Tracking Eye // Tracking Menu & Automated Tracking Switcher for Herbs and Minerals
If you have ever lost a Rich Thorium Vein because your minimap was set to Find Herbs, you already understand the problem this addon solves. Tracking Eye // Tracking Menu & Automated Tracking Switcher for Herbs and Minerals is a lightweight quality-of-life addon that consolidates every tracking ability into a single menu, then automates the boring parts so you can focus on the actual farming. Whether you are leveling Herbalism in Elwynn Forest or chasing ore nodes across Northrend, this tool keeps your tracking honest.
What Tracking Eye Actually Does
At its core, the addon does three things extremely well: it organizes your tracking abilities, it swaps them automatically when the situation changes, and it restores your tracking after you die. That last part matters more than most players realize. Dying mid-farm and respawning with no tracking active is a silent time-waster, and Tracking Eye quietly fixes it without you ever opening a menu.
Tracking Menu and Persistent Tracking
Hunters, Druids, Warlocks, Paladins, Dwarves, and anyone with a gathering profession get access to one unified tracking menu. Persistent Tracking goes a step further and swaps in the right tracking for the moment. Equip a fishing pole and Find Fish takes over until you put it away. Shift into Cat Form as a Druid and Track Humanoids activates. Enter a battleground as a Hunter and enemy players appear on your minimap. It is contextual automation that respects how each class actually plays.
Farm Mode
Farm Mode is the headline feature. While you are mounted and moving, it cycles between Find Herbs and Find Minerals so that nodes hidden by the wrong tracking type still show up. It stays out of your way during combat, gathering, looting, and standing still, and it sits out towns, instances, and flight paths entirely. Every switch makes a brief sound, so Farm Mode mutes game sound effects for a split second around each one. Your minimap also zooms all the way out when a farming run begins, fitting more nodes on screen.
Automatic Target Tracking and Come & Get It
Questing players will appreciate Automatic Target Tracking. Target a creature and the addon automatically tracks its kind, which makes kill quests far easier to follow. Meanwhile, Come & Get It turns unusable nodes into opportunities. Right-click an herb, vein, or chest you cannot harvest and the addon drafts a ready-to-send chat callout with its coordinates. Nothing goes out until you press Enter, so you stay in control.
Supported Versions and Compatibility
Tracking Eye // Tracking Menu & Automated Tracking Switcher for Herbs and Minerals supports a wide spread of World of Warcraft game versions, including Retail, Classic, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, and Mists of Pandaria. Current builds cover World of Warcraft 12.1.0, Mists of Pandaria Classic 5.5.4, Burning Crusade Anniversary 2.5.6, Season of Discovery 1.15.9, and Classic 1.15.9. The addon ships with localization for enUS, deDE, esES, esMX, frFR, itIT, koKR, ptBR, ruRU, zhCN, and zhTW, so non-English players are covered too.
If you prefer a hands-off setup, the foxygame.net launcher carries Tracking Eye // Tracking Menu & Automated Tracking Switcher for Herbs and Minerals in its addon catalog and handles one-click installation along with automatic updates, so your version stays current without manual file juggling.
How to Install Tracking Eye
Getting started takes under a minute. Here is the standard process:
- Download Tracking Eye // Tracking Menu & Automated Tracking Switcher for Herbs and Minerals from CurseForge, Wago, or the foxygame.net launcher.
- Place the addon folder inside your World of Warcraft Interface/AddOns directory if installing manually.
- Log in and left-click the new minimap button to open the Tracking Menu.
- Mount up and ride. Farm Mode handles the rest.
- For questing, type /te and enable Automatic Target Tracking.
Mini-Map Button Controls
The minimap button is the control hub. Left-click opens the Tracking Menu, right-click clears tracking, Shift + Left-Click toggles Farm Mode, Shift + Right-Click toggles Automatic Target Tracking, and Shift + Middle-Click opens the options interface. The icon shows what you are currently tracking, and hovering it explains exactly why Farm Mode is paused. If your minimap feels crowded, Free Placement Mode lets you park the icon anywhere on screen.
Configuration and Profiles
Type /te or navigate to Options > AddOns > Tracking Eye to fine-tune everything. You can adjust which tracking abilities cycle, how fast Farm Mode switches, where Come & Get It sends callouts, and more. Profiles let you copy one character's setup to another, which is a lifesaver for altoholics. Diagnostic tools generate reports you can paste into bug reports if something misbehaves.
Final Thoughts
Tracking Eye // Tracking Menu & Automated Tracking Switcher for Herbs and Minerals is one of those addons that quietly improves every farming session without demanding attention. It respects combat, instances, and flight paths, restores tracking after death, and turns wasted nodes into community goodwill through Come & Get It. If you gather, quest, or PvP with any tracking ability at all, this addon earns its slot in your Interface folder. Work smarter, not harder.
--- **Update Oct 5, 2026:** Added 1 file for version 5.5.4, 2.5.6, 12.1.0, 1.60.1, 1.15.9.