Customizable random mount summoning, since 2011.
LiteMount supports journal mounts, Travel Form, Ghost Wolf, Running Wild, Tarecgosa, Moonfang, Flying Broom, Vash'jir Seahorse, Telaari Talbuk/Frostwolf War Wolf and other zone-specific mounts.
LiteMount excludes flying mounts in areas where you can't fly.
How To Use
Set key binding(s) for LiteMount in the WoW "Key Bindings" options, under the "AddOns" category
Press key to mount/dismount on a location-appropriate mount.
Hold SHIFT to force a non-flying mount.
Press key while moving to force travel form, ghost wolf or other instant-cast mounts.
Jump out of water and press key within 1s to fly/float instead of swimming.
Supporting LiteMount
If you are a rich person and would like to support me, I would love you to buy me a mount from the Blizzard store. You can see the mounts I am missing here, buy a mount I am missing from the shop and send it to me during checkout to my email address <mib@post.com>.
Otherwise, please continue to enjoy LiteMount for free and just have fun playing WoW.
Localization
LiteMount supports all languages. Please help with translations using this easy web interface:
Profiles
LiteMount supports profiles, accessed via the button on the top-right of most of the settings pages.
The following settings are per-profile:
- Enabled/disabled setting for each mount.
- Copy Target's Mount.
- Automatically exclude newly added mounts.
- Advanced action lists (for buttons 1-4).
The following settings are global:
- Extra mount flags (from the Advanced Options panel).
- Changes to mount flags (from the Mounts panel).
And these settings are per-character and not shared:
- Unavailable macro.
- Combat macro.
- Debugging enabled.
Action Bar Macro
To create a LiteMount macro you can drop onto your action bar, type into the chat box:
/litemount macro
Once you have created the macro you can edit it if you wish, LiteMount will not change it unless you delete it and recreate it.
Copying Target's Mount
If you have a player targeted, LiteMount will try to copy the mount they are currently using. You can turn this awesome feature off in the settings.
In-Combat Actions
LiteMount cannot mount in combat. It has a default set of combat actions which can dismount you, exit vehicles, or cast Travel Form or Ghost Wolf.
Getting Out of Water
Jump out of the water and activate LiteMount within one second to fly, float or run away.
For Druids
Activate LiteMount while moving or jumping to activate Travel Form.
Go into the settings and set the unavailable macro to
/cast Cat Form(Shapeshift)
and the combat macro to
/cast [indoors,swimming][outdoors] Travel Form(Shapeshift); [indoors] Cat Form(Shapeshift)
For Shamans
Activate LiteMount while moving or jumping to activate Ghost Wolf.
Go into the settings and set the unavailable macro to
/cast Ghost Wolf
For Monks
Go into the settings and set the unavailable macro to
/cast Zen Flight
Reporting Issues
Mount Selection
For information on how LiteMount chooses mounts, see:
Settings
For information about customizing LiteMount using the settings interface, see:
Advanced Options
For information about doing really clever things using the Advanced Options settings, see:
- Advanced Options
- FAQ: Map-specific Mounts
- FAQ: Class-specific Mounts
- FAQ: Spec-specific Mounts
- FAQ: Single-type Action List
Slash Commands
For information about the LiteMount slash commands, see:
Using LiteMount in Your Macros
For information on writing your own macros that incorporate LiteMount as well as other actions, see:
If This AddOn Seems Abandoned
If more than two weeks go by after a major patch and LiteMount hasn't been updated, I've probably been hit by a bus. In that case I encourage anyone with the necessary ability to take over maintenance of the addon.
LiteMount is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which means anyone can take it and do whatever they want with it, as long as they too release their code under the same terms.
In reply to Hemario:
That's great. Thank youfor taking the time to post the bug report and update, I really appreciate it.
Happy adventuring, X.
Hello everyone,
I've released LiteMount 8.2.0, updated for WoW 8.2: Rise of Azshara.
There is a new system of mount equipment, the water strider mounts can no longer water-walk by default, and the Blizzard API does not recognize them as a separate type of mount.
As a result the FLOAT default mount flag is gone.
