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I tried using the autoforage feature and it doesn't forage anything at all.

I tried adding items to the list but it doesn't even hit the forage button to forage the items.

MQ2Autoforage - INI driven autoforaging
Rich (BB code): 
/startforage - commence autoforaging.
/stopforage - stop autoforaging.
/keepitem {item} - add/change the item in the .ini file to auto-keep.
/destroyitem {item} - add/change the item in the .ini file to auto-destroy.

Troubleshooting:
If it's not foraging, make sure you have the "forage" skill hotkeyed on your abilities page (CTRL + A). Your social hotkey isn't enough, it needs to be on abilities.

Character .ini files are automatically updated with items foraged and can be modified via the MQ2Forage_CharacterName_Server.ini file.

Sample .ini file:
Rich (BB code): 
[General]
AutoKeepAll=on
AutoAddAll=on
[The Emerald Jungle]
Pod of Water=keep
[The Feerrott]
Roots=keep
Tuft of Grizzly Bear Fur=destroy
Rabbit Meat=keep
Fishing Grubs=keep
[Plane of Fear]
Roots=keep
Fishing Grubs=destroy
[Commonlands]
Roots=keep
Fishing Grubs=destroy
Tuft of Black Bear Fur=destroy
Black Bear Skull=destroy
[Temple of Veeshan]
Pod of Water=keep
Roots=keep
Wurm Egg=keep
Glob of Slush Water=keep
Lichen Roots=keep
Dragon Claw Sliver=keep
Drake Egg=keep
Dragon Egg=keep
[The Ruins of Old Paineel]
Fishing Grubs=destroy

AutoForage discussion is here:
http://www.redguides.com/community/showthread.php/29773-MQ2AutoForage
 
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/startforage

Still not?

Try putting forage in your skills window (CTRL+A)

Still not?

/plugin MQ2AutoForage
 
I have noticed that the commands to start and stop forge are slightly different:
/start forage
/stopforage

Note the space in the "start" command, but not in the "stop" command. Hope this helps you, it would be the first time I was able to answer soemthing, hehe.
 
Thats wierd I can't figure out how to stop my char from foraging. One of the plugins is making me forage and I don't know which one hehe. I think it is MQ2Melee but nothing seems to stop me from foraging.
 
Ccomp5950 said:
/melee forage=off
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The after you do the off do /melee save to save the settings otherwise next time you log in he will start again....

I have my /start forage /bardswap /bardswap melee on a hotkey I fire up when I log in.
 
hoosierbilly said:
I have noticed that the commands to start and stop forge are slightly different:
/start forage
/stopforage

Note the space in the "start" command, but not in the "stop" command. Hope this helps you, it would be the first time I was able to answer soemthing, hehe.
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Odd. The version of MQ2Autoforage I use doesn't require a space. just /startforage and stopforage for me.
 
i have melee loaded but when i do a command say /forage on it will return with same result,forage (0) {on/off] im new to mq plz explain if u can
 
If you run autoskills and have forage turned on there, it seems to supercede autoforage. I have had to turn off forage in the autoskills so it is much easier.

/autoskills foraging off

I believe. ))

toejam
 
MQ2Autoforage works like a charm, thanks.

But i have this issue when foraging with chars that have the Nature's Bounty AA (forage 2 items), if i set
Rich (BB code): 
/destroyitem Fishing Grubs
, it will only look to destroy the first item that gets foraged and if the second item is Fishing Grubs it will keep them.

Is there anyway to get around that or will i just have to run it with my old yafm.mac that i rewrote to take action against that?

I will say it is more convinient to have the forarge running as a plugin so i have possibility to run another macro while playing.
 
All,

I have been away for a few weeks doing the Army thing. I am trying to play with new plugins and such and I'm currently working with MQ2AutoForage.

I see that a new ini file was written for my toons and I can keep or destroy what is kept during a forage attempt. What I wanted to know is there any additional arguments you can pass to the plugin or set in the ini file to have it only autoforage if say you have less than one stack of pods of water or stack of roots?
I guess worst case, is there a way to have it stop after a certain amount of time?

Thanks for any assistance.
 
Easiest way I can think of doing this is to use mq2melee's downshits to toggle it on/off. I'm at work right now, but will double check the syntax when I get home.

Downshit#=/if (${Me.ItemCount[Pod of Water]}>10 && ${Me.ItemCount[Roots]}>10 && !${Me.Ability[Forage].Ready}) /stopforage

Downshit#=/if (!${Me.ItemCount[Pod of Water]}>10 || !${Me.ItemCount[Roots]}>10 && ${Me.Ability[Forage].Ready}) /startforage

May have to parenthesize the itemcounts in the second one.
 
Hihi,

Sheesh..... yep, I should have thought about that!

Thanks. That is what happens when you are gone for a period of time and focused on other things than MQ2, KISS and EQ.

