EQ Auction Forge

Generate EverQuest social macros with clickable item links for EC Tunnel trading. No more manually shift-clicking items into macros — search your inventory, set prices, and export directly to your character INI file. Or just use it as a quick price-check tool.

Download

Just want to use it? (no Python needed)

1. Go to the Releases page
2. Download EQ_Auction_Forge_vX.Y.Z_Windows.zip
3. Unzip it anywhere — your Desktop or Downloads is fine (avoid Program Files)
4. Keep EQ_Auction_Forge.exe and items.txt.gz in the same folder
5. Double-click EQ_Auction_Forge.exe

Developers / other platforms: see Running from source below.

Features

• Item Link Generation — Generates proper EQ item links with clickable purple text using pre-computed link hashes from the items.sodeq.org database
• Inventory Integration — Load your /outputfile inventory dump to see only items you actually have. Duplicate/stacked items are combined and shown with a quantity, and the count carries through to the macro (e.g. <Singing Steel Bracer> 500p x2)
• Explorer-style selection — Shift-click a range, Ctrl-click to toggle, or Ctrl+A to select all; add with Enter, remove with Delete
• Price Checking — Fetch real-time pricing from TLP Auctions with median-based pricing (more accurate than averages)
• Quick price-check mode — The macro-building controls collapse out of the way, so you can use it purely to look up prices
• Auto-Packing — Automatically fits as many items per line as possible while staying under EQ's 255-character limit, with up to 5 lines per macro button
• Full socials support — Spreads macros across all 12 buttons per page, up to Page 10, and warns you if your list is too big to fit
• Krono Pricing — High-value items are automatically formatted in Krono (e.g., 2kr 500p)
• Direct INI Writing — Write macros directly to your character INI file with automatic backup
• Save/Load — Save your auction lists to JSON for quick reloading

Running from source

Requirements

• Python 3.8+ with tkinter (included in the official python.org installer on Windows/macOS; on Linux install python3-tk)
• No third-party packages — standard library only (see requirements.txt)
• items.txt.gz item database (included, sourced from items.sodeq.org)

Install & run

git clone https://github.com/wangel/EQ_Auction_Forge.git
cd EQ_Auction_Forge
python EQ-Auction_Forge.py

No pip install needed — runs entirely on Python's standard library.

Usage

Quick Start

1. In-game: /outputfile inventory to dump your inventory
2. Launch the app (double-click the .exe, or python EQ-Auction_Forge.py)
3. Click Load Inventory and select your inventory file
4. Check Inv only to filter to items you own
5. Double-click items to add them — or Shift/Ctrl-click (or Ctrl+A) several and press Enter / Add Selected
6. Click PC All to price check everything via TLP Auctions
7. Adjust prices as needed (select item → type price → Set Price)
8. Expand Macro Builder, then click Generate to build the macros
9. Click Write to INI to write directly to your character file

Command Line Options

python EQ-Auction_Forge.py                              # Default
python EQ-Auction_Forge.py --db /path/to/items.txt.gz   # Custom item database

Supported Servers (Price Checking)

Price checking uses TLP Auctions data. The server dropdown lists Frostreaver — once a TLP gets the Bazaar, its tunnel-trade data dries up, so that's the only actively useful server for now. The box is editable, so you can type another server TLP Auctions tracks if needed.

How Item Links Work

EQ item links use a special character (DC2, hex 0x12) as a delimiter around the item's hash data. The hash includes the item ID and a checksum that the client validates. This tool uses a pre-built database of item hashes so you don't need to extract them manually.

Important: When writing to your INI file manually (not using Write to INI), save as ANSI encoding, not UTF-8. In Notepad++: Encoding → ANSI → Save.

Item Database

The items.txt.gz file contains item data from items.sodeq.org. On first run it is extracted to a per-user cache folder (%LOCALAPPDATA%\EQAuctionForge\items.txt on Windows).

Credits

• Item data: items.sodeq.org
• Pricing data: TLP Auctions (API Docs)

License

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0-or-later) — see LICENSE.

Copyright (C) 2026 wangel. This is free software: use it, study it, share it, and change it. But if you distribute it or run a modified version as a network service, you must release your complete source under the same license. In plain terms: you can't take this, close the source, and sell it. Built for the EQ community, staying open for the EQ community.

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