ArkInventory
ArkInventory (for The War Within)
:boom: Please ensure you are using the latest alpha version if you have the War Within client.
ArkInventory (for Retail, Classic, and Cataclysm)
ArkInventory's display windows are built from "virtual bars", you assign categories to bars so that items in that category are displayed on the specific bars you want. There is no limit to the number of bars you can have inside a window but obviously you only have so much screen real estate before it becomes "too many".
ArkInventory uses several methods to assign a default category to an item such as what professions you have, tooltip scanning, basic type/subtype and PeriodicTable. You then assign those categories to a virtual bar.
You can also over-ride the default category by creating a rule that matches either a single or multiple items.
Overview:
- user configurable window width and height
- separate keybindings for each location for easy viewing
- assign items to a category of your choice (overrides the default assignment)
- assign categories to the bar of your choice
- unlimited number of bars (there are practical limits though before your screen becomes full)
- sort each bar differently if required
- user configurable bars per row
- sell junk items automatically or manually (delete available via a keybinding or right clicking when at a vendor)
- random pet and mount summons. can also assign a group of them to select from
Key Bindings:
- Press ESCAPE to bring up the blizzard menu
- click on Key Bindings
- scroll down to AddOns > ArkInventory
- bind the keys you want to use
Need Help?
:memo: Wiki
:memo: Frequently Asked Questions
:memo: Sorting
:memo: Rules
:memo: If you are having an issue the first step is to disable all other mods and test with only ArkInventory loaded
:memo: If the issue is still there, please check for an existing issue and create a new issue if required.
:memo: If the issue is gone, re-enable your other mods one by one until the issue comes back, then note the last mod you enabled in your issue as well as notifying the author of the other mod
See ChangeHistory.md for changes to the latest version. See VersionHistory.md for all previous changes.
:boom: The NoLib variant
it seems quite a few people are somehow getting the NoLib variant from their download client when they didn't specifically ask for it, instead of the full variant, and its causing issues as they don't have the required libraries installed separately. Please ensure you are downloading the full. if you see nolib in the filename then its the wrong variant, unless you are actually installing all of the required libraries separately as well. If you have to you can manually download the full variant from CurseForge, WoWInterface, or Wago.
:boom: Junk Sell getting blocked
While auto-destroy remains blocked, From 30960 onwards you can setup a Key Binding to manually sell and destroy your items. Note that blizzard require one keypress per item deletion, so if you have multiple items that need to be deleted you will need to press the Key Binding multiple times. A message will be output if you have remaining items that can still be deleted.
:warning: Ensure you have backup copies of your saved variables file
Sometimes you cannot revert back to a previous version without a backup, especially alpha or beta versions, so before upgrading please make sure you have made a backup of your saved variables file
Your saved variables file is normally located at ...\World of Warcraft\_client_\WTF\Account\yourwowaccountname\SavedVariables\ArkInventory.lua
It is your responsibility to ensure you have adequate backups of your saved variables file. You dont have to do them frequently, just after you've made major changes to your config is probably fine for most people, but you should get into the habit of making backups because when it does corrupt you wont have to reconfigure everything from scratch.
If you have your download client set to automatically download alpha/beta versions you should definitely have backups.
A simple way to back up the saved variables file is to just do a copy and paste then rename the new file (using the version number of ArkInventory or the date is a good idea), eg ArkInventory-30900.lua, or ArkInventory-20191228.lua
Hi Arkayenro,
I've become completely dependent on your wonderful addon, so thanks very much for that! :)
I have but two issues that don't cease to annoy me, so I came here to ask you about possible solutions for those.
First, the zero-size-bag-bug. I think that's what it's called. ArkInventory fails to remember the contents of my main character's bags. Bank, Void Storage and everything else works just fine, bags on all other toons on several realms work fine (and that's quite a lot of toons). Why doesn't my main's bag work? If i understand it right, this is a bug on Blizzard's side, so I suppose you can't do anything about this, but is there anything known about the causes, or triggers, for this issue? I speculated the type of bags might be part of the problem, but since I switched those bags several times by now (all Hexweave Bags right now), this shouldn't be it... why my main and none of the other toons? Maybe it's some items I own? If there's any workaround known or if you can tell me anything about causes or trigger factors for that stupid bug, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Second, a minor thing. I like to use the feature for gold- and item-tooltips. When I mouseover my gold, I can see perfectly where all the money is and how much it is total. What I would really, really love, would be a way to sort that list (many toons, as mentioned before...), not alphabetically, but according to servers. I need to know how much gold I have on server A, and how much on server B. The total across all servers is of no use to me. :/ Of course I could disable the "all servers" option, but I do want to see the gold on the other server as well. I'd find it perfect if the list would look something like, for example:
Aegwynn
- Toon 1 134g
-Toon 2 2566g
total: 2700g
Kil'Jaeden
......
and so on. A complete total at the end, maybe. But it would be so incredibly helpful to see at first glance, how much gold I own on which server. Need to plan auctions, investments, and stuff, you know. :)
will be in the next version
will see what i can do
Thanks for implementing the font colours, ArkInventory finally matches the rest of my UI now :o)
Hi Arkayenro,
Firstly thanks for the amazing addon, all of your work is greatly appreciated.
