Source Catalog
The resource pool from docs/data-sources.md, surveyed 2026-08-04.
Licensing is almost universally unstated across these community sites, so the
plan is attribution, not formal redistribution rights. Dead and
not-applicable entries are kept so we don't chase them later.
★ marks the survey's highest-value sources.
Machine-readable / bulk data
| Source | Status | Era | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PEQ / ProjectEQ database dumps ★ | alive | Emulator data targeting classic progression; era-frozen 2005-06 Kunark/Velious/Luclin snapshots on SourceForge. | Direct download; MySQL .sql dumps needing SQLite translation (backticks, engine clauses, zero-dates). | The most complete structured EQ dataset anywhere: items (~300 columns), npc_types, spawn2/spawngroup/spawnentry (spawn points with chance %), loottable/lootdrop_entries (drop probabilities), merchantlist, spells_new, zone, zone_points, doors, tradeskill_recipe, factions, grids. Schema docs at docs.eqemu.dev; apex projecteq.net is parked. |
| SodEQ / EQItems item dumps ★ | alive | Live EverQuest - current-server-accurate, refreshed daily. | Direct gzip-compressed delimited-text downloads, no account. | 144,618 items with full raw stats, lore/book text, charm data, alt-currency pricing, tradeskill recipes. Successor to the dead 13th-floor collector. |
| 13th-floor item collector | dead | Item snapshots 2005-15. | Wayback Machine only. | Dead since ~2015; successor is items.sodeq.org. |
| Daybreak Census API | not-applicable | Alive but explicitly no EQ1 support (EQ2/PS2/DCUO/MTGO only). Cataloged so we do not chase it later. | ||
| EQEmu GitHub organization | alive | Emulator, classic through modern. | git clone / GitHub. | Server (GPL-3.0, schema SQL in utils/sql/), maps (zone geometry), spire (DB editor whose Swagger/OpenAPI spec documents every PEQ table; hosted at spire.eqemu.dev), zone-utilities, EQExtractor (live packet-capture to SQL). |
| LanternExtractor | alive | Trilogy-era client files. | git clone; MIT license. | S3D/WLD to OBJ/glTF - zone geometry, objects, characters. |
| OpenEQ | alive | Classic client formats. | git clone; dormant project. | Useful as file-format documentation, not as a tool. |
| PQDI - Project Quarm DB browser | alive | Quarm TLP arc: currently Luclin-era, progressing to PoP. | Web browsing; upstream YAQDS DB on GitHub; full quarm_2 MySQL dump circulates via Project Quarm Discord #server-files. | NPCs, items, spells, factions, recipes, zones, skill caps, loot-by-level, XP tables. Best classic-era-accurate structured dataset if the dump is obtained. Sister: yaqds.cc. |
| ProjectEQ quests repo | alive | Matches PEQ progression. | git clone; Perl/Lua scripts organized per-zone plus global/. | 8,686 commits, actively maintained. Quest logic - dialogue, hand-ins, faction requirements, rewards - embedded in code, not tables; structured extraction is doable but lossy. |
| TAKP / EQMacEmu server data | alive | PoP-era frozen (~2002-03 EQMac state) - just past our cutoff. | GitHub repos (Server, Quests in Lua, Maps, alla-clone); MySQL dump distributed via takproject.net forum threads. | Closest structured superset of the classic game; alla-clone browser on takproject.net. |
| quail | alive | Client archives across eras. | git clone; Go, MIT. Repo archived Oct 2025 but fully usable. | Reads/writes .eqg/.s3d/.pfs archives. |
| spells_us.txt + eqspellparser | alive | Whatever client supplied the file (RoF2 ~ 2012 era; live = current). | Parse client files with eqspellparser (C#, Apache-2.0, exports CSV); web frontend at raidloot.com/spells. | Caret-delimited flat text, ~220+ fields per spell: cast time, mana, 12 effect slots, resist type, class levels, durations, recourse/proc links. Client data files are Daybreak-copyrighted. |
General database sites
| Source | Status | Era | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allakhazam / ZAM EverQuest ★ | alive | Classic to current live; entries carry expansion tags but values mutate with live patches. | Stable numeric-ID URLs (/db/item.html?item=N); no API, no dumps; Fanbyte ToS restricts scraping. | Broadest general EQ1 database: items, bestiary, quests, spells and AAs, zones, factions, recipes - plus 20+ years of user comments, an era-knowledge archive in itself. Supports expansion filters (spelllist.html?expansion=original). |
