Gathercraft
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Description
Peacebloom fears you now.
Stop exploring. Start harvesting.
Gathercraft puts every herb and ore spot on your map, rides you there on a route that plans itself, and tells you what it's worth and what to craft from it. Free, no ads, made for WoW Forever.
Actively developed – during the Forever launch weeks expect updates almost every day. Available in English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Português, Italiano, Русский, 한국어, 简体中文 and 繁體中文.
New versions, help and ideas: join our Discord.
Without Gathercraft vs. with Gathercraft
| Without | With Gathercraft |
|---|---|
| "Wasn't there a vein around here somewhere?" | Every node you gather is pinned on map and minimap, plus 25,000+ known spawn points from day one. |
| You ride to every dot on your minimap just to see what it is | Point at it. Gathercraft reads the herb or vein your tracking shows and remembers the spot. |
| A quest pulls you off your route and the arrow keeps pointing back | Walk off and the run picks a new target near you. Node behind a cliff? It notices and moves on. |
| You farm nodes that stopped giving skill-ups long ago | You see which nodes still level you – and your route goes there first. |
| "Is this zone even worth it?" | Farm Spots ranks every zone by gold per hour – estimated first, your real numbers after 10 minutes. |
| You craft, list, and find out you lost money | Crafting shows the profit of every recipe, and how many you can make right now. |
| Click, wait, find the bobber, click, re-apply lure… | One key for fishing: pole, lure, cast, reel in. |
What's inside
Learn from your minimap Point your mouse at a herb or vein your tracking shows on the minimap and Gathercraft remembers the spot – no need to ride there. Every look makes it more exact, harvesting puts it right on the spot. Only what you point at yourself is read; nothing is scanned.
The map Herbs and ores are recorded the moment you gather them. On top of that, 25,000+ known herb, ore and chest spawn points across Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms load as you explore. Harvested nodes fade until they respawn. Minimap pins sit in a thin silver ring, so what your tracking shows right now stands out – choose how visible they are. Chests can be switched off.
Farm runs Click Herbs, Ores or Herbs + Ores and go. Two route types:
- Smart (default): plans the shortest path through the nodes you selected and re-plans while you ride.
- Loop: one fixed round through all spawn points, ridden again and again like the routes in farming guides.
Both only send you to nodes you can actually gather (gloves, enchants and Goldthorn Tea count) and go for what you need: skill-ups while you level, gold once you're done, or simply the most nodes. Your next node wears a gold ring on map and minimap. Spawn points that keep turning up empty get visited less. A small button at the minimap switches between Find Herbs and Find Minerals with one click.
Farm Spots Every zone ranked by gold per hour, nodes per hour and skill-ups for your skill – estimates to start with, your own numbers once you've farmed there. Go starts a run right there.
Crafting 2,000+ recipes of all professions: profit after the auction cut, what it sells for, what the materials cost, and how many you can make from bags and bank. Recipes you don't know yet show the skill they need and where to learn them – trainer, vendor or drop.
Auction house scan One click at the auction house reads every auction and keeps a fair price per item, shown in tooltips. Price alerts tell you when something you gather sells well above normal. Auctionator or TSM prices are used only until your first own scan.
Fishing and rares One key equips your pole, applies your best lure, casts and reels in – every press is one action. And when a rare walks into view, you hear "RARE!".
Sharing (optional) Spots you harvest can be shared with other Gathercraft players. Guild and friends are trusted right away; strangers need a second confirmation, so fake spots go nowhere. Options → Sharing shows what it does. Only node positions are sent – nothing about you.
Plays nice with your UI Minimap button via LibDBIcon – works with ElvUI, button bags and Titan Panel.
Get going in 4 steps
1 Install and log in → 2 Gather anything → 3 Click the emblem at your minimap → 4 Farm run: Herbs / Ores / Herbs + Ores
Visit the auction house once and press Gathercraft Scan – from then on everything shows its gold value.
Controls
Everything lives in the Gathercraft window – click the emblem at your minimap (right-click starts a farm run) or type /gcr.
| Overview | Your professions, what to gather in this zone, one-click farm runs |
| Farm Spots | Best zones by gold per hour, nodes per hour and skill-ups |
| Crafting | Profit of every recipe, per profession |
| Zones | Pick zones and materials for your routes |
| Skills | Which nodes gave you skill-ups so far |
| Options | Map & minimap, farm runs, sharing, rares & prices, general |
Commands: /gcr run herb|ore|both · /gcr route (preview) · /gcr help (all commands)
Key bindings: Options › Keybindings › AddOns › Gathercraft
Questions
Does it play for me? No. You ride, you gather, you press the keys. Gathercraft only shows and plans.
Can it see nodes nobody has found? No. It shows known spawn points and what you and other players found. It never scans on its own, and nothing out of sight is revealed.
Why is a node empty when I get there? Known spawn points are possible spawns – not all are up at once. Press Skip and you're on your way.
What does it cost? Nothing. Free, no paid features, no pop-ups.
Roadmap
Next up (launch weeks): new Forever nodes like Poor Copper built in, a welcome guide for new players, a run summary to share with your guild, routes that ask other players about the zones ahead, waypoints to recipe vendors, fresh recipe data.
Later: a profession planner with material lists, routes straight to your materials, skinning spots, a shared recipe book.
Got an idea? Tell us – the best ones end up on this list.
Found a bug or have an idea?
Come to our Discord (#bug-reports and #ideas) or open an issue on GitHub – please add your Gathercraft version and what you were doing.
Support
Gathercraft is free and always will be. If it saved you an hour of riding in circles, you can buy me a coffee:
Gathercraft is made by pheenixlawl with the help of an AI coding assistant, and tested in-game. It is free software under the GPLv3. Spawn data and node names from Questie, recipe data from SkillUp Forever – thanks to both teams. Map pins via HereBeDragons, minimap button via LibDBIcon.
The name "Gathercraft" and its emblem, logo and banner are not part of the GPLv3 license – forks please use their own.
World of Warcraft is a trademark of Blizzard Entertainment. Gathercraft is a fan-made addon and not affiliated with Blizzard.
Gather. Route. Profit.
Gathercraft Team
