✨ Realmly Sparkles

A little light along the gathering trail.

Ever walked straight past a herb hidden in the grass? Or struggled to spot an ore vein against the rocks?

Realmly Sparkles helps you find gathering resources with beautiful, customisable golden sparkles, remembers where you've previously collected herbs, and makes managing Herbalism and Mining a little easier.

Designed specifically for World of Warcraft: Forever, Sparkles is a lightweight, standalone addon that adds a touch of magic to your gathering adventures.

✨ Make Gathering Sparkle

Bring a little extra visibility to the herbs and ore veins you encounter.

• Golden sparkle effects: Highlight the nearby gathering interaction detected by WoW.
• Customisable brightness: Choose between 50%, 100%, 200% and 300% intensity.
• Adjustable sparkle height: Move the effect up or down to suit your camera angle and preferences.
• Animated or steady glow: Enjoy gently floating golden particles or switch to a constant glow.
• Herbs and ore separately: Enable highlighting for either or both gathering professions.
• Profession-aware highlighting: By default, only resources associated with your learned gathering professions are highlighted.

Sparkles uses an original golden particle effect designed to remain visible against snowy landscapes, dark caves and dense vegetation.

Please note: Sparkles works with the gathering interaction exposed by the game, generally within approximately 15 yards. It does not reveal every nearby resource or attach effects directly to 3D world objects. Actual detection range is controlled by WoW Forever.

🌿 Remember Where You've Gathered

Found a useful herb? Let Sparkles remember where you picked it!

Enable optional gathering history to save successfully harvested herb locations and display them as icons on your minimap.

• Historical gathering markers: See places where you've previously collected herbs.
• Recognisable herb icons: Known herbs use their own item icons, while unfamiliar ones receive a generic Herbalism icon.
• Helpful tooltips: Hover over markers to see the herb name, approximate coordinates, number of recorded gatherings and last visit.
• Automatic updates: Previously recorded locations are updated when you gather there again.
• Zone-aware mapping: Only locations relevant to your current zone appear.
• Persistent history: Your discoveries remain available after logging out or reloading.

Gathering locations are recorded approximately and nearby discoveries of the same herb are combined to keep your minimap tidy.

Remember: A minimap marker means previously gathered here, not that a herb is currently available. Sparkles does not predict respawns or display live node locations from its saved history.

Gathering history is entirely optional and disabled by default.

⛏️ Easier Herbalism & Mining Tracking

Forever normally allows only one live gathering tracker at a time.

If you've learned both Find Herbs and Find Minerals, Sparkles can optionally alternate between them every four seconds.

• Automatic tracker rotation: Switch between Herbalism and Mining tracking.
• Manual switching: Use the Next tracker button whenever you prefer.
• Respectful behaviour: Rotation pauses during combat, spellcasting and other situations where changes may be inappropriate.
• Restore your settings: Turn off the feature and restore the previously selected tracker where possible.

Tracker rotation does not display both tracking types simultaneously. It switches between the game's existing tracking abilities.

⚙️ Simple, Customisable Controls

Open Sparkles with:

/rls

From the settings panel, you can control highlighting, brightness, sparkle height, animation, gathering trackers and saved herb locations.

Useful commands:

All optional features start disabled, so you can enable only what you want.

🔒 Your Discoveries Stay Yours

Realmly Sparkles is designed with privacy in mind.

• No Realmly account required.
• No Companion application required.
• No internet connection required.
• No character adventures or other players' information collected.
• No gathering data uploaded to external servers.
• Saved herb locations remain on your own computer, per character.

Sparkles operates independently of the main Realmly addon.

📦 Installation

1. Download Realmly Sparkles.

2. Extract the RealmlyGathering folder into your WoW Forever Interface/AddOns directory.

3. Restart the game or type /reload.

4. Enable Realmly Sparkles in your addon list.

5. Open the settings panel using /rls.

You can also manage Sparkles through the optional Realmly Windows Companion, which supports installing and updating Realmly addons.

🎮 Compatibility & Limitations

Supported game: World of Warcraft: Forever

Realmly Sparkles uses the game's supported interaction and tracking systems.

It does not automatically gather resources, target enemies, move your character, predict resource respawns or bypass the game's interaction range.

The sparkle effect follows the available on-screen gathering interaction rather than the resource's actual 3D model. Its position may need adjustment depending on your camera angle or zoom level.

Avoid running other addons that modify the same soft-target interaction settings or automatically rotate gathering trackers, as they may conflict.

💬 Join the Realmly Community

Have feedback, found a bug or want to suggest a feature?

Join us on Discord:

https://discord.gg/Js2mcA7w9

You can also access the Discord invitation from the Sparkles settings panel.

Visit https://realmly.me to discover more Realmly tools.

Part of the Realmly Family

Realmly creates tools to make your time in Azeroth a little more enjoyable.

Whether you're preserving your character's adventures, communicating with other players or following your favourite gathering routes, there's a little something for everyone.

Realmly Sparkles

Find it on your map. Spot it with a sparkle. ✨

An independent fan-made addon. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment.