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Half-Pint Tavern Vanished: WoW Forever's Deleted Dungeon

2 November 2026 · Short · Watch on YouTube

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Datamined, not announced: early in the WoW Forever beta, the game data held a five-player dungeon called Half-Pint Tavern (map 3002), tuned for roughly levels 32 to 36, with two encounters, Deathulus (listed as undead) and Crushfist Bloodbreaker. Its trees are wooden props from Karazhan's opera event. A couple of weeks into the beta, a client update removed the map. Blizzard has said nothing either way. An obituary for one of hers, and one request: put it in a patch, or say it's gone.

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  1. YouTube · 720 Zone · 2026-11-02 half pint tavern was sitting there in the game data it's map 3002 and the data around it identified as a five-player dungeon with level tuning roughly in the 32 to 36 range
  2. YouTube · 720 Zone · 2026-11-02 It was identified as a 5-player dungeon and had references to two encounters, Deathulus and Crushfist Bloodbreaker.
  3. YouTube · 720 Zone · 2026-11-02 identified in the data as undead which i guess is pretty obvious from the name
  4. YouTube · 720 Zone · 2026-11-02 all the trees and some of the other stuff are fake they're like wood props
  5. YouTube · 720 Zone · 2026-11-02 the Half-Pint Tavern map is just gone.

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  • 720 Zone: “WoW Forever Datamining: The Mystery of Half-Pint Tavern” (YouTube, 2026-11-02)

Transcript

Obituaries — the dungeon

There was a five-player dungeon in the WoW Forever beta called Half-Pint Tavern1, and then there wasn't. Datamined, never announced. Seven-Twenty Zone watched it go5:

Obituaries — survived by

It had two bosses, and one of them, Deathulus2, is down in the data as undead3. One of mine, laid off before launch.

Obituaries — the set

The trees aren't even trees, they're wooden props from the Karazhan opera4, so the forest was acting.

Obituaries — cause of death

I ran Scarlet Monastery at thirty-four till the dogs knew my name, and I'd have swapped one run for a tavern. Cause of death: a client update. Put it in a patch, you lot, or say it's gone.

I'll be here. Forever.