AutoStow

Smart Automatic Weapon Sheathing

AutoStow is a lightweight quality-of-life addon that automatically sheathes your weapons while you are out of combat.

It monitors your actual weapon state, allowing it to catch abilities that draw your weapons without starting combat or requiring a target.

Features

Automatically sheath weapons out of combat
Works with abilities that draw your weapons without entering combat
Customizable sheath delay: 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 5, or 10 seconds
1.5-second default delay for a natural pause before putting your weapons away
Manual weapon-draw pause for RP, screenshots, or simply showing off your weapons
Supports any Sheath/Unsheath keybinding — it is not tied to the default Z key
Waits for active casts and channels before automatically sheathing
Account-wide settings
Optional movable minimap button
Native Blizzard AddOns settings panel
No external libraries or dependencies

Manual Weapon Draw

Enable "Pause AutoStow when I manually draw my weapons" if you occasionally want to keep your weapons out.

Manually draw your weapons using your normal Sheath/Unsheath keybinding and AutoStow pauses automatic sheathing. Manually sheath them again to resume AutoStow.

Combat, looting, and other automatic weapon-state changes do not cancel this pause.

If you prefer AutoStow to always put your weapons away whenever you are out of combat, simply disable this option.

Settings

Open the AutoStow settings through:

Esc → Options → AddOns → AutoStow

You can also left-click the AutoStow minimap button.

Slash Commands

/autostow or /astow
Opens the AutoStow settings.

/autostow status
Displays AutoStow's current runtime state for troubleshooting.

/autostow debug
Toggles diagnostic state-change messages. Debug logging is disabled by default.

Feedback and Bug Reports

If you encounter a problem, please leave a comment with a description of what happened.

For troubleshooting, /autostow status can provide useful information about what AutoStow is doing at the time of the issue.