Minimap Range Extender
Icons on the minimap for rares and treasure chests, called "vignettes" by Blizzard, are a staple of the last few expansions. They lead us to shiny loot, achievement criteria, and so very many grey items.
Sometimes, we know about them through the API when they're not showing up on the minimap. So, show them as soon as we know about them rather than waiting for Blizzard to get around to it.
This is particularly useful if you're using, say, SilverDragon or NPCScan, which alert you about rares as soon as the not-yet-visible vignette is there, leaving you all confused as to where you're actually supposed to go. It also tells you about chests, though, so the HandyNotes crowd can be happy as well.
This also shows "mystery vignettes" -- which appear in the API with a location, but without any other data associated with them. They tend to be open-world loot and other interactables, including Mislaid Curiosities in delves.
The icon shows in grayscale when it's displayed by this addon, and switches to color when the Blizzard display kicks in, so you can tell when other people would be able to see it. (On the theory that this is probably helpful when grouping.)
If it's annoying how these icons are cluttering your minimap up and making it hard to see your own location, try Handy Minimap Arrow to make that more visible.
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Kemayo Owner
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Posted Mar 8, 2025The mystery vignette for mislaid curiosities in delves can be revealed now by the loot raid-r curio for Brann, but once revealed the mystery vignette icon is still on top making it hard to see. Would be cool if the vignette would dissapear and the location of the curiosity stays on the map. (because the treasure icon dissapears after a timer)
The curiosities are pretty important right now as it's a way to get the weekly treasure map without spending 2000 undercoin
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Posted Mar 8, 2025In reply to Bopler:
Unfortunately, there's not a good way to do this -- all this addon is doing is showing the current state of the data the vignettes API is giving it, and mysterious curiosities are one of the types of mystery vignettes that don't disappear when you interact with them (I presume because they're group loot, unlike a lot of the open-world examples). I'll look to see if they're doubled-up with the revealed ones as vignettes, or if they're displayed using a separate system that I can't access (like herbs/ore).
If you're interested in an addon to solve problems that addons cause: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/handy-minimap-arrow will raise a player arrow up over all the other icons added by addons, so it's at least easier to see where your own location is while getting to the curio.
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Posted Mar 8, 2025In reply to Kemayo:
Ah I see, thank you for the explantion!
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Posted Jul 24, 2024@Kemayo can this be updated for 11.x? Getting error:
Message: Interface/AddOns/MinimapRangeExtender/config.lua:114: attempt to call global 'InterfaceOptions_AddCategory' (a nil value)
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Posted Jul 24, 2024In reply to Carnitaas:
I've got a new version uploading now.
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Posted Nov 13, 2022Is this addon still needed/relevant for Dragonflight? If yes, could you please create a new release version? Because the change from Aug 3, 2021 never made it into a released version.
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Posted Nov 13, 2022In reply to mcremor:
It's still helpful. I've added a release for 10.0.2.
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Posted Dec 20, 2020I need to increase range of minimap to see more Mining/Herbalsim nodes which currently popped up. Is this possible, and is the addon good also for this?
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Posted Dec 20, 2020Sorry, no, this only applies to the type of minimap icon called a vignette -- treasures and rares and events. Blizzard actively avoids letting addons do anything with ore and herbs, unfortunately.
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Posted Nov 30, 2020Is this addon still functional / needed?
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Posted Dec 1, 2020It still does things and works.
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Posted Sep 1, 2018Also I think the chest that don't de-spawn are probably an issue with the API as the it's the same chests all the time. One of them is north of Fort Victory in Nazmir, you can see it when you land but when I go up there it is never there and my partner who is not using this addon cannot see it on her minimap.
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Posted Aug 28, 2018I got impatient.
To enable clicking of the icons on the minimap. Edit Addon.lua and insert the following into line 89
icon:EnableMouse(false)
No idea if that will break anything else but it seems to be working ok for me so far.
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Posted Aug 21, 2018After using it for a few days I have a couple of issues.
1. I can't click over chest icons on the minimap to let my team mates know, I have to click near it.
2. It doesn't seem to refresh if the item is no longer there. I had a couple of occasions where a chest showed up but when I got there it had de-spawned. The chest icon stayed on the mnimap until I left the area.
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Posted Aug 20, 2018Works well, thanks.
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Posted Aug 19, 2018does this also work with herb/mine nodes?
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Posted Aug 19, 2018In reply to Kigbib:
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Posted Aug 19, 2018I see you already included it in SilverDragon. Is it safe to say that one shouldn't use both at the same time?
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Posted Aug 19, 2018In reply to Forge_User_16498454:
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Posted Aug 19, 2018In reply to Kemayo: