HandyNotes: Dive Bar Front Crawl
If you have ever spent an evening alt-tabbing between wiki pages trying to remember where that one underwater Tortollan bar was hiding, HandyNotes: Dive Bar Front Crawl is the addon that ends the scavenger hunt. It is a lightweight HandyNotes plugin that drops a pin on every known Tortollan dive bar across Azeroth, turning the "Dive Bar Front Crawl" housing endeavor into a simple map tour instead of a research project.
What the Addon Actually Does
The concept is refreshingly simple. Once installed, the addon places markers on your world map for each Tortollan bar tied to the endeavor "Visit all of Azeroth's underwater Tortollan Bars." Hovering a pin shows the bar's name and a short description, so you know what you are swimming toward before you commit. Click a pin with TomTom installed and you get a waypoint straight to the entrance, or you can fall back on the in-game marker system if you prefer to keep your addon list lean.
Because it hooks into HandyNotes, everything behaves the way you already expect: pins respect your existing HandyNotes settings, and you can toggle them on or off per character. HandyNotes itself is required, so make sure that core addon is present before you wonder why nothing is showing up.
Every Bar Covered by the Plugin
The pin list spans multiple expansions and continents, which is exactly why a map addon beats a forum thread here. The bars currently marked include:
- Whale's Belly - Tiragarde Sound
- The Drunk Tank - Drustvar
- Anchors Down - Stormsong Valley
- The Dive Bar - Zuldazar
- Gral's Grotto - Zuldazar
- Sand Bar - Zuldazar
- Torga's Tavern - Nazmir
- Heyman's Hideaway - Vol'dun
- Maedin's Challenge - Nazjatar
- Hissing Grotto (The Bubble Bath) - The Waking Shores
- Drifter's Dive - The Azure Span
One deliberate omission is worth knowing about: The Watering Hole is not pinned. That bar is completed through the portal in your own neighborhood's Beach Party plot during "Stay a While and Glisten," so it is not a fixed world location and a map marker would only mislead you.
Version Compatibility and Supported Clients
HandyNotes: Dive Bar Front Crawl for World of Warcraft is built for the modern Retail client, where the housing endeavor and the Tortollan bars tied to it actually exist. If you are running Classic, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, or Mists of Pandaria servers, the addon will not do anything useful for you, simply because those game versions do not contain the content it points at. Check the addon's version string against your client before installing, and keep in mind that a patch day can temporarily break pins until the author pushes an update.
For players who would rather skip manual folder juggling entirely, the foxygame.net launcher keeps a curated addon catalog where HandyNotes: Dive Bar Front Crawl sits alongside its required HandyNotes dependency, so a single click installs both and keeps them current through auto-updates. It is a tidy option if you run several alts and do not want to re-download files every time Blizzard ships a content patch.
How to Install HandyNotes: Dive Bar Front Crawl
Installation is the same routine as any other World of Warcraft addon, and it takes under a minute:
- Grab the addon through your addon manager of choice, or download HandyNotes: Dive Bar Front Crawl manually.
- If installing by hand, drop the HandyNotes_DiveBarCrawl folder into World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/.
- Confirm the separate HandyNotes core addon is also in that AddOns folder.
- Restart the game or reload your UI, then check the AddOns list on the character select screen.
After that, open your world map and the pins should be waiting. If they are not, verify that both addons are enabled for the character you are logged into, since addon states are tracked per character.
Why It Belongs in Your Addon Folder
The Dive Bar Front Crawl endeavor is one of those achievements that sounds fun until you realize how spread out the bars are, from Tiragarde Sound all the way to the Dragon Isles. This plugin collapses that sprawl into a handful of map pins with names, descriptions, and one-click waypoints. If you are chasing the endeavor on a single character or knocking it out across several, HandyNotes: Dive Bar Front Crawl saves you the wiki tabs and lets you get back to actually playing the game.