BV Addon Suite - Gather

Herbs, ore, fishing pools and treasure on your world map and minimap, recorded where you gather them. Plan routes through your zones in a route editor that knows the terrain, follow them with a gather mode, a HUD and a session tracker with gold per hour, and let the minimap scanner warn you when Black Lotus or Mithril shows on the minimap.

Requires: BV Addon Suite - Core and BV Addon Suite - Routing (the ways round terrain, water and cliffs, from 0.2.0)

Off by default. Turn it on with /bv gather on.

Known spawn points come separately: Gather starts with your own finds. The known herb and ore spawn points of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are in the optional add-on BV Addon Suite - Gather Data; install it too and routes can use them from the start.

Features

Your nodes on the maps

• Every herb, ore vein and treasure you gather is recorded where you stood; found again, it counts up instead of adding a pin
• Pins on the world map and the minimap, with kinds to show, filters by name, colours and size; nodes far away wait at the minimap's edge
• Skill levels next to herb and ore names in the route editor and the tooltips

Data sources

• Your own finds always come first; other sources only fill the gaps and stay apart
• GatherMate2 import with a preview, text export and import, and live sharing with your group and guild (off by default)
• Known spawn points with BV Addon Suite - Gather Data, faint until you find them yourself
• Each source can be switched on and off in the settings

Route editor

• Its own map window for up to four zones, with terrain from the game's minimap tiles, area names and flight masters
• Choose the herbs and ores, then calculate a loop: every node, or only within sight of the minimap's tracking dots
• Paint no-go, preferred and high-risk areas with a brush or as polygons, limit a route to a search area, add transitions (bridges, tunnels, cave entrances)
• Routes go round steep slopes, may drop down cliffs but never climb them, prefer roads and the ways you walked, and avoid enemy bases (nodes inside them stay out)
• Save, load, share routes and areas as text
• Calculating runs in the background with a progress bar and can be cancelled; the route you had stays

Gather mode

• A small window: gather mode on or off, the route to follow, the node kinds
• Follow a route with small dots and arrows on the map and the minimap; you join at the nearest leg and can skip parts by walking to another one
• HUD: the real minimap large and see-through in the middle of the screen (Find Herbs and Find Minerals dots included), turning with you or north up, with a compass at the edge; only the map fades, your route stays at full strength
• A sight circle around you on the minimap: what lies inside it, your tracking dots can show
• The tracker and the minimap finds can open and close together with the gather mode
• Quick entries in the minimap button's menu

Minimap scanner

• Warns when a herb or ore of your list shows on the minimap: Black Lotus, Mithril, whatever you hunt
• Reads the names of the minimap's Find Herbs and Find Minerals dots while the HUD is open and your mouse rests on it; a status beside "Close HUD" says whether it scans and why not (green or red), a click switches it
• A sound per entry with a preview: the game's sounds or the shared sounds of your other addons (SharedMedia), plus a short on-screen message with distance and direction
• One warning per node: it warns again only after the node was gone a while (it grew back or you came back), never a chain of alarms
• Minimap finds: the last 20 herbs and ores seen, with distance and direction that follow you as you move; click one for a purple line from you to it on the minimap and the map, which ends when you get there, gather it, it is gone, or you walk far away

Session tracker

• Time, nodes, items and their value, gold per hour; start, pause and stop
• Prices from TradeSkillMaster, Auctionator or the vendor price

Commands

• /bv gather: settings; /bv gather on / off
• /bv gather mode, window, hud, tracker, editor, route, stop

Plays well with others

• GatherMate2 running: ours neither records nor draws unless you say so (no double pins); its database can be imported
• FarmHud or HUDMap loaded: the settings tell you to use one HUD at a time
• Uses the Map module's waypoints when you send a route there (optional)

Style

Follows the suite's in-game style (BV, WoW, Clean or Clean matching your UI).

License

All rights reserved. Free to use; modifications for private use only. Redistribution, in whole or in part, requires permission. Full terms: LICENSE

Support

The suite is free and made in my spare time. If you enjoy it, you can buy me a coffee. Thank you!