[Exploit]Use Flying mount within Azeroth

[bardbrain]

Just tried changing a zones name to "Unknown" and it doesn't work. Guessing because of the certain flags put on that zone forcing you to dismount... Where as unknown zones dont have any set flags.

Maby you can edit the set flags of a zone, set the values to whatever "off" is?

Try changing the first field to 530 for the intended zone (the Outland instance ID) and Field 34 to 8642330.

[Axol]

Go into Areatable.dbc in patch-eng.MPQ. Extract it. Create a new MPQ with an appropriate patch name and place inside it a new Areatable.dbc with all the areas' info copypasted from an Outland Zone like Shattrath... Or try it with every zone changed to AQ and try a bug mount.

how to change the zones to 530?

[lolgogo]

Work in Tanaris!!!sumon warlock player!

[Axol]

Work in Tanaris!!!sumon warlock player!

where in tanaris? the island?

[Axol]

just found another unknown place, that u can swim to, havent tested if it works with the summon-flyers.

its the fisherman hut u can get to, from swimming all the way with the coast, from westfall or wetlands.

[mgscs]

a unknown place you will find on your way to gm island (using DK's patch)

[phgn99]

Unknown area. is like under ZA :P

[noes]

Map picture


Prove

[bardbrain]

how to change the zones to 530?

Get MyWarcraftStudio and DBC editor.

Extract AreaTable.dbc with Mywarcraftstudio. You'll find it in patch-en-US.MPQ in the Data folder.

The second field is mostly 1s, 0s and 530s. This identifies the continent/instance. (Champions' Hall is 449 and Hall of Legends is 550. PvP and raid instances have different numbers here too.)

0 is mostly Eastern Kingdoms. 1 is Kalimdor. 530 is Outland/Expansion content.

Change the number of a zone to 530 and change the last field to 8642330 (probably from 0).

Then save your modified DBC.

Go back to MyWarcraftStudio.

Pack->Create MPQ Archive

Name it patch-enUS-3.mpq (assuming you're American -- varies by locale) and place it in the Data Folder.

Pack->Add file to archive

Enter the file.

Then when it asks you for the destination, type:

DBFilesClient\AreaTable.dbc

At this point, you're mostly set.

Rename patch-enUS-3.mpq to patch-enUS-3.MPQ (it's case sensitive)

Then boot WoW from a program such as a fully up-to-date ModelEditFix that bypasses Warden and the Downloader.

If it works, you should be able to fly in the zone you've modified.

If not, I'd suggest picking a location like Elwynn Forest Field 1/id 12 in the DBC file. Replace all entries including the name with the table entries (except the id/field 1) with the entries found in 3703, aka Shattrath City.

It may require another file edit (I don't remember) but your client should identify you as being Shattrath City instead of Elwynn Forest now. A simple/who will show that you are in Elwynn Forest (despite what the client thinks) but this MAY enable flying mounts.

You'll probably get caught fast if it works and anyone sees you. And you might need to edit every zone manually or get dismounted. Too flashy for me to bother testing with a level 70.

It's tricky determining what field determines what variable and but the bug mentioned in this thread might suggest that the restriction on mounting is clientside.

[Axol]

oki ty, will try that

Edit.
Bah dunno how to type in thos small boxes...

[join]

LOL, i have tryed this on a explored area, well i got on the flying mount but you just levitate not fly xD

[lau281]

haha nice foto van merijn xD

[treyska]

Just to clear things up.

When he says an 'Unknown' area, he means areas that do not have a title associated with them. Generally when you reach one of these areas, you will read 'Unknown' over your minimap.

These associations are stored serverside, so you should not be able to circumvent this with a simple patch edit (yes, patch edit, not model edit - we're not changing any models here).

The reason that this works, I'm assuming, is that Blizzard added a couple lines of coding stating that if your character attempted to use a flying mount within a long list of zones (all Azeroth zones), the server would dismount you. And, of course, if you attempted to mount, it wouldn't let you.

However, these 'Unknown' areas would not be on the list, as they are not associated with Azeroth. The game literally doesn't know exactly where you are. However, if at any point in time you flew back into an Azeroth zone, you would immediately be dismounted - which is why it wouldn't work to get summoned to an area in Azeroth from an Unknown zone, just as it wouldn't work if you cut out the middleman.

Hope that clears a few things up. Other than that, good luck with getting to Unknown zones with the new walljumping nerf, and without doing some model or ADT editing to get there.

[senity]

That's sick!

+Rep

[Emo_Sauce]

Awesome, apart from you can't get to unknown places now that walljumping has been fixed. Unless you model edit, but then everyone in the group would need the edit.