Harvesting/Farming Addon Question

[Gankaku]

Farming is kind of a negative word, isn't it? :P Mine is a question just regarding gathering herbs, mining and the like.

On my minimap, I see a spot where a mining node is, for example. I go there and nothing is there. Very frustrating problem.

I use Cartograper for mapping, and this could be forcing nodes? Not sure.

Is there a mod to fix this? I tried using Gatherer. I didn't see any difference with this, other than loading my main map with nodes as well, and letting guild members know what I've mined (fun but not crucial).

My main question is - what mod(s) can I use to get my minimap to show ONLY the nodes that are available to be farmed?

[Tehdead]

I suggest turning your Cartographers minimap gathering icons off. What your probly looking at is items that have been databased for CG gathering DB to show you where different herbs and such can belocated. It does have a function to change to the origanal gold icon when you get into range but it all-and-all can get confusing. I suggest just turning it off for your minimap and personaly i would turn it completely off (Great addon for CG but its very bloated and it takes alot of room on my map.) this should solve your problem the only time you well see anything on your minimap as far as gathering goes is when there truly is somthing there.

[Tunga]

An actual node looks like a gold disc - always. If it's a little herb icon it's just Gatherer or Cartopgrapher (or some other sismilar mod) telling you where a herb can spawn, then you can run over a bit closer and check for the gold disc to see if it's currently spawned or not.

[Gankaku]

I think I'll try turning off the cartograper mapping off and see if that works.

Yes the problem for me Tunga is that the gold nodes show up even though there's nothing there. I don't mind seeing them on the main map where they can spawn, but when I get within range on my minimap i'm seeing gold dots everywhere but nothing to pick or mine. Running a bit closer in some places only to see it's a false positive can be more trouble than it's worth :D

I'll post back if I'm still having problems but I think it's the Cartographer. I'm sure I'll figure out how to toggle things properly. Thanks!

[Gorny]

If you want to, you can also try the Gather Add on all by itself, there's also a complete database of everything in the game available on the Gatherer site. I use only gatherer and have the Herbalism skill active at the same time. My map shows a marker for everything that can be customized to show only herbs or mining nodes.

My minimap shows all the herb nodes in Gatherer format, and as I get close, they change to colored circles - empty circles for unavailable nodes and for the active ones, I see the colored circiles with the gold marker inside.

[drewid]

Hmm, i have been hanging out till my miner got her Epic flyer, show me the Money!
But now that i have the flyer, not sure if its a coincidence or not, but now gatherer is not displaying gold dots on active nodes, or the round circles around the nodes. i just see the blobby mineral icon whether there is a node spawned or not, i can be hovering over the spawned mine and no gold dot on my mini map. This is really annoying and defeating the reason i got the epic (fast gathering). any one have a solution? i have reloaded gatherer and same thing.:sad:

[Tunga]

Sometimes when flying around on an epic mount the client doesn't load the node fast enough, especially on a slower machine. An important point to understand here is that the gold dots are generated and controlled by the client - they have nothing to do with any mod you are running. Also the game client takes Z distance (height) into account whereas mods can't, so if you fly too high you won't see the gold dots showing up.

You may have a setting in Gatherer mod to disable the rings when mounted or something, I can't help with this exactly because I run GatherMate.

[Gankaku]

I'm glad that question was posted here - I learned something for when I get a flying mount.

As the original poster of this thread, big thanks to tehdead and gorny. There's just a lot to look at when you have quite a few mods going. I first did turn off the mining nodes in Cartographer. The I stopped using Cartographer (conflicted for me with QuestHelper, which I wanted most). So now I'm with Gatherer, and using Wow's selection skill to find mining nodes. Everything works perfectly (yellow dot when I get close to an available node only).

[drewid]

<<<<< Too excited about epic flyer, wasnt thinking. Tuesday our server went down when it wasnt supposed too. It reset my find minerals talent. Clicked it again what do u know? All works fine.

[Tunga]

I actually typed that and then decided it was too trivial to suggest!