ForeverBase addons: our own addon suite for WoW Forever

ForeverBase is a set of addons we make for the Forever client. They take what this site knows (quests, NPCs, drops, leveling routes, talent builds) and bring it into the game, in English, Russian and Spanish. Every addon of the suite is built for interface 16001 and tested against the Forever client’s own API before release.

The first piece is the core. The useful addons build on it and arrive one by one.

Download

These are the first test versions. If something goes wrong, type /fb errors and tell us what you saw with the report form.

Unpack the zip into World of Warcraft/_forever_/Interface/AddOns/, so that its folders land right inside AddOns: AddOns/ForeverBase with ForeverBase.toc in it, and next to it the addon’s own folder, such as AddOns/ForeverBase_WorldBuffs. Restart the game fully after installing a new ForeverBase addon: the game loads new icons only on a full start, not on /reload. The full walkthrough is in How to install addons.

ForeverBase Waypoints

Waypoints and an arrow for Forever, written from scratch for this client. It does what people install TomTom for, and adds what Waypoint Tracker and Waypoint UI do best: NPCs and quests found by name, the nearest services, and a marker right over the target in the world.

• /way as you know it. /way 42 65 in your zone, /way Westfall 56.3 47.1 Sentinel Hill in another, /way #1436 56.3 47.1 by map number; decimal commas work too. If TomTom or Waypoint Tracker is installed, /way stays theirs and /fb way does the same.
• An arrow with the distance and the time to get there, gold far away and green as you get close. It lies at your character’s feet, turned with the ground, or floats where you put it: hold Shift to drag it or open its menu. Clicks go through it. With no waypoint of yours it leads to the next step of the quest the game tracks, the same place the game’s navigation points to, with the quest’s name in pale gold.
• Arriving. A short sound, the waypoint goes from the list and the arrow leads to the closest one left. A waypoint made where you stand counts only after you have walked away.
• Maps. Waypoints on the world map and the minimap; the target stays on the minimap edge when it is farther than the minimap shows. Forever already shows your coordinates under the minimap and yours and the cursor’s on the world map; the addon does not draw copies, its settings switch the game’s own.
• The minimap in cities and buildings. Indoors, and in some city districts, the game shows only the building’s plan on the minimap, with black around it. The addon puts the game’s own outdoor minimap there, so the streets around you stay in view. In caves, mines, Ironforge, Undercity and dungeons the game’s plan stays, because there it is the map you need.
• The game’s own map pin, both ways. A pin you put on the map (Ctrl-click, /mappin, a pin link from chat, a songflower in ForeverBase World Buffs) becomes the arrow’s target, and the arrow’s target shows as that pin. Shift-click a waypoint to share it in chat as the game’s pin link: anyone can click it, no addon needed.
• A marker in the world. The ForeverBase diamond right over the target with the distance and its name, and near the screen edge with an arrow when the target is behind you. It follows what the game’s own navigation leads to: your waypoint, or the quest you track in the quest list. That navigation has no switch in the Forever options: the addon turns it on while the marker is wanted and puts your setting back when you log out.
• Find by name. NPCs, quests and objects from this site’s database, in your client language: /way hogger, or a title like blacksmith in the Find tab. Quests have buttons for the quest giver and the turn-in. The Nearest buttons lead to the closest flight master, innkeeper, mailbox, repair, vendor, banker, auction house, stable master or spirit healer of your faction.
• Lists from the site. NPC tables in our guides and every step of the leveling routes have a Copy the waypoints button. Paste the list into the window of /way import with Ctrl+V and every spot becomes a waypoint; the nearest one leads.
• Your corpse. After you release, the arrow leads back to your body, then to your waypoint again.
• Other addons. Quest guides with a “Send to TomTom” button send their waypoints to this arrow when TomTom is not installed.

Waypoints are kept per character, and every part can be turned off under Options, AddOns, ForeverBase. The search data comes from this site’s database and is built into the archive when you download it; everything else works without it.

ForeverBase World Buffs

World buff timers for Forever, written from scratch for this client: the timers of our world buffs page, inside the game. Nova World Buffs has no Forever version, and this addon covers what people install it for.

