Changelog

0.6.0 · 2026-10-13

• Tames are recorded in Forever at last. Forever gives every hunter pet the same generic creature (165189) and a GUID that only tells the stable slot, so a new pet in a slot used before looked like the old one, and no tame was ever counted. Now a tame is recognised from your Tame Beast cast and the new pet (its name, its family, or a new pet after the cast). "Tame recorded" shows in your chat, the abilities of the new pet are read and shared, and the Community counter (the sum of every hunter's tames, plus how many different beasts) goes up for everybody.
• /fb opens the addon (asked by a player). It is only taken when no other addon uses it (Fishing Buddy does, for one); /bestiary always works.
• Mailbox inside the addon, the same as Forever Duels: «Report your bug» and «Give us your feedback» at the top right of every page. Reports travel hidden between the addons (never through the chat, no internet, no email) with the addon version, client, class, level, page and last steps; your character name only if you tick it. Whoever looks after the addon turns on «Collect everybody's» (Settings > Mailbox) and gets everything in the saved file (ForeverBestiaryReports, as plain lines).
• Error collector (Settings > Diagnostics): errors and health warnings are kept with where they happened, counted, and shared without names, so they can be fixed. When the game blocks something of the addon (the popup that offers to disable it), the blocked function is recorded. A health check runs after login, and the diagnostics list what the game client offers to the addon.
• Beta notice the first time you open the addon each day, and a What is new window after each update (Settings > What is new shows it again), in your language.
• Database checked against the Forever client (Wowhead Forever and foreverdb.net, client 1.60.1.70338): 681 beasts (76 more), all with their NPC ID but one (Vuldren Stalker), and their official names in English, Spanish (Spain) and Simplified Chinese. Rarity and levels from the game: Mine Spider and Mother Fang are elite; Vulgara the Insatiable is an elite wolf that, tamed, attacks every 1.5 s (Faster Attack III). Searing Lava Spider and Rabid Forest Wolf carry their Forever names.
• Abilities rank by rank from the client, with names and texts in your language everywhere (beast pages, tooltips, ability pages, confirmed abilities): Sonic Blast for bats (5 ranks from pet level 12), Furious Howl 40% weaker, new values for Charge and Demoralizing Screech, Growl and Cower with all their ranks. 9 ranks too high for their beast are no longer listed (Blizzard fixed them on Oct 1). Searching works in your language too: Mordedura 6, 撕咬 6 (with or without the space).
• Tame Beast only works up to your own level (Blizzard, Sep 24): "Tameable now" and "Only tameable now" follow it.
• Attack speed: the beast's own passive (Faster or Slower Attack) wins over a speed measured on the wild beast, and the fastest known beast of each family is worked out from it (bats now have one at 1.0 s).
• Simplified Chinese (zhCN): the whole interface, the guide and the changelog; Chinese class names, distances in 码 (yards), Chinese commands (/fb 地图, /fb 设置…). Traditional Chinese clients use it too. The PvP and PvE page titles add what they mean in Chinese; the menu keeps PvP and PvE, as the Chinese client does.
• Names in your language: with the addon in your client's language, the name your game gives each beast wins (asked to the game by its NPC number, once, out of combat); the English name shows under it. Fonts for every alphabet: Chinese, Korean or Cyrillic names no longer show as boxes.
• Zones in your language (an English client showed them in Spanish).
• 3D models switch (Settings and the Beasts page), for slower computers: the family icon shows instead.
• The chat is touched less: the addon only filters the "joined channel" notices of its own hidden channel. Before, its filter ran on every message of every channel, the prime suspect of the "blocked action" popups seen in busy zones (Westfall, Darkshore). The hidden channel is taken out of the chat windows once per session, never in combat or in an instance.
• Discoveries nobody heard are sent again: what you discover while no other player with the addon is online is kept (up to 300, for 30 days) and sent again, a few records at a time, as soon as another player shows up, in this session or a later one. Community shows how many are waiting.
• Families: the source line names where each piece comes from (bonuses and diet: beta client 1.60.1.69913; abilities: client 1.60.1.70338).
• Community data updated: 596 beasts and 6,313 places from 372 players, up to 2026-10-12 (Azeroth is 88% mapped).
• Tests: 929 checks (Chinese included). render_ui.py draws Chinese with a CJK font and wraps it by character.