diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/area.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/area.rs
index 2f49d4f6..1d9dfab5 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/area.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/area.rs
@@ -261,7 +261,14 @@ impl Plugin for AreaPlugin {
                 // spurious splash.
                 feed_zone_events
                     .after(crate::ui_script::UiInput)
-                    .after(benilla_world::terrain_stream::AreaAuthoritySet),
+                    .after(benilla_world::terrain_stream::AreaAuthoritySet)
+                    // `ZONE_CHANGED*` is the signal pfQuest answers with `SetMapToCurrentZone()`
+                    // (`pfQuest/map.lua:1466`), and that verb reads the zone
+                    // `ui_world_map::feed_world_map` publishes. Unordered, the two could run
+                    // either way round, and the wrong way reselects the zone the player just
+                    // left — leaving every map-derived overlay a zone behind until something
+                    // else reselects. See `WorldMapFeedSet`.
+                    .after(crate::ui_world_map::WorldMapFeedSet),
             );
     }
 }
diff --git a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_world_map.rs b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_world_map.rs
index 86a36545..662bdce9 100644
--- a/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_world_map.rs
+++ b/crates/benilla-app/src/ui_world_map.rs
@@ -878,6 +878,16 @@ fn dev_map_jump(
     });
 }
 
+/// The set of [`feed_world_map`], which publishes the player's `(continent, zone)` into the VM.
+///
+/// Anything that fires a Lua event an addon answers by calling `SetMapToCurrentZone()` must order
+/// **after** this set, because that verb reads the zone this feed publishes
+/// (`benilla_ui::script::worldmap`'s `player_zone`) and a stale read reselects the zone the player
+/// just left. In the reference there is nothing to order: `SetMapToCurrentZone` calls the resolver
+/// `0x4a6650`, which reads the player's current area live, where ours reads a per-frame feed.
+#[derive(SystemSet, Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
+pub(crate) struct WorldMapFeedSet;
+
 /// The world-map data feed.
 pub(crate) struct WorldMapUiPlugin;
 
@@ -887,7 +897,7 @@ impl Plugin for WorldMapUiPlugin {
             Update,
             (
                 // After the script tick: a selection changed this tick projects on the next.
-                feed_world_map.after(UiInput),
+                feed_world_map.after(UiInput).in_set(WorldMapFeedSet),
                 // After the script tick, so the jump hit-tests this tick's frame rects.
                 dev_map_jump.after(UiInput),
             ),