Gatherer Reforged

The legendary 2005 Gatherer addon by Norganna (last updated in 2017) — finally reforged for modern World of Warcraft!

Every long-time World of Warcraft veteran remembers Norganna's legendary Gatherer—one of WoW's original and most iconic addons, first created back in 2005 (Vanilla WoW) and maintained by Norganna's AddOns until its last official release in September 2017 (Legion Patch 7.3).

After more than 20 years since its birth in Vanilla and nearly a decade without an official update, Gatherer Reforged brings this classic back from the ashes! Completely modernized and rebuilt from the ground up with a native C_Map mapping engine, a modern Ace3 configuration interface, a redesigned Dark-Gold Report & Search UI, a Cross-Addon Live Sharing Bridge, and the iconic 3D Heads-Up Display (HUD) integrated directly into the core addon, it tracks your Herbalism, Mining, Treasure, Fishing, Gas Cloud, and Archaeology nodes across Retail (The War Within / Midnight), WoW Forever, and all Classic flavors.

✨ Key Features

• 🏛️ The Classic Legend, Rebuilt for Modern WoW: Preserves everything old-school WoW players loved about Norganna's Gatherer (per-node harvest history, drop percentages, guild/party node sync, and the 3D HUD) while stripping out all broken legacy libraries (Astrolabe, Babylonian, DongleStub, SlideBar, !Swatter).
• 🧭 Integrated 3D Heads-Up Display (HUD): The famous Gatherer HUD plugin is now built right into the main addon—projecting a customizable 3D compass overlay in the center of your screen with distance, angle, pitch, heat-trail tracking, and automatic hide conditions (combat, flying, mounted, inside instances).
• 🌿 Comprehensive Node Tracking: Automatically records exact coordinates, harvest counts, drop rates, inspection times, and sources for Herbs, Mining Veins, Treasure Chests / Containers, Fishing Schools, Engineering Gas Clouds, and Archaeology dig finds.
• 💰 Live Session & Gold-per-Hour (GPH) Tracker: Tracks nodes gathered, nodes/hour, total session loot value, and Gold per Hour (GPH) in real time—displayed in your LDB DataSource bar (Titan Panel, Bazooka, ElvUI DataTexts), the Minimap button tooltip, the Report sidebar, and Ace3 Options.
• ⏱️ Respawn Cooldown Dimming: Recently harvested nodes are automatically dimmed on the Minimap and 3D HUD for a configurable respawn duration (default 5 minutes) so you always know which nodes on your farming route are still on cooldown.
• 🔮 Dynamic "Forever" Node Discovery: Automatically learns and persists brand-new or custom herbs, ores, and treasures in current and future expansions or custom realms (such as WoW Forever) without waiting for static database updates.
• 🗺️ Native C_Map Engine: Built directly on Blizzard's modern C_Map and C_Minimap APIs with full support for zone, continent, and world-level node projection.
• 🖥️ Modern Dark-Gold Gatherables Report & Node Density Search UI:
  • Sleek 1px-bordered dark-gold interface with live search, filter pills, and 1-click profession category tabs (All, Herbs, Mining, Treasures, Archaeology).
  • Sortable columns (Node, Zone, Coordinates, Distance, Live Market Value, Source) and visual density progress bars in the Zone Density Search window.
  • Left-Click a row to mark/unmark for batch transfer or deletion; Right-Click (or Shift+Click) any row to set a TomTom or Blizzard Map Waypoint directly to that node.

🌉 Cross-Addon Live Node Sharing Bridge

Guilds and raid groups often use a mix of different gathering addons. Gatherer Reforged includes a built-in Cross-Addon Sharing Bridge that automatically receives AND broadcasts newly discovered nodes across all major gathering addon protocols in Guild, Party, Raid, and Instance channels:

