2026-04-09 this addon is no longer being developed, please feel free to fork this repo and resurrect.

QuietCraft

Tired of chat flooding with "So-and-so creates [Item]" from everyone around you?

An efficient, lightweight, high-performance World of Warcraft addon that hides all crafting notifications from other players while leaving your own crafting messages untouched.

Why use this?

TL;DR enhanced chat panel peace and quiet in high population areas.

Key features

• Crafting spam filter: hides crafting messages from other players in your chat frames
• Keeps your crafting messages: your own crafting notices are untouched so you can track your own progress
• Lightweight and no config: works immediately after loading, no options needed
• Applies to tradeskill + system chat: filters both CHAT_MSG_TRADESKILLS and CHAT_MSG_SYSTEM
• Safe and efficient: only inspects message text and sender, minimal runtime overhead

Installation

1. Move/copy the QuietCraft folder to your _retail_/Interface/AddOns/ directory
2. Restart World of Warcraft or logout and login

On load/login, the addon will supressing display of other people's crafting.

Configuration

The addon requires no set up.

Technical details

• Chat filter-based: uses ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter to intercept and inspect incoming chat events.
• Pattern matching: checks if a message contains crafting phrases like "creates", "created", or "crafted".
• Player-aware: preserves messages from the player themselves while filtering other players.
• Tiny memory footprint: Uses ~1 KB of RAM. That’s ~20,000× less than RareScanner and ~44,000× less than Auctionator. Put another way: QuietCraft is the size of a single hand written word, while RareScanner is a novel and Auctionator is a full encyclopedia volume.

Event handling

QuietCraft listens to these default chat events:

• CHAT_MSG_TRADESKILLS: filters other players’ tradeskill craft announcements
• CHAT_MSG_SYSTEM: filters system-cast crafting notifications

The filter function returns true (suppress) for other players’ crafting messages and false (allow) for your own crafting spams and unrelated messages.

Contributing

Contributions to improve this tool are welcome! To contribute:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make your changes to the source code or documentation
4. Test with various class configurations and buff scenarios
5. Submit a pull request with a clear description of the improvements

Please ensure your changes maintain compatibility with existing functionality and follows Lua best practices.

Bugs and new features

Found a bug or want to submit a feature request? open an issue here

Support

This tool is unsupported and may cause objects in mirrors to be closer than they appear etc. Batteries not included.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Copyright (C) 2026 ArcNineOhNine