Thanks
Standing on the shoulders of giants.
HamboneGames wouldn't exist without the incredible work of the gaming community. Every build recommendation, DPS formula, gear set description, loadout guide, and game review in Hambone's knowledge base traces back to the people and sites listed here. They do the research, write the guides, maintain the wikis, and share it all for free. We owe them everything.
Mappalachia — AHeroicLlama
Every Fallout 76 world map in Hambone is rendered from Mappalachia, AHeroicLlama's open-source mapping tool for Appalachia. The in-game paper map, the military/topographic style, and the deep-zoom satellite base all come from it, as does the marker and location data behind the search and the utility layers. Used non-commercially; the underlying game assets remain © Bethesda Softworks.
The tool itself (GPL-3.0) — map renders, the Appalachia location database, and the Spotlight high-resolution tile release
The open-source library powering the pan/zoom map viewer
Dragon's Dogma 2 — Capcom
Hambone's Dragon's Dogma 2 world map comes in three styles, all taken from a licensed Steam copy of the game. Lantern and Ember are rendered from the game's grayscale map masks and coloured here (the game colours those masks at runtime, so those colours are ours). The In-game map style is Capcom's own map-screen art, unaltered apart from joining its explored and post-game sheets and scaling it to the same grid. The places on the map are the game's own map-icon positions and names. Dragon's Dogma 2, its game content and its map art are © Capcom. Hambone is an unofficial, non-commercial fan site, with no affiliation with or endorsement by Capcom. The open-source tools below did the extraction.
The game and its map art, © Capcom — used unofficially and non-commercially
By Ekey — its file list is how the map textures were found inside the RE Engine .pak archives
By eigeen (MIT) — extracts files from the RE Engine .pak archives
By eigeen (GPL-3.0) — the RE Engine .tex reader our own texture reader started from
The Python imaging library — decodes the block-compressed map textures into images
By kagenocookie — the RSZ template used to read the game's data files
By kagenocookie — RE Engine type layouts for Dragon's Dogma 2, used alongside the template
By SteamRE (GPL-2.0) — downloads the game's files from Steam
UESP (Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages)
The backbone of our ESO knowledge base. UESP is the most comprehensive Elder Scrolls wiki in existence, maintained by a dedicated volunteer community.
CP star values, tree structure, and progression math
Cyrodiil objectives, keeps, siege warfare, and transitus network
Emperor requirements, buffs, and dethroning mechanics
Game modes, scoring, and rewards
Campaign rulesets, scoring, and population balance
AP earning, leaderboards, and reward tiers
All class skill lines, morphs, and passives
Every gear set in the game with bonuses and drop locations
Motifs, recipes, furnishing plans, trait research
Boss mechanics, gear drops, and completion guides
Skinny Cheeks
A go-to source for PvE DPS. His YouTube breakdowns around the Kilt and CP rework were where I picked up the current math and rotation fundamentals, and his site is now a backbone of Hambone's meta builds, class guides, and parse benchmarks.
Endgame DPS builds, rotation theory, set tier lists, and parse benchmarks
The Tank Club
A deep ESO tanking resource. Their per-class tank builds and gear guides are a gold standard for endgame tank theory.
Fundamentals of ESO tanking for new players
Essential gear sets, traits, and enchantments
Per-class builds for all 7 classes with subclassing recommendations
Full Dragonknight tank build with rotations
Hack The Minotaur
A well-regarded ESO content creator with accessible, well-researched guides covering both PVE and PVP.
Champion Point system deep dive
Tank CP priorities and slottable recommendations
Healer CP priorities and slottable recommendations
Top 10 PVP monster sets with analysis
Vengeance normalized PVP campaign rules
AlcastHQ
A pillar of the ESO community. Alcast's build guides have helped countless players gear up for endgame content.
CP system overview for new players
Full Stamina Dragonknight PVP build (Update 49)
Full Magicka Sorcerer PVP build (Update 49)
All PVP builds across classes
Walks-the-Uncharted (WTU)
Math-driven healing guides. WTU's work on healer set analysis and skill priority is thorough and well-cited.