I have a couple of small cosmetic feature requests which would be great if it wouldn't be too much hassle to add them.
1) Option to change the colour of the title and search text from green. I can see an option to change the global font but nothing to be able to set the colour.
2) An option to be able to display only the gold tooltip and not the item tooltips.
Kind regards,
Herem
assign the categories skills > herbalism and empty > herbalism (if you want the empty slots there as well) to a bar, dont use a rule unless you really have to, and dont use bag() on a shared profile, not unless you put the same bag types into the same slots on each character.
Hello,
Trying to best categorize my different bags to view quickly for items.
I made a Rule "Herb" that used all things related to Herbalism and then also do "Bag(3)" -- this all works perfectly. All herb-related items on set to that now.
Another alt has Bag(3) a regular bag, which I don't want. I looked at the Debug Info for my bags and saw the type and subtype, so I changed bag(3) to "type("Container") and subtype("Herb Bag") " and that does not work. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi,
I also have problems with the cleanup button. When used, it doesn't stack items properly and randomly moves items in differents categories.
I have to use the update button to have items sorted in the good categories again but auto-stacking doesn't work.
Regards
What ever happened with auto stacking of items? I use ti love that, a simple button push and it joined all the stacks together till max stack then started anew on another. It's not there anymore and none of the buttons do it.
Like my druid gets all the herbs from every alt sent to him (being an alchy) and it just be nice to dump them all in his bank and go STACK! but.. all any of the buttons do is refreshes them and plops them into their catagory... but unstacked left to amually stack them to make more space.
Also what about also dumping crafting regs into the new bank crafting bag to free up space? It's growing tiersum to move it all by hand and make sure items that are sorted into my set bars are acually in that bag.
the cleanup icon/action doesnt show/work for you?
blizzard have this nasty habit of chaning the auto open/close of bags when at different places - if they enable auto close then depending on how they did it sometimes i cant stop it from closing the bags.
you can disable AI and try it with the default interface, if the bags close like that then i might not bne able to stop it, if the bags remain open then there might be a bug in my code
due to the size of the reagent bank and my inability to split it out of the main bank interface a maximum window height setting was added, if the window needs to be larger than that then it should build to that max size and add a scrollbar so you can scroll through the rest
One minor problem,
If I have my bags open and open a vendor window, my bags closes automattically. I've tried leaving the override off for the vendor and it still does it. If i have it closed, and open with vendor, it will open up regardless of the override option.
One more thing,
would it be possible to have a separate window or override/control for the reagent bank? Because the window for all my bank items with reagent added into it, falls off the top/bottom of my screen.
Please help
--Mileadus
Ok,
I've turned off ArkInv, and the blizzard UI bags dont do it, not is there options for auto open/close at vendor bank trade whatever.
Sucks about the reagent bank.
Also one other minor issue the search option, every now and then regardless of what i'm typing in to search for it will still show the same search results; no where close to what i'm typing in. But, it only does that from the main bag window not the separate search window.
LOL
Any ETA on getting Ark working with guild banks again?
Did the developer abandon this addon?
it doesnt appear to be broken, mine work fine, perhaps you could elaborate?
i should be so lucky
did you isolate a bag so it only displays one window? or shift modes to money/log? you know you have to tick the override or ai wont display for that location? its ai thats overriding the default
blizzard vault bags or arkinventory windows on the right?
messily, you would have to find them in the saved variables file then paste them back in - reinstalling the addon shouldnt touch any of the saved variables (youd have to delete those manually to lose them)
I finally got it to work by setting the Guild Bank to look like my Bank. How do I make a copy of this Default profile just in case? When I make a new profile, it goes back to your basic default look. I customized my Arkinventory A LOT over the years. =P
Arky, you must've missed my edited problem down there.
None of my character's guild banks work under Arkinventory now. I had to Override them all to see my tab in the gbank (they gave me tab #7). Arkinventory opens wth the bags all on the right side of the main window - all blackened. Can't see anything in any guild bank tab.
If I have to reinstall your addon, how do I save my custom categories?
item placement is bottom right centric so the sorting is essentially reversed to cater for that (which makes it hard to understand whats going on if you dont realise that)
set item anchor point to topleft
set sorting to name descending
empty slots go first alphabetically though which is usually the issue people have with this
i'll add an option for people to chose where empty slots are sorted, first or last, that way it should work out how you (nd probably others) want