I have added a [waterwalking] action list condition, which will match if you have either of the two types of water-walking mount equipment installed, if you have the Shaman Water Walking buff, or the Death Knight Path of Frost buff.
I've also amended the [equipped] action list condition so that it will also match itemid numbers equipped as mount equipment. E.g., [equipped:168412] will match if you have Light-Step Hoofplates (item ID 168412) installed.
Please report any bugs, as usual.
Happy adventuring, X.
So, I finally got around to doing some serious customization of my litemount profile and ran across a head-scratcher (for me).
In your documentation, you say "Filters are handled separately from other kinds of conditions. You may only have exactly zero or one filters defined per action, and there is no support for slash-separating to get "OR" behaviour." (Advanced Options doc page, under Filters section. BUT, in the action list example (which says it's from 8.2, even though current version is 8.1.2) you have "Limit [filter=RUN/WALK][mod:shift]" which I would read normally as "This will match RUN or WALK" which is an OR behavior. Which leaves me confused. Is this just an error of the documentation, or am I missing something stupidly obvious?
Thanks, and great work.
Hi karaste,
Yeah, I added the OR behavior at some point because of RUN/WALK. I'm not really happy with how I did it, so I didn't update the documentation, but since it's part of the default action list now it's stuck.
Feel free to use it. I'll update the doco after I get the 8.2 version out.
Happy adventuring, X.
Love the mod!
I've started adding smart macros for different zones and races, but I can't figure out how to force a ground mount out when one of my smart macros triggers. In this example, if I'm playing a human, I always get a flying mount, even when I hold shift. My advanced option is below.
It seems like "flyable" is a condition meaning "in a flyable zone", whereas "flying" is a condition meaning "character is flying" (I presume to summon a druid flying form), but the "fly" flag is hardcoded to mean "summon in flyable zones"?
Hi mikebbetts:
SmartMount is (in practice) incompatible with conditions as it will always pick the best possible mount for the current situation from the list. I probably should have taken it out, but it made my default action list shorter and I was lazy.
The conditions are half-inherited from the Blizzard macro conditionals, which is why the [flying] condition exists. It's hard to imagine a good use for it in LiteMount. The base mount flags (FLY, RUN, etc) indicate what the mount is capable of doing.
You'll have to specify the conditions you want individually by hand, with all the modified versions before the unmodified ones so they trigger in preference.
for example.
There's lots of other ways this could work, but I don't want the action list to end up being a programming language in its own right.
I think a better approach would probably be for me to implement a LIMIT action which removes mounts from the list considered from then on. But it's not straightforward to change the code to do that, so I haven't yet.
Happy adventuring, X.
In reply to mikebbetts:
I made the Limit action work.
Please try LiteMount 8.1.2beta1 where you can do:
LeaveVehicle CancelForm Dismount CopyTargetsMount Mount [filter=VASHJIR][map:203,submerged] Mount [filter=AQ][map:319/320/321,noflyable,nosubmerged] Mount [filter=NAGRAND][map:550,noflyable,nosubmerged] Mount [filter=230987][nosubmerged,extra:202477] Mount [filter=230987][nosubmerged,aura:202477] Limit [filter=RUN/WALK][mod:shift,flyable] SmartMount [filter={CLASS}] SmartMount [filter=DreadWastes][map:422] SmartMount [filter=Nazmir][map:863/1194] SmartMount [filter=Tiragarde][map:895/1196] SmartMount [filter=RaceHuman][race:Human] SmartMacro Macro(Empty lines added for emphasis).
Happy adventuring, X.
In reply to xodiv:
Works like a charm! Thanks, buddy. Pick a mount from the store, and I'll leave a tip in your jar ;)
In reply to mikebbetts:
Glad it's working out! I've released (non-beta) LiteMount 8.1.2 with the Limit changes and updated the documentation. You might want to switch back from the beta release track, lest you get hit with my next set of poorly tested changes. :)
Thanks for your offer of a mount; it's definitely not necessary but if you insist, a Vulpine Familiar would be wonderful.
Happy adventuring, X.
In reply to xodiv:
Almost forgot! enjoy!
