mod-gold-rush/docs/herb-pool-scoping-regression.md
Claude a0a3574b14 docs: report wrong-zone resource spawning after PR #7
Live-tested in Durotar after the herb/ore categorization fix merged
and rebuilt: spawned Mageroyal almost exclusively, which is not in
Durotar's configured pool (verified the live config is correct and
uncorrupted -- Peacebloom/Silverleaf/Earthroot/Copper Vein). No ore
appeared either, despite Copper Vein being in the list and containing
the word 'vein' -- which should have matched even the pre-PR-#7
keyword heuristic, suggesting this isn't purely a categorization
issue.

Hypothesis: herb/ore pool building may now filter against the full
set of IDs the lookup table knows about, rather than the current
site's own configured entries. Flagged for direct verification against
the merged code rather than assumed.
2026-09-10 01:45:19 +00:00

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# Bug: events spawning resources from the wrong zone entirely
## Observed, live-tested after PR #7 merged and rebuilt
`.goldrush teststart` in **Durotar** spawned **Mageroyal** almost
exclusively. Mageroyal is not in Durotar's configured pool at all —
Durotar's `GoldRush.ZonePool` entry is:
```
Durotar|1618;3724;1617;3725;1619;3726;1731;2055;3763
```
(Peacebloom, Silverleaf, Earthroot, Copper Vein — verified directly
against the live config file, not corrupted.) Mageroyal (1620/3727)
belongs to a different zone's list entirely (The Barrens). No ore
(Copper Vein) appeared either, despite being in Durotar's list and
containing "vein" — a keyword that should have matched even under the
*old*, pre-PR-#7 categorization logic, which is a strong hint this isn't
purely a categorization problem.
Same no-ore symptom was also observed in Zangarmarsh (Outland) before
this Durotar test — so it isn't zone-specific.
## Hypothesis — check this first, don't assume
The live config data is confirmed correct, and the herb that *did* spawn
is a real herb from the correct global category, just from the **wrong
zone's list**. That points at a scoping bug: somewhere in how
`herbEntries`/`oreEntries` get built, the code may now be filtering
against the *entire universe* of IDs the lookup table (from PR #7) knows
about as herbs, rather than filtering `_currentSite`'s own configured pool
by category. That would explain a wrong-zone herb appearing in Durotar,
and — if there's an analogous issue on the ore side, or the ore bucket
ends up empty/never selected due to how the fix restructured the
category-split logic — could also explain the missing ore.
**Please verify directly against the actual merged code** (I haven't
re-opened the PR 7 diff for this report) exactly how the herb/ore split
is being built post-fix:
- Is it `SplitByCategory(_currentSite.NodeEntries or siteNormalPool, ...)`
— filtering the *site's own* entries by category — or did the fix
change this to build from some broader/global set?
- If the lookup table itself is being used correctly for
categorization, but something else changed which *pool* it's applied
to, that's the actual regression to find and fix.
## Testing once fixed
- Durotar: only Peacebloom/Silverleaf/Earthroot/Copper Vein should
appear, nothing from any other zone.
- Confirm ore (Copper Vein) actually shows up in Durotar, and Fel
Iron/Adamantite show up in Zangarmarsh — both were absent in testing
so far.
- Spot-check one more zone on a different continent (e.g. Sholazar
Basin) to confirm it isn't pulling in entries from unrelated zones
either.