Family

Family

See what your other characters have, without logging into them.

Family records each character while you play it: what it owns, what it knows, what it wears, what is in its mailbox. Every other character can then see all of it, in one window. Family calls your characters members.

The game tells you nothing about a character you are not logged into. With Family you stop relogging to look inside a bank alt's bags.

On the game's own item tooltips. Hover any item, anywhere: a quest reward, an auction listing. Family adds who in the family owns one, how many, and where: bags, bank, guild bank, mailbox, auction house, or equipped. Hover a recipe and it names who knows it, who can learn it now, and who needs more skill or levels first. You stop buying a recipe your druid already knows. Hold CTRL and ALT and click an item, and Family opens on every copy the family holds.

The whole family on one screen. One row per member, grouped by realm and faction, with totals for each group. The columns cover level, item level, rested experience, money, bag and bank space, professions, mail and auctions. Play both factions on one realm and you get two groups. The two sides share no mailbox and no auction house, so their gold is counted apart.

Everyone's gear at once. One row per member: the class icon, then every slot in the order of the character sheet. Each icon carries its item level and shows the item's own tooltip on hover. Filter by realm or by class. One look tells you who is behind, like the warrior still wearing a level 42 trinket at 60.

Bags, bank and recipes, searchable across the family. Bags, bank, guild bank and mailbox are drawn as containers, the way the game draws them. Each profession lists its recipes, and you filter them by difficulty colour, by equipment slot or by name. One search answers who has this. Another answers who can make this.

What it is all worth. Family reads auction prices from the listings you browse. It scans the whole auction house only when you press Read it all. Each member's page says what their bags, bank, mail, auctions and worn gear come to, and how much of that figure is auction prices and how much is vendor prices. Switch on prices in Options and holding CTRL over any item shows what the family's copies of it are worth. Realms that share an auction house share their prices.

Charges and world buffs. The charges left on a Wizard Oil or a Bag of Marbles are printed in the corner of the icon, in your bags, your bank and the guild bank. The summary counts the world buffs each member has stored in a Chronoboon. Click the number and each buff appears as its own icon, with the time left on it.

Mail recorded as you send it. Send gold or items to one of your own characters and the mail shows against them at once, marked as in the post. When that character opens their mailbox, what is really there replaces it. Family also warns you when any member's mail is close to being returned or destroyed, whichever character you are playing.

Cooldowns that survive logging out. Family stores the moment a crafting cooldown comes ready, so it stays correct however long the game was closed. At login it tells you which members have one ready. Alchemy transmutes share one timer and appear as one cooldown.

Also:

• A character sheet for any member, with the enchants and gems on their gear, their reputations and their quests. Currencies from Burning Crusade on, achievements on Mists.
• Both talent specialisations and the spellbook, with glyphs on Mists.
• A minimap button and a data broker feed showing the family's money. Shift-click it to count one realm and faction, or one character.

Sharing

Both sharing features are switched off when you install Family. Both switches are in Options, and neither needs a reload.

Guild share. Guildmates who run Family see each other's characters in the guild: class, race, level, gear and the shape of both talent builds. All of that is what the game already shows anyone who inspects you. A guildmate you have seen once stays listed after they log off. Guilds spanning connected realms count as one guild. You can also offer your professions, one character and one profession at a time, on a grid that starts empty. Then a guildmate hovering an item sees which of your characters can make it, and whether its cooldown is ready. Bags, bank, mail and gold are never shared with the guild.

Wide Family. Link your family with another player's, and each of you can see the other's characters. You choose what they may see, one member and one category at a time: possessions, equipment, professions, talents, quests, mail, auctions, reputations, money and more. The grid starts empty, so nothing is shared until you tick it. Untick a box and what was shared under it is deleted from their side the next time the two families are in contact. Both players must switch it on, in Options or with /family wide on.

A shared character you look at every day can be made a sibling. Siblings are listed wherever your own members are: in the summary, in the gear rows, on item tooltips and on the Wide Family panel. They sit under their realm and their own family's name, and their gold is never added to your totals. Making someone a sibling changes only your screen. Nothing is sent and nobody is asked, because they had already chosen to share that character with you.

What to expect

• It starts empty and fills as you play. Nothing is imported from any other addon.
• Log into each character once. Bags update on every change. The bank, guild bank, mailbox, auction house and profession windows are recorded while they are open.
• Every screen says how old its information is. Something Family has never seen is shown as not seen, never as empty.
• It follows your version of the game. Classic Era has no guild bank and no currencies, so Family shows no panel or column for them there. The same goes for glyphs and achievements before Mists. Professions and reputations are the ones your version has.

Clients and languages

Classic Era, Classic Burning Crusade (Anniversary) and Classic Mists of Pandaria. Season of Discovery and Retail are not supported and not planned.

English, German, French, Spanish and Russian, for both the interface and the recorded data. A character recorded on a German client reads correctly on a French one.

The download contains two addons: Family records and Family_UI shows. Family is free software under GPL-3.0-or-later, and its source is public.

The full manual

Every panel, every column, and what to do when something looks wrong: https://github.com/uga/Family/blob/main/docs/MANUAL.md

Faults and suggestions: https://github.com/uga/Family/issues