Ancient Kingdoms Compendium

[Ancient Pixels]

We are excited to share a fantastic community-made project that we think many of you will find incredibly useful.

@WoW_Much has been hard at work on a tool that promises to be a comprehensive data reference for game content. It's called the Ancient Kingdoms Compendium and it's not a traditional wiki or a spreadsheet, but a resource focused on information automatically extracted directly from the game files.

Below, you'll find the full message from Wow_Much, explaining what the compendium is, what it includes (items, monsters, NPCs, quests, zones, and more), and most importantly, where you can access it.


Hi everyone! 👋

For the past month or so, I've been working on a side project called the Ancient Kingdoms Compendium. It's a website that collects and presents information I've automatically extracted from the game files: items, monsters, NPCs, quests, zones, and more, all nicely organized in one place.

It's not exactly a traditional wiki or a spreadsheet, but something along those lines. A browsable, data-focused reference for anyone curious about the game's content.

There's still plenty left to build, but the current state feels solid enough to share. I hope some of you will find it useful! Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

https://ancient-kingdoms-compendium.wowmuch1.workers.dev/

Note: I've been in touch with the dev team over the last few days, and they gave me the green light to share this here. Beyond that, I'm not affiliated with them in any way. This is just a fan-made project I tinker with in my free time rather than an "official" resource.

At the request of the dev team, some of the Temple of Valaark content isn't included yet, to preserve a shared sense of adventure and discovery among the community while the content is still fresh.

[WoW_Much]

Thanks for sharing! Had / Have a lot of fun working on it! :)

I've also added a Steam guide with some screenshots over here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3616580411

[Chief Librarian Tigurius]

How can we provide information to update the compendium? Currently it does not include recipes for the Draconium Wyrm series of gear (Draconium molds, Draconium ore, 3000x primal essence)

[WoW_Much]

Hi, happy to hear you're interested in contributing - I'm always open to suggestions. I suppose the best places to bring them up are either (i) as comments over in the steam guide or (ii) in the library channel of the Discord server. In here is fine as well.

Having said that: some information is deliberately excluded from the compendium at the request of the developers. Off the top of my head, this currently includes the recipes you mentioned, some of the content related to them, and the map for the Temple of Valaark - so it's really not a whole lot that's excluded at the moment.

For some further context: all "raw" data in the compendium is automatically extracted from the game files, so it's a pretty hands-off process that doesn't require any manual discovery or input to keep items, monsters, npcs, quests, skills, etc. updated. Basically: anything you see at least one of in the compendium always has all the things of the same type available as well, barring explicit exclusions. I just write a single exporter for a specific type of information once and that automatically keeps that type of info updated going forward.

There definitely is some information that's not available yet, and I'm still actively working on improving the compendium. For example, I recently added locations of buyable houses to the map. Now that that's implemented, houses that are added in the future (if any) will automatically appear as well. A thing that's still missing but I'd like to add eventually are the locations and effects of traps. Also, information that's listed on "mechanics" pages or "mechanics" sections of other pages can't be fully automatically extracted, so is all manually curated to some degree.

If there's any other types of information you'd like to see (map-related, mechanics-related, etc.), I'd be happy to hear about it. :)

[Chief Librarian Tigurius]

Thanks for the information! Didnt realize that the devs had asked for some information to be with held. Heck I was going to ask if I could contribute to the map of Valaraak since I've start working my way through there.. Hope I didnt spoil things for everyone with my recipe note! I;ve gotten pretty far a long so I'll start reading up on the mechanics section to see if there is anything I can contribute... I would mention maybe a strategy section where folks could post notes talking about ideas on things but I dont know how you might curate that but I have definately found things that need strategies.

[NiSiSuinegEht]

Can I request that dedicated server configuration including boot.config parameters get a page?

Or a featured link to the guide you just linked me in the other thread.