Cartographer and Gatherer not showing mining or herb nodes

[bransen111 0]

Hey everyone, so i downloaded cartographer and its not showing and nodes until i find them myself, once i discover them then they show up on my map but not before.  I have the settings all turned on but nothing has worked. Has anyone else had this problem and if so any solutions? Thanks!

[Gorstavich 1]

Hi Bransen.  Neither of these mods come with a pre-populated database of resource nodes, instead they build that database as you go about doing things.

I've seen several requests from various people to find an accurate pre-existing database that can then be imported into the mods, but replies (and working answers) are very hit-n-miss right now.

So, in recap, both mods are working fine, what you really want to look around for is a pre-populated database for one of these mods.  Given that some of the resource nodes on these servers have been changed or moved from the official 2004 release of the game, you may end up having to either wait for someone here to build that database (which is a lot of herbing and mining), or start building it yourself (what I'm doing).

[bransen111 0]

1 hour ago, Gorstavich said:

Hi Bransen.  Neither of these mods come with a pre-populated database of resource nodes, instead they build that database as you go about doing things.

I've seen several requests from various people to find an accurate pre-existing database that can then be imported into the mods, but replies (and working answers) are very hit-n-miss right now.

So, in recap, both mods are working fine, what you really want to look around for is a pre-populated database for one of these mods.  Given that some of the resource nodes on these servers have been changed or moved from the official 2004 release of the game, you may end up having to either wait for someone here to build that database (which is a lot of herbing and mining), or start building it yourself (what I'm doing).

Okay thank you very much! So my question now is, what is the point of the mining and gathering section of cartographer? It keeps track of where the nodes are after I find them? 

[Shadex 2]

43 minutes ago, bransen111 said:

Okay thank you very much! So my question now is, what is the point of the mining and gathering section of cartographer? It keeps track of where the nodes are after I find them? 

Yes so you know where to go back to (and for alts) or after farming a zone you can build a farming path for yourself.  

[Gorstavich 1]

17 minutes ago, Shadex said:

Yes so you know where to go back to (and for alts) or after farming a zone you can build a farming path for yourself.  

That is what I am using Gatherer for.  I just finished going over all of Durotar a half dozen times looking for mining nodes, and now have a fairly complete map of where they spawn.  From that I can create a route that is a balance of shortest distance running vs. largest number of possible nodes visited.  Helps when I need to farm a lot of material.

Obviously this isn't of great value for those who don't spend a lot of time farming materials, or won't until those database's become publicly available at least.

Edited January 26, 2017 by Gorstavich