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Features · The Scribe

Scribe an item. Add it to the database.

Open an item’s window in the game and press Scribe. EQStash copies every stat, letter by letter, straight off the window. You check the copy, and the item goes into the database with your character credited to it.

Free. Every item goes in with the game and server it came from, credited to your character.

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Stay in the game

The Scribe card floats over the game. Press Scribe, drag a box, and the game has the focus again.

Only EQ’s letters

It reads item windows and nothing else, and only inside the box you draw.

Leave your augments in

No need to pull them out first. The Scribe takes their stats off before it stores the item, so the database keeps the item as it drops.

EverQuest and Legends

The same card and the same box in both games.

The item window of Doom, Poniard of Fate, as the game draws it
Scribe1 scribed

EverQuest

Griefpk on Xegony

Doom, Poniard of Fate: 33 stats read

Credited to Griefpk

Saved.

Lore, Lore Equipped, No Trade, Prestige, Placeable
Class: WAR RNG BRD ROG BST
Race: HUM BAR ELF DEF HEF DWF TRL OGR HFL GNM IKS VAH FRG DRK
Primary Secondary
Slot 2, type 20 (Weapon Ornamentation): empty
SizeMEDIUM
AC407
Base Dmg567
Weight2.9
HP16093
Backstab Dmg239
Tribute50393
Mana15642
Delay19
Req Level130
End15642
Dmg Bon280
Skill1H Piercing
Ratio29.842
Strength57+30
Magic92
Attack66
Stamina66+33
Fire65
HP Regen12
Intelligence31+35
Cold77
Mana Regen12
Wisdom56+35
Disease90
Heal Amount97
Agility44+30
Poison81
Spell Dmg121
Dexterity77+31
Corrupt1
Clairvoyance137
Charisma52+34
Unmodified
Slot 1, type 4 (Weapon: General): Windstone of Virtue
Skill Mod: Backstab 12 % (34 Max)
Effect: Stunning Snap II (Combat)
ScribeLooks wrong
Drag a box around what you want to capture.
Cancel
Use ThisRetry
A real item scribed, played back: the window as the game drew it, the copy, and the card checking each line against the window. The scene behind it is the screen it was scribed from.

The new standard for EQ item data

For 27 years, EQ item data has been typed in by hand or captured from the game’s traffic. The Scribe does it better: every item copied straight off the game’s own window, letter by letter, on your computer, and checked by the player holding it. No typos. No sniffing. Nothing touching the game.

Doom,PoniardofFate
HP:16093
The item’s name and one of its stats, as the game drew them, blown up to their pixels. Each box is a piece EQStash matched against the game’s own letters. Where two letters touch, like the r and d here, it cuts them apart.

Why not type it in? A modern weapon has more than thirty stats, plus augments, effects and a skill mod. Typing all of that is slow, one wrong digit is easy to miss, and nobody can tell a typo from the real number afterwards. A database built by hand fills up with mistakes no one can find.

Why not AI? We wanted the person who owns the item to stay in charge of every read, not a program guessing on their behalf. So EQStash works like paper cut-outs: it holds a cut-out of every letter in the game’s own font and lays them over the window until each one fits. A letter that fits nothing stays a question mark instead of a guess. It can still get something wrong, so the card shows you the whole copy before it counts, and you, the Scribe, check every item.

You are the Scribe

Nothing goes in on its own. Every item is opened by a player, checked against the window, and placed in the database on purpose, with their character’s name on it.

Never sniffed

EQStash never reads the game’s memory or its network traffic. It sees an item window the way you do: on your screen, when you press Scribe.

Never typed

Nobody types a stat in, so there are no typos. Every letter is matched against the letters the game itself draws, and a letter that matches nothing shows as a question mark.

Checked by you

The card lays out what it read the way the window does, three columns and all, so you can check it against the window before you scribe the next item.

Credited to your character

You pick the item and you draw the box. Every item you scribe carries your character’s name, in EverQuest and in Legends.

How to scribe an item

Press Scribe in the EQStash app and the Scribe card opens over the game. It stays there while you play, so a bag of items is one after another.

  1. Open the item

    Open the item’s window in the game. Make it tall enough to show everything: if the window has a scroll bar, the card asks you to make it taller and scribe again.

  2. Press Scribe and drag a box

    The screen dims. Drag a box around the item window and press Use This. The box can be loose: EQStash finds the window inside it. Retry draws the box again, and Cancel backs out.

  3. Check the copy and press Save

    The card shows what it copied, laid out like the window. If it matches, press Save, and the item goes into the database credited to your character. Nothing is sent until you do: press Scribe again or close the card, and the copy is dropped. If something looks off once it’s saved, press Looks wrong. If the item has a Lore tab, click it in the game and scribe again.

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Scribe

EverQuest

Griefpk on Xegony

Open an item in the game, then press Scribe.

Scribe
2
Scribe

EverQuest

Griefpk on Xegony

Drag a box around the item window.

