[Project] The holy book of exploration

[Nyarly]

Quick post to let you know i'm still working on this !

The text is going on well, the more i write, the more i want to explore and take footage. So i made my travelling list, I think you'll like it :

Eastern kingdom (IF/Foss):
- Tomb hillsbrad
- Karazhan troll village
- Old karazhan tower
- Karazhan smiley
- Karazhan third entrance
- Karazhan crypts
- Deadwind pass fall soldier's tomb
- Dwarves farm
- Old ironforge
- Gilijim's Isle / Island of the doctor lapidis
- Statue of the liberty
- Greymane Wall
- Crash sites
- Mushroom Circle
- Nessy / Tram's mailbox
- Quel'thalas
- Tol barad test in the sea
- Undercity's 2d floor
- Stranglethorn's bell
- Underground chair parkour
- Dalaran old
- Stratholme uninstanced necropolis & manor (?)
- Naxxramas portals : before, underground, after
- Xyzboat
- Goldshire children
- Player housing
- Newman's landing
- Orthell houses
- Lordaeron's bells & voices
- Plagueland's color patchs
- Behind ghostland/plaguelands portal
- Bengal tiger cave

Kalimdor (Orgr/Teldrassil):
- Xyzboat
- WKM
- GmIsland
- Housing tests
- Koitar
- Help mountains
- Dancing troll village
- Hyjall : blizzard sign, worldtree, onyxia's cave, crashsite
- Tauren village
- Cave paintings
- Sapta
- Developer playground
- Behind AQ changes
- Underwater tanaris village & end of the world islands

Northrend
- Developer playground
- Old ulduar
- Dalaran : alpha , before LK, endtimes version, after lk

Outlands
- Old outlands (alpha & other one)
- Azeroth to northrend

Cataclysm
- Maelstrom Thrall
- Kezan's moutain
- Vashj'ir giant squells
- Outside deepholm & azshara's dragon statues
- Cephalopod twilight highlands

MoP
- Scarlet monastery
- Temple of jade serpent

Raids/Istance :
- COT race track
- COT test npc
- Lost city's meeting stone
- Firelands raid group & mob (?)
- Bwl godmode house
- deadmine's secret
- Startholme alpha necropolis & manor (?)
- Hyjal smokes
- Terminator hand
- Naxxramas old portal, hidden portal, old necropolis, new necropolis(?), logged outside naxx before wotlk, northrend test area
- Black morass tower
- Omo island
- Winter edition bgs
- Firelands2

Others :
- Emerald Dream : verdant fields, jade forest, ...
- Development : Azjol nerub, emerald dream test, house test,
- Designer island / Programmer island : dragon isle, chow is my love monkey
- Craig's test
- Kalidar
- Plains of snow
- Silvershard bg
- Azshara's crater
- Undermine (or not)
- Abyssal maw (if possible)
- Stormwind vault
- Warlock area (if i can)
- Reversed mountain
- Two moons of azeroth (alpha/vanilla)
- Water engine (changes)
- Prison break/rezznik worlds
- Pink boxes
- Holes : Storm peaks (wotlk), stranglethorn (alpha cata), stormwind (pre-cata/cata), ...
- Naked model (storm peaks alpha, temple of jade, ..)
- Nat paggle (?)
- Kanrethad (bg siege, vanilla, ?)
- Fogs

If you think i'm missing something important, please tell me! As you can see, i want to be thorought.
Basically any exploration that can be named have its place here.
And if you want to know more about something in this list, you can send me a private message or ask here

/!\ I'll do mostly private server explorations for this as i don't have gametime and lots of this stuff are from older versions. But i'll show how it can/could be done without gm commands if possible (private servers don't share the same glitches). I might stream it if you're interested in discovering some places.

[Joeljuve]

This is awesome .. great job Nyarly +2 for you. You said taht programmer isle and designer island could be found in the sea? Was this in early retail or alpha? Would it be possible to find it in the first wow patch on a vanilla server?

[Strangletusk]

If you're saying that any exploration can be added, then off the top of my head...

- Menethil Harbour submerged houses + boat
- Steamwheedle Port submerged houses
- entering Zeramas necropolis in Zul'Drak
- X-2 Pincer submarine in Gilneas
- Uninstanced Zul'Aman in Ghostlands
- The Inn in Jade Forest
- Secret rooms at Gates of the Setting Sun
- As a general one, the areas behind all the instance portals (could just mention instead, so bloody many of them)

That's what I can just recall just now, I'll add more to that list if I remember others.

[Nyarly]

This is awesome .. great job Nyarly +2 for you. You said taht programmer isle and designer island could be found in the sea? Was this in early retail or alpha? Would it be possible to find it in the first wow patch on a vanilla server?

Source : #nogg-aholic: Why WoW is a bad game, reason #8

Designer Island, most probably the prefab for Westfall, were on the same map as Azeroth but far northeast, beyond the edge of the map. Later on they added the Dragon Isles (three Onyxia like caves) and a Naga temple there.

On the alpha build i have, they are located on mapid 0 (Azeroth/Eastern Kingdom) ! Since vanilla, it's in another mapid.

And thank you very much strangletusk, i'll pm you questions later, i don't know some of these areas.

[spoutnik]

Oh, nice thread. If you want some infos :

- Undermine has never been in the game. On the several Alpha builds I have (and on the beta as well) the maps are empty.
- As far as I know, Craig Test is empty too and has always been this way in public builds. There are some skyboxes in there, but I can't remember them.
- Prog / Dev Islands have been moved from Eastern Kingdoms to the development map in patch 0.11 of Vanilla beta (the development map appeared in this build on this special patch).

[Nyarly]

Oh, nice thread. If you want some infos :

- Undermine has never been in the game. On the several Alpha builds I have (and on the beta as well) the maps are empty.
- As far as I know, Craig Test is empty too and has always been this way in public builds. There are some skyboxes in there, but I can't remember them.
- Prog / Dev Islands have been moved from Eastern Kingdoms to the development map in patch 0.11 of Vanilla beta (the development map appeared in this build on this special patch).

Yes i very much like info like that !
About undermine, it's blank indeed but doesn't the name show up? or is it another **On Map Dungeon** ?
Craig's test isn't empty ! on coord (1,1,1) you find yourself in a small box. Not much but not empty either
I didn't know the patch number for designer/programmer islands and i'll need it, thank you !