| EQDB (eqdb.net) | alive | The Heroes' Journey EQEmu server - not live or era EQ. | Web. | Marginal: gear-search for the wrong server; illustrates the alla-clone family (thjdi.cc, pqdi.cc). |
| Lucy (alkabor mirror) | alive | Frozen 2011; Lucy-format EQMac/PoP-era spell data. | Web. | Era-adjacent frozen snapshot - useful where live Lucy mutated. |
| Lucy (lucy.allakhazam.com) | fragile | ~2002 to live, with change history. | Serves empty pages to automated fetchers; works in a real browser; treat as unreliable for programmatic use. | Raw client item/spell data (all SPA/effect slots, flags) with historical versioning of changes over time - a unique capability in the pool. |
| Magelo | alive | Classic to current live, per-server. | HTML + RSS; no API/dumps; commercial/subscription. | Character profiles plus item/spell/NPC/zone DBs. Dropped-by and Created-by tabs paywalled since May 2023, which limits free loot-table research. |
| Raidloot | alive | Classic to at least Claws of Veeshan. | Clean querystring URLs (/items?type=...&order=...); no API/dumps. | Items with 50+ sortable metrics, spells from parsed spell files, AAs, loot sliced cleanly by expansion and raid tier. |
| eqspells.com | dead | DNS dead. Cataloged so we do not chase it later. |
Wikis
| Source | Status | Era | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project 1999 Wiki ★ | alive | Classic to Velious only (1999-2001), frozen by design. | MediaWiki 1.43 - api.php confirmed working (JSON); consistent templates make item/NPC pages semi-parseable. | Gold standard for classic-era structured data: item stats and price history from EC auction logs, spawn locations with coordinates and timers, loot tables with community-estimated drop rates, faction hits, adjacent-zone lists, full quest dialogue, raid strategy. 23K articles, 136 active editors. |
| EQ Legends Wiki (eqlwiki.com) | alive | EverQuest Legends; active. | MediaWiki. | Community wiki for Legends: Untapped Potential unlock achievements (Alanna's Race Unlock Guide documents the per-race faction requirements), newbie guide, systems. |
| EverQuest Fandom wiki | alive | Stale - coverage ~2016 max. | Web; CC-BY-SA (standard Fandom). | Former official wiki. Low value vs Allakhazam/P99, but the only openly licensed prose in the pool. |
| Fanra's EverQuest Wiki | alive | Modern live. | Web; 403s some automated fetches. | Mechanics/systems documentation, not record-level data. Holds the best written spec of the in-game map file format (everquest.fanra.info/wiki/Maps). |
| Quarm.Guide | alive | Quarm TLP arc (classic to PoP; currently Luclin). | Full Markdown source at github.com/LordDemonos/Quarm.Guide - trivially ingestible without scraping. | Guides: epics, leveling, class, Zeal setup. |
| TAKP Wiki | alive | Through Planes of Power (~2002-03 EQMac frozen state). | MediaWiki 1.43; api.php likely present but robots.txt discourages bots. | Classes, spells with EQMac-accurate mechanics, zones, NPCs, quests, equipment, raids, tradeskills; PoP flag checker. |
| wiki.everquest.com | dead | DNS dead. Cataloged so we do not chase it later. |
Maps & zone geometry
| Source | Status | Era | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brewall's EverQuest Maps ★ | alive | Classic to current, actively maintained. | Single bulk ZIP plus per-expansion ZIPs, free, no account. | Consistent POI color-coding (merchants, quest NPCs, spawns); printable zone-connection world map; historical hand-drawn maps. |
| Good's Maps (Goodurden) ★ | alive | Classic to current. | Git-clonable GitHub mirror (verified, maintained); also official forum thread with Google Drive pack. | The most detailed map pack; sub-packs for ground spawns, raid maps, quest maps, AoC instance maps. |
| EQ Atlas (mirrors) | archive-only | Classic to PoP - the era's canonical hand-drawn maps. | Live mirrors: eqatlas.ca (classic-Velious trim), allakabor.com (fuller, incl. Luclin); github.com/EQAtlas is a bulk-ingestable HTML+image snapshot. | Rendered image maps with numbered POI keys, travel guides, per-continent zone-connection pages. Original site dead. |
