Explore with TomTom — Maintained Fork

Explore Azeroth. Discover every location. Complete your exploration achievements.

Explore with TomTom is an unofficial, community-maintained fork of the original addon by L3ca, updated for modern World of Warcraft Retail.

The addon helps you complete exploration achievements by identifying undiscovered locations and creating navigation waypoints using TomTom.

Whether you're working towards Eastern Kingdoms Explorer, Kalimdor Explorer, World Explorer, or simply trying to uncover every corner of Azeroth, Explore with TomTom makes finding those last missing locations considerably easier.

This maintenance fork restores compatibility with modern Retail, fixes several longstanding bugs, expands zone coverage and improves performance.

Version 3.0.0 is the first release of this independently maintained fork, building upon L3ca's original 2.x series.

Features

🧭 Smart Exploration Navigation

• Automatically identifies unfinished exploration achievement criteria.
• Creates TomTom waypoints for locations you haven't discovered.
• Guides you towards the closest available exploration location.
• Displays remaining exploration objectives in an easy-to-read checklist.
• Updates progress as locations are discovered.
• Keeps waypoints active until the corresponding exploration criterion is completed, rather than removing them simply because you're nearby.
• Supports navigation towards the next exploration area where route data is available.

🗺️ Expanded Zone Coverage

Includes 25 additional zone datasets derived from MIT-licensed AllTheThings exploration references.

Supports exploration tracking across older and newer regions of Azeroth, including the original Burning Crusade starting zones.

Special attention has been given to:

• Eversong Woods (Burning Crusade)
• Ghostlands (Burning Crusade)
• Azuremyst Isle
• Bloodmyst Isle

The original Burning Crusade versions of Eversong Woods and Ghostlands are handled separately from their modern Midnight counterparts.

This is particularly useful for players encountering map display or fog-of-war problems in legacy zones following the Midnight updates.

Note: Not every exploration criterion currently has a known waypoint coordinate. Missing coordinate data is clearly indicated in the addon rather than silently omitted.

🏆 Achievement Tracking

• Reads exploration progress directly from the game's achievement system.
• Displays completed locations in green and unfinished locations in yellow.
• Uses the game's localized achievement criteria and area names where supported.
• Hides achievements that are unavailable or invalid in the current client.
• Recognizes achievement completion independently of the map's visual fog-of-war state.

Exploration achievement completion is account-wide where supported by Blizzard.

⚡ Improved Performance and Reliability

This maintenance release includes significant improvements to the original addon:

• Corrected achievement-completion detection.
• Fixed waypoints being created on the player's current map instead of the selected zone.
• Replaced frequent per-waypoint polling timers with event-driven updates.
• Improved waypoint refresh and cleanup behaviour.
• Improved closest-route selection.
• Improved interface positioning and screen-size clamping.
• Preserved the original localization files within the addon's private namespace.

🔒 Safe TomTom Integration

Explore with TomTom uses TomTom for navigation but keeps its waypoints separate from those created by other addons.

• Removes only waypoints created by Explore with TomTom.
• Never intentionally clears your personal TomTom routes.
• Uses temporary, nonpersistent navigation waypoints.
• Does not modify or bundle TomTom itself.

Requirements

TomTom is required.

Install TomTom separately through CurseForge before using this addon.

This addon is designed for World of Warcraft Retail and has been updated for client interface version 120105.

It is not intended for WoW Classic, Classic Era or WoW Forever.

How to Use

1. Install TomTom and Explore with TomTom — Maintained Fork.

2. Log into World of Warcraft Retail.

3. Type /ewtt in chat to open the exploration panel.

4. Select a continent or region.

5. Select the zone you want to explore.

6. Review the checklist of discovered and undiscovered locations.

7. Click Add waypoints to create navigation markers.

8. Follow the TomTom directional arrow towards your exploration objectives.

As you discover areas, the addon checks your progress and updates its navigation accordingly.

Chat Commands

The stop command leaves unrelated TomTom waypoints untouched.

Important Notes

Legacy Burning Crusade Zones

Following changes introduced around Midnight, the original Burning Crusade versions of Eversong Woods and Ghostlands may display incomplete or incorrect map exploration information.

Explore with TomTom can still use achievement criteria and waypoint coordinates to guide you through these areas.

The addon does not repair Blizzard's map rendering or fog-of-war system. It provides navigation independently of those visual map issues.

Exploration Coordinates

Waypoint locations are based on available exploration data.

Some coordinates may need adjustment because of terrain changes, phasing, or differences between expansion versions.

Some exploration criteria do not yet have corresponding coordinate data. These are identified in the checklist.

Compatibility

Although this fork has undergone Lua 5.1 parsing checks, global-write auditing, mocked runtime regression tests and live gameplay testing, some zones and exploration boundaries still require further verification.

Bug reports and feedback are welcome.

What's New in This Fork?

Version 3.0.0 — 14 November 2026

Retail compatibility and navigation maintenance release

• Updated interface compatibility for Retail 120105.
• Fixed incorrect achievement-completion checks.
• Fixed selected-zone waypoints appearing on the wrong map.
• Added explicit handling for legacy Burning Crusade and Midnight map identities.
• Added 25 newer exploration zone datasets.
• Improved achievement and criteria localization handling.
• Fixed removal of unrelated TomTom waypoints.
• Replaced frequent polling timers with coalesced game events.
• Improved navigation persistence until actual discovery.
• Reworked the exploration checklist and refresh behaviour.
• Improved route selection and interface positioning.
• Preserved original localization resources.

This release represents a substantial maintenance update, not merely an interface version change.

Credits and Attribution

Original Addon

Explore with TomTom, originally developed by L3ca.

This project is an independent, unofficial maintenance fork.

It is not an official update from the original author and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

The original author's contributions and copyright notices are preserved.

Additional Exploration Data

Some exploration-location datasets are derived from the open-source AllTheThings project.

AllTheThings is distributed under the MIT licence.

Original source:

https://github.com/ATTWoWAddon/AllTheThings

The relevant source provenance and required licence notices are included with this fork.

TomTom

Navigation functionality depends on the separately installed TomTom addon.

TomTom is not included, modified or redistributed as part of this project.

Licence

GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0)

This fork retains the original GPL-3.0 licensing obligations, including the availability of corresponding source code and preservation of applicable copyright notices.

MIT-licensed material incorporated from AllTheThings retains its required attribution and licence notices.

Please consult the included licence and attribution files for further details.

Feedback and Bug Reports

If you encounter an issue, please include:

• Your World of Warcraft Retail client version.
• The zone and exploration achievement involved.
• The location or achievement criterion that failed.
• Whether TomTom displayed a waypoint.
• Any Lua errors generated during the issue.

Reports involving incorrect coordinates, legacy zone maps and exploration criteria are especially useful.

Happy exploring, and may your last missing location never be another tiny patch of unexplored coastline! 🧭