightfire Moors: Remapped the NW tower. Also remapped the SE Bixie houses.
Seeds of Destruction:
Oceangreen Hills: Remapped NE Castle and ramparts/upper areas. Remapped northern caves. Added missing NPCs and quest givers.
Oceangreen Village: Remapped houses. Added hill terrain. Added missing NPCs and quest givers.
Ring of Scale:
Veeshan’s Peak: Recolorized zone, added doors, and added lots of collectible ground spawn locations.
Just published a new set of map files. As I was farming for tradeskill drops or traveling through a zone the last few months, I added ground spawns or remapped areas. Many of the redos are significant improvements. Some highlights:
Original EQ
Castle Mistmore – Added ground spawns for Taste of Enticement and Leatherbound Journal
Permafrost Caverns – Added ground spawns for Permafrost Crystals
Kunark
Warsliks Wood – Added ground spawns for Scroll in a Bottle and Meditation Blanket
Luclin
Akheva Ruins – Added Section of Parchment ground spawn
Shadeweaver’s Thicket – Added tradeskill locations and Gor Taku merchants. All these years and I never knew some of the aliens were merchants!
Shar Vahl – Added Shar Vahl forge
Planes of Power
Plane of Tranquility – Added Rune of Xor ground spawn
Gates of Discord
Inktu’Ta – removed old x/y coordinates. Clean up. Fixed all the stairs. Looks much better.
Sewers of Nihilia, Pool of Sludge – redid map. Looks much better.
Tacvi – redid entire map from scratch. Massive improvement over original map.
Yxtta- redid map, except for primal caves. Had to do something while farming hynids.
Omens of War
Noble’s Causeway – Added Soulstone Shard ground spawn
The Ruined City of Dranik – Cleaned up eastern side of the zone. Will eventually redo other parts to match.
Scars of Velious
The Wakening Land – Added tons of Yew Leaf ground spawn points to map. They seem to respawn in same locations.
Western Wastes – Realized map I had the eastern side of zone was at base of mountains. There were worms on the hill beyond. Redid entire eastern side of zone. Also added multiple NPCs
Secrets of Faydwer
Dragonscale Hills – consolidated lines. Went from 12,311 to 8,478 lines.
Fortress Mechanotus – Added Plink Squichbolt and Researcher Stripcog
Hills of Shade – consolidated lines. Went from 12,725 to 7,811 lines. Recolored all lines.
Tinmizer’s Wunderwerks (dragonscalea)- Added zone, and cleaned up
Seeds of Destruction
Oceangreen Village – Added tradeskill locations. Touched up buildings. Added NPCs
Hatchery Wing – Redid 90%+ of zone. Looks significantly better.
Dragons of Norrath
Lavaspinner’s Lair – general cleanup. Recolored to match my color conventions. Clearly marked the fake wall and secret area.
Depths of Darkhollow
Ruins of Illsalin – cleaned up geometry. Recolored zone. Much easier to see the different levels (everything was black in original version) and see the bridges
The Serpent’s Spine
Goru`kar Mesa – redid rivers
Stone Hive – first cut cleaning up the zone. Consolidated more than half the lines. Waiting for patch to fix the map editing tool; need it to clean up remaining areas.
House of Thule
The Library – redid entire zone. Looks much better
The Broken Mirror
Added considerable number of collection spawn points across all zones.
Added Hunters to all maps, including ones that spawn in HA’s.
Empires of Kunark
Added considerable number of collection spawn points across all zones.
Rebuilt all the map legends.
Ring of Scale
Added considerable number of collection spawn points across all zones.
Added Hunters to all maps, including ones that spawn in HA’s.