| EQ Resource maps | alive | Modern expansions (~2013+), one subdomain each. | Per-expansion map-pack ZIPs (redistributing Good's maps). | Low classic-era value; cataloged for completeness. |
| EQEmu maps repo | alive | All zones. | git clone; binary per-zone files with readers documented in EQEmu source. | base/*.map collision triangle meshes, nav/*.nav navmeshes, water/*.wtr. Not player maps - useful for true zone geometry and Z-lookups. |
| Mapfiend | dead | Nothing past ~2011. | Unreachable during survey; consensus abandoned. Skip in favor of Brewall/Good's. | |
| ZlizEQMap | alive | Classic era focus. | Open source; git clone. | Ships EQ Atlas images plus structured zone-connection files - one of the few machine-readable connection sources. |
Era-specific & archives
| Source | Status | Era | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caster's Realm (Wayback) | archive-only | ~1999-2004. | web.archive.org; CDX API for programmatic enumeration. | Era spell lists and quests as players saw them at the time. |
| EQProgression | alive | TLP servers - modern TLP mechanics, not 1999 mechanics. | Web. | Per-expansion leveling/class/tradeskill guides; distinct from P99-style era accuracy. |
| Illia's Bestiary / EQ'lizer (Wayback) | archive-only | ~2001-04. | web.archive.org; CDX API for programmatic enumeration. | The era's NPC bestiary - levels, HP estimates, loot. Cited by the P99 wiki as a period source. |
| TLP Tracker | alive | 2011-2026 TLP servers plus full expansion release schedule. | Small structured tables, easy one-time scrape. | Expansion unlock calendars/countdowns for all 16 TLP servers, guild/progression history. |
| The Druid's Grove archive | alive | 2001-04 threads. | Still-live forum archive. | Period discussion of mechanics and class play as they were. |
| The Safehouse archive | alive | Archive back to 1999. | Still-live forum archive. | Period discussion back to launch. |
Specialty sites
| Source | Status | Era | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EQ Traders Corner ★ | alive | Recipes carry expansion tags but display current-live values. | Old-school HTML/CGI search; no API. | The definitive tradeskill recipe database since ~1997: recipes (components, containers, trivials, yields), supplies, tradeskill quests, calculators. Updated per-patch. |
| Almar's Guides | alive | Content mostly frozen ~2008-2010. | Web. | Strongest as TLP-era leveling/farming/AA-location guides (with AAs-per-hour metrics) and epic walkthroughs. |
| Bonzz's Site | alive | Modern live, updated July 2026. | Hand-built HTML. | Guides: progression/flagging, epics, tradeskill caps, collection lists (mounts, illusions, familiars, clickies) with sources, events. |
| EQ Interface | alive | Legacy. | Web. | UI mods/XML only - cataloged so we do not mistake it for a game-data source. |
| EQ Legends Tools | alive | EverQuest Legends; updated bi-weekly. | Web; quest/effect datasets embedded client-side. | Exaltation planner, BiS search, and the Plane of Sky quest tracker whose per-class reward/turn-in dataset backs our class-unlock lists (extracted 2026-08-05). |
| Zeal (client tooling) | alive | Quarm/TAKP-era clients. | git clone (plus forks CoastalRedwood/Zeal, QuarmPlus). | Client QoL DLL emitting structured player/spawn pipe data; ships a modern coordinate-accurate classic map pack. Data-adjacent, not a database. |
| Zliz's EverQuest Compendium | alive | Dormant since ~2016 - which suits a classic-era focus. | Web. | Game-mechanics encyclopedia, zone writeups, preserved mirrors of dead guides. |
Forums
| Source | Status | Era | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daybreak Official Forums | alive | Live; active. | Web. | Official patch notes, TLP section. |
| EQEmulator Forums | alive | Active. | Web. | Upstream of the emulator data pipeline: DB dumps, quest scripts, DB editors, World Building forum. |
| Project 1999 Forums | alive | Classic-era servers; active. | Crawlable archive.php views. | 3.4M posts; Trading Hub subforums are 135K threads of classic price history. |
| RedGuides | alive | Active. | Web; hosts GitHub mirrors. | Multiboxing community; hosts map-pack mirrors and data-extraction tooling discussion. |
| TAKP Forums | alive | PoP-era; active. | Web. | PoP-era mechanics changelogs. |