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 Jun 19, 2014under the ...\WTF\Account\accountname\SavedVariables folder
if your variables are all garbage then maybe look for the .bak file and change it to a .lua file
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Posted Jun 19, 2014Thanks very much :)
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Posted Jun 19, 2014Wow, thanks for the quick response. I'm using "Random Mount" for now. It summons my flying mounts to use as ground mounts so far. I don't know if you can get any information from that addon or not. That one doesn't appear to have any gui though, and since I already have arkinventory installed anyway for the inventory management, I'd rather use ark. The other addon is getting me by for now though.
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Posted Jun 19, 2014if you dont use an LDB capable mod to show the buttons there is a menu off the mount locations main menu that has the same structure.
ie open the mount location, click on the icon in the top left, select Mounts and go from there
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Posted Jun 18, 2014actually was easier than i thought. the ability to select a flight capable mount as a land mount will be in the next release
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Posted Jun 17, 2014Are there any instructions anywhere for the mount functionality? Most if not all of the wiki and faq stuff seems to deal with the inventory aspect of the addon. The configuration seems to be straight forward, but I can't get it to behave the way I want. Maybe I'm not understanding the configuration options, I don't know.
What I'm trying to do is have a couple of my 'flying' mounts randomly chosen as ground mounts. Specifically I'd like to be able to use Blue Wind Rider, Swift Purple Wind Rider, and Hearthsteed as ground mounts. If I go into the configuration and click the "flying" tab, I can click on Hearthsteed, for example, and the drop-down boxes show "land - yes" and "flying - yes". I assume this means that I want to use this mount as both a flying and land mount. However, if I click the icon on my titan panel and select "land", it only shows my land-only mounts. My flying mounts aren't selectable and aren't randomly chosen. If I try to chose the "flying" option from Titan Panel it says my skill isn't high enough, which is correct. I wonder if that's why it won't let me use the flying mounts on land?
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Posted Jun 17, 2014the mount code is fairly basic, if you dont have the flying skill then you cannot see any flight capable mounts - even if you want to use it as your land mount.
i'll see if i can change the code and menu around to show them but its going to make that list potentially very long (will have to add an option to turn it on/off)
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Posted Jul 28, 2014Just tested this out and I was able to successfully summon my hearthsteed and swift purple wind rider as ground mounts on a level 20 character. Thanks for the update!
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Posted Jun 17, 2014open arkinventory.lua under the savedvariables folder in something like notepad++ (if you set the language to lua then it allows you to collapse the table in sections)
find ARKINVDB [global] [player] [data] [toon/guild name] [location] and delete the entire location table, including the [location] tag itself (you need to do this for each toon/guild)
it will now contain just the setup without any item data, save it and keep a backup of it somewhere safe
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Posted Jun 15, 2014Since the last update I have been having trouble with this addon causing an Error #134 on my WoW logins. I have traced it down to this addon alone as it happens when I have this addon alone set to load up and am still getting the error. I have also traced it to my current setup as if I delete my current LUA and then reload a backup it works for the first time that I login. If I then log out and try to login again I will error out again.
What I think I am really trying to get at is their any way of saving the categories and setups that I use for my bag configurations?
I run 12 different configurations. 1 for each class and 1 for my Bank toons. Setting up all of these configs is very time consuming and tedious and I have done so in the past and really do not want to do so again manually if I do not have to do so. I cannot just keep reloading a back up as it only works for that one session of play. Any help would be greatly appreciated. FG34
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Posted Jun 8, 2014This is a really good addon in my limited experience with it. It has a bit of a learning curve and took me an hour or so to get a feel for everything, but it's turning out quite nice. Is there a forum somewhere to discuss the addon?
I have encountered one little issue that I'm having with a particular item that I can't get to match a rule that, as far as I can tell, it should match. The item is: Faded Wizard Hat. The debug thing says that it is type armor and subtype miscellaneous. So I created a rule: type("armor") and subtype("miscellaneous") but the item is still being matched to system > equippable items (soulbound). I'm basically trying to set up a bar that will hold only my hunter usable gear. It currently shows anything that is leather with agility on it and any guns or bows. I want the other gear to be in a different bar so I can more easily see what to auction and what to hold onto. This particular item is a vanity item that I would like to have in the hunter gear bar because I want to keep it. The miscellaneous rule is matching a ring that I have, so it seems to work, but it won't match that hat. For now I'll just assign it to some other category and put that in there, but I'm curious as to why it's not working the way I think it should work. If anyone has any insight, I'd appreciate it. TIA
EDIT: Created a custom category "vanity" and put the hat and other neat or cool looking items in that category in their own bar. Still curious why the rule for that hat won't work though. I couldn't even get it to work with equip head.
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Posted Jun 12, 2014go into edit mode, click on the item, click on the default category, that should reset it if it was set to use that specific system category.
if you assign a system (or custom) category to an item it has a higher priority than a rule trying to find it. thats usually the reason why rules dont pick up specific items
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Posted Jun 5, 2014new beta version is up, please make sure you backup your savedvariables before you install it
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Posted Jun 3, 2014I just wanted to pop in and say that ArkInventory was one of the addons in wow I could not live without back in BC/WotLK. You are awesome. I wish i had an inventory addon that was even half as good in Wildstar. <3
That's all. You can carry on being awesome now. *tips his hat*
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Posted May 25, 2014Yo, i love this addon and have used it for some years now :p
Lately ive had a problem when i make a new charecter the items in my bagpack wont show, it just shows that my bags are embty, its only when i make a new char the ones ive had for some time i dont got that problmem.
And one more question :p
Why is it that i cant use the search function in my chars bagpacks? it works when im in my bank
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Posted May 24, 2014Do you guys know if there is a way to assign two different item categories to two copies of the same piece of gear? like an option for marking them as two separate items? that would immensely help me to keep my gear sets distinct!
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Posted May 22, 2014Corrupted too =S
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Posted May 21, 2014The config/settings are reset in today patch?
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Posted May 21, 2014not by design they arent, but its a patch so its possible they can get corrupted.
always have backups - the wow client creates one automatically so you can check under your SavedVariables folder for the arkinventory one and see if the backup in there is usable (rename the files around so that the .lua.bak becomes .lua)
worse case you may go back a bit but if you have no other backups then its better than nothing
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Posted May 11, 2014Just wanted to say that I absolutely adore this addon and am really grateful to the author for maintaining it. It's definately an absolutely essential part of my WoW play that I couldn't be without.
Fantastic work!