Excavatinator

Tutti (Azjol-Nerub EU)

Excavatinator

This is an archaeology addon for World of Warcraft. Its main purpose is to serveas a checklist for completed artifacts, but it has evolved over time to have alot of general purpose archaeology assistance.

Note that starting from version 4, much of the data handling has been separatedout into another addon named ExcavatinatorAPI. You will need to install it forExcavatinator to work. It can be found inthis repository.

How to use

To open Excavatinator, use the slash command /arch. This will open the mainwindow, where you can see your overall progress for each race. The window ispaginated into the different expansions the archaeology races belong to, and youcan use the arrows at the top to navigate through the expansions.

For each listed race, the left side shows the race's name and icon, and youroverall progress (completed artifacts) for that race. Pristine artifacts arecounted separately here. The right side shows your active project for that race,with the progress bar filling up as you get fragments. Once you have enoughfragments to solve the artifact, the icon will light up and can be clicked tosolve it. You can hover over any other part of the race line to see some moreinformation about your completion for that race, and click the same to open therace details window.

The large button at the bottom of the main window is a survey button. You canclick it to cast Survey if you are in a digsite.

The crate at the bottom left shows the number of crates in your inventory, withthe number of artifacts you can crate in brackets. If you have any artifacts tocrate, the crate icon can be clicked to crate one of them.

The arrow next to the close button opens the mini-window. In older versions ofExcavatinator this would replace the main window; in this version it is aseparate window.

The race details window

Clicking a race line in the main window opens this window below it. Basicinformation about the race and your completion of it is shown in the leftportion, while the right (main) portion is the race's artifacts. The icons willbe lit up for completed artifacts. There will also be a small quest mark onartifacts you have not found the pristine version for (if applicable), as wellas a counter for the collector achievements for the Mists artifacts, if you havenot completed them. You can hover over any artifact to see more informationabout it, such as how many times you've completed it (if applicable) and thegame's description of it. For rare Legion artifacts this also shows you whenthey will next be available.

The mini-window

The mini-window is designed to be used for active digging. It has the Surveybutton, the crate button, and a solve button that changes to whichever race youlast got fragments for. At the bottom it has a list of the digsites on thecontinent you're on.

Minimap tracking

This version re-introduces minimap tracking. When you make a find at a digsite,Excavatinator remembers it and marks it on your minimap. These marks are onlyvisible while you're in an active digsite - once you finish digging (or leavethe digsite), the markings disappear, until the next time you dig in the samedigsite.

Bulk crate purchasing

Excavatinator allows you to shift-click a fragment crate at any archaeologyvendor in order to enter a number of crates to purchase, like it was anyordinary stackable commodity. It will then purchase that number of crates overthe course of a few seconds.

There is a simple popup that opens up the first time you visit a vendor thatthis can apply to, telling you about this. I put it in because there isotherwise no visual indication that you can do this now. Don't worry -Excavatinator remembers that you've seen this popup, and won't show it to youa second time.

Known issues

  • Sometimes, when hovering over an artifact icon, the description doesn't load. Hovering over it a second time will show the description.

Why two addons?

I am not, nor have I ever been, a designer. I have tried to make Excavatinatoracceptably pleasant to look at, particularly with the latest version, but Iexpect there are others who can do much better, should they want to. If anyonewants to make use of the data processing aspect of Excavatinator and just designa better interface, I wanted that to be possible without needing to load theentire UI of Excavatinator as well.

I may, of course, be getting well ahead of myself in thinking that is somethinganyone would want to do, but in case someone does - have at it :)

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