FarmingTracker: The Smart Farming Timer for World of Warcraft
Every gold maker knows the feeling: you head out to farm a specific reagent, lose track of time, and end up with three times the materials you actually needed. Or worse, you stop early and come up short. FarmingTracker solves that problem with a clean, lightweight timer that counts your loot and stops itself the moment you hit your goals. If you spend hours gathering herbs, ore, cloth, or raid reagents, this is the addon your bags have been waiting for.
What FarmingTracker Actually Does
At its core, FarmingTracker is a farming timer and item counter rolled into one. You tell it what you want to collect and how many you need, then press Start. The addon watches your bag counts in real time and, if you enable the auto-stop option, ends the run automatically with a success sound when every target is reached. No more mental math while you chain-pull mobs or circle a zone for nodes.
The addon supports two distinct modes, each on its own tab:
- Targets: A configured list where you add items, set target amounts, and optionally let the timer stop itself when everything is complete.
- All Items: A hands-off mode that tracks every item you collect during the run as a net change since you pressed Start. No setup required.
Adding items is refreshingly simple. Drag a reagent straight from your bags into the slot, or paste an ItemID or Item Link if you prefer precision. Each row gets its own target amount, and the whole main window can be dragged around your screen, resized from the bottom-right handle, and tucked away behind a toggleable minimap button.
Built for Every Version of Azeroth
One of the best things about FarmingTracker is how broadly compatible it is. Whether you are grinding in Retail or reliving the old days, the addon works across World of Warcraft Retail, Classic, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, and Mists of Pandaria. That means your farming routine stays consistent even if you hop between era servers and modern content. The interface is identical, the slash commands are identical, and your muscle memory carries over perfectly.
Compatibility at a Glance
- Retail: full support, including Auction House value scanning for reagents.
- Classic, TBC, WotLK, Cataclysm, and MoP: full timer and counting support.
- Minimap button, movable frame, and saved presets on all supported versions.
How to Install and Get Started
Learning how to install FarmingTracker takes less than a minute. Place the addon folder in your World of Warcraft Interface/AddOns directory, restart the client, and you are ready. If you would rather skip manual folder juggling, the foxygame.net launcher handles the whole process in a single click, and its built-in addon catalog keeps FarmingTracker updated automatically whenever a new build drops.
Once in game, open the window with the slash command /ft or by clicking the minimap button. Then follow this quick routine:
- Click Add Item to create a new row.
- Drag an item into the slot or paste an ItemID or Item Link.
- Enter your desired quantity in the Target field.
- Press Start and begin farming.
From there you can Pause, Resume, Stop, or Reset at any time. Progress is counted as a net change since the run began, so if you turn in quest items or consume materials mid-session, the numbers can dip. Only items in your bags count, so bank storage will not skew your totals.
Presets, Profiles, and Auction House Values
Serious farmers rarely gather just one thing. FarmingTracker lets you save, load, and delete presets so you can switch between farming plans instantly. The Profiles window takes it further with export and import: share all your presets as a single string, or export just the selected one. The merge option is a nice touch, since it preserves your existing presets and skips duplicates instead of overwriting your setup.
In All Items mode, the addon can also estimate the gold value of everything you collected. Open the Auction House first so it can scan reagent prices, and the status line will show the total AH value of your haul, marking it partial if some prices are missing.
A Few Handy Details
New players sometimes wonder why an item shows a question mark. That usually means the item is not cached yet, so wait a moment or hover its tooltip to let the game load the data. And if progress reads zero after you press Stop in Targets mode, that is expected: stopping ends the run and resets the baseline, so the next Start begins fresh.
Options live under Interface, AddOns, FarmingTracker, where you can reopen the main window, toggle the minimap button, or reset the frame position if it ever ends up somewhere awkward. Everything is configurable, nothing is forced.
Final Thoughts
FarmingTracker does one job and does it well. It removes the guesswork from farming sessions, keeps your goals visible, and rewards you with a satisfying chime when the work is done. If you want to download FarmingTracker for World of Warcraft, grab it from your preferred addon source, drop it in your AddOns folder, and let the timer handle the rest. Your next farming run just got a lot more organized.