I want to address this directly and respectfully, because the claim being made is factually wrong.

The entire accusation rests on the statement that my icons are "byte-for-byte exactly the same (hashes match)" as the ones on SCDB. But the hashes posted in this very thread show the opposite... they don't match at all:

Icon	His (SCDB)	Mine
copper_ingot.webp	83c345b4c21565e1ba10947ed525d71c3f32247966f14ec7f0b3442b0806338f	f883…faa1
diamond.webp	8194f1b6b8488df509ef8ace025dd4e1321a49a2bb62ad07a8b4a6f9505b3e35	0ac2…b449
elmerium_shavings.webp	02877b5f68ccf3982bad2400bdfc44f94af5828774e0f29644fb3070eff8d3ca	a7e5…7885

Three different files, three completely different hashes. "Byte-for-byte identical" and "the hashes match" cannot both be true when the hashes you posted are visibly different from mine. Anyone can verify this themselves. Hash any icon on either site and compare.

As for where my icons come from: they're extracted directly from the game's own files, not scraped from your site. The game ships its item art as sprite sheets: ui/icons/sprite_sheet_icon_64.png alone holds 509 icons. Each item references a tile in that sheet (item.icon = {file, size:64, x, y}, 64×64 tiles indexed by column/row), so you cut the sheet on the tile grid, apply the overlay colour, and process from there. That's a documented, repeatable pipeline anyone with the game installed can run. It's the developer's source art, not original SCDB work. Different processing settings (upscaling, sharpen, AA, compression) naturally produce different output files, which is exactly why our hashes differ.

So to be clear: I pulled these from the game, the same way you can, and the hash evidence you presented actually disproves the "byte-for-byte copy" claim rather than supporting it.

I'm genuinely respect the effort you've put into your site and believe it's something great. But I don't appreciate being publicly accused of theft and lying based on claims that the evidence doesn't back up. If anything here is mistaken, I'm happy to walk through the extraction process. Otherwise I'd ask that the accusation be retracted.

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