Beastmaster

What it does

The Beastmaster package adds White Fang, a Beastmaster NPC that hands out tamed beasts. Instead of hunting down a rare spawn, you pick a pet from a list of more than a thousand beasts. White Fang also sells pet food and, for hunters, opens the stable.

Out of the box only hunters can use White Fang. Other classes can too once you change one setting, see Pets for every class.

Meet White Fang

You have two ways to reach the NPC.

Call it where you are. Any character can type:

.beastmaster

White Fang appears next to you for 2 minutes. You can call it again after 120 seconds.

Place it for good. With an account that has GM rights (see Console and commands), stand where the NPC should be and type:

.npc add 601026

.npc add temp 601026 places it only until the next restart. To remove a placed NPC, select it and type .npc delete.

The reminder you see on login names the command, .beastmaster.

Adopt a pet

Talk to White Fang. You need level 10 or higher.
Choose Browse Pets or Browse Rare Pets and page through the list.
Pick a beast. It becomes your pet at once, happy and ready.

You can have one pet out at a time: if you already have one, abandon it or put it in the stable first.

Exotic pets (Browse Exotic Pets, Browse Rare Exotic Pets) are for hunters with the Beast Mastery talent. The settings Exotic pets need Beast Mastery for hunters and Exotic pets for other classes change that.

Buy Pet Food opens White Fang's shop. Visit Stable is shown to hunters only.

Pets for every class

To let every class adopt pets, untick Hunters only in the launcher's settings (see Settings).

A non-hunter who adopts a pet also learns the pet abilities a hunter would have, such as Call Pet, Dismiss Pet, Revive Pet, Mend Pet and Feed Pet. Unlearn Hunter Abilities in White Fang's menu removes them again.

Keep track of your pets

With Keep a list of tamed pets on, every pet you adopt is remembered, and My Tamed Pets in the menu lists them with the date, family and rarity. For each one you can:

Summon it again, when you have no other pet out;
Rename it: choose Rename, then type .petname rename <new name> in chat, or .petname cancel to stop;
Delete it from the list.

Names go through a word filter. The list of blocked words is plugins\mod-npc-beastmaster\conf\profanity.txt in the LonelyIce folder; changes to it are picked up without a restart.

Settings

In the launcher: Settings, group Beastmaster under Plugins (or the gear button next to the package on the Plugins page). Every setting takes effect when you save (the .reload badge): with the world running, the launcher reloads the config for you.

Setting	Key	Default	Meaning
Beastmaster enabled	`BeastMaster.Enable`	on	Turns the module on.
Hunters only	`BeastMaster.HunterOnly`	on	Only hunters can use White Fang. Off for all classes.
Classes that may adopt	`BeastMaster.AllowedClasses`	`0`	Class ids separated by commas (1 warrior, 2 paladin, 3 hunter...); `0` allows all.
Races that may adopt	`BeastMaster.AllowedRaces`	`0`	Race ids separated by commas (1 human, 2 orc...); `0` allows all.
Minimum level to adopt	`BeastMaster.MinLevel`	`10`	`0` for no limit.
Maximum level to adopt	`BeastMaster.MaxLevel`	`0`	`0` for no limit.
Exotic pets need Beast Mastery for hunters	`BeastMaster.HunterBeastMasteryRequired`	on	Hunters need the Beast Mastery talent for exotic pets.
Exotic pets for other classes	`BeastMaster.AllowExotic`	off	Other classes may adopt exotic pets too.
Pets are always happy	`BeastMaster.KeepPetHappy`	off	Your pet never gets unhappy.
Keep a list of tamed pets	`BeastMaster.TrackTamedPets`	off	Remember adopted pets and show My Tamed Pets, for all classes.
Tamed pets in the list, at most	`BeastMaster.MaxTrackedPets`	`20`	`0` for no limit.
Summon cooldown, s	`BeastMaster.SummonCooldown`	`120`	Seconds between two `.beastmaster` calls.
Profanity filter for pet names	`BeastMaster.ProfanityFilter`	on	Check new pet names against the word list.
Howl when you talk to the NPC	`BeastMaster.Howls`	on	White Fang howls when you talk to it.
Message on login	`BeastMaster.ShowLoginNotice`	on	Show the reminder on login.
Own login message	`BeastMaster.LoginMessage`	empty	Your own text for that reminder, shown as you write it; empty uses the module's own.

Three keys are not in the launcher; set them in configs\modules\mod_npc_beastmaster.conf in your server folder, which the launcher creates the first time you save the group (before that, copy mod_npc_beastmaster.conf.dist from plugins\mod-npc-beastmaster\conf next to LonelyIce.exe and save it as configs\modules\mod_npc_beastmaster.conf), then run reload config in the launcher's console or restart the server:

Key	Default	Meaning
`BeastMaster.NpcEntry`	`601026`	Creature that `.beastmaster` calls.
`BeastMaster.RarePets`	see file	Creature ids listed under Rare Pets.
`BeastMaster.RareExoticPets`	see file	Creature ids listed under Rare Exotic Pets.

Changes in LonelyIce

LonelyIce applies two small patches: the module looks for profanity.txt in its plugin folder instead of the modules folder of a source build, and the login reminder names only .beastmaster (the original also mentioned a .bm command that does not exist) and shows your own login message exactly as you wrote it. Nothing else is changed.

Credits and license

Beastmaster is azerothcore/mod-npc-beastmaster, originally written by StygianTheBest and developed further by BoiseComputer, Stoabrogga, Talamortis and the AzerothCore community. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0.