Release notes for Feed-O-Matic

Helps a Hunter keep his pets well fed (and the food in his inventory under control).

Feed-O-Matic 4.3.1

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

Now supports the Brazilian Portuguese localization of the WoW client thanks to data from pt.wowhead.com. (Only the client-specific strings needed for functionality under Portuguese are translated; if you’d like to help provide a translation for Feed-O-Matic’s own UI text, see the localization.lua file.)

Feed-O-Matic 4.3

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Updated TOC to indicate compatibility with WoW Patch 4.3.

Feed-O-Matic 4.2

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
  • Updated TOC to indicate compatibility with WoW Patch 4.2.
  • WoW Patch 4.2 makes the Interface Options window much bigger — now there’s room for all of Feed-O-Matic’s options (including the food preferences table) on one pane.
  • Fixed an issue where the Feed Pet button would show for pets that aren’t hunter-tamed beasts — e.g. quest pets, vehicles, etc.
  • The Feed-O-Matic options panel no longer appears if Feed-O-Matic is loaded on a non-hunter character.
  • Options now default to being shared across all characters; see the Options Profile panel if you’d prefer per-character, per-server, or per-class settings. (This change may not take effect if you already have saved options; choose the Default options profile if you’d prefer this behavior)

Feed-O-Matic 4.1.3

Monday, May 16th, 2011
  • Added an option to hide the button Feed-O-Matic adds to the default UI’s pet frame — when the button is hidden, the Feed-O-Matic Feed Pet key binding or macro command /click FOM_FeedButton still can be used to feed the pet. (You might find this option useful if using a UI that changes/hides the default pet frame.)
  • Feed-O-Matic’s key binding now shows the name of the Feed Pet spell (or whatever it’s called in your WoW localization) instead of “FOM_FEED”.

Feed-O-Matic 4.1.2

Monday, May 2nd, 2011
  • The Feed Pet button (added by Feed-O-Matic to the default UI’s pet frame) now indicates when Feed Pet is unusable or on cooldown.
  • Improvements to the tooltip shown when mousing over the Feet Pet button:
    • Now shows more information about what food Feed-O-Matic will use next.
    • Text in the tooltip is smaller and a bit more terse.
    • Tooltip can be hidden entirely via an advanced user preference: type /fom notooltip to disable the tooltip (or enable it again).

Feed-O-Matic 4.1.1

Thursday, April 28th, 2011
  • Further changes to support WoW Patch 4.1: Since the Pet Happiness icon in the default UI is no more, Feed-O-Matic puts a new button in its former place next to the pet frame. This button supports all the behaviors we previously added to the pet happiness icon — click to feed, right-click for options. In addition, the button shows the icon of the food we’ll next use for feeding the pet (and as before, can be moused over to identify the food by name).
  • When no pet is currently summoned, food quality in the Food Preferences options panel is calculated assuming a pet of level equal to the hunter’s (matching a Patch 4.1 change in which pets are always kept at their master’s level).
  • Adjusted detail and tooltip text in Feed-O-Matic’s options panel to reflect the elimination of the happiness mechanic and new behavior of Feed Pet.

Feed-O-Matic 4.1

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
  • WoW Patch 4.1 removes the Pet Happiness mechanic; Feed Pet now works only as a large out-of-combat heal. As such, features related to tracking pet happiness and warning when the pet needs feeding have been removed from Feed-O-Matic (which still works great for simplifying the process of feeding a pet).
  • New pet families introduced with Patch 4.0 & Cataclysm are now localized for Spanish, German, French, and Russian. (Localized pet family names are used for providing pet-specific feeding emotes; see FeedOMatic_Emotes.lua.)

Feed-O-Matic 4.0.4

Friday, January 7th, 2011
  • Includes an update to the PeriodicTable library fixing an issue where recently added foods were’t actually showing up.
  • Some of the options in Feed-O-Matic’s options panel now provide detailed explanations in tooltips.
  • Improvements to the list in Food Preferences (under Feed-O-Matic’s options panel):
    • The color of a food’s name now reflects its quality (how quickly it restores your pet’s happiness).
    • Foods of the same quality are sorted by name.
    • When no pet is currently summoned, food quality is calculated assuming a pet of three levels below yours (previously we assumed five; this matches a change from patch 4.0 in which pets are always kept within three levels of their masters).

Feed-O-Matic 4.0.3

Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Includes an update to the PeriodicTable library with more foods (Murglesnout, Pygmy Suckerfish, Shimmering Minnow).

Feed-O-Matic 4.0.2

Friday, December 17th, 2010
  • Includes an update to the PeriodicTable library with more Cataclysm foods (including a number of fish and meat items edible by pets but not by players).
  • Fixes an issue where FOM wouldn’t notice when the pet reached full happiness after feeding (or using Glyph of Mend Pet).

Feed-O-Matic 4.0.1

Saturday, December 11th, 2010
  • Includes an update to the PeriodicTable library:
    • now includes most Cataclysm foods.
    • removed some foods pets don’t eat.
    • added some pre-Cataclysm foods which weren’t included before.
  • Fixes an issue where we wouldn’t warn that the pet needs feeding immediately after taming.
  • Known issue: we don’t yet have family-specific hungry sounds for the new pet families introduced with patch 4.0.3a (the Shattering) and Cataclysm. Please send email if there’s a sound your new pet makes that you’d like him to make when he’s hungry (and know the WoW-internal filename/path for it).

Feed-O-Matic 4.0

Monday, October 11th, 2010
  • Updated for compatibility with WoW Patch 4.0.1 (and Cataclysm Beta). This update will not work on WoW version 3.3.5; do not download if your realm has not yet updated to Patch 4.0!
  • NOTE: Cataclysm foods are not yet in the database; they will be provided in a future update.

Feed-O-Matic 3.3

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
  • Updated TOC to indicate compatibility with WoW Patch 3.3.
  • Reimplemented pet happiness icon “pulse” using new Animation features from recent WoW patches for lower CPU usage.
  • Includes an update to the PeriodicTable library and its food lists.

Feed-O-Matic 3.2

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
  • Updated TOC to indicate compatibility with WoW Patch 3.2.
  • Updated French localization by oXid_FoX.
  • Includes an update to the PeriodicTable library and its food lists.

Feed-O-Matic 3.1

Saturday, April 18th, 2009
  • Updated TOC to indicate compatibility with WoW Patch 3.1.
  • Now uses Ace3 library for saved settings and options UI (any previously saved preferences will be reset to default).
  • Includes an update to the PeriodicTable library and its food lists.
  • Fixes an issue where a “Can’t find Feed Pet spell” message could appear upon login. (The message now only appears if FOM still can’t find the spell when you try to feed your pet.)
  • Includes possible fix for a blocked/tainted action error I’ve not been able to reproduce.