• Gatherer Reforged & Classic Gatherer (GathX / Gatherer): Bidirectional (⇄) native Gatherer protocol, enhanced to automatically register dynamic/custom nodes across clients, plus whisper mass-sharing.
• Gatherer Reborn (GRBNode): Bidirectional (⇄) support for Gatherer Reborn's tab-delimited live sync (1\t<zone>\t<nodeType>\t<coords>\t<nodeID>) + local GathererReborn*DB database import & live sync.
• GatherMate_Sharing / GatherMate2_Sharing (GM2SD / GMSD): Bidirectional (⇄) exact protocol match (A:<zone>:<dbIndex 1..7>:<coord>:<nodeID>), acting as a modern replacement for the discontinued GatherMate_Sharing addon.
• GatherLite (GATHERLITE / G2G): Receives (←) and decodes both AceSerializer-3.0 and delimited node broadcasts from GatherLite users.
• Local GatherMate2 & Gatherer Reborn Two-Way Sync: Bidirectional (⇄) live sync (AddNodeChecked / InjectNode2 & AddNode hook) when running alongside a local GatherMate2 or Gatherer Reborn installation.

🧩 Full Map, Economy & UI Addon Compatibility

Gatherer Reforged works seamlessly alongside modern UI, map, and farming addons:

• 1-Click GatherMate2, GatherMate2_Data & Gatherer Reborn Importer: Built-in importer (/gather import, in the Integrations & DB options tab, or directly inside the Gatherables Report) to import your saved GatherMate2 / GathererReborn databases and pre-populated Wowhead databases from GatherMate2_Data & GatherMate2Storage_* (Classic, TBC, Wrath, Dragonflight, The War Within, Midnight, and WoW Forever).
• Auctionator, TradeSkillMaster (TSM), OribosExchange & RECrystallize: Displays live Auction House market values per herb/ore directly inside World Map / Minimap node tooltips and in the Gatherables Report table.
• Routes & FarmHud: Registers GathererReforged as a native data source in Routes (for automated TSP farming circuits) and automatically reparents Minimap pins when FarmHud is toggled.
• MapWise: Full support for MapWise's custom Terrain and Paper rendering modes (MapWiseAPI), continent/Azeroth projections, and automatic integration into MapWise's "Addons" toolbar menu.
• ElvUI: Native support for Square and Round minimaps (GetMinimapShape()), click-passthrough for ElvUI's right-click tracking & middle-click micro menus, and scaled World Map support.
• Leatrix Maps / SexyMap / BasicMinimap / Chinchilla: Dynamic frame layering above map reveal overlays and full support for all custom minimap shapes (SQUARE, ROUND, CORNER-*, SIDE-*, TRICORNER-*).
• TomTom & Native Waypoints: Shift + Right-Click or Alt + Left-Click any Gatherer pin on the World Map (or Right-Click any row in the Gatherables Report) to create a TomTom waypoint or native Blizzard map pin.
• LibDBIcon-1.0, LibDataBroker-1.1 & Addon Compartment: Works with LDB bars (Bazooka, Titan Panel, ElvUI DataTexts), ElvUI WindTools button bars, and Retail's Minimap Addon Compartment.

🎮 Supported WoW Versions

• WoW Forever (16001)
• Retail / Midnight (12.x)
• Mists of Pandaria Classic (5.5.x)
• Cataclysm Classic (4.4.x) & Wrath Classic (3.4.x / 3.8.x)
• Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary (2.5.x)
• Classic Era (1.15.x)

⌨️ Slash Commands

Use /gather, /gatherer, /gathererreforged, or /greforged:

• /gather or /gather options — Open the Ace3 configuration window
• /gather report — Open the Gatherables Report dialog
• /gather search — Open the Node Density & Zone Search dialog
• /gather import — Import GatherMate2, GatherMate2_Data & Gatherer Reborn databases
• /gather session — Print current session statistics and Gold/Hour (GPH)
• /gather reset — Reset current session statistics
• /gather on / /gather off / /gather toggle — Enable, disable, or toggle Minimap tracking
• /gather dist <yards> — Set maximum Minimap tracking distance
• /gather num <count> — Set maximum number of Minimap notes displayed
• /gather herbs on|off|toggle — Toggle Herbalism node display
• /gather mining on|off|toggle — Toggle Mining node display
• /gather open on|off|toggle — Toggle Treasure / Container node display

📜 Credits & License

• Author (Reforged Modernization): gOOvER
• Original Gatherer Concept & Legacy: Norganna's AddOns (Esamynn, MentalPower, jcarrothers)
• License: GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0) — upgraded from Norganna's original GPL-2.0-or-later release (original gpl.txt preserved).