Footfall

An addon for World of Warcraft

Every step you take in Azeroth, counted.

Footfall turns every road you travel into a journal: steps and miles, badges to earn, races against friends, and, if you choose, your footprints on a map of the roads everyone really walks.

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0.98miles of ground mapped
2,119steps counted
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How sharing works

Three steps, no account

Counting works with no website at all. Sharing is your choice, and the addon cannot send anything by itself.

  1. Step one

    Walk

    Play as you always do. Footfall counts your steps and remembers the ground you cover.

  2. Step two

    Copy my share link

    On Footfall's Share page, press Copy my share link, then Ctrl+C.

  3. Step three

    Paste it here

    Paste it into your browser's address bar. Your ground joins the map and you see how many miles you added.

What's in the journal

A wayfarer's journal for the road

Count every step

Steps, miles on foot, mounted and swum, time on the road, your longest walk and a daily goal ring.

Earn badges

From your first mile to a thousand, streaks and oddities, in every quality from common to legendary.

Race your friends

Make a step race in the game, share its code, and follow the standings here.

Draw the map

Shared footprints become a map of the roads people really use, drawn from everyone's travels.

What it records

Everything stays in your game's saved files, on your own computer:

  • Steps, and how far you went on foot, mounted, swimming and as a ghost.
  • Time moving, per zone and per day, and your longest walk.
  • A map of the ground you covered, to within a few yards, with how often you passed on foot, mounted or swimming.

Nothing is recorded in dungeons or raids. Flights, boats and zeppelins are not drawn on the map.

What it shares, only if you say yes

Sharing is off until you turn it on, with two separate switches on the addon's Share page:

  • Map data: the ground you walked, to within 8 yards, and roughly how often, under a random number the addon made up. Not your account, character or name.
  • Leaderboard name: your character's name, realm, guild and faction, to appear on the ledger.

A link also carries your character's running totals (steps, distances, time moving, level) under another random number, for the ledger and races. Nothing leaves your computer until you paste a link. Sending the same ground twice only counts once. More on privacy.

How to install

  1. Get the Footfall folder from whoever shared this site with you.
  2. Put it in the Interface\AddOns folder inside your game folder.
  3. Quit the game completely and start it again. A /reload is not enough for a new addon.
  4. Type /footfall (or /steps) to open your journal.