Amazing! Thank you so much.
Advanced warning:
In WoW 8.2 the Water Striders will be losing their water-walking ability, and a new system of "Mount Equipment" will be added. You can equip one piece of mount equipment to add an effect, one of which is water-walking, and it applies to all mounts.
In LiteMount the FLOAT flag will be going away, a new condition (not sure on the details yet) will be added for the mount equipment, and the default action lists will be updated appropriately.
Happy adventuring, X.
In reply to xodiv:
Hello Xodiv, from a RPG point of view, I am bit sad that you want to remove FLOAT, even though I understand that it will not be needed with 8.2 anymore. Personally, I think it would be nice if it were preserved and Striders would be preferred (if selected) when drifting in the water, even if mammoths can then also water-walk with appropriate equipment.
Will the personal action lists also deleted/reset or just the default list? Or only default lines that are used in personal lists and have not been changed? Should we save something, just in case?
Hi Selthi,
I'm bit sad too, about the changes. I really like the water striders and I always felt Blizzard did it really well having one that was easily accessible and another that showed you were a serious mount collector. Mount equipment seems to me to be a solution in search of a problem - I suspect Blizzard is just desperate to find things to make professions relevant.
It's not that I want to remove the flag, but Blizzard are taking it away. In 8.2 the water striders return the same type information in the WoW API as all other ground mounts, instead of being their own type. I don't want to hard-code the water striders as being something specific because whenever I've done that it's ended up being a lot of work to keep maintaining it.
Custom action lists won't be modified, so if you have the FLOAT flag in one already and you re-create the FLOAT flag and assign the water striders to it you should have the same behaviour as before. Once you've modified an action list from the default LiteMount doesn't touch it.
I don't think you'll need to save anything.
Happy adventuring, X.
In reply to xodiv:
Thank you for the explanation, that is of course understandable. That changes to the API could be the reason, I had not considered.
The hardcoded Suramar City was a great thing :).
Thanks for pointing out to re-create the flag, I suppose I'll do that. Simply because they are cute and lose a bit of their charme as normal ground mounts.
Have a nice day!
Man I love this. Following the help pages you have up I figured out how to use one mount if I'm in Moonkin form and another when I'm in regular troll form. And I have other situational mounts depending what zone I'm in. It's great!
Only question I have is can I set this up so that the addon *never* summons a flying mount? I'm a druid so I don't need them. Ground mounts are still useful for anti-daze bardings or in battlegrounds where travel form is slow.
Like if I'm in Org, can the Litemount button/macro be set up only to do Travel (flight) form without having to be moving? I tried not picking a flying mount, and now it only summons those ground mounts in flying areas. Hopefully what I'm asking makes sense.
In reply to solidus0079:
Thanks for your kind comments! I know it's not as easy as it could be, but it's the best I can do with the time that I have.
Probably the easiest thing for you to do is just disable all the flying mounts. Go into the mounts settings panel and choose only flying mounts using the filters, then use the select/unselect all check button to disable them all. You'll need to re-enable travel form after that I think.
Alternatively you can can probably do something like this:
SmartMount [filter=783][flyable]
SmartMount [filter=783/~FLY]
So it will always use spell 783 (Travel Form) in flyable areas, and pick from Travel Form and all the mounts without the FLY flag on them in non-flyable situations.
Happy adventuring, X.
In reply to Xodiv:
Thank you for the reply! Before I asked about this, I first tried to figure it out myself by disabling any flying mounts. The end result is I summon ground mounts in flying zones.
For the sake of clarity/troubleshooting I have Litemount set up to summon Kua'fon if in moonkin (form 4), and Conqueror's Scythemaw if in caster form. Azure Water Strider if swimming or in certain zones I've determined it's not worth using a ground mount at all (like Tiragarde, too much water). It works flawlessly.
I tried adding the suggested Smartmount code in there. Tried moving it to a couple different places. The end result is that it summons the Scythemaw now in both moonkin and normal form, so the Moonkin filter is ignored, but no flying form. Is it an order of operation thing? Or am I missing a step? I tried creating a filter 783 too but that didn't help.
