1 Lockbox Cracker
Did you ever curse at other players placing their lockboxes in the will not trade slot without asking you? Did you ever forget your keybinding of Pick Lock? ("Ah, how could I forget, I bound it to left curly bracket!") Were you ever starting to get slightly annoyed by having to move your mouse for several kilometers from your action bars to click Pick Lock back to the trade window and back and forth and ba... if one of your friends casually comes by with a pile of boxes?
The Answer is here!
This is a very simple addon without the need of any configuration. It is only loaded on rogue classes. If a player trades you any type of lockbox in the will not trade slot, alt-clicking will mark it for cracking.
Additionally, you can also alt-click any locked lockbox in your inventory. It will instantly start getting cracked.
Lock picking has never been so elegant!
2 Cracking Does Not Work?
If the addon does not work, you are probably on a language not tested/supported yet. Just write a comment with your game version (retail/classic) and I will look into it. Currently the addon works for German, English, French and Spanish clients. Bag Addons could possibliy interfere with this addon. However, the ones I have tested did not cause any problems.
3 Contact
If you stumble across any error messages or would like to have a new feature, write a comment here, ingame to Armak-Frostwolf (EU)/Michigras-Lucifron (EU) or via Michi#2174.
4 Changelog History
v9.2.7 build 1 (Sep 2, 2022)
- Updated for patch 9.2.7.
v3.4.0 build 1 (Sep 2, 2022)
- Updated for patch 3.4.0.
v1.14.3 build 1 (May 6, 2022)
- Updated for patch 1.14.3.
v2.5.4 build 1 (May 6, 2022)
- Updated for patch 2.5.4.
v2.5.3 build 1 (Mar 4, 2022)
- Updated for patch 2.5.3.
v1.14.2 build 1 (Mar 4, 2022)
- Updated for patch 1.14.2.
v9.2.0 build 1 (Mar 4, 2022)
- Updated for patch 9.2.0.
v2.5.2 build 1 (Oct 2, 2021)
- Updated for patch 2.5.2.
v1.14.0 build 1 (Oct 2, 2021)
- Updated for patch 1.14.0.
v9.1.0 build 1 (Aug 10, 2021)
- Updated for patch 9.1.0.
v2.5.1 build 1 (May 21, 2021)
- Updated for patch 2.5.1.
v1.13.7 build 1 (May 21, 2021)
- Updated for patch 1.13.7.
- Removed a check which could result in lockboxes not being alt-clickable.
v9.0.5 build 1 (May 21, 2021)
- Updated for patch 9.0.5.
v9.0.2 build 1 (Nov 26, 2020)
- Updated for patch 9.0.2.
v9.0.1 build 1 (Oct 14, 2020)
- Updated for patch 9.0.1.
v1.13.5 build 1 (Jul 08, 2020)
- Updated for patch 1.13.5.
v1.13.4 build 1 (Mar 18, 2020)
- Updated for patch 1.13.4.
v8.3.0 build 1 (Jan 15, 2020)
- Updated for patch 8.3.0.
v1.13.3 build 3 (Dec 14, 2019)
- Cracking on Classic should work again.
v1.13.3 build 2 (Dec 12, 2019)
- Correctly updated for patch 1.13.3 - *sigh*.
v1.13.3 build 1 (Dec 12, 2019)
- Updated for patch 1.13.3.
v8.2.5 build 1 (Sep 26, 2019)
- Updated for patch 8.2.5.
v1.13.2 build 2 (Sep 24, 2019)
Cracking should work again for our French players ! Allez-y !
v1.13.2 build 1 (Sep 10, 2019)
- I was able to test the addon on Classic WoW. Everything should work!
v8.2.0 build 7 (Jul 27, 2019)
- 'Leave combat to crack this box' should not appear on every item in your bags anymore.
v8.2.0 build 6 (Jul 25, 2019)
- The addon should now work at least with English, French and German clients. Please let me know when your language does not work!
v8.2.0 build 5 (Jul 22, 2019)
- Alt-clicking in the trade window now instantly marks the lockbox for cracking.
v8.2.0 build 4 (Jul 21, 2019)
- Forgot to change a version number in the .toc file. Shame on me!
v8.2.0 build 3 (Jul 21, 2019)
- Complete code rewrite, allowing much better accessibility
- You can now just alt-click lockboxes in your inventory to open them
- To open a lockbox for someone else you alt-click the lockbox in the no-trade slot. After that your pick lock spell activates as if you've just clicked it from your spell book. You then have to cast it onto the lockbox. As far as I know, you cannot open a no-trade lockbox with only one click.
