A custom loot tracker for World of Warcraft.
FarmIt is a free-floating interface addon. It can be positioned anywhere on the screen. This mod was created to allow a player to track how many they have of ANY ITEM. This is especially helpful when farming for items that cannot be placed on the in-game skill bar. For example: I use this mod when I am farming elementals, so I know how many motes I have without needing to dig through my bags and count every time I loot one.
To open the Options Panel, right click on the bar anchor (where it says "FarmIt").
For a list of available slash commands, type: /farmit
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Feature Summary
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[ Item Slots ]
Place any item from your inventory into one of the bar slots
to keep track of how many you have.
Click a slot to select its contents and move them to another slot.
Right-click a slot to clear it.
Shift-click the slot to include your bank inventory in the item count. (per slot)
You do *not* need to be at the bank for this to work! Item counts turn
yellow when 'include bank' is enabled.
Ctrl-click a slot to set an item quantity objective, similar to quest tracking.
Item objectives will turn green when they have been met.
[ Bar ]
Click and drag the base of the bar to move it.
Right-click the base of the item bar to bring up the options panel.
Shift-click to view the help window.
Click the plus (+) button to increase the number of item slots on the bar. (Up to 12)
Click the minus (-) button to decrease the number of item slots on the bar.
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About FarmIt
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FarmIt has been written to be as light and fast as possible.
This addon uses an optimized item count method via effective use of the World of Warcraft API.
This allows for many powerful and convenient features, while remaining a fast and efficient addon.
FarmIt is able to include your bank inventory <i>without needing to be at the bank!</i>
Item search also includes the keyring. (Great for items like Etherium Prison Keys, Relic Coffer Keys, etc.)
The options panel allows you to control and customize many things about FarmIt.
Right-click the base of the item bar to bring up the options panel.
Hovering with the mouse over the controls on the options panel should pop-up a brief explanantion of what that setting does.
Bar orientation can be switched between vertical and horizontal modes.
When in horizontal mode, the item text labels are automatically hidden.
Item text is automatically re-enabled when you switch back to vertical mode.
The direction the slots "grow out" horizontally can be changed via the options panel.
FarmIt offers "set it and forget it" farming objectives.
Current item count is displayed in the top-left corner of each slot, and your objective in the bottom-right corner.
Optionally, FarmIt will notify you each time you loot a tracked item you are farming for.
When you reach your farming objective for a given slot, the goal number will turn green and you will receive an
on-screen notification similar to the in-game quest objective messages. (This can be disabled in the options panel)
Due to the nature of FarmIt's purpose (at this time), all mod settings are saved on a per-character basis.
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Credits
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Written and designed by CHiLLZ (aka Somnifer of Icecrown).
Much thanks goes out to my beta testers-- Herababe, Jessielynn, and Posidion.
FarmIt has had a lot of great feedback from it's users, thanks everyone!
FarmIt v1.7
By CHiLLZ <chillz@gmail.com>
An interface addon for World of Warcraft.
Version History
v1.7
- Updated for 3.0 WoW content patch and the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. (WoW v3.0.3)
- New Feature: The options panel now offers the ability to display progress messages
that display an on-screen update notice each time you loot an item that is being tracked.
v1.61
- Fixed bar anchor and tooltip offering an unavailable feature.
- Cleaned up a display issue with having the help window and options panel open at the same time.
v1.6
- Updated for 2.4.0 WoW patch.
- New Feature: FarmIt now has an options panel for easier customization!
- Due to the new options interface, the text commands have been simplified.
To see the current list of commands, type: /farmit
- Saved variable data structure and related functions have been significantly improved.
- Minimum number of slots changed to zero.
- New Option: Mod position may now be locked/unlocked to prevent accidentally moving it.
- New Option: You can now adjust the scale of the item slots. (50-150%)
- New Option: Spacing between the slots can now be adjusted.
- New Option: Transparency of item slot elements are now adjustable.
v1.5
- Updated for 2.3.0 WoW patch.
- New Feature: You can now click on a slot to pickup an item and move it to another slot.
The entire slot will glow yellow when selected (picked up). Just click the destination slot to move it.
If the destination slot already has an item in it, they will trade places.
- New Feature: When you reach your farming objective for a given slot, you will now receive an
on-screen notification just like the Blizzard quest objective notification.
- Moving an item into an already occupied slot will now cause the items to trade places
instead of overwriting the destination slot.
- Moved help information from chat message to its own popup window.
- Various fixes and optimizations from version 1.4 beta testing.
v1.4 beta
- Improved Feature: FarmIt is now able to include your bank inventory without needing to be at the bank!
Shift-click an item slot to toggle between local count (bags) and the combined total (bags + bank).
This feature can be enabled/disabled individually for each item slot.
The item count will turn yellow to indicate when bank search is enabled for that item slot.
- New Feature: You can now change the bar orientation!
Ctrl-click the base of the bar to toggle between vertical and horizontal orientation.
When in horizontal mode, the item text labels are automatically hidden.
Item text is automatically re-enabled when you switch back to vertical mode.
The alignment of which direction the slots grow out can be changed via the the same method used to
set the alignment of the item text labels. (Shift-click the base of the bar)
- New Feature: Set farming objectives for each item you are tracking.
Ctrl-click an item slot to enter a target quantity for that item.
Current item counts are displayed in the top-left corner of each slot now, and your objective in the bottom-right corner.
The objective indicator turns green when your target quantity has been met.
- Optimized item count method via Blizzard API.
v1.3
- New Feature: FarmIt now searches the keyring.
- New Feature: FarmIt will now search your bank space if you are at the bank.
v1.2
- Bugfix: Mod was still failing to stay hidden after a player logs off/on.
v1.1
- New Feature: You can now customize how many item slots there are. (Up to 12)
- Major XML changes-- now uses dynamic frame creation.
- Item slots retain what item they were tracking, regardless of how many slots are visible.
- Many Lua code improvements.
v1.0
- Fixed a bug where the mod was failing to stay hidden after a player logs off/on.
v0.9
- New Feature: Slash command interface.
FarmIt now supports the following slash commands:
/farmit help -- Shows a help message.
/farmit reset -- Resets the mod to default settings.
/farmit -- Hide/Show the entire mod.
- Mouse interactivity has been simplified due to the new slash commands.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the new item slots not to update their counts.
- Improved the mod "reset" function.
- Fixed a minor xml issue.
v0.8
- Updated for 2.1.0 WoW patch.
- New Feature: Shift-Click now toggles display of item text.
- New Feature: Ctrl-click now toggles item text alignment between the left/right side of the mod.
- Alt-click now resets the mod.
- By popular demand, increased the number of item slots.
v0.7
- Got rid of the little drag anchor at the bottom and made the mod border draggable instead.
v0.6
- First official release to the public!
v0.5 beta
- New Feature: Now saves (per character) what items you were tracking.
- Ctrl-click on the drag anchor area now resets the mod.
- Improved itemID matching.
- Sound feedback on click events.
v0.4 beta
- Fixed a "partial match" bug in the search/count method.
- Added manual "refresh" function to click-zone at bottom of mod.
- Automatic re-count now triggers correctly when looting.
v0.4 alpha
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...