Scribe
3
Scribe

EverQuest

Griefpk on Xegony

Doom, Poniard of Fate: 33 stats read

Credited to Griefpk

Lore, Lore Equipped, No Trade, Prestige, Placeable
Class: WAR RNG BRD ROG BST
Race: HUM BAR ELF DEF HEF DWF TRL OGR HFL GNM IKS VAH FRG DRK
Primary Secondary
Slot 2, type 20 (Weapon Ornamentation): empty
SizeMEDIUM
AC407
Base Dmg567
Weight2.9
HP16093
Backstab Dmg239
Tribute50393
Mana15642
Delay19
Req Level130
End15642
Dmg Bon280
Skill1H Piercing
Ratio29.842
Strength57+30
Magic92
Attack66
Stamina66+33
Fire65
HP Regen12
Intelligence31+35
Cold77
Mana Regen12
Wisdom56+35
Disease90
Heal Amount97
Agility44+30
Poison81
Spell Dmg121
Dexterity77+31
Corrupt1
Clairvoyance137
Charisma52+34
Unmodified
Slot 1, type 4 (Weapon: General): Windstone of Virtue
Skill Mod: Backstab 12 % (34 Max)
Effect: Stunning Snap II (Combat)
SaveScribe

When a letter won’t read

The Scribe never guesses. A letter that matches nothing stays a question mark, and the card marks it in orange, so a wrong word can’t slip into the database looking right.

This is a real copy from 2 October. The Focus Effect came back as “Fo?bod?ng Duress II”: the touching “re” and the “i” matched nothing. The Scribe has learned those letters since, and today it reads the same window whole.

Coming next You fill in a marked letter right on the card, before it’s sent.

Fo?bod?ng
“Foreboding” as the game drew it. The two orange pieces are the ones the Scribe could not match that night.
Scribe

Velium Infused Flameweaver Cap: 29 stats read

Effect: Faerune (Worn)
Focus Effect: Fo?bod?ng Duress II
Fill in the marked letters Foreboding Duress II

The card as it read that night, with the fill-in step that is coming next.

What the Scribe copies

Everything the window shows, kept as the game wrote it. This is EQStash’s read of the window above.

Doom, Poniard of FateEverQuest · Xegony

Lore · Lore Equipped · No Trade · Prestige · Placeable

Class
WAR RNG BRD ROG BST
Race
HUM BAR ELF DEF HEF DWF TRL OGR HFL GNM IKS VAH FRG DRK
Slot
Primary, Secondary
SizeMEDIUM
AC407
Base Dmg567
Weight2.9
HP16093
Backstab Dmg239
Tribute50393
Mana15642
Delay19
Req Level130
End15642
Dmg Bon280
Skill1H Piercing
Ratio29.842
Strength57+30
Magic92
Attack66
Stamina66+33
Fire65
HP Regen12
Intelligence31+35
Cold77
Mana Regen12
Wisdom56+35
Disease90
Heal Amount97
Agility44+30
Poison81
Spell Dmg121
Dexterity77+31
Corrupt1
Clairvoyance137
Charisma52+34
Augment, slot 1
Windstone of Virtue (Weapon: General)
Ornament, slot 2
empty (Weapon Ornamentation)
Skill mod
Backstab 12 % (34 Max)
Effect
Stunning Snap II (Combat)

33 stats, the augment in slot 1, the empty ornament slot, the skill mod and the effect, read by EQStash from the window on this page.

Any server, either game

Live, progression, Test or Beta: scribe wherever you play. The Scribe knows which server you’re on and keeps each one’s items apart, so a progression server’s version of an item never touches Live’s, and nothing you scribe on Test or Beta changes anything else. You never have to think about it.

Legends draws its item windows with the same letters as EverQuest, on its own stone background, and the Scribe reads both. A Legends item’s tier and Exaltation slots come along with its stats, and in Legends, scribed items are where EQStash’s item data comes from.

Legends
The item window of Short Sword of the Ykesha +2, as Legends draws it
Scribe

EverQuest Legends

Griefpk on Rivervale

Short Sword of the Ykesha +2: 7 stats read

Credited to Griefpk

No Trade, Placeable
Class: WAR PAL RNG SHD BRD ROG
Race: ALL
Primary Secondary
Tier 2 · 2 / 4
This item can be upgraded.
SizeMEDIUM
Accuracy+6.4%
Base Dmg11
Weight3.5
Delay24
Skill1H Slashing
Ratio0.458
Ornamentation: empty
Focus Exaltation: empty
Click Exaltation: empty
Combat Effect: Ykesha (Req Level 37)
SaveScribe

What leaves your computer

The Scribe has learned one thing: the letters EverQuest draws in its item windows. It can’t read your chat, your other windows or the rest of your screen. It looks only when you press Scribe, and only inside the box you draw.

Sent with each item

  • What EQStash read from the window
  • A picture of the item window, cut to the window itself
  • The game, the server and your EQStash account
  • The character, when EQStash knows who is playing

Not sent

  • Anything outside the box you drew
  • Anything at all until you press Save

If EQStash can’t find an item window in your box, Send it anyway sends the box as it is, for us to look at.

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