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
not really, probably the closest is to enable the compact bars option which bsically just doesnt show any empty bars and pulls everything down into x bars per row, but it means that your bars wont be in the same place all the time.
alternatively you could add in some extra bars and just not assign anything to them so that theyre always empty
Okay, thanks for your help. )
In the example screenshots, there are multiple bars for each row; but not the same amount [the bottom row has three bars in it, the next up has four, etc]. I don't see a way to do that in mine, but I would love to know how! Thanks in advance.
the example actually has 5 bars per row, just that as nothing has ended up in a couple of bars those arent shown so you see less in some rows
(theres an option to show empty bars if you want that to happen)
the rules are global but the enabled/disabeld state is currently per profile, so for different toons to have different rules enabled youd have to put them on different profiles
Is there a way to make rules apply to only one character? What I am trying to do is make a rule for my priest that would separate all plate, mail, and leather soulbound armor so i can know to just sell them at a vendor since I can't mail them to my disenchanter. I have the rule working fine, but my problem is that it is also taking effect on my other characters that do use those armor types. Is there anything I can do here so that this rule is just in effect on my priest?
check that instant sorting is not enabled, its under config > settings > location > window > sorting > instant (should not be ticked)
youll still get updates but its usually the re-sort that kills
Love this addon, but I'm experiencing a significant delay when an item changes in my inventory. For example, when I am trying to sell a bunch of greens, or disenchant a bunch of items, each time something changes the bag auto updates. Is there anyway to postpone this update only when I open the bags?
Excellent, worked perfectly. Thank you!
Thanks for a nice addon!
I was looking for an alternative to a non-working recently engbags - and accidentally found your addon.
Now in my bags harmony and order =)
Hi!
I don¡t know why but all my customs have disapeared >_<
Will you be adding a class group for Monk?
it was added back in july last year when the class came out.
On of my favorite addons ! Thanks for that.
Would it be possible to get a rule to collect all "new items" or even better separated for new items "collected", "dropped" or "bought". Virtual bags with this rule woul dthen have a button to unmark the items as new and thus sort them using to the other bag rules.
This way one could see all th edrops from an ini, raid,wuest tour,...
not at the moment, easily anyway.
you could make a copy of your saved variables and then delete everything except the profile part and give that to them, it will get most but not all settings.
I have my bags all set up and want to share these with guildies to get them into using this mod but i dont want them having my data just the layout of my ArkInventory. Is there a way to do this?
try just outfit() to see if the outfit code is working. do the tooltips for those items show they are in an outfit?
It would seem I can't get the outfit( "Tank" ) etc rule to work. I'm aware it's case sensitive etc and I've made it exactly as it should be. Been using ArkInventory for years now and this is the first time I've been having trouble with this rule.
Any clue what's wrong?
I've used this addon forever, and once I started using Void Storage a while back, I'm pretty sure tooltips were correctly listing items that were stored there. However, in recent updates (not sure exactly when this stopped working), the tooltips fail to list if the items are in my void storage. If I open ArkInventory and change location to Void Storage, all items are listed there just fine, and the tooltips for those items (in the ArkInventory version of Void Storage) do show the Void Storage counts. When I speak to the Void Storage NPCs, I still get default Blizzard UI Void Storage interface.
Also to note is that the empty icon for void storage shows up as a green square/unknown for me.
I have 3.0.3.25, and have recently reinstalled AI via curse client.
Any thoughts on how I can get tooltips to work with Void Storage at least?
item counts on the tooltips will be in next version. dont really use void storage that much and never noticed they werent there
void storage is currently read only as i didnt want to code up the add/withdraw features (was too much work)