MountNotify

Track boss kills until a mount drops — then announce it to your guild and group.

Built for retail World of Warcraft: Midnight (Interface 120007). No Ace3, no external libraries — event-driven, minimal allocations, Secret-value guards throughout.

Overview

MountNotify answers one question: how many times did I have to kill this boss before the mount finally dropped? It counts instance kills per boss and difficulty, logs every mount you earn (with character, class, date, and kill number), and sends a single positive announcement when you finally get the drop.

The addon knows what you still need from the Mount Journal (uncollected drop mounts) plus a curated Wowhead farm catalog shipped with the addon — raid/dungeon bosses, weekly lockouts, mythic-only drops, and holiday / Timewalking mounts. When you collect a mount, that boss drops off the tracking list automatically.

Smart tracking — only bosses that can still drop a mount you lack increment kill counters.
Attribution-safe — vendor, quest, and promotion mounts never fake a “after N kills” announcement.
Midnight-ready — no combat log dependency; instance kills via ENCOUNTER_END, drops via ENCOUNTER_LOOT_RECEIVED / NEW_MOUNT_ADDED, world drops via loot source GUID.
Shareable data — export and import your history as a compact string (no third-party library).

Installation

Via an addon manager (recommended)

Search for MountNotify on your preferred addon site when published, or install from the Releases page.

Manual

Download the latest release and extract the MountNotify folder into
World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns.
Restart the game or /reload.

On first login, type /mn to open the Attempts window. The minimap button (left-click Attempts, right-click Targets) appears by default; hide it with /mn minimap.

Getting Started

Command	Description
`/mn`	Open the Attempts window (kills per boss, grouped by expansion)
`/mn targets` (`farm`)	Open Targets — uncollected mounts you still want and where they drop
`/mn history` (`luck`, `drops`)	Open Drops & Luck — stats, longest grind, full drop history
`/mn attempts`	Print attempts to chat
`/mn stats`	Quick totals (mounts logged, wanted count, catalog status)
`/mn config`	Show announce and display settings
`/mn set <key> <on\\|off>`	Toggle a setting (see Configuration)
`/mn export`	Copy your tracked data as a shareable string
`/mn import`	Paste an export string to merge data
`/mn minimap`	Show or hide the minimap button
`/mn test`	Fire a sample announcement
`/mn announce`	Re-send the message for your most recent drop
`/mn check <id>`	Debug a mount or item ID in the wanted/catalog maps
`/mn reset confirm`	Wipe all tracked data

Also available: /mountnotify (alias for /mn).

Features

Kill counting

Instance bosses — ENCOUNTER_END (success only) increments per encounter + difficulty. Never double-counted.
Open-world / rares — drop date and source creature are logged when you loot the mount; attempt counts are not fabricated (Midnight removed the combat log).
Kill gate — only catalog-matched mount-drop bosses increment counters; random dungeon bosses you farm for gear are ignored.

Drop detection & announcements

Instance loot — ENCOUNTER_LOOT_RECEIVED ties the item to the boss (self-filtered).
Collection — NEW_MOUNT_ADDED is the authoritative obtain trigger.
Attribution gate — announcements with kill counts require a correlated farm drop; store mounts and quest rewards stay silent or use the no-count template.
Channels — guild (when other members are online) plus party, raid, or instance chat. Toggle each with /mn set.

Windows

Window	Opens with	What it shows
Attempts	`/mn`, minimap left-click	Kill counts by expansion → instance → boss
Targets	`/mn targets`, minimap right-click	Uncollected farm mounts with boss, instance, and tags (Mythic only, Weekly lockout, events)
Drops & Luck	`/mn history`	Luckiest drop, longest grind, averages, activity stats, full history

Windows use collapsible expansion headers, a count badge in the title, and Blizzard’s modern minimal scrollbar.

Nearby rare alert

When a wanted world-rare mount NPC is near you (matched by name on nameplate, target, or mouseover), MountNotify plays a raid-warning style alert. Toggle with /mn set rarealert off.

Export / import

/mn export and /mn import use the client’s built-in C_EncodingUtil (CBOR + Deflate + Base64). Import merges non-destructively — higher kill counts and new mount records are kept; nothing is wiped unless you /mn reset confirm.

Configuration

Open settings with /mn config, then toggle with /mn set <key> <on|off>:

Key	Default	Effect
`announce`	on	Master switch for drop announcements
`guild`	on	Send to guild when others are online
`group`	on	Send to party / raid / instance chat
`showall`	off	Attempts window: show every recorded boss, not only mount-drop bosses
`rarealert`	on	Nearby rare mount NPC warnings

Minimap button position is saved when you drag it around the minimap ring.

How tracking works

Wanted mounts — at login, the addon scans the Mount Journal for uncollected drop-source mounts and merges them with rows from MountCatalog.generated.lua.
Wanted bosses — bosses linked to those mounts are added to the kill gate; when you collect the last mount from a boss, that boss is pruned.
On drop — the mount is recorded with kill number, difficulty, instance, and character; one announcement fires (guarded against duplicate on /reload).

Item IDs in the catalog resolve to mount IDs asynchronously (ITEM_DATA_LOAD_RESULT) so mounts like Mimiron’s Head appear in Targets even when item data was not ready at login.

Technical notes

Engine mirrors the NexEnhance pattern: one global (MountNotify), one event frame, module lifecycle ADDON_LOADED → OnInitialize / PLAYER_LOGIN → OnEnable.
Saved data stores IDs only; display names resolve at runtime.

Contributing

Bug reports and ideas are welcome. Open an issue or pull request. When filing a bug, include your client build and whether /console scriptErrors 1 shows errors after /reload.

Support

Appreciate the work? Consider supporting the author:

PayPal — paypal.me/KkthnxTV
Patreon — patreon.com/Kkthnx
In-game — Kkthnx on Area 52 (US)

License

Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

Developed and maintained by Josh "Kkthnx" Russell.