- Added a small text to a lockbox's tooltip
- Future lockboxes most probably will be crackable without the need of an addon update, as the code does not depend on their item ids any more
v8.2.0 build 2 (Jul 14, 2019)
- Added Barnacled Lockbox.
v8.2.0 build 1 (Jun 26, 2019)
- Updated for patch 8.2.0.
v8.1.0 build 2 (Dec 20, 2018)
- The addon should not interfere with other addons any more (if it ever did).
- The generated Pick Lock buttons should not overlap the map and other standard UI elements any more if they should appear behind them.
- You can now right click any lockbox in your inventory. A Pick Lock button will appear to the left of it. Clicking on the item again or closing bags makes it disappear.
v8.1.0 build 1 (Dec 19, 2018)
- Updated for patch 8.1.0.
- Fixed icon positioning.
v8.0.1 build 2 (Nov 04, 2018)
- Minor improvements under the hood.
- The project switched to a different release naming. From now on it's always WoW's current version + the build number of Lockbox Cracker.
v1.0.2 (Jul 18, 2018)
- Updated for patch 8.0.1.
v1.0.1 (Aug 30, 2017)
- Updated for patch 7.3.0.
v1.0 (Jul 06, 2017)
- Release version 1.0
8/2 22:32:36.794 An action was blocked in combat because of taint from LockboxCracker - LC_PickLockButton:Hide()
8/2 22:32:36.794 Interface\AddOns\LockboxCracker\LockboxCracker.lua:35
I like the mod. Found out it was causing this random error every so often though.
Thank you for the 9.2.0 update! It's a small QOL addon but it's one I almost can't live without any more.
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In reply to Werloz:
I can't reproduce it. Testing with my level 21 rogue. I don't have a lockbox in my inventory, though. Does the error always pop up?
In reply to Michigras:
Hello, yes.
download the old version v2.5.1 build 1 (May 21, 2021)
works with all lockboxes
Ok. I managed to fix the problem with all non working lockboxes.
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if(not UnitAffectingCombat("player") and --[[PlayerLevelIsHighEnoughToUseItem(itemId) and]] SearchTooltip(MakeRegexSafe(LOCKED)) and --[[(SearchTooltip(string.gsub(LOCKED_WITH_SPELL, "%%s", ".*")) or SearchTooltip("Crochetage.*%(.*%).*requis")) and]] not SearchTooltip(ITEM_ENCHANT_DISCLAIMER)) then
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I commented the check for: PlayerLevelIsHighEnoughToUseItem(itemId)
as you can see above.
Boxes level in classic and ability to use items inside is unrelated to the ability to open them.
You can virtually open all boxes in classic at level 45(225 lockpicking), Even raid drop lockboxes (Eternium).
In reply to Zilom:
I've removed the check in the newest version. To be honest, I cannot remember why I put that in :-)
Doesn't work with "Sturdy Junkbox" on English version
In reply to Zilom:
I'll try to get my hands on one of them.
Is there an alternative for Mac?
In reply to castlebravo89:
Doesn't it run on the Mac version of the game?
isnt working when alt clicking on strong iron lockboxes
In reply to the_vlaka:
Are you on Retail or Classic?
Any chance you could add the Mecagnome "Skeleton Pinkie" function to this?
In reply to KingShadowSkull:
I will look into it. I'm currently not active on Retail, didn't know that existed.
I am playing Classic wow patch 1.13.3 and the addon is not working, im not getting any error message just when i try to open a lockbox in Trade or inventory and mouse over the box the message to press Alt-Click does not show and doing the normal action does not unlock the lockbox
In reply to jgb22:
Yeah, patch 1.13.3 must have broken something. I'll look into it as soon as I can log on a Rogue for testing.
In reply to jgb22:
For what reason ever Blizzard decided to discard the "Requires Lockpicking (xxx)" text on the lockbox tooltips, so the lockbox detection broke. It should work again now with 1.13.3 build 3. There might be false-positives now, because currently the addon only checks if LOCKED is present in an item's tooltip (LOCKED resolves to Locked in English and Verschlossen in German). But that shouldn't be much of a problem. If Blizzard reintroduces the old tooltips, I'll update the addon again.
On Retail the tooltip is still the same, though.