Forage Macro Help
 

Please explain how to set up an autoforage macro hotkey. Please explain like you are teaching a 10 year old because I am terrible at computers.

Thank you!

First, set forage to one of the buttons 1 through 6 on your abilities tab.

Make a macro that does /doability # where # correlates to the number from the tab.

You will need a /pause to wait for the pickup to resolve. /pause works in tenths of a seconds, so /pause 10 is wait one second. It can be on the same line so it looks like this:
/pause 10, /doability #

Even though the pause is logically listed first, it resolves after the action on the line. So this will doability forage and then pause 1 second.

Finally, you use /autoinventory to drop your foraged items into your inventory. What this does is basically emulate clicking the blank space in the middle of your inventory screen.

Now you have this:
/pause 10, /doability #
/autoinventory

But wait, there's more! You can only forage while standing, so why not build a /stand (while it works) or /sitoff in the macro? And use a pause!
/pause 5, /stand
/pause 5, /doability #
/autoinventory

Not finished yet? There are five lines available on a basic macro, so you can add more stuff to it like sense heading or track, too.
/pause 5, /stand
/pause 5, /doability #forage
/pause 5,/autoinventory
/pause 5, /doability #track
/doability #senseheading

And then if that's not good enough, you can map that macro to a direction key on your keyboard so that every time you turn right or turn left it goes off. The only thing to be mindful of is if you already have something on your cursor, forage will fail to activate, so you can work in an autoinventory at the beginning as well.

/pause 5, /autoinventory
/pause 5, /stand
/pause 5, /doability #forage
/pause 5, /autoinventory
/doability #senseheading

Be mindful that if you're holding something or doing a tradeskill, this will cause you to drop whatever is already on your cursor, so don't hit it unless you already have an open cursor or open inventory space. /autoinventory will force you to drop whatever you're holding if there's not an open space.

Thanks Tom!

This has been very helpful. But how do I map the macro to a direction key so when I turn left it forages?

Alt+O > go into the keyboard options

You'll see how there's 2 sets of options for each command, for example you can set autoattack to Q and to G if you wanted to. You can set hotbutton 1 as "1" on your keyboard, and you can also set hotbutton 1 as "directional arrow up" on your keyboard. That way everytime you take a step forward you are also triggering hotbutton one, which happens to have sense heading mapped in there.

Does that make sense?

This is how I do it. Just took my forage button and put it on my 0 button of my abilities window and then set my left key to also hit the 0 button. Works like a charm and by lvl 30 I've already capped tracking and almost forage doing it this way.

Just have to remember to leave a bag open on screen so you can drop the item into it once it is on your cursor.

Alt-O. Then under "Select Category" what do I choose? It's not working because I know Im doing it wrong.

I usually just choose ALL, since that will show you everything. However you can choose to look at movement and hotbars for the hotbar buttons.

In Abilities Tab there are 6 boxes which can be assigned abilities. Counting left to right, down, left to right, my forage ability box is #4.......so

when I Alt-O. Under "Select Category" - then "All" .....which one coincides with my forage ability Key??? Which one do I use to assign a hotkey to my forage ability?

By the way I have:

pause 10, /doability 4
/autoinventory

but I don't know if that is connected to my Forage Ability Key...

And I don't know who's more frustrated between you guys and me, but I would guess it's you. Thanks for helping me.

If you have the social macro made, then you just need to click and hold that macro button to pick it up and place it in one of your hotbars. Then Alt-O, choose the hotbar (1-4) on which you placed the social macro, then assign the numbered slot on the hotbar where your social macro sits as the same key as your preferred movement key that you want to map to. If you mess up and assign the wrong key, just hit escape to clear that key. One suggestion is that if your keys are already assigned, write down or take a screenshot of what the initial settings are before you tinker with them, in case you need to reset them.

This is one of those things that any of us could show you in about 30 seconds, but it's exponentially more difficult to try and explain via the forum.