HandyNotes: Shadowlands

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The official HandyNotes plugin for the Shadowlands expansion including rares, treasures, battle pets and everything else.

WoW 12.1.0 Actively Maintained

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About this addon

What it does

The HandyNotes plugin for the Shadowlands expansion. It will add the locations and rewards for rare mobs, battle pets, treasures and other miscellaneous points of interest to the map.

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Global Features

Rare Mobs

Rare mobs are listed as skulls on your map. If the skull is blue colored, that means you still need a collectible reward from that rare. If the rare has multiple spawn points, shares a spawn with common mobs or has a path, hovering over the skull will indicate all the points of interest or paths. Left-clicking on the skull will stick the points of interested on the map and minimap as you travel.

Treasures & Collectibles

Locations and solutions for treasures are displayed on the map, along with the achievement they are associated with and any rewards they contain. Each treasure icon will disappear once it has been looted. The locations of mounts, pets and other collectibles found in the open world are also noted.

Battle Pets and Trainers

The locations of all pet trainers and creature battles are marked on the map. Any achievements associated with defeating that creature or trainer will appear in the tooltip.

Waypoints

Right-clicking a node to bring up its context menu. From this menu you can:

  • Create a Blizzard or TomTom waypoint
  • Hide this node or restore all hidden nodes

Quick Toggle Menu

In addition to the plugin settings menu found under Interface > Addons > HandyNotes, a quick toggle menu will appear on any map that contains nodes added by this plugin. This allows you to quickly toggle, resize or change the opacity of nodes displayed on the current map.

Options

  • Change icon sizes and alpha based on type (rares, treasures, battle pets, etc)
  • Customize the size and color of POIs and paths.
  • Enable or disable groups of icons
  • Enlarge icons when the world map is maximized
  • Show only rares that you still need rewards from
  • Show already completed nodes

Expansion Features

This plugin adds information to the map for the following zones:

  • Patch 9.0 - Ardenweald, Bastion, Maldraxxus, Revendreth, The Maw
  • Patch 9.1 - Korthia
  • Patch 9.2 - Zereth Mortis

In addition to rares, treasures and pet battles, this plugin also adds the following expansion or zone-specific items.

Ardenweald

  • Lost book locations for the Fractured Faerie Tales achievement.
  • Wildlife locations for the Wild Hunting achievement.
  • Wildseed spirit rewards found in the Queen's Conservatory.

Bastion

Maldraxxus

  • Pool of Mixed Monstrosities summoning combinations and rewards.
  • Slime cat locations for the Nine Afterlives achievement.
  • Disguise locations for the Crypt Couture achievement.

Revendreth

The Maw

  • Bonus boss and cache locations for collecting Stygia.
  • Chaotic Riftstone locations and transport paths.
  • Grapple point locations across the maw.
  • Stygia Nexus locations for collecting Stygia Dust and Stygia Sliver for the Bound Shadehound mount.
  • Stolen Anima Vessel locations in the rift and around the covenant assaults.
  • Mawsworn Blackguard locations for the Who Sent You? achievement.
  • Ring and treasure locations for the Hand of Nilganihmaht mount.
  • Maw and Torghast upgrades purchased from Ve'nari.
  • Covenant Assault rewards (active assault only or check Covenant Assaults to see all four).

Torghast

  • Runecarver memory progress for the Clearing the Fog achievement.
  • Box of Many Things achievements and rewards.
  • All cosmetics and soulshapes found in Torghast.
  • Wing-specific rewards such as pets, mounts, titles, cosmetics and achievement criteria.

Korthia

Zereth Mortis

  • Cyphers of Creation (puzzle caches) and repeatable cypher cache locations.
  • Mawsworn Supply Cache locations for the Colossal Wraithbound Mawrat mount.
  • Shrouded Cypher Cache locations which require Pocopoc's enhanced cypher equipment to see.
  • Protoform Schematic locations for crafting mounts and pets.
  • Lore Concordance and Echoed Jiro locations providing outdoor buffs.
  • Coreless Automa locations for the Apocopocolypse Now achievement.
  • Creature locations for the Completing the Code achievement.
  • Proto-Material locations for the Traversing the Spheres achievement.
  • Scroll locations for the Tales of the Exile achievement.
  • Location and tracking for the Patient Bufonid mount quest chain.

Localization

This addon has been translated to the following languages:

  • deDE - German (thanks Dathwada EU-Eredar!)
  • esES - Spanish (Spain) (thanks (EU) Krovikan-Minahonda!)
  • frFR - French (thanks Lightuky EU-Khaz Modan!)
  • koKR - Korean (thanks soaa!)
  • ruRU - Russian (thanks ZamestoTV, Сстра (Ирина), Артем!)
  • zhCN - Chinese (Simplified) (thanks Adavak!)
  • zhTW - Chinese (Traditional) (thanks mcc1!)

If you would like to translate the addon to another language, please open a ticket or submit a pull request on GitHub.

Credits and Issues

  • I'd like to thank Ersanth for her early contributions to this addon.
  • I'd like to thank Wyldclaw for his numerous contributions in patch 9.2+.

Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments if:

  • Something is out of place on the map.
  • A reward, path or spawn point is missing from a rare.
  • Icons are not removed from the map when expected.

At-a-glance numbers

Performance highlights

  • Peaked at Hot #3 on Sep 6, 2026.
  • Featured on the Hot list across 5 distinct weeks.
  • Shipped 7 releases in the last 30 days.
  • Averaging 15.7K new downloads per day over the past week.

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