Comprehensive healer guide covering sets, skills, and mechanics
ESO-Hub
A clean, data-rich ESO reference site with excellent set search, CP lookup, and skill calculators.
Interactive CP tree with star costs and effects
Path of Building Community (PoE2)
The engine room of the PoE2 build editor. Every class, ascendancy, skill gem, support gem, base item, unique, and passive-tree node in our reference data is extracted from PoB2's open-source (MIT) data files — maintained by a dedicated volunteer community.
The community build planner whose data files power our entire PoE2 reference catalog
PoE2 Community Resources
The wikis, databases, and official tools that round out our Path of Exile 2 coverage.
News, patch notes, and FAQ from Grinding Gear Games
Community wiki — items, mechanics, quests
GGG's interactive passive tree planner
Datamined item and gem database
Dexerto
A fast-moving outlet for Call of Duty meta coverage. Their tier lists track 40+ weapons across every major patch.
Full S-through-D tier ranking for 40+ weapons
CharlieIntel
A go-to source for Call of Duty news, patch notes, and loadout deep-dives.
Full attachments and perk recommendations
GameSpot (Warzone)
Detailed per-season best-loadout roundups with full attachment breakdowns.
Best loadouts for Season 3 by S.E. Doster
Best loadouts for Season 1 by S.E. Doster
CODMunity (codmunity.gg)
Competitive-focused Warzone analytics with pick rates and ease-of-use scores for ranked play.
Tier list with pick rates and ease scores
VGC (Video Games Chronicle)
Reliable games journalism with solid Warzone coverage.
Best-in-class builds by Dave Aubrey
Game Rant
One of the largest gaming editorial sites, with focused weapon deep-dives for Warzone.
Deep-dive loadout by Nathan Round
GGWTB
Warzone meta analysis with practical 8-attachment and 5-attachment builds.
Top weapons with full 8-attachment and 5-attachment builds
WZStats (wzstats.gg)
Data-driven Warzone analytics tracking pick rates across 60+ weapons per season.
Meta weapons with community pick rates
TrueGameData
A deep stats database for Call of Duty. 200+ weapons with TTK, damage ranges, and recoil data spanning BO7, BO6, MW3, and MW2.
200+ weapon stats across multiple CoD titles
IGN
One of the largest gaming publications in the world. IGN reviews and wiki guides power a significant portion of our game library — from Warzone strategy to walkthroughs for 27 titles.
Reviews across 27 games in the library
Warzone beginner guides, map guides, tips & tricks, contracts guide
James Duggan, 7/10
Stella Chung, 8/10
GameSpot (Reviews)
Trusted reviews and editorial coverage across decades of gaming. GameSpot reviews feed the library alongside IGN, PC Gamer, and Eurogamer.
Reviews across games in the library
PC Gamer
A PC-first perspective. Reviews, hardware context, and mod coverage that round out the library's lens.
Reviews across games in the library
Morgan Park, 82/100
Eurogamer
A staple of European games journalism with thoughtful, considered reviews that often offer a different lens than the US outlets.
Reviews across games in the library
VG247
One of the UK's biggest gaming sites, with sharp editorial takes and broad coverage.
Jim Rossignol, 3/5
Built by Hambone1852 on Xbox. I play ESO on the NA server. You won't find me in Cyrodiil, but if you see me somewhere else, say hi.
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Thank you, Claude.
Every line of code on this site, every DPS formula, every Hambone response, every data pipeline — written side-by-side with Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant. HamboneGames went from an idea to a live site in weeks instead of years because of it. One person plus Claude can build what used to take a team.
It wouldn't be possible without you. Thank you.
A note on attribution
Hambone's knowledge base is built from publicly available community resources. We reference game mechanics, set bonuses, build strategies, weapon stats, and editorial reviews that these creators and publications have documented. As we add new sources to the knowledge base, this page will be updated to acknowledge them. All trademarks, game content, and intellectual property belong to ZeniMax Online Studios, Bethesda Softworks, Activision, Grinding Gear Games, Supergiant Games, Capcom, and their respective owners. If you're a content creator and want to discuss how your work is used here, reach out via the contact info on the Legal page.