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This is what I got working for me:
Rich (BB code): 
DownshitXX=/if (${FindItemCount[=Pod of Water]} >=40 && (${FindItemCount[=Roots]} >=40 || ${FindItemCount[=Vegetables]} >=40)) /squelch /stopforage
DownshitXX=/if (${FindItemCount[=Pod of Water]} <=20 || (${FindItemCount[=Roots]} <=20 || ${FindItemCount[=Vegetables]} <=20)) /squelch /startforage

I had to put in the squelch as it was spamming my mq2 chat window with forage started or stopped.

One thing I did notice, is that this plugin will not forage when you are mounted, although I can manually forage when mounted and it works just fine. Anyone know who maintains this plugin, I'd like to recommend a thing or two to add to this plugin.
 
Had just figured out that Syntax for the FindItemCount and had come to post it. I'd recommend adding in the check to see if forage is being used/ready or not, so it's not constantly spamming the forage on/off. Something like:

Rich (BB code): 
DownshitXX=/if (${FindItemCount[=Pod of Water]} >=40 && ${Math.Calc[${FindItemCount[=Roots]+${FindItemCount[=Vegetables]}]} >=40 && !${Me.AbilityReady[Forage]}) /stopforage
DownshitXX=/if (${FindItemCount[=Pod of Water]} <=20 || ${Math.Calc[${FindItemCount[=Roots]+${FindItemCount[=Vegetables]}]} <=20 && ${Me.AbilityReady[Forage]}) /startforage

This way, if you have the 40 + 40(between roots and veggies), and you've used the forage ability, it will turn off autoforage. If you have less than 20 pods or less than 20 total roots+veggies and your forage isn't being used, it will turn it on.

Either way works, but will keep it from spamming the commands this way at least.
 
I tweaked it a bit more:
Rich (BB code): 
DownshitXX=/if ((${FindItemCount[=Pod of Water]} >=40 && ((${FindItemCount[=Roots]} + ${FindItemCount[=Vegetables]}) >=40)) && !${Me.AbilityReady[Forage]}) /stopforage
DownshitXX=/if ((${FindItemCount[=Pod of Water]} <=20 || ((${FindItemCount[=Roots]} + ${FindItemCount[=Vegetables]}) <=20)) && ${Me.AbilityReady[Forage]}) /startforage
 
Just wanted to check and see if any other rangers with max forage skill are having issues with Autoforage again.

I can autoforage on a lower level character that is not a ranger, but the ranger seems to be having an issue again.

This happened before because of the skill level I think.
 
What is the new cap?

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There was a fix for this last year, that looks like was lost. Just sent it over to RedBot.
 
Thank you. I was thinking it was caused by the same problem last time myself.
 
not sure for how long but tried using this a couple days ago to forage and its not writing to any ini's anymore for keep and destroy
 
saar said:
not sure for how long but tried using this a couple days ago to forage and its not writing to any ini's anymore for keep and destroy
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i noticed teh same. i switched to using mq2cursor to destroy the things i didn't want
 
Beware, if you happen to have something on your cursor while this is running, there is a chance it will get destroyed. I just had a quest item I was moving get destroyed.
 
So THAT is what has been interrupting my camping! I campout my characters with a macro, so will issue /stopforage first!
 
So trying to figure out why it isn't running, I have plugin loaded.
I have done /startforage and it says that its enabled, but nothing is happening. I also have it on my ability bar as well.
Thanks in advance
 
Do you have the forage ability button in your abilities? It has to have that hotkey or it will not work.

If it's not foraging, make sure you have the "forage" skill hotkeyed on your abilities page (CTRL + A). Your social hotkey isn't enough, it needs to be on abilities.
 
Unload and load the plugin
If you change characters on an account for some reason it won’t work
Until you reload the plugin
 
I have had problems with auto forage for the past couple of days, but seem to start after i click forage ability.
 
Worked fine for the first day, now I can't get it to start. The forage skill is on my abilities page, slot 2. I did a /plugin mq2autoforage it said it was loaded., Did the /startforage and said it was enabled and does nothing. Tried to stop and restart and does the same thing. Not a programmer here, so I have no idea how to fix it.
Update: I was able to get it working by closing MQ2 and reloading it then restarting the plugin.
 
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Coloeb said:
Not a programmer here, so I have no idea how to fix it.
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You sure you aren't a programmer / IT person? The old "just restart your computer" method seemed to work well for you :)
 
Coloeb said:
Worked fine for the first day, now I can't get it to start. The forage skill is on my abilities page, slot 2. I did a /plugin mq2autoforage it said it was loaded., Did the /startforage and said it was enabled and does nothing. Tried to stop and restart and does the same thing. Not a programmer here, so I have no idea how to fix it.
Update: I was able to get it working by closing MQ2 and reloading it then restarting the plugin.
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Same problem. I triple checked and the plugin is loaded, the forage skill is on the correct abilities page etc. BTW, this is NOT the first time using this plugin, I actually stopped using it over a month ago because I had too much food/water and it was all clogging up my bags. Today I went to turn it on again and it is not working. I also tried the manually click forage on a few toons to see if that would 'kickstart' it but that did not help.
 
I have to unload and load ever time I want to use it. I have to do this every time I log in to a toon.
 
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