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
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Posted Jan 20, 2026You addon is a lifesaver. Thanks so much for your time and effort!
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Posted Jan 20, 2026Addon in the Blizz AddOn list shows "Incompatible"?
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Posted Jan 20, 2026In reply to JackUrFace: Getting the same issue here.
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Posted Jan 21, 2026In reply to somali_lemonade: Can confirm that as of 903am CDT on 1-21-2026, I pulled the update from Curse, and upon logging in to the game, all is well again!
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Posted Jan 20, 2026In reply to JackUrFace: I it is because the TOC only has 120001 and not 120000 as well, just tested. Modified the TOC to include 120000 and it works
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Posted Jan 21, 2026In reply to hakuna222: Thanks! Can confirm that as of 903am CDT on 1-21-2026, I pulled the update from Curse, and upon logging in to the game, all is well again! I love this addon. Well done!
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Posted Jan 20, 20261x ...faceArkInventory/Core/ArkInventoryObject.lua:772: script ran too long
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Posted Jan 20, 2026Is there any way to disable or move the [Click to override the original Blizzard bank so that ARC Inventory controls it instead] button? It is sitting directly on top of the cleanup button and honestly it's really starting to piss me off that I keep accidentally clicking it then having to spend 20 minutes going through the menu of trying to remember how to turn the stupid thing off again.
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Posted Jan 18, 2026Hi, I have opened all 7 expansion slots in my bank, but one slot is not showing up. If I put an item in a slot that is not displayed, the item will not be visible. I hope this issue is resolved quickly, thank you
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Posted Jan 19, 2026anything from 3.12.06 alpha 1 onwards should have that fix
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Posted Jan 20, 2026thank you ♡
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Posted Jan 17, 2026Thank you for adding the housing category for decor. I would love to have a separate category for lumber and one for decor based pigments & dyes. I have these set up manually for now.
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Posted Jan 17, 2026Hi is there a way to manualy migrate my rules from classic anniversary to tbc anniversary? maybe copying some files into the new addon folder?
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Posted Jan 19, 2026In reply to wowtbcenjoyer: you can just copy the savedvariables file for arkinventory across. you may need to erase the old character data though (via the config)
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Posted Jan 24, 2026In reply to Arkayenro: i cant file any file named like that in the classicera directoryor in the new anniversary directory
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Posted Jan 14, 2026Hey, great addon! When will there be an update for Classic TBC?
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Posted Jan 14, 2026In reply to Xeelee:
you can download the 3.12.05 Alpha version, it works for me on TBC prepatch
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Posted Jan 15, 2026In reply to Nosfell: I does not work when you try to transition items from the mailbox or to and from the bank. Collecting items from the mail, your character gets the items, but Ark doesn't notice or show the items in your bags
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Posted Dec 19, 2025Is there a way to turn off "ArkInv can't buy tabs anymore, disable blahblah..."? I will NEVER buy the final warbank tab, but I also don't want to disable the bank override. Can I just have it NOT try to buy that tab?
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Posted Dec 13, 2025Heads up all: It is so easy to fix the addon version mismatches we get in every version of the game, but that will render addons unusable if this is not done in retail Midnight - it comes down to a simple fix in the .toc file, you open it in an sort of text editor, and there is a line that reads: (This is the one from Ark Retail, which is just Arkinventory.toc, it will be a different .toc depending on what version you are playing on) In Ark it is the very first line -
## Interface: 110205,120000
That is all the game reads to know if an addon is compatible with the version of the game running or not. I think the most recent version has those two in it, unless I added 110205 myself. 110205 is the numbering convention for 11.2.5 - so the reason it is telling you it is not compatble at the moment is that it is looking for the file to have 110207 in it, for 11.2.7. And when Midnight drops, it will look for 120000 theoretically if it drops as 12.0.0. This is a good thing to know because you can manually fix older addons that still would otherwise work, just by editing their .toc files. You will have to do it manually if they are not being updated anymore, every time an update drops from blizz that increments the game version name, but luckily you will be able ot see what is not loading. Those of you who don't know how to even find those files, it is under WorldofWarcraft/_retail_ (or _classic_ or _classic_era)/Interface/Addons/Your Addon Name and then look for the .toc file, and of there are multiple find the one that matches the game version, there can be a single one that covers all of them, or separate ones for each version. But you need to edit it to add the current version in it, or else it will kick it out. And even if it has a FUTURE version in it, like that one has 120000, it still gives an error because it doesn't find an exact match to the current version. it isn't super smart enough to know that the addon is till the same, unless it starts throwing errors, in which case, you are gonna not be able to use it anyway.