(AH is a filter I created to summon the auctioneer mount when inside the Great Seal, and WW is places I've set only to use Water striders for Water Walking)
LeaveVehicle Dismount Mount [filter=AH][map:1163] SmartMount [filter=783][flyable] SmartMount [filter=783/~FLY] Mount [filter=WW][map:895/974/907/942/863/1034/10337] CopyTargetsMount Mount [filter=VASHJIR][map:203,submerged] Mount [filter=AQ][map:319/320/321,noflyable,nosubmerged] Mount [filter=NAGRAND][map:550,noflyable,nosubmerged] Mount [filter=Moonkin][form:4] Mount [filter=230987][nosubmerged,extra:202477] Mount [filter=230987][nosubmerged,aura:202477] SmartMount [filter={CLASS}] Mount [filter=RUN][mod:shift,flyable] Mount [filter=WALK][mod:shift,noflyable] Mount [filter=FLOAT][mod:shift,flyable] SmartMount MacroIn reply to solidus0079:
I'm not sure. In general my advice is that if you are trying to do something specific start with an empty action list and build it up - particularly to remove the SmartMount from the end. Otherwise you can run into a trap of thinking that you've got it right but are actually triggering the default action.
I don't know a huge amount about druids. Druid forms are such a pain, Blizzard seems to seesaw back and forth about how they work every other patch. Is it possible you have some kind of glyph that adds a separate Flight Form from Travel Form? If that's the case you will need to list its spell ID rather than Travel Form.
One thing to note with your list is that Boralus is actually in Tiragard Sound. So where you have [map:895/...] that matches Boralus (1161) as well. I don't think it's a problem with your list though because you have the AH override first.
I got my druid through the intro questlines and tried your action list, and I think it works for me although I didn't test all the cases. I stripped it down to this which I think is the most minimal version:
LeaveVehicle
Dismount
CopyTargetsMount
Mount [filter=AH] [map:1161/1163]
Mount [filter=783/165962] [flyable]
Mount [filter=FLOAT] [map:895/974/907/942/863/1034/1037]
Mount [filter=Moonkin] [form:4]
SmartMount
Macro
Does that still cause you a problem?
Oh, also you don't need your WW flag, the inbuilt FLOAT flag already contains the two water striders.
On a personal note, I am really getting very envious of all the people writing in with their 5 million gold auctioneer mount problems. :)
Happy adventuring, X.
In reply to Xodiv:
FIXED!
No I don't run any glyphs but thanks for pointing that out. Definitely will be useful info later (as I do get fickle and switch things).
Ok with your suggestion of removing Smartmount and looking through your trimmed code I was able to figure the rest out. I did notice removing SmartMount [filter={CLASS}] seemed to cause me issues when I was farting around in Dalaran, no mounts would ever summon.
It all came down to removing the final Smartmount at the end and adding additional arguments after the "form:4" line. Here's the rejiggled version of my code if you or anyone else is curious:
By the way, as far as Boralus is concerned, I'm sure the guards would take cause at my opening up shop there but good catch (might be handy with an alt). ;)
Ironically, Tol Dagor's outside island isn't considered Tiragarde Sound, but inside the instance is. Just a funny little tidbit (having a water mount is useful at the start to skip mobs during Mythic+)
Thank you for all your help! This is awesome!
LeaveVehicle Dismount Mount [filter=AH][map:1163] Mount [filter=WW][map:895/974/907/942/863/1034/10337] CopyTargetsMount Mount [filter=VASHJIR][map:203,submerged] Mount [filter=AQ][map:319/320/321,noflyable,nosubmerged] Mount [filter=NAGRAND][map:550,noflyable,nosubmerged] Mount [filter=230987][nosubmerged,extra:202477] Mount [filter=230987][nosubmerged,aura:202477] SmartMount [filter={CLASS}] Mount [filter=Moonkin][form:4,nosubmerged,noflyable] Mount [filter=RUN][mod:shift,flyable] Mount [filter=WALK][mod:shift,noflyable] Mount [filter=FLOAT][mod:shift,flyable] Macro