This is a toy project which contains a prototype for a World of Warcraft fishing bot with a unique approach. It works by capturing the audio directly from the game and performing realtime digital signal processing to detect the sound of a fish biting. The bot then automatically reels in the fish and casts the line again.
More specifically, it works by maintaining a buffer of the most recently captured game audio. It then cross-correlates this buffer with a target signal (static sound of a fish biting). If the correlation is sufficiently high, the bot will simulate a key press to reel in the fish.
Todo list:
- Improve detection technique - it's probably easy to come up with an alternative approach which is both more efficient and less sensitive than the current cross-correlation implementation
- The re-casting mechanism currently just spams the key a fixed amount of time and assumes the cast will have succeeded. Maybe listen for a "cast successful" sound instead? Or do something based on the game visuals?
- Add a GUI for configuring stuff like which hotkeys to use, etc.
I'm still working out some kinks here, so this will likely change.
System requirements:
- Install the BlackHole audio loopback driver (2ch)
In-game settings:
- Output game audio to
BlackHole 2ch, and make sure sound effects are enabled and cranked to 100% - Interact with target:
F9 - Hotkey for fishing:
F10
cargo run -r --bin guicargo testcargo bench