• Heads. When Onyxia’s, Nefarian’s or Rend’s head goes up, the addon notes the time: it recognizes what the herald or Thrall says, and the fresh buff on you in Orgrimmar or Stormwind. The window shows when the next head can be handed in, on the realm clock, and how long your own buff lasts.
• Rend for the Alliance. Forever gives the Alliance its own head of Rend and the Might of Stormwind buff; the addon counts that buff in Stormwind.
• Songflowers. Take the buff at a cleansed songflower and the addon marks that spot in Felwood. The window lists all eight spots by subzone, with the time each one grows back. Click a spot and the game’s own map pin goes there; click again to take it away.
• Darkmoon Faire. Where the next faire stands and when it opens or closes, from the game calendar. A click on that line pins Sayge’s tent on your map.
• Shared with your guild and group. Drop times go to guild and group members who have the addon, so one person at the gate keeps everyone up to date. Each time is checked before it is taken: nothing from the future, nothing older than the cooldown. Only the times, the realm and the faction are sent, and timers are kept apart for every realm and faction.
• Chat warnings a few minutes before a head can be dropped again and when it can, and, while you are in Felwood, when a songflower is back.
• Open on the site. One button gives a link to the timer page with your times already in it, for friends without the addon.

Saw a drop the addon missed? Press Dropped in its row, or type /fb wb ony 20 for a head handed in 20 minutes ago. Cooldowns start at the classic values (6 h Onyxia, 8 h Nefarian, 3 h Rend, 25 min songflowers); change them under Options, AddOns, ForeverBase if your realm runs differently.

ForeverBase Tooltip

Hover any item and its tooltip tells you where to get it:

• Drops: the creatures with the best chance, with elite, rare or boss marks, the zone and the chance. Items that drop everywhere say so instead of listing a hundred creatures.
• Chests, herbs and ore the item comes from.
• Vendors of your faction with the price, and a note when only the other faction sells it.
• The profession that makes it and the skill level of the recipe.
• Bags, boxes and clams it is found in.

Hold Shift for more sources. Every part can be turned off in the settings, and there is a mode that shows the sources only while Shift is held. The data comes from this site’s database and is built into the archive when you download it, so every new download carries everything we know by then.

What the core does

• Quick links to the site. /fb link and a shift-clicked item, spell or quest opens a ForeverBase window with its page on foreverbase.org already selected: press Ctrl+C and the window closes by itself, then paste the link in your browser. The game does not let addons write to the clipboard, so this is the shortest way. /fb target does the same for the creature you have targeted. Links follow your client language.
• One settings page under Options, AddOns, for the whole suite.
• Minimap button with a menu, also in the addon list button on the minimap. Left-click opens the settings and a second click closes them. Drag it around the edge, or hide it.
• Your own right-click menu. Pick in the settings which commands it holds: your target’s page, your zone on the site map, the site link, saved errors, installed versions, reload the interface. The next ForeverBase addons add their commands to the same list.
• New version notice. When a guildmate or group member has a newer ForeverBase, you get one line in chat with the download link. Only the version number is sent, and you can turn it off.
• One look for the whole suite. Every ForeverBase window has the gold diamond logo and the ForeverBase header, so you always know which addon is talking to you.
• Error log. Errors from our addons are saved, so a report can say exactly what failed.

Commands

/foreverbase works too, in case another addon uses /fb.

What comes next

1. ForeverBase Guide. Our leveling routes step by step in the game, with an arrow to the next quest hub.
2. Talent import. A build from the talent calculator or a class guide applied in game in one click.
3. ForeverBase Quests. Quest givers, objectives and turn-ins on the map, including the new Forever zones as our database fills in.

The collector stays a separate, optional addon: it records what you see in game so the database grows. It will become part of the suite later.

How we treat other authors’ addons

Most popular addons belong to their authors, and many of them keep all rights. So we follow simple rules:

• We do not upload other authors’ addons as ours, changed or not. For those, the catalog tells you whether a Forever version exists and where it comes from.
• Where the license allows it, you can download the addon here. For addons under MIT, BSD, GPL, Apache, Zlib or Artistic licenses we keep a copy of the author’s own Forever release, unchanged, with the author and the license named next to the button. Addons whose authors keep all rights only come from their authors.
• We only build on addons with an open license (MIT, BSD, GPL and similar) and keep their authors and license in the files.
• Everything else we write ourselves. Our addons do their own thing with our own data instead of copying someone else’s code.

Each catalog entry shows the addon’s license, checked against the addon’s own files on November 7, 2026:

• Open source: anyone may change the addon and share the changed copy, keeping the authors and the license.
• Author’s terms: the author’s own rules, usually free to use with limits on sharing changed copies or on commercial use.
• All rights reserved: you may use the addon, but only its author may publish it or a changed copy. Fixes go to the author.

Reviews and feedback

Tell us how the addons work for you: a review appears here after we read it, and a bug report or an idea goes straight to us. Screenshots help a lot with bugs.